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  1. Check it! Electric Aphorisms is a collection of my "tweets", published as a book. Makes a nice stocking stuffer! http://tinyurl.com/ydxaflm
  2. Playing solo tonight at the Canoe Social Club above the Theater Off Jackson in Seattle. It's a benefit for SuttonBeresCuller. Come down!
  3. OK homies, our new Long Winters website is up, with lots of writing and fun and surprises and naked bingo: go to www.thelongwinters.com
  4. The Barsuk Records holiday party at the Ballard Eagle's Hall was a drunken free-for-all. Now we're in the bar listening to the Hollies.
  5. On my way to judge the Grammy Songwriting Contest. But I went to the wrong building. I'm here to judge songwriting, not follow directions!
  6. http://twitpic.com/srsbw - Kathleen Edwards goes back to Canada today, and I'm up all night filming a music video.
  7. Back in Seattle, headed to EMP to demo Gibson's new self-tuning guitar. They asked me because I'm the world's most out-of-tune guitarist.
  8. Visiting the Thermals at Jackpot Recording Co. They're wrapping up the tracking of their new record with Chris Walla. It sounds amazing!
  9. Writing songs with Kathleen Edwards at the Ace Hotel. A perfect day. It sounds like a scene from a Wes Anderson film, and it kind of is.
  10. I'm in Portland for the launch of my new book, Electric Aphorisms, at Mississippi Studios on Sunday. Dinner and music, get your tickets now!
  11. Hanging with Scott McCaughey and Kathleen Edwards, brainstorming some supergroup recording sessions! Whatever else, I'm playing banjo!
  12. At Dante's to see John Doe. The "Devil's rumpus room" aesthetic still has traction here. There's Bettie Page! Oops, there she is again.
  13. Powell's Rare Book Room has the dizzying effect of prescription cough syrup. I've been in here an hour; sleepy, can't feel my extremities.
  14. Backstage pre-show I find I'm sharing a dressing room with twenty girls in bikinis. They are "elf-ettes" or something. Not complaining.
  15. I'm in Portland all this week, raising hell, writing songs, riding the lightning. At The Baghdad tonight, Mississippi Studios on Sunday.
  16. http://twitpic.com/redrg - Kleinway baby grand recording set-up!
  17. Family gathering at my house. My cousin just dissed my piano. She thinks it needs "help". I said, "Why don't you help it by fucking off?"
  18. I won't eat food from plastic containers for fear of "hormones" but I just shrink-wrapped my house for the winter. I feel like a casserole.
  19. Heard a pitter-patter of tiny hooves atop my house, which this time of year means only one thing. Sure enough, I had a fiddler on the roof.
  20. Reading the latest copy of Dwell, a magazine for people named Dierk Erasmus who dream of living in plywood-panelled shipping containers.