September Gigs!

Heya Folks!

It has been an eventful month.  I’ve returned from a two-week jaunt in Ireland after falling head over heels in love with it.  It’s one of the more vibrant and engaging places I’ve been in a long time.  The incomparable Ryan Avery joined me for the first half of the journey and even sat in on some traditional music sessions in a few of the local pubs.  Needless to say, he fit right in.   I even managed to finagle my way into one performer’s blues session.   

 

I know. 

I’m incorrigible.

 

In any case I’m looking forward to getting back in the swing of things!

Here’s the lineup for September:

 

Saturday, Sept 7th

The Americano Social Club FAMILY RUCKUS!

Club Deluxe

1511 Haight St (between Clayton St & Ashbury St) San Francisco, CA 94117

9:30pm-1am

$5 door charge

*Special Note!  I will not be at the Club Deluxe Ruckus in October due to a travel conflict.  Come out to this one in order to stave off the withdrawals!

 

Tuesday, Sept 10th

Rich and the Rhythm Roustabouts @ The Dancer’s Den

Berkeley City Club

2315 Durant Ave (between Ellsworth St & Dana St) Berkeley, CA 94704

8:30pm-11:00pm

Dance Entry Fee

 

Friday, Sept 13th

The Americano Social Club FAMILY RUCKUS!

Revolution Café

3248 22nd Street, San Francisco 94110

9:30pm-12:30pm

Free

 

Friday, Sept 27th

Grove Valve Orchestra Benefit for Devoted to Children!

CLIF Bar Headquarters

1451 66th St. Emeryville CA 94608

info:  https://www.facebook.com/events/523395367735586/?ref=22

get tickets!  http://d2cbenefit.eventbrite.com/

See you at a Ruckus or dance venue soon!

Glory Hole

The vagina is under a microscope.
It’s being prodded by shallow precepts.
 
The tools are clumsy and stickily sharp.
 
The stakes are life and death.
 
My vagina is not a glory hole
 
It’s not a place to pray.
 
You can come inside if you want to
 
But I must insist that you stay.
 
 
 
It’s not yours to testify against
 
It’s not yours to undermine
 
It can give you a brand new set of laws
 
If you can sacrifice some time.
 
 
This can mean war if you insist on war
 
swinging your pious pens about,  like swords
 
suturing laws with calculated ignorance
 
And baby, those are fighting words.  In our defense
 
So God got it backwards, did he?
In his flawed, omnipotent perfection.
While he gave men the desire to take lives,
He gave women the power to make them.