“We opened up three buttons, but all we saw was desert trash”
It’s funny, Harrisburg.
It’s funny how many talented and gifted and passionate and unique and driven and intelligent and creative people live and work in Harrisburg.
But we all get caught up.
Caught up in the bullshit. Caught up in the politics. Caught up [...]

“So close”
That should be the city of Harrisburg’s tagline.
“We are so close to Baltimore. We are so close to Philly. We are so close to Pittsburgh, NYC and DC”
And to go even further….we are so close to having a competent administration. We are so close…well, not really, to having our city finances [...]

Sigh.
It’s called “BCC”, guys. Ever see it? When you put someone’s address in the address line of your email client, you have two other options. One is “CC” (which, if you didn’t know, stands for “Carbon Copy”…as in, you’re sending an exact copy of the email to whoever is in that line) and then [...]

Alternate title- “They call me vicegrips”
This post was originally written on October 26, 2008 but left in the archives because I didn’t get around to finishing it. But recently joining the “You know your [sic] a stagehand if…” group of Facebook inspired me to finish telling this story.
I’m lucky to be alive.
I’ve been through [...]

I recently accepted a new contract with another venue. It’s much smaller and not nearly as centrally located as my primary venue, but a fun room nonetheless. It’s more of a “neighborhood bar” than anything, but they want to increase their bottom line by expanding their music programming for the weekends. Consequently, my workload has [...]