Saturday January 20th, 2008...oh, by the way, Happy New Year to any and every camper reading this new blog from me. This afternoon I had the great pleasure of entertaining Paul Gellman...who made the short (1 hour and 45 minute) journey from Toronto to Buffalo.
Unlike most Canadians who venture south to reap the benefits of your stronger dollar...quite an irony considering the history of our exchange rate (see the earlier forum entry from 2006)...Paul had come down on a personal matter, enticed by my offer to take him for some of Buffalo's major delicacy...chicken wings. Makes me laugh, just saying it...as if. Anyway, Cole's Restaurant, perhaps, our most famous watering hole, provided the perfect, sun-filled backdrop for a few hours of tet-a-tet and laughs...not to mention a couple of their smooth drafts. The time passed all too quickly...and it was over, but not before I surfed Paul around some of my websites and pointed out to him one of Buffalo's five (that's right five) Frank Lloyd Wright houses that he had unknowingly parked across from.
When he took off, he left me with his most recent CD, On This Island, which I have sampled and found to be both original and quite musically creative. If you email Paul or visit his website, www.paulgellman.com, you can sample the songs and see for yourself. He is, as I have suggested to others in the past, one of Kawagama's (and Toronto's) great exports. Why not check these songs out, and let me (us) know what you think. Remember, this is your website, and is waiting to perform any and every function that you might ask of it.
I'm sorry it has taken me so long to blog again...time passes quickly these days. Again, I hope your holidays went well, and that 2008 brings you everything you seek. Remember the words of Pericles (as I recall, he was a goalie for the Leafs, just before Johnny Bower, no?)...who said: "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
Ciao,
Jeff