December 2005 – Page 3 – The Bald Heretic – Short, bald dude with a goofy beard

Family friendly Fish show

My band, The Flying Fish Sailors, will be performing on Dec. 23rd at Hickory Hollow located at 101 Heights Blvd in Houston, TX.
Hickory Hollow is a fantastic BBQ joint that has a long history of presenting live folk music in Houston.

The show is free and kicks off about 7:00 pm and goes till around 10:00 pm.
Come on out, grab some dinner and lift a pint of holiday cheer with the Flying Fish Sailors!

If you need a map, click here.

Hopefully this time we won’t attract the attention of a category 5 hurricane.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Xmas

But it still feels like summer. High on Saturday was near 80 degrees. Today was a bit better as a weak cold front moved through.

We put up the tree and other decorations.
Mostly mouse ornaments on the tree.
The philatelist mouse is my favorite

We also started work on William’ss Xmas card.
William says “Merry Christmas, Ya’ll!”

Men of Substance

There were a few years at Ren Faire that the band was not playing.
During one of those seasons I was in an acting troup. We billed ourselves as the Men of Substance.
We told stories to the patrons (including the Tale Of Sawny Bean) and walked the festival being as pompous and as arrogant as we could.

The Men Of Substance – 1991
Bill Sanders, Danny Gilles, Larry Boozer and me.

Framed

One of the luxuries we afford ourselves in our home is having good art professionally framed.
We have a frame shop we use that is owned and run by a wonderful married couple from the UK.

It’s not cheap but it’s always worth it as they are very good at assiting us with choosing just the right matting and frame for our art.

We went to our framers today to see about having a mirror created for the master bathroom.
To our delight the pictures I gave Cynthia for her birthday that we dropped off last weekend were ready!
We were not expecting them until next weekend.

As you can see, they came out very nice.

Viva Las Vegas

It’s official, I am off to Vegas in January to attend the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, only the biggest electronic gadget show on the planet.

I applied for and was granted press credentials. Woo-hoo! It’s like a back stage pass for geeks!

So it’s 3 days of gawking at shiny new-fangled electronic geegaws and schmoozing with vendors .

I have only been to Vegas once before and that was with my friend John for our Elvis pilgrimage about 15 years ago. There is nothing can compare with seeing an above average Elvis impersonator with the sounds of slots tinking, clinkling and chiming in the background through the whole show. Blue Man Group

Several friends have recommended going to see The Blue Man Group so I have acquired a ticket for their show which has moved from the Luxor to the Venetian.

I look forward to the show and having a look at the new luxury resort modelled after Venice.
Should be a real hoot.