My cure is "stay busy" and write.

Yes by definition the pests that take up residence in our bodies and make us feel bad, thrive at our body temperature. I'm still fighting that cold (it's a dripping nose type, TMI) hopefully will kick it soon. Could be pollen too.

Happy Midsummer!

I have up Justin/Mike/Julie reviews at my blog site www/illaheematters.yuku.com, click on "What Just Happened?" only two so far (Tucson and Phoenix) with photos, not very good alas. Some of the links go to my travel blogs, so you'll have to plug in brain and read the links.

The cold is doing fine... but boy I feel miserable.

Got the Troubadour done. That WAS a fun night and yes great to revisit with the photos, even if they are sorta miserable. I'll go to work on the Roach House next.

Don't talk like that.

The chicken soup was no help. Now I have flu symptoms. Some kid breathed on me as a final parting gift for the summer.

I too am mystified by the lack of posts regarding the western part of the tour. One fan I know is still on the road going home. People are super busy with end of school too. More will trickle out I'm sure, I'm still not quite done, and really want to get to the architecture stuff. Rodeo Drive was a real kick in the pants!!!

People really shouldn't be so darned emotionally attached to all this stuff, but alas we seem to be, don't we? Moodies are still in the top gross group for North America, like #12 or so, just saw it come across my newsfeed.
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I'm picking through the photographs, and I do see the chair. Very good that you spotted that. It serves absolutely no purpose, and is probably some inside joke of the tour. I'm reminded of the hilarious routine Clint Eastwood did at the RNC with an empty chair ............ I'll never forget that, what a masterpiece!!!!! I put an empty lawn chair in my front yard for weeks after that, and I saw a lot more of them too, out on lawns.

One lonely room, nobody there
No body sits in one lonely chair.........

Then again maybe it's there in case Dave or Justin need it.......... Justin being an old guy you see (a smart a**ed stab from the younger ones).......... or maybe it's for Dave when he needs a breather. I think I saw him sitting in a chair like that during the Troubadour show, poking at his cell phone.
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OK THERE I'm done with the Moody portion, except for one essay I'm still polishing. Photos are up and everything... since I know that's what most are REALLY wanting, just the photos. "Just send photos" "All you have, and I'll sort them out"...........

http://illaheematters.yuku.com.....6ZfD7GANdc

And I need to do the Frank Lloyd Wright stuff too, yet.

heheheh it's a solidarity movement!

It's indeed a funny thing about life.......... we can all witness the same event, yet have entirely different interpretations and experiences. Isn't the human mind sorta wonderful? I hope I portrayed you correctly.... you really shouldn't stick your nose into oleanders. I'm still shaking over that. Anyway the performers really often had very neutral facial expressions, or show "smiles" yet this friend I write off line has totally different interpretations for all this. I wonder if I'm missing something, or if people are reading their own script into a neutral background.

I want to chain link all my blogs, I'm just not there yet. Trying to build my own library of FLW photography, sometimes I access that stuff in schools. I had no idea the Anderton building looked like that on the inside.... you never see it in books.

I just remember Julie smiling real big and standing still. Justin looked over at me right before Udo took the picture, but that was the one in Oakland you weren't at. I didn't look back because I was freaked out, did MY stage smile. I found it fascinating that Julie and I are built much the same in the top, only I have longer legs (bottom shaped differently) and she's so much shorter than me, by a head almost. I'm just glad I didn't make a fool of myself basically. Not in person anyway, I have plenty of opportunity on line I suppose Yoo hoo hi!!! reading your reviews I see, guys.

I'm working on the Biltmore right now, you're dancing on stage in the Kiva auditorium and alas I'm going to cut a few of those because they repeat. I lost my mind Saturday, I'm not sure where we went or what we did. It was very hot.

What alchemy? cooking chemistry, calling up ghosts and spirits.........

Find your center. This is a dance term, but it also works in other things. Justin is a moving target, so he's a poor choice for a "center"........ or being physics oriented as we are here, find the focal point in the orbit. Tell the stalker to pack sand......... I'd move if I were you.... how much do you have tie-ing you there?

I don't know if you were at any of those shows, but a couple of times Justin said "take a leap into the unknown"............ it's a concept from other places than Justin (actually in Rick Riordan's latest Percy Jackson saga, quite metaphorical) and you have to be prepared to do that, and trust the process. I used to do a lot of leaping into the Unknown and finally got tired of it. This little barnacle is trying to stay ashore these days. Hopefully the wave shock will be minimal here. Hoping.