I’m in over my head. Playing music with everybody who will show up and play. The Karaoke Queen laughed and offered this Filipino idiom to describe me:
“You’re as busy as a bee with a red butt!”
A bee with a red butt! I’m still trying to work that one out. So, I PhotoShopped the above picture of a bee. Apparently, the bee’s butt gets red because he hops from place to place.
The world is going to hell in a hand basket. The North Koreans are threatening to lob an atomic bomb at Hawaii over the July 4th weekend. (One of my sisters lives there!) Mexico has blown up into a full scale drug war that apparently threatens the stability of the government. Iranians are fighting in the streets against the mullahs.
I can remember when I thought that I could do something about this madness. When I was much younger, I was busy as a bee with a red butt… playing music, working and raising a family. And, I somehow also found time to try to save the world.
I ceased trying to save the world over 25 years ago, because I didn’t seem to be producing a noticeable effect, and because I just got tired. Hell, I couldn’t even prevent Myrna from dying. Often, I wonder whether I might have been much more successful if I’d never been infected with the save the world bug.
The world’s gonna do what it’s gonna do. I have a very small role to play. Big Joe and I are recording an acoustic CD. We've got eight songs in the can! I’m praying that the weather clears up over the July 4th weekend so that I can get in a gig with Nite Train up in Lake Placid.
The Grateful Dead, in their infinite wisdom, wrote a song called “Hell in a Bucket.”
But at least I’m enjoying the ride
Here’s the YouTube version.
All I can do is enjoy the ride.




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