Beautiful, beautiful day here in NYC today.

Okay, yeah.

It was HOT and MUGGY. But the rain held off a whole lot longer than I though it would and we actually got the whole day in.

We wound up having a really good day out there in Central Park, hangin' together.

I'm gonna be back with a more complete update. And this week is gonna be cool around here.

I'm gonna have a good, good time with this one...

Egads!

Zounds!!!

There's just too much. I suspect it might just be just too easy, I think. There's gotta be a song in this!

Oh man!!!!

And, you're just gonna hafta check back because I hafta write a song or make a spoken word piece download-able here at the site this week about these two people who were hangin' out on "The Hill" this weekend. I got a little ornery and had some real fun screwing with them and nobody really know what was goin' on. (I have a slightly devilish side and it was actually kinda funny to me.)

I'll tell you what though. If my some miracle those two are reading this today... (Believe me, they aren't) ... but, if they are, I HAVE TO re-post this little bit from yesterday.

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA

You've come a long way.

Maybe we're evolving. Maybe we haven't grown up quite enough yet. We'll see.

But last week, really Good history was made and I'm grateful for it.

In my lifetime, I've seen a day when there was not even a woman or a black news reporter - - never mind an anchor. I've seen the Voting Rights Act passed to outlaw discriminatory voting practices against black people in the south. I've seen a day when there wasn't a minority host of a television series, and Bill Cosby's role on "I Spy" was ground-breaking... and Diahanne Carroll was the first black woman to star in her own a series.

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Now, Barack Obama is a multi-racial American and that's a beautiful thing. But, he is the first person of color... an African American... to become a nominee for the presidency.

And, he is my choice.

Not because he's a person of color. But as a registered independent, as an artist and as a man, I love the idea of the "audacity of hope". I think Obama speaks reasonably about very issue I've heard him address. And he is not a member of the Republican Party, which has consistently shown me that they no longer have a nodding acquaintance with the principles upon which this nation was founded, and generally no collective conscience.

CONGRATULATIONS AMERICA.

Okay..

I'll be back.

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See you back here in a little while, when I'll tell you all about some more "indoor" concerts that will be coming up soon.

Thanks for everything.