BJS060: Resort Town Gigs (6/29/2011)

Recorded June 18 & 26, 2011.



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31:42 - It's been a while - been keeping really busy between taking care of my wife, who is currently on bed rest, the boy, who just finished Kindergarten, a busy work schedule, "The Miracle Man" progress and other projects. I didn't even have time to do post production until a few days after recording this...

In this episode, I take you along on two interesting gigs - first a long bus ride up to Lake George, NY - a great resort town where I march in a huge Fireman's convention parade with the Tappan Zee Bridgemen, then a long drive south to Wildwood, NJ where I officiated a wedding. Topics include multiple units of the band, Six Flags Great Escape, marginal placenta previa, changing the baby's "due" date, Jacob Celebrity Fashion Show and the Boys & Girl's Club, camping in Wildwood in 1989, had a video gig in Queens, drove through 4 out of the 5 boroughs of New York City, scouting the beach, Ontario license plates in Wildwood, enormous Ferris wheel, The Skyscraper, don't go to Seaside, finding a fenced pathway up a sand dune, Jacob's iPod Touch takes better pictures than my phone, waiting to hear back from a famous actor for "The Miracle Man," putting investment documents together, a brief review of the latest CD from "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Alpocalypse," I may start a new regularly published podcast on the Law of Attraction.

Theme music: "The Chasing Game" by Friday's Child.

BJS059: The Overnight Walk 2011 - NYC

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1:05:12 - After several months of promoting this event, listen along as my friends Kati, Lynda, Tammy and I - and about 2,000 others - walk for 18 miles from Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn, up the Brooklyn Promenade, over the Brooklyn Bridge, past Ground Zero, around the tip of Manhattan, through Battery Park City, up the Hudson River, over to Sixth Avenue, down Broadway, then back over the Brooklyn Bridge to Cadman Plaza as we raise both money and awareness for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention! Discussion topics include Mariel Hemingway in the Opening Ceremony, Kati's brother Michael and my step-brother Allan, my grandfather's death and what it still means to me today, the recent passing of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, is suicide ever justified, suicide and older men, Blue Marble Ice Cream, the film The Jonestown Defense, talking with a man whose 22 year old son took his life in February, I left stuff in the car, The Freedom Tower and the 9/11 Memorial, passing by the mile markers and questioning the accuracy of their placement, the Staten Island Ferry, I used to work at 17 State Street with Frank Nora's sister-in-Law Carrie Ann Carol, the film Keeping the Faith, midnight snack at Pier 96, promoting the film In Montauk by Kim Cummings and the band HOT BREAKFAST featuring Jill Knapp and Matt Casarino, talking to street people, caffeine makes you dehydrated, reading the list of names of those who have sponsored my walk, luminarias, closing ceremony.

MAKE A DONATION FOR THE OUT OF THE DARKNESS OVERNIGHT WALK AT: http://theovernight.org Click the "Donate Now" button and do a search for Tammy O'Brien - she can use the help. Thanks!

Theme music: "The Chasing Game" by Friday's Child.