my buddy todd and I have this hobby….we like to visit the graves of
people who seem interesting to us….i did an on air thingy at whhp in
farmer city illinois a week or so ago and we figured while we were in
the area we may as well visit the grave of edgar lee masters in petersburg
….he was a poet and is most famous for writing “the spoon river
anthologies”…when we pulled up there was a cat sitting on his grave…it
looked like the cat hadn’t eaten in a while and it was obviously a stray…it’s
scrawny and flea bitten…..i walked around the graveyard for about an hour
and the cat never left my side…it followed me around like a little puppy….we
figured that we better feed it so we drove back into town and bought some
cat food and brought it back to the graveyard…when I got out of the car the cat
took off running towards me from about twenty yards away….it inhaled the food
like it hadn’t eaten in a week…that’s about the time that todd and I broke
down and took the damn thing home with us….it’s one of the best cats I’ve
ever been around…it sits on my lap every time I sit down and sleeps under
my beard at night…I was going to try to find a home for it but amy and I fell
in love with it…it’s stuck with us :)….i wanted to name it edgar but it’s a girl…then
I wanted to name it emily (sparks) (from masters poem) but we are still
Undecided…any ideas?

it was nice meeting some new friends in charlotte last weekend....everyone that
i met was so dang nice to me....i had a great time .....it was great hangin with the
fellas in BR549....they are some of the more genuine musicians that i've
met in quite a well....i'm really enjoying their new line up...they had me wanting to
dance and i'm no dancer

i walked across the street after my soundcheck to the evening muse and saw richard
buckner soundchecking....i said howdy and stopped back by after my show and
caught his last two songs....i wish i could've caught more

i did an on air thingy at whay in whitley city ky a day or so later...they have been
really good to us and we are thankful for it....they have a big signal...i was able to hear them
for fifty miles or so on my way north...they played a song called "hey john ashcroft" by
a band that i think is called "american ambulance"....very fun stuff....the song is straight
up rock-n-roll and i'm a sucker for that