After 4 pm. tomorrow, the internationally know Jazzfest will be just one guy and his band, called Crazy Horse. One of the things about Jazzfest is that it's possible that 2 bands you really want to see are playing at the same time on different stages. I might step outside and perhaps walk towards Bayou St. John to see if I can hear the warbly voice or the warbly guitar ricocheting off the outer walls of Delgado College, like neils music was a pool ball, shooting out of the fairgrounds then banking off the stadium, with me standing in a little pocket, with the bayou reflecting it one more t ..read more

For a brief period, one of the stories that I have scheduled to self publish after my death had actually published. When I first got the idea to use the scheduling feature so that my blog is going to continue to spit out content well into the 80th century, I started working on this certain post about having a religious experience in and of and around a Grateful Dead concert, and I scheduled it like 10 years ahead. I guess this is because I thought that, I don't know I could already be dead. Plus, the stuff that's going to publish in the year 6666, for example, I had more trouble thinking about ..read more

I Have A Religious Experience And Become Born Again At A Grateful Dead Concert Location: Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI Date: 4/27/84 Songs: Alabama Getaway Promised Land Dire Wolf New Minglewood Blues Row Jimmy Me and My Uncle Big River Althea My Brother Esau Big Railroad Blues Music Never Stopped Playin' in the Band China Doll High Time Man Smart/Woman Smarter drums The Wheel Wharf Rat Around and Around Johnny B. Goode Touch of Grey Prologue So, most of what could be considered your "religious" beliefs, have their ideological roots in an acid trip that you took at a Grateful ..read more

I remember ice fishing in February on a pond in New Hampshire and how the ice wound up being something like 4 feet thick. We discovered this after we had chopped a hold through it with a harpoon like pretty heavy tool. The ice would look whitish in color after you had traced out a circle a couple feet in diameter then started removing the ice from this imaginary couple foot wide hole that was going to have liquid in it soon. As you got to around 2 and a half feet, you would already have gotten lazy and the hole in the ice would be a couple feet in diameter at the surface but would already be ..read more

I had a pretty strong inclination to see myself as having been lazy or selfish for not going out to busk on this Tuesday night in the middle of April The weather conditions are pretty much perfect. If there was no light breeze, making the 78 degrees feel like 72, then it would be optimal. And, busking always leaves the door open for lady luck to walk through so that, even on Tuesday nights there are millionaires who have daughters named Amanda ready to throw a few hundred dollar bills in your jar if you are playing the song "Amanda," and he had just gotten a text from her, type of thing... The ..read more

 "I wouldn’t make a post responding to the comment, that’s all the mystery commenter wants. If you ignore it and don’t give it any credence, which you shouldn’t because anyone who doesn’t want to put their name to their words means the words aren’t worth anything." Unknown commented on "A 4 GigaNight" Feb 28, 2024 Daniel...you are not the intellectual giant you would like to think you are...and you are usually regarded as a joke to most who ACTUALLY know you because of your smug know-it-all ignorance in life in general. I was going to put the whole comment here and then pick it apart line ..read more

Events are unfolding faster than I can unpack them and put into words. I just woke up and it's just past noon and I am feeling good after a half hour during which I eliminated whatever it was I ate last night I had done pretty well in that department. I remember going to buy a Big Texas Cinamon Bun from the machine here. I sort of remember eating it. I remember testing the "pate" style food that I had gotten for Harold. I had cleaned his plate and laid it by his water then opened the can of turkey flavored pate for him. And then in the throes of a mental glitch, remembering that in the past Ha ..read more

This blog is one of a few things that I've slacked off on the past couple years. Getting some kind of job and/or disciplining myself to busk 36 hours a week, has been another derelict endeavor. Learning the correct Funk & Wagnell's way of placing the word "derelict" in a sentence has been put on the back burner, even. But, yeah. "When you're standing still, you're going backwards," one of my mentors told me when I was around 14. I'm totally responsible for not having made the migration to another blog hosting platform that isn't going to censor this blog...(victimize me with censorship, su ..read more

When Google is making sure that hardly anyone sees a certain blog, then I guess its author is at liberty to write whatever hare-brained thing that comes to mind; as he tries to make sense of the shadows on the wall... Tanya invites me to join "the party." I still haven't found the key to unlock the joy of writing just for the sake of it, with the journey being the reward, type of thing. The obnoxious Big Tech bosses, already controlling what 90% of the people with smartphones are going to see and hear every minute of every day leading up to the November election, are really getting ..read more

I was thinking today about how interesting this blog might be still, to this day, if I were to still live under the wharf.  Need a lift? Nee Chances are that, if I lived there when the Covid thing came into play, I would have, one way or another found out about the nice hotel where the city was putting the homeless people. I remember seeing the tent cities dissapear from under bridges everywhere and hearing the news that the homeless were being housed in a pretty nice hotel. They were being fed and I would imagine given some kind of funds for use on "personal items" ie. bottles ..read more