Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. - Cyril Connolly
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Let the Annual Inconvenience Begin!
So...I had to detour a whopping three blocks to get out of the neighborhood this morning. All the road signs and street blockages in Bolton Hill are up in anticipation of this weekend's Artscape Festival.
It was too damn hot to take my evening stroll last night, but from what I saw over the weekend, the new sculpture installations that they put up every year on Mt. Royal Blvd. are some of the best they've done in recent years (IMHO).
Hopefully, it will descend into the upper eighties and nineties by the weekend, or people will be dropping like flies, and I don't even want to think about the Food Court or Porto-Potties.
If anyone wants to come down this weekend, I strongly advise taking the Light Rail or Metro, but if I can't talk you out of that, I do have.....Drum roll....ONE FREE PARKING SPOT at my house, less than three blocks from all the action, and you'd have access to air conditioning, free ice tea, and a clean bathroom. Living in Bolton Hill makes Artscape quite tolerable, if not down right enjoyable. Call ahead - first come, first serve. If you're coming down for the festivities - call me - I'll meet you at Mt. Royal Tavern.
Fireworks at 10:00 on Friday night! There are only a handful of bands I really want to see this year: Ricky Skaggs, and Citizen Cope on Friday, and of course, Carl Filipiak at 1:00 on Sunday. Closing the Festival on Sunday evening is none other than Michael Franti and Spearhead, and if they put on half the show they did at Jazzfest in New Orleans last spring - you're in for a treat!
