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so, on friday at 6pm headed out to the dali museum in st pete… to see tom carabasi play drums with a jazz band. he wore his brazil soccer shirt, so i presume the music was mostly brazilian, at least in his mind…  saw dali at twelve years old doing festival posters and line drawings of the witches in cadaques. then on to the vinoy with cheri, tara, and sheila, and tom. and yes, i think that there should be a comma before the “and”. so there. “i have a really bad bug bite on my ankle, do you have any tea tree oil?” says sheila, “when i went out to the fire…”  ok, where where we? lets get back to friday….

oh, the vinoy- doesn’t it remind you of a lounge on a cruise liner? and what a spectacular night time view of the bay, and the st pete pier- seriously, yes, and the acoustics in the lounge are really good, comfortable seating, and a jazz band? didn’t they join us for a drink and a snack? the trumpet player was quite amazing - loved his playing. to make a long story short, headed over the bridge, the big one, with the unpainted-for-ten-years cable by ten pm- can’t miss it, and i really want to know why. did somebody in the highway department screw the wrong persons wife? what could possibly explain the inability to complete a paint job on 28 (i’m guessing) cables in ten years… surely the swiss have designed a bridge cable painting machine - hmmm-

then ivy, yet another opening night club in sarasota, seems to be a run of them… with a huge turnout, you could really get a glimpse of what a local looks like, that was definitely not tourists, that was some local sarasota money walking in there. you have wrap it up.. did we go somewhere welse after that? we dropped the girls off and spent a couple hours then off to bed early. there was a party the nest day.

saturday: erica turns 18, which fact i didn’t realize until i got to the recital at 2pm with edward-  she put on an awesome set, which is up, or will be in a few hours at http://ericareynolds.com.

and then, a marvelous party at my cute girl zeros house, the high point of which was daniel, just in from germany, who brought a newly produced track which everyone quite enjoyed dancing to- in fact we had six or seven people speaking german, followed by a transcendental breakfast in bed, swimming, and dancing till very sweaty at the drum circle, and so on. two visitors from vienna, and a light up frisbee in the dark.

Coming up very soon, this thursday, in sarasota:  Erica Reynolds will be performing at a dinner recital at esca restaurant. 7pm - includes a four course dinner, wine, and lots of mozart - to reserve your seat go to http://ericareynolds.com and click on the link. Or you can just show up at the door. Please come, it’s a chance to have a great dinner at a great restaurant, be thoroughly entertained in the process, and help a  very hard working young woman pay her tuition. She got a great write up in the sarasota herald tribune last wednesday. Esca restaurant is located at 1888 main st, sarasota.

• camping out on a throne in the middle of the audience, well hidden…
• seeing keith keeping twinkle from falling off the high stage
• being the only couple dancing to funky o
• terry charming eight out of every ten women within a hundred yards
• the gator club, the five-o, and where the hell did we end up that night?
• arriving on englewood beach
• what can you do with a mango?
• and a little black dress?
• ladies night at juniors, and yes, ladies night at juniors has it’s own myspace page
• your first drink of the day served by the bartender at calypsos
• the sexiest collection of white outfits on the planet gets massacred by a sprinkler system
• breakfast - um, forgot everything except the mimosas
• trashing the shower with a gallon of shaving cream
• being the couple to watch in the water
• shrimp and guitar and artichokes and big big jen
• rock with the juju band, brick house, and five jaegermeisters
• extracting big jen from said bar
• nearly convincing two homophobic gator killers to take all us drunks out on a boat for a moonlight cruise - where is hunter s. thompson when you need him?
• skinny dipping at the skinniest point of manasota key, with a dancing girl
• what else can we say about big breasts and bathing suits?
• being a bad host because your boyfriend just never will get enough of you
• breakfast at five am because your boyfriend just never will get enough of you
• a little sleep…
• a completely over the top boyfriend lecture
• the worlds finest hand crafted birthday cake
• interrupting your cbz’s breathing yet again
• you danced into your 38th year of a long and deep love affair with the universe…
• more forever!
• my cute girl zero rocks

march 8th, international womens day, party in oakland see http://muchthump.com for details - uberzone and dj icon appearing.

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go to esca.

eat dinner at lan on main.

show up for a party.

that’s all the advice i have for tonight.

about 3am with stacey and arlo and harley listening to soul coughing after driving in from mendo down that twisty, windy, roller coaster of a road, 128.  wish you were here. the news is quiet, even though i haven’t looked at it in a week. everything seems much the same, nobody even noticed i wasn’t looking.

in tpm cafe, which i read after arriving home tonight, i noticed the upcoming nebraska senate race- pivotal in 2008 supposedly, so i bought nebraskasenate.com. arriving home after an hour or so at esca (got no link for them, sorry… but it is the best place in town for almost anything) where i had a shot of drambuie on the rocks. ran into NK who seemed Read more »

Here is what I wrote about ten days after the fiasco of an election we had here in sarasota:

I think it is clear to anyone with some involvement in the process here in Sarasota over the past three weeks, that there were serious obstacles preventing the registration of votes for the district 13 election in Sarasota, and furthermore, these obstacles were mostly in the way of votes for Christine Jennings. I have yet to hear a single person state they had a problem registering a vote for Vern Buchanan, with the exception of people who simply were not presented with the screen for the district 13 race. I have heard first person reports from more than 40 people who had difficulty voting for Christine Jennings.
This is perhaps the clearest and most well documented case of a defective election in a long time. Read more »

after a long somewhat frustrating day of neglecting work yet again to do politics, i headed out toward a party, stopping over at a friends house around the corner from said party. we had a glass of wine and somehow ended up sharing stories of our strangest sexual encounters. not that we had many, but i learned some things about my ex i didn’t know before… Read more »