More on the Roof

 Here's a second one I took of you, little sweetheart! Happy Christmas!

First Snowfall!

Little sweetheart, I woke this morning to a surprise snowfall - our first of the season! It always makes me think of the time you were here just after Rock n Roll closed in Boston and just before Christmas. We went up on the roof and took a few pictures. One of them was our Christmas card for many years! I'll post a few. Love you forever!

 

Paul

 Little sweetheart, I saw our friend Paul Keirnan yesterday. I went by McCoy’s to drop off a Christmas card for him and he wasn’t there but the barmaid who took it from me to give to him said he’d just been in and was a probably up the block at Alfie’s - another bar/restaurant that he owns. I started to walk up there and I met him on the sidewalk, He took me back to McCoy’s and made quite a fuss which was very sweet and then he bought me a Guinness and we sat had a pint together and caught up. 

How well I will always remember when you first met Paul. I took you to Dalton’s - yet another of his places. He made a fuss that day, especially over you. We didn’t have drinks that day but he bought us lunch and insisted on you ordering a dessert. He sat with us for a while and when we left he said to you - he was clearly smitten - “take care of him, now”. You smiled and she that you would. 

And did you ever! Thank you, my little sweetheart. You saved my life, you know? Can’t wait to be with you forever in the Forever and meantime I know you’re doing your best to help and guide. Thank you my angel. With all my love.

Driving Dream

Little sweetheart, I had this crazy dream last night where we were in Boston - just like we were when you doing Rock n Roll at The Huntington and you had that lovely little apartment over by Boston University. We were driving. I don’t think it was the Prius but we were both in the backseat. That happens to me a lot in driving dreams - I’m in the backseat trying to reach into the front seat to turn the wheel and stuff. 

Anyway, we were both in the back seat and trying to drive around Boston and then suddenly we were driving on the subway tracks, on the T. It was exciting and scary. Ha! What do you think it all means! I love you!

Perfect Unison

I’m working on the 13th Bipolar Explorer album just now little sweetheart and as I mix down roughs of new tracks, they always automatically go into a super long play list of BPX Demos. If I listen back, because the new tracks are always at the end, the playlist begins after from the very top. And at the very top is your and my very first demo of “Flag Day”. Of course I’ve heard many many times, as well as the finished version on our album, Of Love and Loss, but what struck me tonight was that at one point as we’re both holding a long note, our voices join each other in a perfect unison vibrato. Both our voices begin that tremolo together at the exact same time. It’s kind of amazing. Love you forever.
 

Well Done

 I like to make turkey meatloaf every now and then, little sweetheart. I don’t think I ever made it for you, sadly. Although you really are more of a vegetarian, you did like to have a burger now and again - very well done. I’m more of a medium rare kinda guy, as you know. 

Anyway, it’s my mom’s recipe for regular meatloaf with beef but years ago I asked your own mom how she thought it would come out if I subbed in ground turkey, instead. I did and it’s now one of her favorites! I’ll make it for her and your dad when I visit them next in a month or two! 

There’s always a little of the mix left over that won’t fit in the loaf pan, so I make one turkey meatloaf burger patty and set it aside for later in the fridge. Tonight, I'm having it and with this, and only this, I make sure to cook it very well done. Just like I know you would like. With all my love from the kitchen…

Social Network

I have a subscription to the Criterion Channel, little sweetheart. I got it at the beginning of the pandemic and I always says it was the best $99 I ever spent.,They have all the classic art house movies, of course, but also old Hollywood films and even new releases from all over the world. Each month they create a playlist of films featuring a particular artist, genre or theme. Right now there’s one for the films of David Fincher and among them is The Social Network which I hadn’t seen since I saw it in the movie theatre when it came out. I’d forgotten so much about it, not least that Fincher directed! I remembered that Jesse Eisenberg was the lead - you and I liked him so much in Adventureland - and that Aaron Sorkin wrote the screenplay, another of our favorites. Thinking of you as it all unfolds tonight. With all my love…