Cannibal Jack-O-Lanterns

On the loose in New York!!!!

Thanks to molly and rudy for that image... hope everyone had a great halloween - mine was pretty fun. Joe came to town to join beth and me at the paramount to see dweezil zappa lead a band doing frank zappa songs. Shades of the past, definitely: baby boomers reliving the celebrated Zappaweens of their younger days, blah blah blah. But the band was damn good, and i am happy to say that the audience wasn't strictly mom and dad's age. There were a couple gals in their 20s in the row in front of me who were singing along with almost all the songs that had words - which was pretty funny when it came to numbers like "punky's whips" :) Then we went to a party that was downright surreal - hosted by a sex columnist (no kidding folks - but not like sex and the city) who was hot hot hot, but also, however improbably, kind of shy. She sang, her boyfriend played trumpet, beth sang, abner played a cheesy electronic keyboard, and the costumes were pretty fun. Definitely odd, and slightly awkward though...

Today i took off from work to get things done i need to get done before i head south. Saw joe out early (after being up late the night before); tried to catch a couple more winks; moved the car to avoid a streetcleaning ticket; took some clothes to the cleaners for some patching; had breakfast and looked up some travel info; went to dmv to renew my drivers license; did all the laundry in the house (well, except the hand washing, haven't got to that yet); took the car to the shop for a tune-up; peter came by to help me set up the new futon i had delivered (still have to take the old one down all those stairs - we'll do that on the way out.) Tonight we're headed to the village to see christopher do his stand-up act. Trying to fit in as much as i can before i get out of here.

Hope to see as many of you as i can this week. Nancy marano's jazz workshop open house at the musician's union on west 48th tomorrow!