social notes while staying at home in blog mode

[Michael Eisenstadt]

a Web log (blog in contemporary baby talk) is a poisonal
on line diary

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<blog mode> i for 1 have been thinking of a musical
event I did NOT attend this past weekend: Joe Rowe and 
his wife French wife Catherine who have contrived their 
own genre of music, performed at a biomacrobio restaurant 
near the baseball fields just south of the Lamar Bridge

you will know Joe personally or have read him when
he was briefly a subscriber after 9-11. his motive for
subscribing as it seems was to alert us that that French
readers ALREADY knew that the CIA & Osama were in cahoots 
in 9-11 planning the summer before when Osama was undergoing 
high-tech kidney therapy at a modern hospital in Bahrain 
-- that the CIA had sneaked up the back stairs and 
cahooted with Osama in the dialysis unit

Joe is married to a VERY attractive French woman. i
and wife Madelon last saw Joe and met Catherine in 
Paris a few years ago. they were living in a very old large
attic appartment where hung on the walls the drums and
other traditional instruments they play on and sing to

unfortunately the concert they were preparing which was
to be held in a church was on the day after our scheduled
return to US

the time previous to that Joe was in Austin and he 
came over to our apartment and finished his very
pleasant visit late in the night. he gave us a casette
then of their music which is eery and original with
North African elements in it (Joe lived in Morocco
for some years)

but the last time we were in Paris I called Joe up
to broach socializing which we hoped might repeat the 
great time we had visiting his apartment and then 
going out for dinner the previous year

surprise, Joe made it sufficiently clear that he and
Catherine were not available for socializing

so when Frances told me about Joe & Catherine 
performing this past weekend and we having both
heard the casette and remembering the phone call that 
time in Paris, we blew it off as too embarrassing

I would have loved to go and try out my recently
improved French on Catherine though</blog mode>