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"Emotional Baggage Bard Tour" 2/7 A Return to NYC and The Inspired Word Greetings wonderful wondering wanderers! So continues my journeys after exploring and performing in New England and leaving  Rhode Island with a full stomach courtesy of Geoff's Superlative Sandwiches and Drent's generosity and heading south to return to New York City to perform as feature at Michael Geffner's Inspired Word series at Parkside Lounge .  On the last tour I did, the "NovEmbark Tour", I made my debut here at the onset of Thanksgiving week, and Mike was kind enough shortly after to invite me back for a second feature opportunity! On my way down to NYC I listened to the following podcasts (a pretty "heavy" list of topics.  Note that "Cortex" is one that was on the list that Vaughn suggested to me in New Haven, CT!): Slate's Political Gabfest "Give Me Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses...Ah Screw It" episode Dropped an...

You're back! It's a pleasure to have you...the final day of the first weekend of the Onederlust tour was encouraging and travel-filled....      Goodbye to the Empire State         My wonderful friends...Sunday, purportedly the "day of rest" was the third consecutive day that began at 5:30am for me.  I left Doug and Boris a note, gathered my weighty bags (which went well with the ones beneath my eyes) and headed to the bus stop that was roughly an hour's worth of travel considering the stages and allowance for my navigational clumsiness (which I'm proud to report seems to be abating!)  Sometimes your surroundings will surprise and spite your inference expectations.  Even while I have a general optimistic faith in the kindheartedness and socialization of people, NYC can sometimes whittle away at that.  As I'm in the subway at 7am trying to figure out which train to take to the next station I begin to write down this short assessmen...