Hi... and welcome to the website today.

Well, (whew!) finishng up another lap around the Sun. Earth gliding, traveling through space, the Sun also moving around the galaxy, the galaxy moving around.... um... something. We're on quite a journey.... and every single minute we are suddenly, physically and truthfully millions of miles from where we just were. Quite a ride.

And, if anyone asks, "Are we there yet?" one more time...

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(I always remember this simple Truth: Once you get there... "there" disappears.)

Seriously, this past year I had a wonderful summer in Central Park with all of you. Thank you so much for another great year.

And a very interesting and fun year here on the Guitar Man Website. Remembering back to stuff like this...

Remember?

(The "Runaway-Bride-Towel Look" never quite took off like I thought it would, though.)

Insane year.

Time to look ahead to the very first thing that we're gonna do in '06... and, that's the Voices Together Concert in January. I'm gonna be asking you guys to show up in extraordinary ways. I mean, for this thing... number one, the tickets are more expensive than, say, the last concert at Merkin Hall. But EVERY nickel of the the proceeds is going to the people who need it. NONE of the musicians are getting paid anything for this gig. The venue and productions costs have been taken care of by contributions from ordinary people like you and me. So, what I'm gonna be asking is that you... yeah... you, reading this.... buy a ticket, and then do your absolute best to bring at least one other person.

Is that cool?

Bring a busload of people if you can. But please, please try to bring at least one other person who cares... who wants to start off the year by doing something Good.

Just to repeat of something I said yesterday...

Right now, today, no matter how the news media is ignoring it... the brunt of the war in Iraq is being taken by the civilians in that part of the world. The worst suffering is being inflicted on ordinary people, even children.

Y'know, as a matter of perspective... as a matter of paying attenton... since Christmas Eve... since last Saturday... 9 more American soldiers have died. Killed in the fighting.

9 more.

In the past year, the past 12 months at least 840 more Americans will never see their mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters and freinds again because they were killed in the war in Iraq. (2,174 in total so far. Creeping up on the same number of Americans who were killed by Saudi Arabian, Osama Bin Laden just a few years ago.)

But, hundreds of thousands more Iraqis... civilians, ordinary people, women and children in that country have had their lives ended, irreparably damaged or torn apart in the war.

So, one of the very first undertakings for some of my friends and I in the new year will be the Voices Together Concert.

Please make a resolution... TODAY... to join us, okay?

Really. While you are reading this... right now. Make the decision to start off your 2006 by being a part of something really Good.... really making a difference for the better in this world. (Not a bad way to start another lap around the Sun, hah?)

Here. Click on this logo and visit the Voices Together website.

On Saturday Night January 28th, this concert at Symphony Space in New York City is gonna be a night of purpose, goodness, smiles, togetherness, laughter, some tears.... but most of all, an evening of wonderful music.

And unlike alot of charities and BIG name benefits... every nickel of the proceeds from every ticket you buy, all of it is going directly to the people who are helping out the ordinary civilians caught in the nightmare in Iraq. (So, you can also write it off as a tax-deduction if you want.)

The two group that we are helping are Elissa Montanti's Global Medical Relief Fund, and LIFE.

Mr. Cheney... who gets this reconstruction contract?

Answer...

...we do.

Caring, thinking, feeling human beings.

Elissa Montanti makes trips to Iraq to get kids who've been badly hurt and bring them to the US for tthe medical care they so desperately need. and, LIFE actually has many, many people on the ground in that dangerous part of the world who can get help to places that Americans can't reach.

Here's the musical lineup so far.

(And, we're not done yet!)

Christine Lavin
Roger Bartlett
George Wurzbach, Dave Buskin, Rob Carlson (aka Modern Man)
Karlus Trapp
Sam Leopold
And... I'm gonna be sharing the stage with them, too.

You can get tickets, right now... today... at the Peter Norton SYMPHONY SPACE website.

We also have a very limited number of VIP tickets available. But, if you want to order those and be invited to the reception after the show, you have to contact the Voices Together Group at:

Get VIP Tickets

The VIP section will get all kinds of stuff, and the artists will all hang out at a reception after the gig.

Yeah... I'm hangin' out after the show with Christine and Roger and Sam and George and Karl and everyone. The reception is in the Thalia Cafe, right inside the Symphony Space complex.

Okay, that's it from me today. Gotta get to work!

Um... would you do me a HUGE favor and pass this website on to few more people today. Tell some of your friends to visit the Voices site and get involved, okay?

I'll be back soon with a new political cartoon. Go browse through the "Archives" if you wanna grab some of the older ones. A bunch were posted in yesterday's update.

And, if you feel like emailing me about anything at all, just click on the "Contact" button over there. I can't possibly answer all the mail I get. But, I promise I eventually read every single one.

Thanks again.

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