BOSTON, here we go. it's tonight. (Patreon)

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hallo loves.

hometown throwdown tonight. i'll see a lot of you....

greetings from the porter square bookstore, the very one where i have sat my ass so many times, the very one i was sitting in when i heard about the bombing, the very one i wrote the poem in. it seemed fitting to come back here today on my way to the show.

i put ash to bed in woodstock last night and then drove the 3 hours to my folks' house in lexington, MA, getting in around 12:30 am. 

i needed to brush up on my knowledge of the recordings for the music video shoots coming up next week (i need to be able to lip-sync to both "drowning in the sound" and "look mummy, no hands", and they're both tough ones...and i finally got to settle into a nice perspective listen of the whole album for the first time, alone. what joy! 

i got immediately pulled over by the woodstock police. during "the ride".

it was funny.

i woke up this morning and had a nice breakfast with my folks. i won't see them at the show tonight because the preparation makes socializing hard, and they're probably not going to stay until the end. this fucker goes til 11:30 pm and they have to get home. so we got a morning in. we talked about abortion and climate change.

it used to be so hard to tell my parents the truth. so much has changed. john took this photo of me and mom outside the house:

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and now i'm gonna go to yoga with my favorite teacher at down under yoga in cambridge....after wasting about 30 minutes of my life on twitter dealing with a protest outside my show tonight that isn't actually a protest.

people are weird.

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(photo by hayley)

NOTES FOR THE SHOW TONIGHT!!!!

first off, i regret to inform you that we have RUN OUT OF PATRON PINS!!!! 

fuck. they were so popular we ran out and re-ordering is gonna take a couple weeks. 

BUT

we have A PLAN.

we are going to do a these-shows-only print-out, that i'll sign, of the new poem "empathy is nothing".

we will sell these to patrons only for $5/pay what you want and we'll give the dough at this show to the muslim justice league of boston (see weird twitter thread up there!)

SO COME VISIT THE PATRONATOR TABLE TONIGHT.....it'll be manned by a combo of hayley, michael and whitney, who just got to town!!! we are going to yoga together....

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AND FOR BOSTON PATRON MEET-UP.....

let's meet at around 5:45 HERE, just on the corner of the park near the venue...FIND EACH OTHER! and then i'll find YOU,

and don't forget: DOORS ARE AT 6:30pm and show is at 7:30pm SHARP!!! the orpheum website posted it wrongly for a while. there are still a handful of tickets at the door. tell strangers.

GET TO THE SHOW AS EARLY AS YOU CAN AND GET MERCH EARLY to prevent BLOCKAGE LATER IN THE NIGHT!!!!!!

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