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A warm, relaxed, highly satisfactory evening at the Center for Cultural Exchange in Portland, Maine, with Liz Carroll (fiddle) and John Doyle (guitar and vocals). It would seem we benefited by being the last date on their tour, and of 2005 -- they were loose and congenial, though perhaps that is normal for them. Thankful to be there, right up front, absorbing. The following is likely riddled with errors, but is based on notes taken during the performance. Corrections appreciated. Fremont Center The "Vornado" Minutemen Dennehy Dancers McSweeney's Side A Pound of Rye Ronan Boys Ralph's 2-3-5 Hanley's House of Happiness The Apprentice Boy 2 unidentified reels Kieran's Polka County Cahill [magical hare] unidentified John Doyle jig, jig, reel Jack Dolan (Wild Colonial Boy) Old Bush Expect the Unexpected The Island of Woods Bitter the Parting unidentified 2 with Ellen Gawler The Tractor Driver A Tune for the Girls I Know My Love 3 unident...

Originally posted to MAINE-BIRDS... This morning: "Our pheasant is back!" Fifteen seconds later: "There's another one!" And within a minute we were watching five of them, two cocks and three hens, from the dining room window. They gathered under the burning bush and wandered a bit. They were unfazed by cars passing 20 feet away. Getting ready for work took precedence over pheasant watching, but during one pass by the window I noticed they were looking pretty skittish. A neighbor across the street? No. Nothing out of the ordinary until... "Hey, Scott, there's a hawk out there." Indeed there was. Perched in the burning bush, less than a meter away from the five prospective breakfasts, was a large accipiter. For the next ten minutes, I watched a fascinating game of cat and mouse, as the hawk tried to catch one of the pheasants. The accipiter flew around the bush, but the pheasants kept moving to the opposite side. The hawk tried catching them on foot ...

We got Bad Mojo when it came out. Late 90s were our computer gaming years. Matt introduced us to Myst and off we went... Zork Nemesis, Qin, You Don't Know Jack, Toonstruck, Grim Fandango, The Longest Journey, and a few others that never gained our full attention.  These days, looking for exceptional games for Pocket PC, Bad Mojo popped out as a benchmark. Wacky and clever, reasonably puzzling, well rendered -- something like that would be a welcome amusement. I'm still looking for the ideal Axim game, but I enjoyed this Alex Louie interview from Adventure Gamers and hope the redux is doing well.  Edit: Toonstruck purchase was June 1998.

...then you quickly google "yellow brick road" for images and find Maquilas Que Matan 's blog right away. Whatever we may find at the end of the road, it seems an auspicious start.