Month: October 2003

Happy Halloween! Wednesday was another busy night at the Tree House open mic. A few new performers came out as well. 1. Ben Garvey – I played with a bongo player for the first time in my life. John Shaughnessy brought his bongos and played along to “I Hope I Die on the Moon,” “All…

Yesterday someone posted a comment to my bio page. You were born in Illinois. I was born in Illinois. Your birthday is October 26. My birthday is October 28. You are an accoustic musician. I am an accoustic musician. You play Johnny Cash. I play Johnny Cash. Your name is Ben Garvey. My name is…

If you don’t know about the open mic yet every Wednesday at the Tree House coffee shop from 8:00 – 11:00PM, then you should definitely come out tonight. You can sign up in advance here. If you don’t know what a coffee shop is, it’s a place where people go to hang out, hear music,…

About a week ago I saw some plants for sale at 7-11 that could grow in artificial light and only need watering 6 times a year. They’re called Cyber Plants. I picked one up for my cubicle at work and so far it’s still alive. A few of the leaves have died and fallen off,…

One decision I’ve been toying with for a while is whether I should free up the content on this site with a license agreement. I decided to go with an extremely open license that allows you to pretty much do whatever you want with this site’s content. You are free:* to copy, distribute, display, and…

I was about to go to bed when I read this on Google News. Four kids in Collingswood ages 10-19 were found starving in a foster home.COLLINGSWOOD, N.J., Oct. 26 ? The parents of four boys adopted from New Jersey’s troubled foster care system were arrested Friday, two weeks after the police found that the…

Today was my 25th birthday, which puts me at about 1/3 of the current life expectancy. My 20s are now either half over or half left, and in this case the optimist/pessimist argument seems to agree with itself. The good part is that I’m having a great time these days and I couldn’t be happier.…

Swarthmore College is getting a great reputation on the net for defending civil liberties in the Information Age. Recently, an internal Diebold memo floated around the net admitting security problems in their e-voting machines. The Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons (SCDC) posted the memo to raise awareness that these machines may not be fool…

My mom mentioned she found a few of my old high school gig flyers, so I went to their house and scanned them in. Click on the images to enlarge them. This flyer is for a show I had on Saturday, July 5th 1997 at Coffee World in Marlton. Coffee World went out of business…

Thanks to Keith Lewis for sending this in. Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is doing something awesome. He wants to be your backing band. Ian Anderson is looking for volunteers to appear as special musical guests on some of the upcoming shows on his USA “Rubbing Elbows” tour. If you are a resident of, or…