Roger Deitz - Folk Musician - Writer - Humorist

I occasionally have thoughts. The very idea! Some of them tickle, others echo through my head until I have to spit them out. This will be a place where the spit hits the fan. Every now and then as the mood strikes me, I will use this space as a soapbox. Oh, drat, gadzooks and egad, how old fashioned of me...make that - I will use this space as a blog. No promises on how often...but I pledge to share a view or two; dream, scheme, and write a few words here, there and yonder...then yawn and go back to bed until the next idea motivates me to stir and drag myself to the keyboard.


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	Thoughts I occasionally have thoughts. The very idea! Some of them tickle, others echo through my head until I have to spit them out. This will be a place where the spit hits the fan. Every now and then as the mood strikes me, I will use this space as a soapbox. Oh, drat, gadzooks and egad, how old fashioned of me...make that - I will use this space as a blog. No promises on how often...but I pledge to share a view or two; dream, scheme, and write a few words here, there and yonder...then yawn and go back to bed until the next idea motivates me to stir and drag myself to the keyboard. Yours truly, RAD
	Someone is watching over... I was asked to play at a Memorial service in NYC by World Hunger Year for Carl Schwartz, someone who was a fan for decades and a volunteer for WHY and Clearwater etc. A large auditorium in a Jewish Center. The upper West Side of Manhattan. After doing our thing, Val and I and a few others (Sue Leventhal from WHY, her/ my friends Marcia and Rabbi Bonita Taylor (she also did preside over some of the service) went off in search of a restaurant to have a bite. We found an Indian restaurant, a small hole in the wall and sat in the back, rather than the empty tables at the window. A few minutes later - we heard a great explosion. Glass shattered and blew in at us. REALLY LOUD!!! It took a while to figure out what happened... A Van had crashed into the restaurant (and into the tables up front - the ones we opted not to sit at). Dozens of fire trucks, EMTs, and police vehicles. They cut the van top off with the jaws of life as the building came down around them. Slow and careful process. I understand there were about 8 or 9 people hurt, 2 seriously. After about an hour, they got into the restaurant to check if we were okay, (we smelled gas) checked us out, and cut an opening out to let us out of the building.) We never did get our lunch there. When we got out of the place, there were hundreds of people behind the yellow police tape. A woman (the Rabbi) we were with said it was just like a Law and Order episode she saw. It was a big story on the News here last weekend at 6:30 PM. Quickly pushed aside by other murder and mayhem by the time of the 11 PM news. Someone is watching over. The Van was facing the wrong way on Broadway when it hit, AND the side street in the 200 block of 100th Street was having a kid's street fair. The driver missed that and plowed into the Restaurant. All those children.

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