I have discovered that the best part of having really creative and interesting friends is that they allow you to do really cool and interesting things that you otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to do.

For instance, our friend Ian wrote this fantastic book A Season of Night

(side note: If you have ever wondered why people came back to New Orleans after the Federal Flood or what those first months were like, please get a copy of this book and read it. This isn’t an academic analysis or a polemic. Ian has captured the uncertainty, the fear, the surreal existence, the hope, and the humor of that time that seems now to be slipping into history. Buy it. Read it. You need to know this story. Trust me).

ok, so as I was saying, Ian wrote this great book — which means he has book signings. And being Ian, he has them at these great places. And luckily for me, he has invited RGB to play at some of them. We played at Finn McCool’s not too long ago. And on Sunday, we played at his reading and book signing at Pal’s.

Which leads me to the point of this post. Which is really that because of Ian and his book, I got this cool photo. There are pictures of us playing. But somehow, this one is so much cooler than those. I don’t think I’ve ever seen our gear in a better setting.

I know, not much of a payoff for reading a blog posting. Sorry about that.