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D.W.Q.M.: 2nd Doctor: "Let's have a tune to cheer us all up!" Ben: "Yeah, I didn't think we'd heard the last of that." (the Doctor begins to play his recorder) Ah, yes! St. Rocco's. . Our last gig of the summer. Here is the schedule of events (i'm sorry this is posted so late-I've either been too busy, or the network's been too slow!!) Saturday, August 30th: Evening concert, 7pm. We usually start with a short set while we're all standing in a circle in the middle of the festival-we play for about 45 minutes or so, and then we get a break. The rest of the evening is a sitdown concert, with at least one more break during the night. There is usually a bandstand, so you can't miss us. ;) play until 10:30 or so, but, like the Feast, this may change, and we may play a little later-who knows? ;) Sunday, Augusts 31st: Procession, 3pm. We start in front of the church, but I'm not as familiar with the route as I a...

D.w.Q.M.: Jo: "So that was some sort of spell you said?" The Third Doctor: "He thought it was. That's why he ran away. Actually it was the first line of a Venusian lullaby. Roughly translated, it goes, "Close your eyes, my darling; well, three of them at least." Ah, the last day of the Feast, but before we get to Little Italy, come with me to the West si-ide, to a little place called St. Rocco's :) During the Feast, St. Roccos celebrates St. Nicola with a small procession around the church (while processing, they pray the Rosary...in Italian....with us playing Itlalian marches the entire time) followed by a lucheon. We are told that if we stop playing, they stop moving. We process around the church and then into their dining hall, and after the food is blessed, we play some of the more popular Italian music while they eat. After everyone is served, they offer us lunch as well (they always make sure there is enough for the band!!) Once every...

D.W.Q.M.: "I can feel my hair curling, which either means its going to rain, or I'm onto something." -the Fourth Doctor Ah...the Feast just wouldn't be the Feast unless there was a threat of rain at least one of the days. All day Saturday (well, okay, the half of Saturday that I was up! ;) ) we watched the weather forecast and the radar-the rain was coming! Would it be enough to cancel the Feast? Of course not! We started off as usual in the streets, and there was a slight drizzle, which became heavier as time wore on. Jesse suggested to our fearless leader Nick, that we stop by Primo Vino ( I have yet to actually eat there!!) and play there while waiting it out. It looked like Nick didn't want to do that just yet (he wanted to go around the neighborhood some more) but Jesse convinced him that it would be a good idea-because we still had to get through Sunday (small procession around St. Roccos church, and the evening procession at Holy Rosary) and we ...

D.W.Q.M.: Ian: "Vicki, I didn't know you knew about the Beatles." Vicki: "Well of course I know about the Beatles...but...I didn't know they played classical music. Barbara: " Classical music?!" Ian: "Times change, Barbara (lowers voice slightly) times change." Before I go into the second day of the Feast, I have a little work related side note-here's a new one! One of the collection managers approached me today with a book with pages that seemed to be out of order. Upon further inspection, I noticed that there were pages missing, and it its place, were pages from a totally different book! Not even the same subject area! When I spoke to our vendor about it, she mentioned she had seen that before, but had no idea how or why it happens. :) Also-I get to be in a video! Sort of-our preservation department is making a video for new student employees, sort of a training video-the do's and don'ts, etc, etc. I don't ha...

"Holy Rosary, Batman!" -Jerm Well, this post will cover two events-the first night of the Feast, and the blackout we had here in Cleveland. Our first night at the Feast was rather short due to black out, which started just after 4pm. I was still at work-in the middle of a record, in fact, when the lights flickered, went out for a second,came back on-then we lost our internet connection, and all of the lights in the library went out and the emergency lights blinked on. Mike, one of our tech team members went around and told us to unplug everything. After we discovered that several other states and Canada was affected, I gave my sister a call in MN. I asked her if she still had power, and she groggily said 'yeah'. I told her to turn on CNN or something, and she started to tell me that she was sleepy. So I said, 'the entire eastern seaboard just lost power!'(an exaggeration, i know-but i got a very satisfying 'WHAT?!' from my sister. ;) ) She ...

D.W.Q.M.: "What do you think of my new face, by the way? Hmmm. I wasn't too sure of it myself to begin with, but it sort of grows on you." -The Third Doctor Woo-hoo! I changed my template!! Successfully!! Yay! Special thanks to both Jaya and Persephone for answering my questions! I survived both the blackout and the Feast. And coming soon to a blog near you: the Feast of the Assumption! ;) There was so much that went on that I want to share with you that i'm probably going to have to break it down and talk about each day seperately. Each day was completely different, and I had a great time! I also want to take the time now to thank all of my friends and coworkers who were able to come during the Feast to watch the Italian band-THANK YOU! :) :) (and i'll probably be thanking you again..) ;)

I knew I would forget to add something-our evening concerts usually last until 10:30 pm. :)

D.W.Q.M.: "Now you've squashed my favorite Beatles." - the First Doctor Okay! As promised, here is a breakdown of the Feast of the Assumption: Evening concerts: at 6 we start playing in the street-usually in front of the school or the church, and work our way up through the crowd. This goes until about 6:30, sometimes earlier than that- and then we canvas the neighborhood-visit families giving parties, and also we visit the sick and shut-ins. (Father Rocco usually give us a list of parishoners who are unable to attend the Feast, and we go and visit them and play for them-they are always very appreciative of our visit!) That usually goes on until about 7:30 or so. We take a break, and the sit-down concerts start anywhere between 8-8:30pm. Usually in front of the church or school-you can't miss us, we sit in a circle right in the middle of the street! ;) Thursday, August 14th- Evening Concert Friday, August 15th- 11am Procession (well, give or take-t...

D.W.Q.M.: "Sorry, must dash." -the Fifth Doctor Tacos Mariachi (To the tune of "Mexican Hat Dance") Ta-co, Ta-co, Ta-co It's taco night time tonight Ta-co, Ta-co, Ta-co It's starting to feel just right I just want to eat all of those tacos They make me feel good, oh those tacos From my hat and right down to my sock-o's I just want to eat all of them up Ole, Jerm (taco email submitted by Jerm last week) Yeah, I know, this is late-I didn't have time to post this last week, and since we had to move taco night to Friday this week, I thought I would post it now. We've all been so busy, that we couldn't get together on Wednesday or Thursday! (our normal taco rescheduled night). As Jerm said in today's email: "Whoa, tacos on Friday. That's got be against some sort of law, or maybe it's just a flaw in the matrix." ;) Yup, I've been pretty busy-and will be even more so with next week being t...

D.W.Q.M.: "What's wrong with being childish? I like being childish." -the Third Doctor Only 2 copies of the Monster of Peladon in the entire Cleveland/cuyahoga public library systems, and they are both mine, mine, mine!!! Muahahahahahaaa... Ahem. I'm ok, really I am. Not long after I made my rant post, the first copy of Monster was returned to the library and sent my way (yay!). I picked it up on Thursday, but forgot to cancel my second hold-so when I went to return some dvds on Saturday, I passed by the hold shelves and noticed i had another item on the shelf. So I went and checked it out and noticed that some bozo forgot to rewind the tapes. Well, if i'm not going to be nice and take them both, I will at least be nice and rewind the tapes (so I don't get charged for them anyway. *heehee*) I told Jerm that when we watch them, we should watch tape 1 from one set, and tape 2 from the other. LOL. I thought about keeping them both the full 3 weeks, ...