I AM ALSO PLEASED TO DENY THE FACEBOOK RUMOR that Roderick, Rees, and I are all the same person. WE ARE AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE

THANK YOU.

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I AM STEALING A THIN STREAM OF INTERNET FROM THE AIR to tell you:

TICKETS for Friday’s John Roderick and David Rees REESDERICK-SPLOSION go on sale this Wednesday.

TO BUY ONE OR TWO, simply call The Montague Bookmill (413-367-9206) on Wednesday starting around 10 AM.

I MAY EVEN ANSWER THE PHONE. If I do, you may go ahead and be a jerk to me.

BUT IF YOU GET A BOOKMILL EMPLOYEE, please be kind. For these are not “TICKET MASTERS” but simply people who work in a used bookstore by a little river.

I THINK THEIR CREDIT CARD MACHINE may actually be powered by a pellet stove.

SO HAVE PATIENCE, and call on wednesday, for it will be a lovely show, and it will happen this Friday at the Montague Bookmill, and it will happen at EIGHT PM.

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I REGRET MY INTERNET SILENCE. As you know, I am passing these humid months in the small Massachusetts town known as INTERNETLESS HILLS, only occasionally descending down from the mountains to buy coffee and steal broadband and news of the world.

ONE EXAMPLE OF SUCH NEWS: while listening to the local radio station, I heard a woman describe a forthcoming local stage show thusly: “It is an exploration of the cultural extinction of New Orleans, as told by a person who is half man, half wolf.”

(!!!!!)

I ONLY WISH I could offer you such a show.

AS IT HAPPENS, I CAN OFFER only this:

JOHN RODERICK, of Seattle’s own “The Long Winters“, who is NOT half wolf, but merely Alaskan, which is to say : ONE QUARTER CAVE TROLL…

SINGING GOOD SONGS written by his own hands…

ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 20th, sometime in the evening…

AT THE MONTAGUE BOOKMILL, a creaky former gristmill that has been transformed into a creaky used bookstore/cafe/comfy-armchair-storage-facility, and a very fine place to write books of fake trivia.

PLUS THERE WILL BE OTHER SURPRISES THAT I WILL REVEAL LATER.

AND THERE WILL BE A SMALL CHARGE of 10 dollars, in order to cover the cost of transporting a quasi-cave troll from Seattle.

I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THIS NECESSITY, and are not dissuaded.

FOR WHILE THE FAMOUS MOTTO OF THIS BOOKMILL is “Books You Don’t Need in a Place You Can’t Find,” it is in fact EASY TO FIND if you live in New England and have the Internet.

AND I PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOU TO FIND IT, for this will be a very enjoyable evening, much like the hot time we all spent together with Jonathan Coulton some years ago, when it was so humid and awesome that apparently cameras could not even focus properly.

DID YOU FORGET WHAT I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT? If so, here is John Roderick again. I hope I will see you there…

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FOR THOSE* OF YOU who have missed my tedious, extra-sincere, non-funny imitation-political blogging of yore, I SAY THIS TO YOU:

IT IS WORTH WATCHING all three parts of Jon Stewart’s interview with Ken Blackwell, former Republican Mayor of Cincinnati, and former Ohio Secretary of State, and latest to push the idea that the President is not just a political opponent, but a socialist emperor in the making;

BUT I AM PARTICULARLY fond of this moment where Blackwell attempts to pat himself on the back for referring to the “Obama Administration,” as opposed to the Limabaugh-preferred “Obama Regime.” See about one minute, 30 seconds in.

IT’S CERTAINLY NICE OF HIM to acknowledge that the duly elected president is, well, THE DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT. But Blackwell’s fantasy that his rejection of the REGIME label is going to be a meaningful symbol of independence to anyone outside of the Limbaugh audience (never mind the Daily Show audience) reveals, I think, just how entrenched the Obama=Tyrant! idea is in conservative circles, and how rarely Blackwell steps outside of those circles.

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*BOTH

MISTRESS OF SPAMASTERPIECE THEATER and all around PLATINUM-HEARTED HUMAN, Xeni Jardin visits Jordan! Jesse! GO!

LET’S GO

The Sound of Young America

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