Entries by AlanPaul

Cover boy

Jacob and his friend Max are on the cover of this month’s TBJ Kids magazine. It is widely distributed around here. I went into school today and saw them strutting around with copies.

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Another Woodie Alan original

“I Don’t Care”… I wrote the lyrics on the back of a Hong Kong Disney map while waiting for Jacob and Eli to come off of Space Mountain. Also from last Saturday at Yugong Yishan. I’m happy that we finally got videos of songs I feel good about.

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RE: Hebner

Since I can’t respond in the proper place, I will do so here.Fat Al,To set the record straight, Myron, Murray Chase, myself and others in-fact started out as TA Forward sports editor.Don’t remember having you call Myron re: Richie Hebner but…Richie Hebner is the 54th all time greatest Pirate according to the Pittsburgh Pirate Encycolpedia […]

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R.I.P. Myron

If you’re not from Pittsburgh or have never lived there, you probably couldn’t understand this. I got so many emails forwarded to me about moments of silence for Myron and the famous 21-yoi salute. Here’s a good example from the legendary Craig Nayhouse… Steeler fans all over the world should pause today to remember the […]

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Big gig Saturday night

We played Yugong Yishan, the big club downtown on Saturday night. It was part of Blues Night and there were four other bands. think Dave and I were the only non Chinese musicians of the bunch. It went well. We played an all-original set of six songs and then did Little Milton’s “That’s What Love […]

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Happy Birthday Jacob

Jacob turned ten last Saturday. We had a veritable 24-hour celebration. He had another handball tournament in the morning, then a batch of friends over for hours. We took them all to a teppanyaki dinner and then four kids slept over, including Eli’s friend Blake. The next morning we made them waffles, took them swimming, […]

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More Vietnam photos

Jacob came out for me for a lunchtime bike rideone sweltering day. We took a tandem bike and itwas really fun. I was proud of the way he acted, saying “Hello” toeveryone and even being friendly to these ladieswho wanted to touch his skin and hair. As you can sortof see from this picture, the […]

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Beijing Blues

We played a fun gig Friday night at Janghu Jiuba, our favorite little downtown hutong bar. Becky came with a few good friends, including the Camerons. Wyatt C. filmed this. It’s our new arrangement of Beijing Blues and I like it, even though we forgot to play the cool riff we wrote. Dave was not […]

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