Great Weekend…!

What a great weekend. Besides getting a lot of work done in the studio mixing Jeff Denson’s album, I had friends visiting to play gigs. Steuart Liebig, Bill Barret, Tony Atherton and Joe Berardi (The Mentones) …

Session with Jeff Denson and Brian McLaughlin

Saturday, March 21, I had a wonderful session with Jeff Denson (doctoral student here at UCSD) and Brian McLaughlin (awesome drummer from LA) at UCSD’s lovely Studio A. Our engineer was our friend and fellow doctoral …

Pu-erh Tea Markets hit hard…

Pu-erh tea is a joy for me, I drink it almost daily…and have for over ten years….so this news was shocking, from The Scotsman: *******************************Devastation left by Pu’er madness of green tea bubble Published Date: 15 …

Friday, Feb 13…

Unfortunately I will be bowing out of the gig Friday night due to a horrid case of the flu…BUT you all should go and see it, what a great band….I’m really bummed to miss it, 13 …

Bad week for drinking and playing chess…

My friend, and fellow grad student, Przemyslaw Bosak and I went out to drink some beer and play chess last night (highlights: Pliny the Elder, Allegash Black, and Pizza Port’s Hop 15 in cask). Luckily it …

What’s he got against zero-gravity chairs?

The list at the end of this post reminds me of the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge…I was reading a Lakoff text when I ran across mention of Borge’s Celestial Emporium’s taxonomy, that animals are categorized …