Happy Halloween and Día de los Muertos

My dad has an electronic bird feeder that solves the squirrel problem by shocking them. He said that he had just put fresh batteries in it and was watching a nuthatch that was sitting on one of the perches motionless. It was strangely perched facing away from the feeder with its tail in the air. After quite a period of time watching the bird sitting there motionless he thought he'd go out to the feeder and take a closer look. It turns out that the little bird must have swung around to just the right position and placed its little bird sphincter on the electrode. The 9volt battery powered bird feeder actually electrocuted the poor little bugger.

Saturday Mornings are Paradise

I love saturday mornings. I tend to get up early, sit down with a cup of coffee, stare out the window, and listen to my recording from the previous night of Coast to Coast AM. I love listenning to those crazy late night callers.

This morning I saw a flock of birds that went on for as far as the eye could see and just kept flowing in and flying over my house. It was composed of small black birds. It was amazing.

Sounds like Di Dollari will be playing at DIORAMA-RAMA up in Duluth Minnesota on December 11th. It's the same date that we were hoping to do a local CD release party but the Turf Club and the Kitty Cat Klub are not responding to the requests to set up the show. Here's the details.

DIORAMA-RAMA
Saturday, December 11th
at the MAC
Duluth, MN

Di Dollari
Al Sparhawk (?)
Charlie Parr (?)
Every Bell and Whistle
Blitzen


From Larry King last night about the latest Bin Laden tape:

Cronkite: "I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing."

It's interesting that people with such influential positions actually beleive these crazy delusional ideas.