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Hmmmm ... I appear to have been absent from these parts for awhile. Nothing to worry about; just haven't been motivated to post, though I'm kept up with the f-list. I tend to blog in spurts -- I'll be silent for a week or so, then explode with about a dozen posts over three or four days. That's kind of how I do a number of things, including novel writing, song creation, various outdoors activities, etc.: I won't touch them for quite some time, then throw myself into them intensely for a temporary spell. (Which, come to think of it, also mirrors my reading patterns as I noted in a comment on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ohiblather's blog.) This probably isn't the most efficient or productive way to live life -- particuarly since I value craft honed with discipline more than I do the Snakebit Visionary process -- but it's the pattern I've set so far.
Nothin' too much to say at this juncture. I may or may not be going to Marcon (http://www.marcon.org) this year, so I may or may not see some of you there. And work awaits, so I must go. Ere this, though, I leave you with the adjoining photo from the Tarbox Ramblers concert in the atrium of the Village Gate in Rochester last month. They're an excellent, intense blues-roots band originating in Boston; they were brought to Rochester again by Tom Kohn from the Bop Shop (http://www.bopshop.com), the Rochester area's finest music retailer (which takes some doing in a market that contains the House of Guitars). Tom also sponsors several shows both in the Village Gate and in area venues from national/international artists who are generally under the radar, mostly avant-guard jazz musicians, British folk and folk-rock (he's brought in Fairport Convention and the Strawbs on numerous occasions) and quirky-roots stuff like Brave Combo and the Asylum Street Spankers.
The Village Gate (http://rocwiki.org/Village_Gate) is one of my dozen or so favorite things about the Rochester area (along with Mendon Ponds Park, the Memorial Art Gallery, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and the Beale Street Cafe, the lovely library system, High Falls, etc. etc.). A former industrial property, it's been converted into a mix of artists' studios and eclectic retailers, which include numerous speciality bookshops (including a used-bookshop run by my alma mater), my backup comic shop (I mostly remain loyal to the shop run by my friend in Macedon), a sushi bar, Greek and Mexican restaurants, a piercing parlor, a GLBT-interest shop, vintage clothing shop and so forth, set up amid permanent and temporary pieces of funky local artwork. It's what an urban mall could be if malls were interesting.
Sounds & Images: 90125 (Yes)
ohiblather's blog.) This probably isn't the most efficient or productive way to live life -- particuarly since I value craft honed with discipline more than I do the Snakebit Visionary process -- but it's the pattern I've set so far.Nothin' too much to say at this juncture. I may or may not be going to Marcon (http://www.marcon.org) this year, so I may or may not see some of you there. And work awaits, so I must go. Ere this, though, I leave you with the adjoining photo from the Tarbox Ramblers concert in the atrium of the Village Gate in Rochester last month. They're an excellent, intense blues-roots band originating in Boston; they were brought to Rochester again by Tom Kohn from the Bop Shop (http://www.bopshop.com), the Rochester area's finest music retailer (which takes some doing in a market that contains the House of Guitars). Tom also sponsors several shows both in the Village Gate and in area venues from national/international artists who are generally under the radar, mostly avant-guard jazz musicians, British folk and folk-rock (he's brought in Fairport Convention and the Strawbs on numerous occasions) and quirky-roots stuff like Brave Combo and the Asylum Street Spankers.
The Village Gate (http://rocwiki.org/Village_Gate) is one of my dozen or so favorite things about the Rochester area (along with Mendon Ponds Park, the Memorial Art Gallery, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and the Beale Street Cafe, the lovely library system, High Falls, etc. etc.). A former industrial property, it's been converted into a mix of artists' studios and eclectic retailers, which include numerous speciality bookshops (including a used-bookshop run by my alma mater), my backup comic shop (I mostly remain loyal to the shop run by my friend in Macedon), a sushi bar, Greek and Mexican restaurants, a piercing parlor, a GLBT-interest shop, vintage clothing shop and so forth, set up amid permanent and temporary pieces of funky local artwork. It's what an urban mall could be if malls were interesting.
Sounds & Images: 90125 (Yes)
