Black Rhombus

More beers than you can shake a stick at, & the Yard Dogs. What more could you ask for? Not much, I tells ya. Rebecca, Drew, Heather, Kristlyn, Joe & I all hit the Capitol City Carnival over the weekend. It was a blast. I personally saw the Yard Dogs three times, & each time was just as fun as the last. They are a great show. The Saturday night show was my personal fav, with Tobias swallowing a red-lit glass tube & the lights out so’s you could see it glowing in his throat… awesome. After the show, we even got to hang out with Zoe for a bit. She was very cool, & Kristlyn got some photos of her with the girls. Heather was, needless to say, close to drooling

I also really dug a couple of the bands. American Dumpster was really good, & I liked the D.J. Williams Projekt. American Dumpster’s hard to describe, but they’ve got a washboard player who really tears it up. ‘Nuff said. D.J. Williams Projekt sounds a lot like a Karl/Soulive mix.

The beers were ridiculous, as expected. It’s always a good thing when you can start your Saturday with a full pint of Siberian Night straight from the tap. Good news for MD’ers, too: Stone’s finally distributing. We had a long talk with the head of the Mid-Atlantic distributor account, who reassured us that they were coming out in force.

You can grab some videos of the show (primarily the Yard Dogs) here (~45MB). I only was able to get them to play with Real Player. Dunno why, but likely something to do w/my phone. Photos have been posted!

Yard Dogs: you need to come back to the Mid-Atlantic… SOON.

Well, we survived our drive across the country! Travis and I helped our friend, Heather, move back to Maryland which she chose to do in an RV. Heather drove from Portland, OR down to Oakland, CA where we met her and then together we drove all the way back to Maryland…a total distance of 4200miles!

You can read about our adventures HERE, and see photos HERE.

We finally got around to posting photos from the weekend in OC. I picked some of the better ones from the weekend, and some other ones that aren’t particularly great photos but they reminded me of things that we did (Thrashers fries, dog in a box, etc) We had an unbelievably great weekend hanging out with family, and with friends we don’t get to see very much.
This was also the first time I really got to play with the new camera, and I am just super in love with it (thank you!)
Hopefully more great photos are in its future, but I think some of these from OC came out great….then again, babies and dogs are great subjects!
http://www.black-rhombus.org/v/mom_60th

Love,
B