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What does an earthboar do, when not reading? Believe it or not, I'm "out there," as they say. This past Friday (May 4th) I spent an afternoon in a brand new "Net Zero" house, full of photovoltaic and solar-thermal panels, computers, krypton filled windows, and, oh yeah, a Congressman and a Department of Energy officer. That evening I watched the 1963 film Lord of the Flies with director of photography Gerry Feil, who answered questions about the film afterwards.

On Wednesday I saw the most amazing band, the hottest band in London today, called The Council. I had my picture taken with them. They were loud!

Last week I reviewed a jazz-film project called "How Much Land Does A Man Need," based on the Tolstoy short story, by Vermont musicians Jamie Masefield and the Jazz Mandolin Project. The showing was in one of my favorite towns, Northampton.

I've interviewed biblical scholar and author James Carse, Scottish folk singer Dougie MacLean; interviewed Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick several times, both on the campaign trail and after election, covered the 2006 Massachusetts Democratic Convention at the Worcester Centrum; went to Washington DC to watch the inauguration of the 110th Congress in November; watched the Tibetan monks known as the Gyuto Monks perform a prayer ceremony honoring Mahakala; and have been front and center in many more interviews and interesting events in the past two years than I am really inclined to force myself to remember at this moment.

The life of a journalist! Tough, dirty and dangerous, but somebody has to do it ;)