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Motivation

No matter how hard I’ve tried recently, I’ve been unable to make time for this blog. The Army Field Band Brass Quintet has been carpet-bombing the region with recitals, and I’ve had to fit every other task around that schedule. Plus, I try not to bore my readers with the most mundane aspects of my […]
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Spring Tour 2012- Tulsa, Oklahoma “Mansions of the Lord”

I hope my returning readers haven’t been too frustrated with my recent lapses between blog entries. I’ve been unusually busy this tour, and most of my writing time has gone towards Army Field Band tasks and a graphic novel I’m trying to get out the door (more to follow on that soon, hopefully). But something […]
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Band > Football

Twenty members of The U.S. Army Field Band spent this week in San Antonio, Texas for the 2012 Army All-American Bowl. For those of you who tuned in to NBC to watch the game: Sorry. You were cheated. The real show wasn’t televised. Every second of the football game was, though. In-between the quarters, NBC aired […]
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Zombies and the People Who Love Them

George Romero has become a household name. The Walking Dead is a phenomenal hit, both in comic stores and on television. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies began a new sub-genre of historical fiction, now containing such installments as Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, soon to be a major motion picture. Literature is published about how to survive zombie […]
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Fall Tour 2011- Glastonbury, CT “The Mead of Poetry”

My long, frustrating search for an artist ended this week, as Scott Hampton and I began our collaboration on The Lazarus Slaves. To celebrate, some friends bought me my first bottle of mead, which we promptly emptied. Mead is the coolest drink there is. It’s also the oldest. The granddaddy of all alcoholic drinks, it predates […]
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Fall Tour 2011- Potsdam, NY (Halloween)

Halloween was our second Schools Day of tour. This has traditionally been a fun day to do school clinics, as kids are dressed up and generally in good spirits. But the Army Field Band Brass Quintet expected this year’s Halloween to be a little more bleak. We were scheduled to give our final recital of […]
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Fall Tour 2011- Watertown, NY (UFC 137)

Saturday, October 29th was a tough day for mixed martial arts. Let me back up a couple of months. Some friends and I are looking forward to UFC 137: Georges St. Pierre vs. Nick Diaz, BJ Penn vs. Carlos Condit, and Mirko Cro Cop vs. Roy Nelson. Every one of these men has worn the […]
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