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Jass to the World …




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Originally uploaded by Suffering the Benz

Sara Schwabe and the Yankee Jass Band jam during the Christmas party. I took only a few photos. I put the camera down after this, got distracted and never got around to picking it up again. But this photo is proof that the elusive and frightening Phil Pollard was running amok in KnoxVegas, performing unnatural acts with flexitones and terrifying small children. A good time was had by all …

I was worried about how the new house would work out. After 10 years in Hardin Valley, we had everything down to a science and knew exactly how to set up for the party. But the new digs were more than capable of handling the crowd. In fact, it had a cool way of dividing the party into three or four areas. Smokers were on the back porch. Band fans were in the great room. Rowdy types gathered downstairs at the Wet-Bar-turned-Tequila-Bar. And there as the inevitable bottleneck in the kitchen.

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Journalism with a capital J




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Originally uploaded by Suffering the Benz

Lara and I work with Kelly Brewer in the newsroom of The Albuquerque Tribune. I’m thinking this was shot sometime in the early ’90s. Those days were definitely the zenith of my journalism career. The capital J was like a living presence in the room, and when we weren’t trying to maim each other in fits of misdirected creativity, we were doing some damned good journalism. Breaks my heart that The Trib’s very existence is in danger right now.

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Long ago and far away …




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Originally uploaded by Suffering the Benz

As the new year approaches, I always take time to clean out my home office and files. This year, I stumbled across a few photos tucked away in remote places, including this shot of me, Lara and PigPen outside our house on Gold Avenue in Albuquerque. I’m guessing this was around ’91 or ’92. I, of course, am wearing the obligatory flannel shirt and Grateful Dead t-shirt. (This is also during my ponytail phase.) Lara’s wearing her usual grin … I think this was taken by an intern from Arizona who had the unlikely name of Gawain. I think his girlfriend was Sunshine. Damn, that was a long time ago …