Man!

Spring's havin' a tough time of it here in New York City this week. 44 degrees when I woke up this morning. Here... let me post a few photos to help it along.

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And, I keep looking at the radar over the country to see if we're gonna have an "opening day" out in Central Park this weekend. I'm hoping that this Saturday will be the first day back out at "The Hill".

But for the life of me, I can't tell. Because of the nature of what I do, I've been watching the satellite imagery for the past 17 years like a damned farmer! I've gotten pretty good at predicting. But, this week... not a clue.

Oh well, We'll see.

Listen... I've been havin' a little bit of a tough time of it in various aspects of my life recently. But, it'll all even out and make sense as it always does. (Just not able to dedicate the energy I always have to the podcasts and this homepage that I usually do.)

So, with apologies to those of you in this city, across the country and in different parts of the world who check in here every day... here's another re-posting of the previous update.

(I'll get back on the horse soon.)

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I say how lucky I am all the time. But, it's really been hitting me in the heart lately.

You can't believe how grateful I am to be called "That Guitar Man from Central Park". And, it's really all because of you. Y'know? It's you guys who visit this website regularly, who reach out and let me know if a song I've written has touched you in some way, who've let me know it's a worthwhile thing to do with a life - to write songs and head out to the park - to strap my guitar onto my shoulder and hang with you in the middle of the greatest city in the world - share some music, some thoughts, some laughs.

Sometimes I get a little squirrely.

Y'know? I guess a certain level of ego or discontentment rises up inside me. I begin to doubt my work. I question my purpose as an artist. I wonder if I'm destined somehow to wallow in poverty and relative professional obscurity for a lifetime. I get weary

But, then... Ha! I realize that's absolute bullshit.

I'm the luckiest man alive.

This is gonna be another typically amazing summer.

What I'm trying to say... again... is THANKS.

Okay!

Listen, I'm in a really "present and alive" mood right now. I wanna give you guys some FREE downloads of a couple of songs I'm working on. Y'know... works-in-progress. AND, a couple of the more socially-minded or socially conscious songs I've done recently. (Click on the link and they're yours, okay?

Crazy on the Same Day (re-mastered) - Tom Cruise Scares Me (A recent version)

JesusLand - Bill O'Reilly: The Legend of the Big Giant Head

And, the newest new one....

Click on the image.

Hey!!! I was thinking. One of these days really soon I'm gonna roll out a "Best Of" gallery of all the political cartoons and photoshop images from this site over the past few years. (I've had a lot of fun doing them.)

Check back for that.

Oh yeah... (Ha! Still time to help out with the 2008 Permit Fund if you feel like it!)

You can use the PayPal button on the right
of this page... over there under the "Weather".

Oh yeah! And check back for the new concert dates! We're planning a number of really cool musical events over at H.I. New York Performance Hall, as well. In fact, early this week I'll be announcing the next date for he next BIG concert event we'll do in that brand new venue. It might even be an outdoor event in their block-long backyard! (More about that really soon.)

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H.I New York Performance Hall - Amsterdam Ave @ 103rd Street

IF YOU'RE NEW AROUND HERE... go ahead and click on this link to hit the "Archive" page". there's a lot of cool stuff on this site. (Photoshop images, political cartoons, FREE songs to download. A whole bunch of podcasts to catch up on.)

Knock yourself out.

HERE'S THE MOST RECENT EPISODE OF THE ORIGINAL PODCAST:

"I Love the Company" (Show #364)

I'm playing a song requested by a listener... a song by a fellow-artist ad friend who will certainly be a guest artist joining me on stage at H.I. New York Performance Hall.

Just click on the logo, plug in your headphones, jam in your earbuds or turn on your speakers and listen. (You can always subscribe to the show and get it automatically by hitting that itunes button over there.)

SHOW 364

Cool? My musical guest on ILTC: Karlus Trapp (Click on his photo to visit his website, find out more about him, where he's playing, and how to get his music.)

AND NOW... the brand new installment of the sister-podcast, the more politically-minded and socially conscious sister podcast called "Where's the Voice". Today, we'll play a couple of tracks of music and go with last week's noise from Bill Clinton to General Petraeus. And once again, I'm gonna play SOME OF YOUR PHONE COMMENTS!!!

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Click on the logo, plug in your headphones, jam in your earbuds or turn on your speakers and listen. (You can always subscribe to the show and get it automatically by hitting that itunes button over there.)

CLICK ON THE LOGO



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After you listen to both podcasts, I'm gonna ask you one more time to call with absolutely anything you wanna say. Use this phone number for you to call to be a part of all this... right here. Use it to chime in and leave a message for either podcast, a comment, a request, an opinion, or just say "Hey" and let me know where in the country or the world your listening.

646-224-8162

If you're new around here and wanna catch upo on previous episodes of any of the podcasts, just hit the "Archive" button over there. ALL of the shows are still here someplace!

Okay, I'm outta here - got a lot of work to do!

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Thanks for everything.