Hey guys...

As promised in yesterday's update, here's that other version of the song "Man of Constant Sorrow" from the film "O Brother, Where Art Thou".

Have fun.

Click to watch the video

.

Okay, movin' on.

Yes, it's been kind of a wild couple of weeks around here. Y'know, I've receiving so, so many emails and messages from all over about the "Rude Parent Thing" or dealing with these PWBs. (Parents Without Boundaries)

But, I guess if we keep talking about it it, there's a real danger that I may soon be accused of something much worse. I may be accused of... sadistic necrophiliac bestiality. (Right? It's starting to seem like I'm beating a dead horse.)

So let's deal with it once and for all, maybe on national television, and move on. It's not very often an independent artist like me who hasn't had a 9 to 5 job in over 20 years gets to say the words, "Hey! I got fired!"

So I dunno... we'll see. YESTERDAY I spoke with The Dr. Phil Show about the whole thing. Keep checking back to see when it's gonna air and I'll keep you guys posted, okay?

.

.

BUT! For this weekend, let's get back to the really important business of... smiling and singing together in the beautiful backyard of the capitol city of the world.

.

Click for larger images
. . . . .

.

Now there is another weather front moving this way. Keep your fingers crossed that it moves slowly enough to give us a beautiful afternoon on Saturday. I'll start playing around 1:00 on Saturday afternoon and hang out until I fall over around 6:00.

Good?

Hey! Another thing I did YESTERDAY that was pretty cool -- I had a great time lending a hand... literally... to my friend Christine Lavin with her music project she's got on Kickstarter called "There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea". She sang her sweet and deceivingly powerful song about the devastatingly criminal BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. As always, just being around people like Chris makes me feel so good about what I'm lucky enough to do for a living and with my Life.

Thanks to every single one of you who showed up!

.

.

*************************************************

Now, you might be one of the people who's checking in here for the first time. (There are always a bunch of newcomers here at the site, especially in the Summer season. Bookmark it every day and check back. I'm gonna start bring more video to this page again very soon.)

GIMME A SHOUT HERE!

(Actually, gimme a shout for any reason at all!)

.

I'm a lucky man.

If you're new you can always go back and browse through THE ARCHIVE as far back as you wanna go. I mean... thanks to my friend, my webmaster, and resident evil genius James Marino, you can historically go back through this website all the way back through the Bush years right up until the present. It's really kinda freaky how much content is here on this site.... cartoons, free songs, Photoshop images. Very cool.

And the Photo Galleries just keep growing. (Maybe you're in there!!!).

.

AND HERE'S A REALLY FUN GALLERY FROM LAST SUMMER!!!

Click to visit last year's gallery

.

BTW -- "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" is booked for Saturday night, December 10th. I know it's early, but I wanted to let you know if you're one of those people who travel down from Buffalo, or in from Pennsylvania, or Maryland, or Germany just for this gig.

The internet has made the world a very small campus and that's a really cool thing. Mostly, if you check back at this website every day, I hope you feel that... "It's Just Us" feeling. You're not alone.

.

**********************************

.

That "Broadway" thing...

Okay now you can find out how YOU can be a part of this new project here.

In a nutshell, we're putting together something that we hope is headed for Broadway or... Jupiter... or... I don't know. But it's gonna be done someplace. Broadway legend, TONY WALTON, a man who has more Tony Awards and Academy Awards than I have socks, is behind it 100%... so now it's just about getting the right team together and working it. I'll be inviting all of you to another one of those small, unplugged work sessions very soon, so keep checking back. The last 2 filled up in a matter of hours.

Here's a little 10-minute video from Tony and his wife... explaining the project.

Click to watch the video

.

And here's a link to visit if YOU wanna be a real part of this process.

.

.
***********************************

Here are a couple of different fun galleries to check out.

.

.

HAVE FUN TODAY!!!!!! (And be cool to each other, okay?)

.

.

Thanks for everything.

.

Peace ☮