Hammer Mill Days

I like to play it in C. Mostly because it's an easy key, okay? You got a problem with easy? Huh? All right then - WE'LL DO IT LIVE! Whoa, was that mic live? Sorry, everyone. Caught us in the midst of what passes for a band meeting here in Big Green land. (And I don't mean Canada, which kind of looks like a big Greenland.) As you probably know, everything I say gets transcribed into this blog, so you are truly getting a slice of life here. I obviously don't do a lot of talking, or this blog would be waaaaay longer. No sir - I just talk for about fifteen minutes, twice a week, and you can read it all here. Hot off the presses! Okay, that's a lie. See what happens when I don't want to talk about something? That "something" is, well, playing live, which is something we don't do a whole lot anymore. Not saying we won't do it again, God no. Only, well ... we're a little older than we were forty years ago, and Matt and I are kind of settled in...

Hmmm... crazy racist grandpa has been mouthing off again. Trump is truly breaking all records in the bigot category, at least with respect to the modern presidency. But I digress. There has been so much news about various story lines in the Trump scandal that a lot of consequential international news gets blown out of the water. These are extremely volatile times and we would do well to pay closer attention to what's happening overseas, particularly when our country is playing a significant role in it. Of course, some attention is paid to the Korean crisis, perhaps in part because of the high human stakes involved, but more likely because of the insipid pissing match between Kim Jong Un and our madman president, who is singularly uninformed about the history of that region. Our news media loves pissing matches - so easy to report on. The two Koreas have taken some tentative steps to de-escalation, and I for one am glad to see that. In fact, I wish they would just bury the hatche...