Saturday, March 28, 2009

Howdy Folks,
Check out this link Matt sent me from the Examiner.com
My friend Gigi Love came into town for a couple of days to jam and hang out. Gigi is one of the Bums on the Plush on the run to the Kate wolf festival in June. That brings up another subject. I have had a few e-mails about using the name Bums on the Plush. The name comes from a poem dad would recite from time to time, I will post it on the side of the blog page. II gave this name a great deal of thought and kept coming back to the time dad and I were traveling up to the North West.
several years back. We stayed over night at the Ashland Springs Hotel in of course Ashland OR. The hotel is a nice piece of work. It was built in 1925 and has been beautifully restored and much more upscale than most places we would stay. After dinner we sat in the lobby next to the fireplace, cocktail in hand, soaking it all in. Dad went on and on about how nice the hotel was and how he was going to go to High Tea the next day at which point I turned to him and asked "so how does it feel to be a bum on the plush" he smiled and laughed.

Please understand I mean no disrespect. In fact I feel the name is quite the opposite. Please do feel free to post your thoughts I am sincerely interested in the opinion of other folks.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Welcome back Duncan. I had the dogs out looking for you!!! Hope all is going well. Good to see a post on the blog. The "bum on the plush" would be proud! Take err easy Keith Bednar

Anonymous said...

Sound good Duncan, I hope you can bring the tour east to Lena's!

Mike Taub

Duncan said...

Hey Mike, I wouldn't even think of going back East and not going to Lena's.
New YORK was the last road trip dad and I took together.

Anonymous said...

That was a great show. I wanted to video it, so my kids could see it, but Bruce said 'NO!"

See you when you come. We can share some stories.

Mike

Anonymous said...

Sounds great. Really nice hearing about what your up to. Look forward to seeing you one day in Canada.

Amanda

Anonymous said...

The hotel is a nice piece of work. It was built in 1925 and has been beautifully restored and much more upscale than most places we would stay.

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