bits of string

why, hello there!

thanks for tuning in to this latest edition of the ramblings of yours truly. this will be mainly a short collection of "click here"s. beginning with:

a mention in the austin chronicle! go for it:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-04-15/music_phases5.html
two lines is all....but better than no lines, i always say.

there is a new pope, benedetto XVI. for me, that is about 15 benedettos too many... i am ready for some creativity! so there is an italian newspaper called il manifesto that is a super leftist communist newspaper, and the headline this morning was "il pastore tedesco." talk about a double meaning! literally translated, a pastore tedesco is a german shephard. :) JP II was often referred to as the pastore polaco (polish shephard), but you can see where the difference in meaning enters in :)
http://www.ilmanifesto.it/
there is also a funny cartoon on the front... apparently the manifesto isn't a huge fan of poor Ratzinger, but then again, someone told me today that italian newspapers picked on jp II's polish accent for 10 years before they laid off....and at the time of his death, he was regarded here in italy, as in most of the world, as the most beloved pope ever....so there is hope yet for poor Benedetto XVI.

what else? i had something else....blast if i can't remember it now. you can tune it to:
www.uncommonground.com
and stream their radio station...they are featuring me on April 25 and April 27...live cuts from a show I did there in October. Who knows what you may find??

oh, funny story also. so i was reading "to kill a mockingbird" the other day, and when i finished, i was crying, of course, so i wasn't in the mood to go down to dinner at santa chiara...so i sent my friend anne a text message on her phone that said "i am such a dork - i just finished to kill a mockingbird and now i am crying all over the place. not coming to dinner." anne, having forgotten i was reading TKAM, thought that i had literally just finished killing a bird (i guess one that was suffering? who knows....) and therefore had lost my appetite for dinner. something gets lost from time to time in text messaging.... as i guess in all forms of electronic communication, including this one. :)

see y'all real soon, y'here?
vanessa