current music: lively up yourself reggae/ragga/ska radio show on bbc radio one i’m back in the boston area for now but going to nyc in a few days. i watched malia metella win the silver medal in the 50m freestyle swimming race and was elated as she is the first black woman to ever medal [...]

curent music – soul solutions on bbc radio 2 back in the late 80s, british soul songtress mica (pronounced “meesha”) paris came out with an impressive debut album so good. sadly, u.s. music fans slept on it…and all of her subsequent releases including one of my fave r&b albums black angel (with tracks on it [...]

current music: isn’t she lovely – stevie wonder i’ve designed banner ads thru my little web outfit for a myriad of artists…mostly folk, c&w and blues. my most recent work was designing a series of ads for the alejandro escovedo tribute album, “por vida” for the welk music group to appear on cmt.com (country music [...]

current music: steal way to jesus – shirley caesar and michelle williams it’s mid-august and i finally got around to postin’ a new hot stuff list. what i didn’t put on the list: the fact that for some reason, god help me, jay-z’s “99 problems” has been one of my favorite songs all summer. the [...]

homoagogo was sweet. tooo many things, not enuf words. rebecca brown rocked my world with her words. i shared a set at the event’s k’vetsh (hosted by the lovely sara seinberg and paige mcbee) with her and the equally magnificent ami mattison thurs. aug. 5. sara, paige, beth steidle and a few open mic’ers also [...]

in olympia, wa at the public library. performing/reading in a few hours at the state theatre? homoagogo.com. fifteen minutes at a public terminal. had a nice time last evening with friends in seattle. the library here smells like a food co-op and muted patchouli. aaaah, the pacific northwest. i do miss many things about living [...]

roxy – concrete blonde Oh, Roxy, after all this time/You still bring tears to my eyes i so wish i could’ve been at this concert. there use to be a faded painted image of mr. cool himself on the back of a building visible from the red line el on the north side of chicago [...]

i’ve been in florida for three weeks now. i leave on wednesday for seattle then olympia for homoagogo. it rains buckets every single day here. for about five minutes. and then it is hot as hell again and muggy. i’ll be back here next monday. not sure how long i’ll stay. maybe a day, maybe [...]