Snowy, icy roads kept the crowd down for the Ana Egge show on Friday,but it was a sweet show. Her voice is languid and lazy; the pitch is perfect but she bends the strings to suit the phrasing. She ended the show by applying the Eggian voice/phrasing to, of all things, Edelweiss, partly a capella. The audience leaned into that with unblinking attention because they couldn't believe she was singing Edelweiss and because it was so great. Sweet kids. She whistled walking through the lobby to the theater. It was that relaxed whistling I thought of Saturday morning when I stepped out on our deck and whistled to the Saints Nation flag flapping in a 10 degree breeze, then facebooked it. Friday's was probably the last show I will book at Unity Centre. I called an end to it unless I can get a better arrangement with the college. I also handed over to their slightly shocked "digital rhetoric" guy the tasks I've done for the last eight years as a volunteer: website, mailing list, online sales. More shock when I declined to give them the mailing list. The site will change to theirs at the end of this month. There are lots of good uses for my volunteer time. The first thing on the list is to seriously tackle a CMS (content management system) like Drupal or even WordPress so I can follow the programmer's goal of making tools for other people to do work so you don't have to do the work yourself. Bought a book of poems by Jennifer Grotz for the Kindle: But now it is still light and the blackbirds are singing as if their voices are the only scissors left in this world. The thing I do most on the Kindle is play many games of Words With Friends at a time; it should be called Words with Strangers since I only play with random opponents. I don't mix in games on Facebook, but my user name is iko-iko if you want to play. Here's a giant serving of Melissa's lobster crepes.

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