The Magnificent Goldberg Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Got home about an hour ago. All well. The flight home was pretty good, except I didn't have enough time to buy any duty free tobacco when changing planes in Atlanta - good thing I got some on the flight to USA The whole trip home was fine until I got to Cardiff. A lorry had overturned on the motorway and 8 cars had crashed into it - 3 dead. Complete chaos ensued - it took nearly two hours to do a journey that is usually a relaxed half hour! My missus was caught up in it too, taking the grandsons to karate in Cardiff. Anyway, have now had two cups of tea made the way Jack Bruce likes it and am feeling properly human again. A BIG THANK YOU to Cristiern, JeffCrom (& Karen) Jazzbo Shawn Clifford Thornton KH1958 Big Al Rostasi JSangry (& LTB) and all the other guys I met at Jim's BBQ. You've made that one of the most enjoyable holidays ever! MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Enjoyed having you here, Alan. Would that there were more time (days, really...) to get everything in. Another time, hopefully! That's perversely comical that you got home on-time after all the worry about the volcano, and then get hung-up on the highway on the way home like that. Unbelievable! (btw - Kristina really digs your haircut. "So charming!" is how she put it. So work that do, bro!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kh1958 Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 It was a pleasure to meet you. Don't forget to get that Zani Diabate CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Ok, so now we definitely want to see some photos... Alan and Jim, Alan and Lon, Alan and Rod, Alan and Clifford, etc etc, and Alan and his haircut, of course! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 I hope they took pictures elsewhere, because we totally forgot to take them here...dammit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gould Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 :party: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 I hope they took pictures elsewhere, because we totally forgot to take them here...dammit. Maybe we could find courtroom artist sketches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Alan: glad to know you got home safely. Great pleasure to meet you. Educational, too; now I know who perched that vinyl monkey on my back. [shaking fist at the heavens] SPILLERS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffcrom Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 It was a pleasure, MG. Hope to see you on your side of the pond one of these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 Great meeting you Alan! Good to hear that you made it back safely and are not covered in Icelandic ashes. A big thanks to Jim and his family for opening up their doors to us and letting us wander amongst the pies! LTB's strawberry delight was a hit with Sharon as well! I brought a camera, but kept it in the car with the idea that the subject of taking pictures might come up, but we were all talking... and laughing...and talking...and laughing... It was 11 - I had to leave - how much longer did you guys go on? Hope we can do it again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 23, 2010 Report Share Posted April 23, 2010 I think we headed back for FW around 1:30 or 2:00. No later than 2. Mssrs. Andrew Griffin & Greg Waits were the last to go. Mr. Goldberg proved himself no mere civilian in this regard, and is unquestionably "one of us" (not that there was ever even a hint of doubt), a distinction perhaps more dubious than distinguished, but a distinction nevertheless. And yeah, Spillers. I'm gonna be representing the OG with pride now. It's all their fault. The original Bastids! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 It's great that you made it back home, safe and sound, and that you had a good stay. It was, of course, also great that you made my abode one of your stops, but I am sorry that we failed to hook up again, as planned. Blame it, in part, on Papa Bue (whose liner notes I was writing) and on Time-Warner, whose internet connection broke down and silenced my phone. Can't get over the fact that it took a visitor from Wales to hip me to Senegal in my back yard! Did you shirt up and go there? Finally, I am sorry that you missed out on my dash of Iceland in a Mason jar. It was here, waiting for you, straight from eyafjallajökull and, thus, more pure than the stuff you can capture from the air above Tonyrefail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Johnson Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 I'm so sorry we didn't connect for the show, MG--as I think I mentioned, we were dealing with a teething baby and things sort of went sideways. Sounds like you had a great trip--thrilled to hear it. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnS Posted April 24, 2010 Report Share Posted April 24, 2010 I'm delighted you had such a great trip. I'm feeling slightly envious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted April 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2010 Can't get over the fact that it took a visitor from Wales to hip me to Senegal in my back yard! Did you shirt up and go there? No - I spent two days looking at the African exhibits in the Museum of Modern Art and the Natural History Museum, neither of which I'd visited before. Also bust a filling in a French restaurant and spent most of a day deciding not to have it fixed until I got home (going on Monday). Do go sometime, Chris. It's around 116 St. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Petit_Senegal MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted April 25, 2010 Report Share Posted April 25, 2010 Thanks for the link. It's within walking distance of my apartment—I'll check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BERIGAN Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 MG, somehow you forgot to thank me!!!! :crazy: Glad you had a good time! Next time, eh what??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 No pictures on this end I'm afraid. So glad you came to Austin Allan! It was truly great to meet you and hang with you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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