Tomorrow! Big Nazo band in Woonsocket! Free!

The Big Nazo band is presenting a new show Saturday, October 11. It's at the Woonsocket AutumnFest at the World War II Memorial Park there.

The Intergalactic Creature show has kind of become an Intergalactic Creature Election Show with plenty of new show-stopping characters.

Like, "Stop this show! You don't have a permit to do that on a stage in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations!" kind of show-stopping.

It's at 4:00, free, and absolutely the best thing in town on a Saturday afternoon unless you're at the casino or you rented a Karaoke machine to sing Bruce Springsteen all day on the lawn.

If you can't make it, Autumnfest is televised throughout the event on the Rhode Island Statewide Interconnect C, Cox Channel 15. So, yeah. That should be awesome. At least Tivo it! You can watch it again and again and try to figure out who's who.

Message me if you need more info, or call the cell at 508.813.8833.

-Stu

TGM

One of my best Internet friends, The Green Meanie, is out in Texas. Stay safe!

San Francisco plans

My older brother, currently a professional vagabond, has been giving me updates of his travels in the western part of the country.

My Dad and him overloaded the Dewmobile, a 1996 Buick Regal Gran Sport that's been passed amongst the Wilson men since it rolled off the dealership lot, and drove to Black Rock City, Nevada for Burning Man. My Dad has since described the endeavor as a smashing success.

They then drove to Las Vegas and stayed in a nice room for a few days. Nick called me from Vegas a few days ago, he was heading to Los Angeles next. He thought it would be a great idea if I flew out to meet him and helped him drive the Dewmobile back on the 18th.

I told him I couldn't, I was flying to San Francisco on the 19th for a gig. An odd coincidence. So Nick said he would see if he really had to leave then, or if he couldn't meet up in San Fran before driving back.

When I casually mentioned that my brother might be in the city for our gig, our fearless Nazo leader was visibly excited. He said he would hire my brother for the gig, if he wanted.

We're working the Treasure Island Music Festival, and it's no small gig. At least three strolls a day for big crowds at a festival with big names on stage. Nick did work a fireworks stroll with us, so he has that experience.

So Nick will join us and be a full-fledged member of the crew. After the festival, I'm planning to help him drive the Dewmobile back home, no doubt full of Burning Man gear, puppets and the music of the Human League.

Hopefully we'll be able to some small Nazo photo ops, meet up with Belcher in Denver and make it back in one piece. I think he's giving himself three days to get to Maine.

So that's two days working at an awesome festival, with backstage access to food and drink, a day off in San Francisco, one of my favorite cities, and a three-day buddy comedy to get home again in a car with more personality and history than some people I know.

I feel like the luckiest person in the world. I'm glad I'm involved with an organization as open to the opportunities of the world as Big Nazo, and a brother like Nick who's ready to pounce on adventure.

Well I already wrote an Edmonton wrap-up post, but it seems to have disappeared.

Frankly, it wasn't all that interesting. The show went very well, besides a few of those small mistakes that are probably only noticed by the people making them, and the strolls were even better.

I didn't see much of Edmonton because we were in a nearby suburb and weren't there for very long.

What I'm really excited about is the show this Sunday at the Hot Club Waterplace Festival. As far as I know we're on at 6. It's the first time the band has done a gig in the area since 2007, so hopefully we'll get a crowd.

A day in the studio and a great number of great bags are packed, in about five hours I have to be at the airport.

Big Nazo is off to Edmonton, Alberta. We have one great big show, and possibly a couple of smaller engagements.

It's not a particularly thrilling travel plan, I have to be at the airport at 4 a.m., then I have three flights before I get to my final destination, somehow I'm going through Texas. I also heard something about Denver on the way back, I don't know. I just put on my magic underpants and follow my passport.

Like Polk's four years in office, I go to Canada for four days. I will not stay for a second four-day term, it will not be necessary, for I will already have achieved my four goals.

1. Strike down the embargoes on foreign action figures. These have stood for too long; the last embers of a once roaring action-figure war that has cooled over the years. The fans have a right to all the latest Ripcord action figures from America.

2. Broker a deal to establish a Canadian Hall of Fame IN AMERICA. Preferrably Miami. Canada should get proper credit for Dave Foley, Rush and Steve Nash.

3. Force America to sell one of the Hawaiian Islands to Canada. The entire country could all winter on Maui, and as long as they tip the cabbies no one on the island would care.

4. Require that old people who want cheap Canadian drugs not come themselves, but send the most attractive of their granddaughters to pick them up for them.

This message payed for by the Campaign to have Stuart Wilson elected into any office available. Approved by Stuart Wilson's Stikfa collection. Mandated by the Encyclopedia of Bad Taste.

Olympics

This idea of counting up one country's medals, gold silver and bronze, and tallying them as one, is ridiculous. Clearly they need to be weighted, not just for alloy but for sport.

A gold in the marathon should earn more points for her country than the winner of the bronze in rhythmic gymnastic ribbon-twirling.

At the top of the list you've got the decathalon, marathon, 1500M, 100M, individual all-around gymnastics, soccer and other stuff like that. Maybe wrestling too, for tradition. I'm not sure, there's probably a lot more. It's tough to get a swimming event in because there's just so many of them.

And maybe a decathalon plus a few dozen more events, swimming, kayaking, tetherball, roller dancing, van surfing, mustache growing, cooking, karaoke, water-skiing, vinyl spinning, nose blowing, stuff like that.

I also still like the idea of making every athlete for a particular country compete in some massive relay race/obstacle course. You'd have to have some formula for number of athletes or something.

There should be a mystery sport, each country sends a team of 15 or so guys, and then they find out the sport they're going to play when they show up. Like matball or one of those made-up games from gym class.

Not posting, living

It's true, I haven't posted in way too long. I have no excuse, frankly I've been wasting so much of my time reading, playing frisbee, lounging at the beach and enjoying the company of family and friends.

Anyway I'm up late talking with my contacts in the ever-important GI Joe community, Tom Jacks and Johnny Turk, or whatever their weird pseudonyms are. I actually still refer to them as other nom de plumes.

I've found a beach with lots of sea glass, I'm thinking I'll start collecting it so I can grow plants amongst it, or something. I have to take care of this plant someone gave me, some kind of contest.

I'm hoping this small post will help me build some momentum towards the time when I wrote more regularly.

GOTTA KEEP MY EDGE UP!