Hey! Welcome to the website!

I wanna say "HI" again to all of you checking in here from different parts of the country and different parts of the world. For all of you who are here in New York City or will be this coming weekend, I hope I can bring some good news this week.

I'm waiting to hear back from The Parks Department to see if we're good to go this Saturday afternoon at "The Hill" in Central Park.

We originally weren't issued a permit for this Saturday. But because we got canceled the day before Irene made a visit to The Big Apple, we were promised a make-up day. That is soooo cool. At this time of year we're kind of counting down to the end of the "outdoor" season and then counting down to "The Something'th Annual Year End Concert" in December, each day we get to hang together in the park feels just a little more precious. So, if you're gonna be in town I hope I see you out there. Check back and I'll let you know as soon as I hear.

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I'm telling you, the world is becoming a small campus. Over the last few days I've received a ton of email and a lot of it comes from good people in different countries who follow this site. One guy attached a photo from a few years back. (This is a memory from someone in Germany.)

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Oh and listen -- thank you so much for all of the email and comments I received about my thoughts and comments here on the site in YESTERDAY'S UPDATE. Whether the messages are negative or positive, I always love hearing from you guys. It truly helps me grow as a human being and sometimes even helps me write the next song. (But the vast, vast majority of comments let me know most of you felt the same way. It's always nice to be reminded we're not alone.)

And among the few people who really felt like they needed to "blast" me for the things I wrote, some accused me of being disrespectful to the grieving. (That's just mean-spirited and nothing could be further from the Truth) Some took the shallowest course and said I was biased by my "dislike" of a man named George. (Now, if they had claimed that I was being "disrespectful" about him... well, then yes. It has nothing to do with liking or disliking. Respect must be earned. And I have absolutely no respect for G.W. Bush or people like him.) And some ascribed insane motives for my writing and accused me of being disingenuous about my feelings.

But not one of them pointed out where I was untruthful in anything I wrote, or pointed out one question I asked which wasn't a legitimate question. Not one. (That's nearly always the case.) Some people just don't "get it" and read only what they want to read, or hear only what they want to hear. They just don't take the time to actually read the words I write or sing in a song without jumping to the "obvious" in their own minds.

I understand. These things get under the skin. They makes us look at things we'd rather not. And everybody's feelings get a little raw.

I'm cool with it all. (It's actually in part of my job description as an American folk singer.)

Okay, I said I'd be moving on... and I meant it.

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Working on a new song and I'm gonna run it by you guys this Saturday afternoon.

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Oh, and I updated this year's photo gallery. It just keeps growing. (Maybe you're in there!!!).

Click to visit the gallery

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

Click to visit last year's gallery

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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.

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

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Y'know, honestly -- what a very cool thing it is I get to do with my Life and my music. I'm so, so grateful to every single one of you who are reading this right now... every single person who's ever hung out with me even once in that park. It means so much to me to know that there are people who "get" what my music and my stories have to say to the world. It reminds me... I guess, it reminds all of us that we're not alone and that there are others who "get it".

Y'know what? I always say that when you do what you love for a living, when you do what I do for a living, every day of a Life is a vacation day and every day is a work day. So I think filmmaker Dean Love and I are gonna shoot a pitch video for an idea we've been kickin' around for an interactive, internet TV show called "THERE".

I'm really getting to work on a couple of things... one of them is this new Broadway project. I'm gonna talk about this a little bit more tomorrow as well. I really feel that it's time to take the whole feeling we get in Central Park to a much larger audience. I'm just about to enter a new place where this little "Broadway" piece will really begin to come together. Now I'm just in the "dating" process... to find the right producers to make it a reality... and the right director/co-writer/co-creator to bring this thing to life.

Seriously. This is getting exciting. But then again.... it's what I do. This is the kind of stuff that makes me live.

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.

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

Click to watch the video

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Are you new here to this website? 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!)

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

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Thanks for everything.

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Peace ☮