With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
October 08, 2007 - 2:06 p.m.
Ugh, I am having a problem with my camera. I can't download the pictures from it onto my computer. I'll just have to write unillustrated entries till I can figure out how to fix it. I'll post the pictures when I can.
I know I was supposed to write two entries yesterday and I didn't. Of course if you really expected me to you don't know me very well. I'm very good at procrastinating.
Now I'll start with the entry I was supposed to write yesterday.
On Saturday I went to the last show in the Madison Square Studio series. The performers were Abbie Gardner & Anthony Da Costa and Cephus and Wiggins. Abbie emailed Chris and I and asked us to do merch at the show. We of course said yes. We were going to the show in any event.
Because we were doing merch we got there extra early. I grabbed us a table up front while Chris waited on the line at the Shake Shack. As those of you who've been following my Madison Square Park entries know, that is a major undertaking. He was on the line for over an hour.
I got the CDs from Abbie and Anthony and set them up in the merch pavilion. We shared the pavilion with the WFUV representative Nora, someone from the Madison Square Park Conservancy whose name I should remember as I've talked to her before, and the merch people from Cephus and Wiggins. When I said "Nora" you probably thought I meant my friend Nora that volunteers at WFUV. This was Nora that works at the station. She told me that she had to leave early and asked if I would take over and answer people's questions when she did. I told her I would.
I think I knew more people at this show than any one that I've been to this season. I was joined at our usual table by Richard & Vikki, Sharon, and Nora (the WFUV volunteer not the employee). I had a brain storm and asked Nora if she'd man the WFUV booth after Nora left since I was busy doing merch for Abbie and Anthony. She agreed as I figured she would.
There were plenty of other people that I knew at the show, Bill, Erika, and Susan from WFUV, Jim from Red Molly shows, and Maggi that runs the series. I bet there are others and when I get the pictures onto the computer I'll see whom. I took pictures of everybody.
Abbie and Anthony put on their usual great show. I was a bit disappointed that Abbie sang lead on Long Island Cowboy instead of Anthony. The irony is that she wrote the song but she never sings it.
Chris and I bounced back and forth between our seats and the merch pavilion. AT one point someone came to buy a CD when neither of us was there and volunteer Nora handled it. It is all about teamwork.
After the set we went back to the pavilion for the CD sales. They were fairly brisk. We quickly ran out of the flyers with the dates for upcoming shows.
We stayed back in the booth for Cephus and Wiggins's set. I had never heard them before. They were great. They play blues on the guitar and harmonica. They also educated the crowd, and me, on the history of the blues. I didn't know that the difference between the Piedmont and Delta Blues goes back to the different parts of Africa the slaves came from. After the show I talked to Wiggins and he taught me more. The two-fingered picking style of the Piedmont blues comes directly from the African instrument the Kora. He is a really fun guy to talk to, a natural teacher.
I almost forgot the best perk I got. Nora from FUV left Nora t he volunteer with her all access pass to the park. I borrowed it and got to use the park's secret bathroom in the secret basement. Yes the park has a basement. Behind the Shake Shack there are steps leading down into the subterranean offices.
After the show Chris and I helped Abbie and Anthony load up Abbie's car and we went our separate ways. I walked down to Joe's Pub to get tickets to see Crooked Still. Rushad is leaving the band and this will be their last New York performance with the current lineup. Jessica is coming down for the show and will stay with me. Chris is going to the show too. I got the tickets for everybody including some friends of Jessica.
When I got home I made my famous French toast bread pudding. Well OK, it isn't mine, it is Christine Lavin's recipe. It is what I make when I’m going to a potluck dinner. Why was I making it? Because on Sunday I was going to Carolyn and Peter's house for a concert by Iain Campbell Smith. I am going to write a separate entry about that. I better start so I'm just going to end this entry here.
The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy - October 07, 2008
On the Road to Westchester County - October 06, 2008
Inside the Madison Square Studio - October 05, 2008
I'm a Bosniac and I'm debating like I've never debated before - October 03, 2008
Islands in the Stream of Consciousness - October 02, 2008
Email me: GordonLew at gmail
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Horvendile October 08, 2007
