Wumbo Wednesday

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: 3… 2… 1…

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Happy New (League) Year! The league year officially changed over at 3:00 DFO time (4:00 Eastern), meaning 2023 contracts are officially off the books and 2024 contracts have come into effect, including free agency. So all the free agent stuff that you heard the last couple of days are finally

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Mobile Edition

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Which is to say, I left the lappy home to go to work today, because I also need to practice and then go to my gig. Five gigs and a rehearsal in six days, woo! The important news is of course all the franchising and not-franchising. Like if you’re a RB,

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Meanwhile at the Office…

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Tonight's post is live from the office, because I have to be there for rehearsal during post time, and am spending my time otherwise doing jazz band arrangements for… definitely not enough per page. Like most teaching things, I should be making like double for this. Life of a musician… Okay,

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: They Can’t All Be Winners

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Both regarding this being a bit of a Carpenter-job and my Monday night. Some gigs are nice. Easy amount of time, little work, get paid okay. Others are less so. Like playing in a heated tent, but the top's been cut out (in February), and then being under a vent

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Welcome to the Nadir

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Believe it or not, we at [Door Flies Open] haven't officially welcomed you to the offseason yet. So, uh, welcome to the offseason! We've got a veritable smorgasbord of things in the horizon, such as: -Better Know a Smarch Smadness region (not including St. John's as they continue their annual 21st

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Mind on the Road

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abdAMwgMWPo&themeRefresh=1 I do a lot of driving. Like, a lot. Like, due for a 5,000 mile oil change, and I got the car at the end of October. Like, over 1800 miles in January. Such is the life of a freelance musician, who is also in a medium-distance relationship, and is

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Things We Do For Friends

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So, one of my good friends from where I did my Master's is originally from the Buffalo area, so naturally, is a giant Bills fan. So, in the spirit of cheering her up after Sunday night, here are some of the better jokes from everyone's favorite moment Sunday night! (I

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: “Caution: Arranger at Work”

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No crazy stories today, I'm simultaneously working on this and some Great American Songbook scouring (Hey, "Yiddishe Momme" counts… dammit, my cutoff is 1924 and it was written in '25). Y'know, that sort of shit of being the contractor/arranger where if I were getting paid better maybe I'd take an

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Weasel and the Spinning Wheel

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY0eeotSDi8 I promise I did not crash again, either in the Snowmageddonpocalypse that didn't drop any snow on the city (just north, like the snow game we saw in Foxboro) or the intense winds last night. No, this is to make fun of my… pottery skills! Or lack thereof, since I had

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: Dashing Through the Road…

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So, as we mentioned last week, Christmas Eve, or Gigsmas. A time to play all the things. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you have multiple all the things to play, which is to say give your local church organist a hug and/or the beverage of their choice (okay, I got my

Wumbo Wednesday With Weaselo: The Definitive Christmas Carol Rankings

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Good evening. My name is Senor Weaselo, and as some of you know, I play a lot of Jewish events. Weddings, shows, other, you name it. Despite this, as the Lubovitch have found out in disbelief numerous times when they ask if I want to partake in various religious customs and