DONKEYWATCH!

Well, not much happening at the new studio this week, so I thought I'd talk a little bit about what's going on in the old one. Everybody (including myself) has been sick this week, so no one did much. I am told that the contractors will be in on Monday, finishing up what little there is left to finish up. By the way, I am painfully aware of the lack of a main Flying Blanket website - and I'm sorry to say, my web hosting or whatever they are deleted our account, and everything in it. No mp3s, no photos, no nothing. So I have to sort of regroup and figure out what to do. I was getting ready to launch a new site, but it really wasn't quite ready - and also, I'm not really looking forward to reloading all of those mp3s. And of course, I don't even think I have most of the gear photos anymore. So those will all have to be redone too. Lousy, no? Anyway, you can reach me at flyingblanketrecording@yahoo.com for the time being, I guess, since my main email doesn't work any more either. Sucks, I know. Anyway:The donkey head (there's no such thing as a mule deer) is still going strong, though you are now able to see parts of his skull through what I can only assume was once skin and fur. Someone did shift its position in the alley slightly (which I am not happy about, because I'll be the one to have to move it back to its proper resting place). I know I teased you all with tales of what else we had found in the garbage...well, it's a long story, and there will probably be more chapters to it (and hey, I've been kind of busy...you know, recording), but we did find buried in the rest of the trash deposited with the donkey some very bizarre letters written by a woman, including one decrying a love gone bad ("I'm tired of feeling like your live-in whore"!), and another asking the City of Mesa to forgive her nonpayment (I assume of utilities) but she's been in the hospital after having been mauled by three pitbulls and can't really do anything until she gets out. She also includes her cell phone number, which I just haven't had a chance to call yet. Plus, there's still a lot more stuff in the garbage which we just haven't gone through, and I don't want to have to call her twice because I found something else even more incriminating. Like I said, there is another garbage pile, and it smells much worse than the donkey head does at this point. What addtional wonders await me within that second trash pile, I can only guess. One other big development is that someone torched the dumpster at the eastern end of the complex. Or rather, they torched the area behind the dumpster. I don't know how no one noticed, because the entire side of the building next to it is totally charred, and half of the inside wall was still smouldering when I got there this morning. There were about nine fire trucks there and almost as many police. I was recording most of the rest of the day, so if there was any more drama surrounding the fire, I didn't get to see it. That's about it for now. Ron (manager of Circle K) claims they pressure-cleaned the sidewalk out front of his store a week ago. I don't believe that, to be frank with you.