Musical Countdown To Spoleto...
Todd Wolffe, down from NYC, by way of Pennsylvania, had us rockin' last night at A Dough Re Mi in Mt. Pleasant.
In keeping with my plan to talk mainly about acts you still have a chance to see, it was announced the trio will be on that same stage again in 3 weeks.
So circle Friday June 6 on your calendar now for a great evening that's NOT really part of Spoleto but offers several sets of raucous rocking and rolling.
Rev. Dr. Johnny Mac opened the 4th annual
Blues By The Sea down at Kiawah last week but he is VERY active locally and you can catch him at clubs all over town.
Keep an eye out for his high energy music popping up somewhere soon.
My Spoleto/Piccolo/Fringe plans are in the works and 10 tickets have been ordered so far. Naturally I will have my camera with me but many places bar my simple camera - even if I shoot with no flash - but I am surrounded by crowds of people holding up their cell phones.
Must be an important call they want to share.
Labels: 4th annual Blues By The Sea, A Dough Re Mi, cell phones, Fringe, Johnny Mac, Kiawah Island, Piccolo, Spoleto, Todd Wolffe
My Cell Phone Is Very, Very Old.
Since this blog is basically about Chuck + photography, every now and then it calls for a picture such as this.
The Post and Courier was celebrating its Bicentennial in 2003 and asked me to portray
Lord Ashley Cooper.
Charleston old timers will remember Frank B. Gilbreth, a beloved local writer, who used that famous Cooper name over his
Doing The Charleston column for more than 40 years. (He and his sister also wrote "
Cheaper By The Dozen.")
I called around and found a theater company which had performed
1776 a few years ago and they let me borrow the coat, vest, ruffled shirt and collar and short pants. A local dance place sold me white tights and I found the perfect wig and even picked up some fake buckles to attach to my black sneakers.
Yes. I know that Ashley Cooper dates back to the 1600s but nobody had recently done a play for that period.
Labels: 40-year columnist, cell phones, column, Doing The Charleston, Lord Ashley Cooper, shoe buckles, white tights, wig
Cars And Cameras ......
You ever have one of those days when you just know there is a hidden camera waiting for you to do something stupid?
I had called on a client and walked back to my car, opened the back door (that's funny, I thought I had locked the car?) and started to place my briefcase on the back seat but there was one already there. (When did I get a second briefcase?) So I leaned in further and looked around inside the car and nothing looked familiar.
Stepping back, I saw that the next car over was my car. And .... it WAS locked.
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Driving in fairly heavy traffic on another day, I saw a small sign in the rear window of the car in front of me and I crept closer to see what it said.
It would be funny if it had said
"If you can read this, you are too close,"but that's not what it said.
Here's what it would look like if the Jeep was inverted and the sign was easy to read.
Of course, by this time, I was driving with my head twisted to the right at a crazy angle and the
Candid Camera would have caught me again.
At least I was not talking on my cell phone.
Labels: bumper stickers, Candid Camera, cell phones, duplicate cars, Jeep, traffic
Todd Wolffe, down from NYC, by way of Pennsylvania, had us rockin' last night at A Dough Re Mi in Mt. Pleasant.
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