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Are we coming to your town to make annoying sounds? Hook up with the TDA Street Team and let your neighbors know! Download posters and plaster your part of the world.
Are we coming to your town to make annoying sounds? Hook up with the TDA Street Team and let your neighbors know! Download posters and plaster your part of the world.
The first TDA show of the summer touring season promises to be a rollicking good time. We'll be splitting the bill with The Polkaholics, a legendary Chicago band that we've been wanting to meet for, like, forever.
The world is getting weirder. And, once again, the headline says it all: "Clowns Sabotage Nuke Missile."
Hitting a hard spot in a concerto? Need a quick critique of your bellows-shaking technique? Many musicians are now going to video-sharing site YouTube to solicit advice from amateurs and pros, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Aside from the fine idea of cheap Japanese comfort food in every strip mall, I just like this headline: McOctopus McDumplings May Be Coming To U.S..
Or swing. Or whatever you want them to do. An octave of burning beauties at OOOOOOUCH.COM lets you write whatever tune you like, record it and share it with the world.
When I was a kid with a Midwest newspaper route, I had to worry about huskies and German shepherds. Bobby Kish, who delivers The Mercury in Pottstown, Penn., faced off with an aggressive alligator Monday.
The headlines speak for themselves: "Man Tries to Pay With Bartender's Checks" and "Beer Burglar's Snoring Leads Police to Him."
Designer Michael Kritzer has the right idea: "It's just not a party without the lawnball." In fact, maybe you need both kinds for your next high-tone hootenanny.
A squad of 40 feline-loving activists shut down the Fangji Cat Meatball restaurant in south China's Guangdong Province for reasons you can probably figure out. The worst part of the China Daily report is the bit about the prevalence of cat as a delicacy in the country:
In many parts of China especially the southern regions, people take cat meat as their favorate diet. Previous reports said that in Guangzhou alone the citizens ate 10,000 cats every day in the winter season.Man, that's a lot of cats getting shoved down human gullets.
I love Dr. William Campbell Douglass' daily dose of medical reality. He's an old-school sawbones with a healthy skepticism about the tendency to paint every human shortcoming as a disorder that can best be managed using some pricey pharmaceutical.
CBS TV in Chicago did a lovely little spot recently on Dick Contino -- "the handsomest man to ever play the accordion." There's a little bit of interview, a little bit of historic imagery and a whole lotta bellows-shakin' in the piece. He makes it look so easy ...
Bay Area rock hero/wrestling god/motivational speaker Count Dante has upgraded his crusade to nail Jack Black for persona theft in Nacho Libre. The original Trilogy of Terror challenge has been upgraded to a grudge match in the Pagoda of Punishment.
Holy crap -- the Electric Boogie Dawgz were the last rock 'n' roll band to play the fantastic Bender's Bar & Grill before a two-alarm fire gutted the place early Saturday. I know the set was hot, but come on ...
Obviously, TDA isn't all about country music. We dig it, and there's a little bit of C/W influence here and there, but we're more of a pop band (at least as long as "pop" doesn't mean strictly "popular"). I mean, Waylon would never have cut "Hamsterman," although that would have been cool.
Because I just don't get any e-mails *ever* about where I might get some Adipex. Ever.
A California company claims it has produced kitties that won't make you sneeze. The Allerca GD cat, which will set you back almost $4,000, is "the first of a planned series of lifestyle pets," the company told The Washington Times.
Check out melastmohican's Flickr photo album to see a little bit of what went down Sunday at the 16th annual San Francisco Accordion Festival. Funny how many pictures there are of the lovely Ladies of TDA. It's almost like the photographer wasn't that interested in taking shots of the rhythm section. Hmmm ...
It's hard to believe, but our beloved June is also Potty Training Awareness Month, according to infoZine. (Frankly, I don't feel so bad about this being International Clothesline Week.)
Nice cover story in the San Francisco Chronicle about the accordion and the Frisco acc fest. (Never mind the factual errors -- it's hard to keep all that crap straight, isn't it?)
Hope to see all you Bay Area folks Sunday at the San Francisco Accordion Festival. Lots of bands, the Main Squeeze Pageant, etc., all at a free even put together by TDA alum Tom Torriglia.
What is it with snakes lately? First it's Paul gettin' freaky in Florida with an Everglades racer. Then it's a reptile-ready rental car. Now comes word of a pilot who faced a real-life version of Snakes on a Plane.