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Dear Google,

Please fix your spam filter for your otherwise fabulous Gmail. I don’t know why I have received so many spam messages with “CDPN CDPN CDPN…” in the body. Just look at this screenshot. Note the time those arrived in my inbox, also. Plus, I have already permanently deleted over 100 out of my spam folder in the past 3 days.

What can I do about this? The worst thing about it, is that it comes to my inbox, not spam folder. I keep reporting the spam as spam, and I keep getting more. Spam is a very, very, very strange thing to me. Why, spam? Why? I have never received a single e-mail of yours that seemed appealing. I see them, think “spam”, and trash it. Has anyone ever benefited from a spam mesage? Have you bought anything? Found a spouse? Google, I beg you, fix your spam filters. It used to be insanely accurate, and I love everything else about Gmail.

Last night, Olympics played at The Jackpot Saloon in Lawrence, KS. We had a pretty good time, but it was a learning experience, to say the least. For the next show:

1. Give Jon a microphone. The quietness on stage was unbearable at times.

2. Be in tune. I’m still not convinced that people saying they liked our atonal, Sonic Youth inspired songs is a good thing.

Now, that makes it out to be worse than it was (I hope). Our first four songs or so were in tune, and pretty okay. It mostly just makes me excited for our upcoming shows. More than anything, the show last night was more than a show. It was a gift. The basement of my house, which we practice in, flooded last night, and our equipment would have been completely ruined, which would have set us back quite a ways. I am very thankful that we left, and none of that got flooded.

After the show, we hung out with some of Jon’s friends, who were all very kind to us. At the Jackpot, we were generously given three pitchers of beer. That was nice. Then Matthew Peterworth gave us a few more beers. Thank you to him, and to Mr. F for driving us home. And to Cass and Shanti for inviting us. But most importantly, thank you to all of our friends who came to the show. It is really nice of you.

Now, here is a song from the upcoming Joan of Arc album Eventually, All at Once.

Listen to “Many Times I’ve Mistaken” by Joan of Arc

Then, you have to listen to this Make Believe song. They are so good, and creative, and Tim’s vocals in this song rule.

Listen to “Say What You Mean” by Make Believe

And for good measure,

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