Castletown Geoghegan –Belleville, IL- to Rock This Friday Night
Come out to Belleville for a night of all ages fun, and some new songs, at beautiful Castletown Geoghegan.
CTG is a great, family-owned restaurant/public house in downtown Belleville. Come out and make this a great night!
See you out there!
Dump the Pump, Save Your Money, Save the Planet, 19 June
Tomorrow, 19 June, join me and Dump the Pump. Ride your bike, the bus, the train, or walk to work or the store, tomorrow. You might find that you feel a lot better for doing so, at least in your wallet.
For more information, go to the Dump the Pump website.
Do you ride mass transit, walk, or ride your bike as transportation? Are you going to try Dumping the Pump, tomorrow?
I hope you all stocked up on V-8, or the hair of the dog, or whatever, before yesterday’s Bloomsday.
For those unaware, Bloomsday is a sort of Saint Patrick’s Day for Mensa Members. It’s a day when the 750 million people who say they’ve read James Joyce’s Ulysses cover to cover –including the 642 who actually have- celebrate the Dublin meanderings of the book’s characters, especially Leopold Bloom, on 16 June 1904.
Perhaps I should begin reading the book again myself. I once made it to “Nestor” before being overtaken by pretty much anything else, maybe some celebrating. Anyway, perhaps I should check it out from the library, tonight, and encourage you all to do so, as well. We can read it together, and record a weekly song about each episode. I’m not kidding. I’ll fish out my library card, right now, and head to Carondelet Branch to pick up a giant copy.
So, join me in a summer of Joyce! We’ll read about our favorite fictitious Jewish-Irish Dubliner.
This Labor Day weekend, I’m returning to my hometown of Kansas City, MO for the 8th Annual Kansas City Irish Fest. Kansas City has multiple Irish festivals and celebrations, but this is the big one.
I will perform Saturday and Sunday afternoons, at Noon on the Atrium Stage. Of course, my friends The Elders, and Tullamore will be there. Mary, of Tullamore, and I were both in Bully Ruse (AKA Clandestine KC), together.
So, make plans to come to the KCIF 2008!
Check out the whole Kansas City Irish Fest 2008 Schedule…
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Euro Country of Origin Stickers
Well, I finally did this thing. I resisted, or, perhaps more accurately, procrastinated, for a long time. Now, though, I’ve Country of Origin stickers. You know them. They’re the cheeky, little oval stickers that black Hummer and Escalade drivers use to make you feel bad that they’ve been to the Outer Banks, or live in the Hamptons, or swam on the Jersey shore, or whatever; and you do not.
Well, fire back, my friends. Put one of these little oval stickers on the back of your Yaris, and you’re good to go.
Instead of the UNCCDEEDIDDLYAYDIO standard, white background, these sport the totally non-compliant Irish tricolor background.
Now, maybe that Dave Matthews will stop emailing me, and gloating that he has one and I don’t. Thanks, DMB.
Peace out,
RAMZ/RMC/RAMC
If you’d like to order one of these bad girls, check out the oval sticker at my cafepress shoppe.
