I swear he's not dead!

He's just still not here yet. Maybe he'll get here tonight. He's really not dead.

Last night at the concert, Sam (Iron & Wine) played a song I didn't know called 'Trapeze Swinger' that I thought was amazing. It has some of the best lyrical imagery I've heard in a long time. Beware, though. It's a wonderful nine minutes short.

I went to the show with Jaymee and Abby. About halfway through, the large man standing in front of us left to go get beer. With his hulking frame removed I noticed that Laura and her man were about 5 feet away from us. We spoke a bit during the show and I introduced everyone afterward. It was a strange coincidence, given that the show was packed and the place is huge.

Anthony has left for his 10-day bike trip through the Canadian Rockies. He'll be back for just a few days before heading out again, this time to New Jersey to install some of his art for a collector. I'm making him join me July 16^th for another half-marathon, again with his machine strapped to his back. I am shooting for 9-minute miles. Training so far has been right on track: something it definitely was not last time.


Residents salvage what they can after hundreds of houses in Navotas, north of Manila, were destroyed by fire.