Knocks is up!!

My apologies once again to "From KY to NY." I do enjoy you, though you are on the back burner at this moment, because...

Knocks From the Underground is a real live blog now! Ta-da! Will and I are so very excited to share this with ya'll. Please check it out, leave comments and let us know what you think. Woooooooo!

Happy New Year to everyone, and Happy Holidays in general. Dave and I had a great Eve, watching good live music at a masquerade party at this new art/performance space called Cameo. It was small and there was no art on the walls, but I think there will be in the future. The sound mix was also pretty bad, but I imagine that will improve (I think last night was their first show). Overall, good fun but odd place.

We just got back two days ago from a quick week in Kentucky, visiting with both sides of my huge family and squeezing in some play time with the Baize family. Their father was my high school English teacher and I babysat for the kids throughout high school, since their first child was about one, all the way through the birth of their fourth. These kids are so amazing, I can't even explain how cool it is to be in touch with a family and watch them all grow up. We also got to see James Kurk Vertigo, hearkening the old days by meeting up at the trusty Dairy Queen (my brother's first job). We went bowling at the old school alley also from my youth, run my the same old man who somehow never looks any older. We got in some awesome daily Granny time (including a remarkable patch-up of the hole Basil ate in a quilt she made for me), Christmas fun with stockings, presents, entirely too many cookies and Mom's whole side of the family (all very sweet, loving people -- it was good). Max and Kelly in snippets, the biggest Firesheets get together since my grandma's funeral, a very strange night in a Louisville bar that actually had a jerk-off room upstairs (ewwwwwwww), delicious dinners that everyone else paid for, and many hours on the road with my goofy dog in my lap (though he did sleep in the back for part of it...he's learning). Overall, we loved KY.

And now we're back in the hectic city, but weirdly the busyness makes me feel at home and relaxed. It's somehow comforting that there's always something going on, always somewhere to go or something to do, even though I'm cozy in my apartment. Oh New York, it's totally addicting.

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