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Late Sunday night I met up with folks at Lit in the East Village which was a rather nice low key bar. Adjourned from there and checked out a terrific mod dance club on 13th St. Don’t know the name of the place but it was a) free, and b) had a terrific DJ who was playing the Creation, The Small Faces, and a bunch of UK freakbeat. Extra bonus: the movie If was playing in the background.

Originally I was going to rent a car for the run up to Ithaca, but three days of long nights and little sleep made it a done deal – I’m taking the bus. In a couple of days I get to do this all over again…

Saturday night really didn’t end until sometime around 5 this morning. After leaving Taverna Kyklades, we adjourned to the Bohemian Hall Beer Garden nearby and took advantage of the cheap pictures of Spaten. Finally got a change to tell the Big Texan steak story which I really need to get down in written form here.

Geeta recommended a place in the East Village called Alt.Coffee for wireless access and that pretty much became my home away from home for the rest of the day. Strong coffee. Comfy chairs. Free wireless. Got a chance to quench the demand for FAP pictures and just take it easy for the day. Interestingly, the desktops they have there are all running Linux. Very cool.

Go there and spend money…

Alt.Coffee
139 Ave. A
New York City, NY
(212) 529-2233
http://www.altcoffee.com

Turned out I wasn’t the only blogger at the fireworks display. Megnut was there too.

Best fireworks show I’ve ever seen by the way. The most interesting view was actually looking at the fireworks’ reflection in the mirrored windows of the buildings nearby, but I couldn’t get a decent enough picture of that.

Phone rings, it’s my mom: my grandmother died this morning.

We’ve all been expecting it, ‘Graham’ (which is what I’ve always called her since I was little) was 99 years old and had been in a Sarasota nursing home for almost a year. The past couple of months had been kinda rough, as she was really out-of-it and not recognizing visitors. A couple of weeks ago she stopped eating and we all sorta knew that it was going to happen sooner rather than later.

Kinda mixed up right now. I’m sad but not devastated – really an odd sort of relief coupled with exhaustion. Mom feels the same way. Going up to the Ithaca house next week is going to be rather bittersweet. Glad I’m on the NYC flight tomorrow morning. Very glad to be hanging out with folks in a little under 36 hours.

Going to grab some pho across the street. A full stomach right now is urgent and key.

Didn’t know what else to do right now other than post here.

Will posted some new tracks over on his web site. Check ’em out, especially “Sky Blue Feeling”.

This clip totally made my evening and erases the shame of being a Tin Machine song. (warning, it’s Windows Media Player format)

The release of Safari is interpreting my style sheet here differently, so I’m tweaking around the settings. Expect chaos.

Two cephalopod sites of great worth:

• Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus!
• TONMO.com – The Octopus News Magazine

I heart TONMO, because they include “Cthulhu” as one of their Amazon key words.

The Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast streams out “a random cycling of some of the most sleep-worthy tracks ever created.” Set your alarm clock and zone out…