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Archive for August 22nd, 2008

Pork Pie

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

pork pie hat

I love hats.

We are playing live on KPIG tomorrow afternoon. As I was writing our Mad Alert newsletter for the gig I got to pondering porcine metaphors which led my hungry mind to pork pie hats.

A pork pie is a meat dish baked in pastry crust. The hat gets its name from its flat-topped resemblance to that savoury comestible. I won’t recommend eating pork but I will recommend wearing this quintessentially hip topper.

Many a Mad Maggie are crazy enough to sport one.

Buster Keaton, Lester Young and Tom Waits are are other crazy cool cats in pork pie hats.

Tune in at 1pm KPIG 1510 AM ;-)

Cotati Squeeze Fest this weekend

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Call me sentimental. The year I started to play the accordion was the same year the Cotati Accordion Festival began. That would be 1991. That same year GDub and I fell in love. 17 years later I’m still squeezin’, GDub and I are still squeezin’ and the Cotati Accordion Fest is still rockin’.

Sat August 23 and Sun August 24
Downtown Cotati all day gates open 9:30

cotati fest poster 2008