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Raining again. Just in from downtown, where Kevin and wrapped mixing on the “Summer’s Gone” CD single. Now it just needs to be mastered, and duplicated (read below for details). Walked around the Lower East Side in the drizzle afterwards listening to Coldplay’s new CD, “A Rush of Blood to the Head.” Brilliant. Good accompaniment…

Friday night at home, resting up for yet another big race, this time the NYRRC 18-miler on Sunday. It’d sure be nice to have a weekend off, but I guess that comes next week in Nantucket… So, what am I up to? Well, we’re all about the Video Music Awards at the MTV these days.…

Raining outside. Colplay on in the living room, Radiohead in the bedroom — schizophrenic  me… Aaaah… the inevitable post show let down. What can I tell you? How do I spin it? Well, we played well. We took some risks: the band performed both “Hollywood Arms” and “California” 48 hours after I introduced them, and…

Big win of the day: After a year of persistent lobbying, I booked my Philadelphia “Summer’s Gone” tour stop at the city’s the premiere acoustic music venue: The Point on Wednesday, September 25th. Details to follow — but it’s never to late to start spreading the good word. Meanwhile, I’m tippin’ you off, ‘cuz you’re…

Contacts dry. Dehydrated. No dinner. Drank a skunked Sam Adams that’s been in the fridge for months. Listening to REM’s “Sweetness Follows” (“It’s these little things that pull you under / Live your life filled with joy and thunder”). Fresh from rehearsal… I foisted all kinds of new wrenches on the band. Todd’s never played…

I should be in the studio, but after this morning’s triathlon, I called Kevin and begged off. It goes like this… I woke up at 4:55, showered, and walked to the 79th Street Boat Basin transition area, dropped my gear (helmet, gloves, shoes, backpack, PowerGels, Vaseline) at my bike. Then I followed the line of…