I had two great, great days in Central Park last weekend.

Y'gotta know that every day we get to hang out there at this time of year might be the last for the season... maybe the last forever. (I'm not a pessimist. It's just reality. Y'just never know.)

So, thanks... for another amazing year of being "That Guitar Man from Central Park".

Now, it's on to other things!!! For instance, the "Year-End Concert" at Merkin Concert Hall. (More about that later.) And, there's a brand new podcast here at the website every single day during the week.

Now, on today's show, "The Wednesday Wake Up Call", I'm gonna get into a few things. Among them today are music, words and numbers... The George W. Bush Tragic Number. But, yeah... besides the music, today we're gonna talk about a couple of words.

You can hear it right now by clicking on this logo.

Or, download it to listen whenever you want.

Words, like...

RANT.

It's a word.

It's a good word. Gotten a bad rap lately. But, it simply means...

1 : to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
2 : to scold vehemently

LIE

There's another one. Good word. Simple word.

1 : to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive
2 : to create a false or misleading impression

Music: Eric Schwartz and Bill DeRome. (As always, click on their photos to visit their websites, find out about them, where they're playing and how to get more of their music.)

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Listen to the show, okay?

Okay... FREE STUFF! Here are 2 new FREE downloads. I'd really like to hear from you about both of them. YEAH! One of these is the song that has rocketted around the internet over the past few days. Okay, okay... so, it's a parody. But, I hadda get it out fast. Blame webmaster James Marino for this one! (Well, and ex-Congressman Mark Foley) This came about during a diner-run the other day!

"Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Pages"

The other is a song about one of the greatest engines of human conflict ever devised, click on this link! It's "The Religion Song" and it's brand new.

All I ask is that you point a few more friends to this website, okay?

OKAY!

NOW!

If you're gonna be in or around New York City on December 6th, right now you can get your tickets for the "Year-End Concert" at Merkin Concert Hall by calling the box office.

212-501-3330

Or, if you wanna be among the first to get your seats, go ahead and follow this link. You can get tickets right now online, too.

I'm tellin' you, that gig is so much fun every year. This year, it's gonna be great again. I'm already lookin' forward to hangin' out with you guys. Gonna have some wonderful guests on stage with me. Try not miss it. Get a bunch of friends together and make a night of it!

Okay... this is something I've been having a really difficult time keeping track of. It's been a very painful and infuriating thing to do. But... y'know? He's done it.

George W. Bush fucking did it last night.

He became responsible for more deaths of American service people in Iraq than the lives Osama Bin Laden took in the World Trade Center 5 years ago. (Not even counting the 600+ American civilian contractors, or the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians for whose death he is responsible.)

Osama Bin Laden killed 2,749 people downtown from where I'm sitting right now.

Bush and his administration are now responsible for the deaths of at least 2,751 American service people in Iraq.

You wanna accuse me of ranting?

Listen to today's show.

Then accuse me of ranting... you'll finallly be right.

If YOU voted for him and continue to support his war, I hope you will wake up soon.

Harsh?

You betcha!

Live with it. Or, wake up! It's not too late. (Well, it's too late for those who are dead or dying. But, it's not too late for you. As John Lennon said, "I hope someday you will join us.")

Moving on...

Okay, before I get outta here I'm gonna ask you all to check out the MySpace page. And, when you do I'd like you to sign up as a friend. I'm very new on the damned thing. But, I'm really exploring the whole MySpace thing to see if it's gonna be fun and worth the effort.

Let me know what you think, okay?

Here's the link:

If you've been comin' around for a while, thanks for always showing up... here and in the park. And if you're brand new here, take a look around. There's a lot of cool stuff on this site. And, you can go back and listen through a whole bunch of the previous Podcasts. Actually... you can go back and listen to all of them if you have the time.

You can also email me about anything you want by clicking on that "Contact" button over there. I can't answer all the email I get these days. But I promise I read every single one.

Thanks again.