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Friday, August 11, 2006 Oshkosh, Wis. It's a cross-country combination of performers: Thomas from San Francisco, whose songs are collectively known as Waypastfrown (he managed to confuse a reporter on this point), Dan Vaillancourt, the funktified folk-man from Midland, Mich., and myself, now representing Chicago. The three of us joined forces last night for the first of three shows in Wisconsin and upper Michigan. Serendipity seems to be a large part of being a musician: Thomas and I met almost a year ago at a showcase for Just Plain Folks in Chicago, a place neither of us were living at the time, and spoke for a grand total of about 15 minutes in person before this tour, and I met Dan because he was playing a show at a café a few blocks from my house—after the concert, he asked me if I was a musician because I laughed at all of the musician jokes, and over the next months we got to be friends. I'm typing this on Thomas's laptop (a Mac, gasp) as we drive from Oshkosh to Manitowoc. Thus far we've only driven past a couple of the prototypical cheese outlets; what we did find was a gas station filled with Mexican groceries. Last night after our show we went to the bar across the street to hear another musician that knows Dan (more serendipity: they’d played a show in Marquette together last year), then went to another local spot to meet up with Cassie, who graciously allowed the three of us to invade her house last night. Thomas probably had the strangest experience at the bar—he was deep in (one-sided) conversation with a local drunk who kept spitting beer as he talked, and eventually the rest of us stepped in and saved him. Back at Cassie's house, the guys were hungry so she fed them hot dogs (which, unfortunately, she cooked in the microwave rather than testing out the possibility of making Dan eat the hot dog popsicles that I thought would be amusing). It's good being a girl on tour with two guys: I got the couch last night while both of the guys slept on recliners (very cute, they were lined up perfectly next to each other). And Thomas has carried my keyboard through most of our instrument moving. This morning Cassie bought as all breakfast at IHOP (thanks!!) and we stopped at the New Moon Café again to fill up on coffee and use the internet before heading off to our next stop. ^ Top | 6:07 PM | | | 
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