(Ed. note: I'm on vacation in Wisconsin now, so I have the fierce-fab writer and photographer AJ Dent sitting in today -- always an honor to host her work here! I send her a thousand thanks!)
Was the week of June
14th-20th extra difficult, or what? At first I thought it was just in my head,,
but the news was full of utter awfulness. Social media feeds of my friends and
colleagues were bleak as well, making my heart go out to them so frequently I
thought it wouldn’t be able to find its way back.
By the time Thursday the
18th came around, I felt nigh on guilty for my plans to hit a show that night.
How dare I try to have a good time with all the abysmal BS flying about?
Well, I soon remembered that
places like the Funhouse exist for such times as these. For a few hours, my
head was rattled by rock and roll rather than the world’s political, racial,
and gender inequalities. It felt fantastic.
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