out of beer before we even start
Add comment January 26th, 2009
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sips and suds concert cancelled but date still on for the band
Add comment January 26th, 2009
SIPS AND SUDS
HOW TO SURVIVE THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
In these Tough Economic Times the Camano Senior and Community Center has decided to take a proactive path toward economic recovery. Their stimulus package, conceived in the foggy weeks of this bleary, dreary winter, brings a ray of hope to the seasonally and fiscally afflicted. In the recesses of its low wattage inner sanctum boardroom, the Center determined to act boldly, knowing half hearted measures would likely prove ineffective. Difficult times call for decisive action. Difficult times demand visionary thinking. Difficult times require unified teamwork They decided it was whole hog or no hog.
In the end they approved an economic recovery package that may well prove to be a model for a national stimulus program. SIPS AND SUDS, they called it. If your 401-K has sunk lower than a Chevy on its rusted rims, if your credit cards are growing fangs, if your once friendly hometown bank is pestering you about that missed mortgage payment, you definitely will want to consider SIPS AND SUDS. Your fiscal worries and financial woes will lift like a fog in a hurricane.
And if the promise of vino and brews isn’t enough to lift your spirits, the South End String Band will lift those spirits FOR you, both literally and metaphorically. This intrepid band of fiduciary refugees who make their home in the fog-shrouded nettle regions of Camano’s backwashed southern climes, have been practicing all winter for this event, according to Skeeter Daddle, the Band’s investment guru.
“The Band’s been hard at work getting ready for this SIPS AND SUDS concert,” he stated recently for the Newsletter. “We’ve worked on synchronized sipping until our wrists ached. I gotta tell ya, we never really got very good at it. Sipping just isn’t the Band’s style. Guzzling, slurping, gulping, chugging and glugging, now THAT we got down. But we’re practicing. You can bet on that. And you can take that to the bank, yes sirree. Course , that assumes your bank will still be here tomorrow.”
Mark your calendars. Saturday, March 7th, 2009. The Day The Economy Began It’s Reversal. The good times are here again!
SIPS AND SUDS 4- 8 PM. Financial seminars by Skeeter Daddle throughout the taste testing. $15 at the door.
last train to stanwood concert
1 comment January 20th, 2009
We want to welcome you aboard the Last Train to Stanwood Concert. It’s great to see so many of you repeat passengers from the old days – and a lot of you new ones too. We want to thank all of you and we especially want to thank the Historical Society for bringing back a little of the railroadin past tonight.
The last train to stop at Stanwoodopolis was a third of a century ago. We were so sure that choo choo wasn’t coming back we tore down the old station depot.
History, they say, at least for those who are attention deficit, gets repeated. Well, we’re rebuilding that station this year and the South End and Burlington Northern Line is gonna be stopping once again in historic East Stanwood, playground of Puget Sound.
So sit back. The conductor will let you know when we reach your destination. The bar and smoker cars are open and the dining car is well provisioned.
The past, they say, is prologue…. But tonight, it’s just gonna be prolonged. Enjoy the ride, ladies and gentlemen. The last train is coming back!!
concert footage
Add comment January 14th, 2009
The South End String Band, for those of you who may be under some vague misconception that we’re a ragtag collection of musician yahoos, is actually a legal entity entitled SESB LLC. Meaning we’re a corporation. With limited liability. Not limited viability as some have suggested….
As such, we’re a lean mean profit churning machine. About the same time as the Wall St. Meltdown and Uncle Sam’s 750 billion dollar bailout to prop up LOSING entities, the SESB LLC got a letter from the IRS informing us we were going to be penalized $2500 for not submitting Form 1065 to them in a timely manner. Our bank account had swollen to about $1800 at the time. For you mathematicians , that meant our profits were soon to be losses, no doubt triggering our own stimulus package, judging by the U.S. Treasury’s aforementioned desire to help the fiscally floundering back on their feet and save Capitalism itself even if it meant converting it to Socialism.
You may not know it, but not many bands pay taxes. They’re like most artists. Sort of an underground black market economy. But the SESB LLC was a small beacon of hope in the storm tossed capitalist seas of 2008. At least until the IRS decided our deep pockets were needed to rescue, oh, Morgan Stanley and WAMU and a few other corporations more reckless than ourselves.
So this next song, DON’T LET YOUR DEAL GO DOWN, keep in mind, it’s honest hardworking bands like ours that may ultimately save the global economy . Even if we have to go broke to do it.
Tough economic times, ladies and gentlemen. Tough economic times……