At the 9:30 Club for the Regina Spektor show, and a list of t-shirts I've seen so far...Sufjan Stevens, Modest Mouse, a show featuring Pearl Jam with Death Cab for Cutie opening. Ms. Spektor was surprisingly punctual, polite and petite, but lovely in the Russian Semitic way of which I'm so fond.

I was quite simply amazed by how good she was. She started off...
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I think I've figured out what the problem is. I keep winding up on flights with fucking politicians. That's why they keep getting canceled, delayed, or suffer in-flight emergencies Of course, that's an occupational hazard of flying into and out of Reagan National Airport.

On the subject of Reagan, the man has a fuckload of stuff named after him. The aforementioned airport, an International Trade...
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Wow. The last words you want to hear while 12 thousand feet in the air are "Protocol demands we declare an emergency landing". That was the start of my surreal "Final Destination" Friday. Mercifully, we landed uneventfully, and the passenger next to me (a psychotherapist, no less), remarked that I helped her keep it together by remaining cool during the event.

Next, I head on...
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So I'm moving to DC in a couple of weeks. I'm excited and sad, and more than a little nervous. I was hoping to have more time here, more time to hang out with friends, and more time to get the SGNOLA group back up and running. If I have notice that an SGNOLA throw-down is occurring, I'll do my best to fly into town....
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