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1. I was just supposed to meet derspatchel for lunch at Christopher's. We left Porter Square Books something like five hours later. It's not like I never meet people to whom I do not have to explain Anna Russell, but it's still strangely cheering when it happens.

2. Tomorrow I leave for D.C., to spend the weekend with a combination of rushthatspeaks, B., strange_selkie, darthrami, and my god-daughter whose second birthday is being celebrated on Saturday. The one downside: I am going to miss Mission of Burma at the Brighton Music Hall, which I'd been planning on before I saw how the dates lined up. I haven't heard them live since 2010. They had better start playing a lot more local shows.

3. I haven't heard that it's traveling to Boston, so I really don't want to miss the International Center for Photography's Weegee: Murder Is My Business, especially after seeing The Naked City (1948) in the fall. It doesn't seem impossible that I should be able to get to New York before September, though.

4. I imagine most of you have seen this already, but it is still extremely cool: "What would the trunk of a tree sound like if a cross section of it were played like an LP?"

5. There are about a dozen essay-ish posts I want to make on various things I have read or watched, but I don't think any of them are getting written this weekend. The rest of this sentence fell over into self-recrimination, so I think I'm going to bed.

It's finally snowing. It's rather lovely. Why does it have to be the day I fly somewhere?

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Safe travels! I hope you have a lovely time in D.C.* Sorry you're having to miss the Mission of Burma show; I'm sure it will work out eventually that you can see them.**

I hope you can make the Weegee exhibit. I'm thinking I'll have to try to get there, myself.

4. I imagine most of you have seen this already, but it is still extremely cool: "What would the trunk of a tree sound like if a cross section of it were played like an LP?"

That's the first I've seen it. Thank you! It's fascinatingly odd. Or oddly fascinating. Something like that.

It's finally snowing. It's rather lovely. Why does it have to be the day I fly somewhere?

I hope all goes well. It's supposed to snow here tomorrow. My mother's got tickets for the livecast from the Metropolitan Opera. I really hope it doesn't work out the way it did when she went to see Wagner's Siegfried and the pre-Halloween Noreaster hit.

*I'm sure you will. More importantly, I hope you have no problem getting there.
**There was a year or more when every time one of my friends was gigging anywhere in range, I had to be somewhere else; at one festival, the band he was playing with were on the main stage at exactly the same time as the one I was playing with were on the cultural stage.

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That's the first I've seen it. Thank you! It's fascinatingly odd. Or oddly fascinating. Something like that.

It's probably not the most interesting musical news I've seen recently, but it's incredibly evocative.