dear droppings,
small goat night afoot.
9ish.
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Mark Gsellman rocks.

Rhinestone love and a nice shot of the turtle with Dave's extraordinary seaweed marquis.
The Baron

The beautiful and wildly successful work of Zanetka Gawronski.

Steve Weinberg with Paundy reading Pie.

Paul is turning 40 in this shot.
I am choosing to keep most folks anonymous here, but this is the Clamanator: Damn the Clamanator.

I seem to be enjoying Lydia's impromptu gig. What a voice.
Thanks to Mark Gsellman for the use of these wonderful pictures.

A magnanamous start.

There is something to be said for beginnings.
The Turtle christening was full on:
A wonderful show by Zanetka Gawronski
leaped from the walls and into peoples cars,
Rather impressive herd of Elephants(R) graced the goat, a beautiful Young comic got her start,
Paundy managed yet another mission control center in the woods, A large man named Shaun was doppledganged by a drunken version of himself rendering him deeply un-drunk in comparison ( a new Rule has been instituted fining all that fall 10 bucks- 20 if they take another down, 30 if they are over 250 pounds), rob recorded steve using a portion of the original controls from Sputnik, Dave's gorgeous seaweed marquis glowed above, Rhinestones blew people away and should never ever tune that Ukulele, Eli brought his moonshine and with the help of a rather misleading chap named Spencer the "Clamanator" was born and hopefully died, Christine TCB'd, My son found Eli and Amanda in the attic of the goat in the morning and he was convinced the building was capable of birthing mythical lumberjacks overnight, Mr. Arntson helped me come to celebrate failure, Before Cars sounded just fantastic and were meant to play the new space, Lydia plays an impromptu set that felt planned, Jeff Patricio seamlessly knit it all together with B side Samba love and pulled the plug as per usual in my absence, A Steve Weinberg was mistaken for Steve Gutenberg. Dan L was sighted NW of Agate pass. Belle still has a beautiful voice.

I am still cleaning. What is with people? While world peace and a stable economy is a pipe-dream can we concentrate on not just opening beers and leaving them in the weeds untouched.

Ps. I honestly meant to tell people that the intention of the turtle is to allow local musicians to play and pass a hat from time to time in order to make local music a reality.

I never actually saw Doug; Clamanator?
And Hey, did anyone get to use the outhouse? Was it good?

2bconsidered for the 30th. .

Josh made some nice salvador/kingston/ian screw drivers.
Grinding all the boards for the acoustic back really sucks.
The turtle head is in place and looks great and a bit folksy.
Marquis is in the works at least.
Front overhang copper installed.
Gold dome complete.
Lighting being considered.
Trash everywhere.
Stone to be laid.
3 benches needed.
2 support arms to be crafted for barge rafter support: Gold?
Chiminea with requisite stack desperately needed.
Text?
POWER?

so....

May 30th
Will be the inauguration of the Turtle. It will be a race against the clock but I'm sure
it will be amazing. Zanetka Gawronski will be showing work of recent print work, Steve Arntson and Bridget Young will be performing and some manifestation of Paundy is quite possible.
We painted the ceiling with the first coat today. The sound quality is popping a bit more.
OMG.


I forgot to mention that if we are Lucky some manifestation of Anne and ________ will play too.

old school.

I haven't blogged about the goat in some time because it and I (we are metaphysically linked) are in an incubation period. I will say, it is shaping up to be an extraordinary summer. The turtle should be relatively complete by June. It looks better all the time. Please enjoy this photo of Kenya (still living ) Coco and Otis.

Challenge.

The Goat is more than that. When you show for Mike and Jamie's bon voyage, please bring your creative game . Apparently Mike has asked folks to dress as they did at thirteen. Please bring something to perform on stage, requisite instruments in tow. See you Saturday.