Silent Sunday or: There’s No Place Like Home
Salutations™!! The BCPF talking with “Bob” Marina City (beside Hotel Chicago) Well, it was 10:40p or so but The BCPF and I made it home after a fantastic week in Chicago. During that time, I walked...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: A Little Off the Top
Salutations™!! Sorry this is so late!! The last time that 3B had hair that wasn’t at least over his shoulders in some shape or form, he was about 2 years old. He had his first haircut at just past his...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Springsteen on Trade
Salutations™!! (photo ©Aaron Burkey) Last night I got to share the stage with some fantastic singers for the Because the Night: Bruce Springsteen by Vagabond Saints Society for the Summer on Trade...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: The Last in Line
Salutations™!! Today, we went to Round Peak Vineyard/Skull Camp Brewery to do the last of the four Bruce Springsteen shows with Vagabond Saints Society. I can now purge those things from my mind. It’s...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: A Return to XTC
Salutations™!! I was asked to make a return to do the XTC’s Skylarking album for the Vagabond Saints Society’s first journey to Cat’s Cradle in Carborro. I was honored to be asked to join. The girl is...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Hectic Weekend
Salutations™!! I am so glad that football season is back! I love football. It is my favorite sport, ever! I’m also doing the fantasy football thing with a few of my friends. Last year I won this...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Them’s Good Eats!
Salutations™!! Kudos to Texas Pete, Brian Cole and all their employees, staff, the bands and this town (WSNC) for their awesome jobs in making the Texas Pete Culinary Arts Festival a rousing success! I...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: The Aftermath
Salutations™!! Oooooh man! After all that build up from this past week about my return to the stage in a band situation after three and a half years it finally happened. Friday night, along with Doug...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Days of Doing Nothing
Salutations™!! I surely love “weekends of doing absolutely nothing” and that’s what this weekend has been. It started on Friday night with dinner and drinks at Meridian (our usual Friday night watering...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Lazy Days Again
Salutations™!! We’ve gotten lucky enough to have two Saturdays in a row where absolutely nothing happens. Well, that’s not exactly true. Things happen and we have a lot of fun but it’s nothing...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Nosh KISS Nosh
Salutations™!! It’s 11:21pm. That’s before midnight. I’m still within the parameter. Sometimes I’ll write and forget to either schedule or actually hit publish. Anywhat, it was a fantastically...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Friends and Booze
Salutations™!! So there was a lot going on this weekend. I’m only going to skim the surface and talk more about the events this week. Friday, it was Bourbon, BBQ and Bluegrass at Old Salem, then on to...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Why Can’t I Get Just One KISS?
Salutations™!! Lots of food and alcohol this weekend, including the two-year anniversary of Small Batch Beer Co. and Meridian and some Mary’s Gourmet Diner, because that’s what we do! Even sitting or...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Friendsgiving and More
Salutations™!! So let’s start with the birthday night. The BCPF and I went to Meridian (of course) for dinner and drinks. I got a creme brulèe and port for dessert and the restaurant bought it for me....
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Hoops of Pain
Salutations™!! Well, finally it happened. After taking them out three years, seven months and eleven days ago, I have finally had my earrings put back in. I have missed them. You’ll ask, well, dummy,...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Chock Full of Stuff
Salutations™!! A lot of stuff happening this weekend. From having aged beer at the Tavern in Old Salem and red wine sangria at Willow’s on Friday night to a haircut by both The BCPF and myself on...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Next Verse Same as the First
Salutations™!! The title of this post may seem lackadaisical, but I assure you, Dear Reader, that it isn’t. What I mean by it is that this was another fantastic weekend (as always) with my best gal,...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: That’s a Sad Tree Charlie Brown
Salutations™!! The BCPF wanted to have another tree, one that was “green” and she could just do “traditional” decorating with. So, the day we bought the new white tree, she also bought a smaller “six...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: Is This the Party to Which I’m Speaking?
Salutations™!! Yesterday in our walking about town, The BCPF, her brother and I came across this sign on Fifth Street. It was right in front of the Loaves & Fishes shelter. I don’t know why I’ve...
View ArticleSilent Sunday or: a West End Promenade
Salutations™!! My back is a-hurtin’, Dear Reader. The BCPF and I walked a good bit yesterday. After making our way to Atelier on Trade (parking up near Finnigan’s Wake and walking about a block or so)...
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