This is so not-news, I hesitate to even mention it, but for yet another year, I'll be continuing my perfect record of non-attendance.

Maybe someday, not too many more years into the future.

The very small and select group of Mudcatters whom I've actually met in person will be represented (I think!) in the persons of Tinker (who so graciously lent me her guitar during my months of flood-exile in New Jersey) and ~ briefly ~ by crazy-ass Bobert (who I was able to visit in Luray during one of my many trips back and forth between NJ and NO during those hectic post-Katrina days).

So, all of y'all say hi to each other for me!

The only other two I've met will not, I don't think, be in attendance: Jed Marum, who's probably on tour as usual, and Ernest, who is in Germany now and most of the time, but who managed a trip to New Orleans a while ago.