There have been alot of questions about the bus, where it is and what's happening with it.
today i am spending all day in my room. like a sabbatical, my own self imposed retreat.
yet the phone has been going off and the last few calls were just friendly;
"hey, hows it going? where's the bus?"

so after three of those in a row i turned it off.
started a blog
uploaded some pictures
then im going downstairs and make some food from the fine load of food not bombs deliveries
that showed up this morning.

im very happy with the latest chapter in the bus project.
basically in a nut shell;

the bus is
a big empty show space. inside the bus is a stage, p.a., lights and room
for an audience inside aswell as on the roof. its powered by veggie oil, solar panels
and batteries. we take the venue on tour and have local stuff happen inside.
as of 08 we have done 191 shows, over 600 bands have played inside.

-on our way back westward after our second time around the country the bus engine quietly ate one of its own pistons. we were leaving detroit with somewhere around 18 people. on this leg of the tour
we had done shows with bands in the bus from florida to maine. from maine to niagra falls, around the great lakes
and did an all night show with a bunch of picked up audience members around detroit
(that show is a book unto itself)
i drove about two hours out of detroit on our way to chicago when we had to coast to a stop
in a town called " albion "
about an hour after the bus spewed all its liquids onto the albion exit another white bus
pulled up just to say "howdie! i just bought this bus 45 minutes ago..." all the passengers from
my bus and some music equipment got loaded into his bus, while he was explaining where he was going. just happened to be the very same block in chicago we were headded.

dave kloot and i stayed in albion. the rest hopped trains into a storm in Iowa where they
got flooded in.
we stuck around getting the bus into a yard and trying to figgure out what next.

last weekend we bought a house on ebay for four thousand dollars in albion mi. hopefully we
can get a crew together to go back out and revamp the bus - fix up the house - do art
spread some love around albion.