I don’t post much about my life these days. It’s not that it’s boring, in fact there’s too much going on to even bother post-haste typing.

This weekend, for example: I boarded a train with technolope at noon on Friday. We rode to Albany, and switched trains, pausing for dinner at the Riverside Diner. Then we rode to Toledo, arriving at around 6am. We squinted and shuffled over to the “luxury motor coach” for our ride to Ann Arbor, arriving at around 9am. A fine Zingermans breakfast was had, after which his sister was kind enough to drop me at the Japanese Martial Arts Center where I sat in on a judo class.

Then Dave picked me up and took me back to his house, base of festivities for the weekend. The band trickled in, with , in the frenzied lead. Dave and I took a run and then tooled over and helped load the band into the Ark. I tried to be blase and cool, but I was actually blown away by the walls of signatures in the dressing rooms. I mean, seriously … it’s the Ark. Cool people play there.

The crew broke off and had dinner at Connor’s, next door … watching a mind-bending Michigan football game. We walked in to see the home team down, 19-0 halfway through the third quarter. By the end, we won in a nail biting two point victory. It was sick. The girl at the table next to me was wearing a T-shirt that said “ANN ARBOR IS A WHORE.” I very much think that she needed a drink.

The North show was everything. At one point, there were three percussionists, three gutarists, two bassists, two vocalists, a flutist, … and … everything. Good times. So far as I’m aware, these were the people:

— gaaaasp —

_earthshine_, arkaycee, capital_l, captainblack, fairmer, fdmts, hmasing, jesus_jeff, mcniadh, mrgeddylee, namaste_bound, nevik_roc, redmomoko, rev_e, sarahmichigan, technolope, and many others

gasp gasp.

Got back to Dave’s house around 3 in the morning and passed out on the air mattress. Woke up and had about 6 straight hours of high grade philosophical, political, science, and general life conversation with wicked smart people. Also, I ate like 5 doughnuts.

Got on the train with technolope at 8:30 in the evening, and was home in time for dinner the next day