Maple Leafs vs. Red Wings

Niagara Falls on the Canadian side:




Toronto is pretty ugly:







But it did have one great thing, Paul's Guitar Boutique



Oh No! Oh My! doing their thing at Sneaky Dees


The Toronto show went well, all things considered. One guy showed up who had bought our album off Emusic and "couldn't remember" where he heard about it. I thought that was pretty great. Maybe we're becoming sort of an airborne virus in the Canada air.

Jesse is Satan?


Toronto loves graffiti. And their bartenders are sarcastic cynics.


The New Hat





The tunnel from Canada to the US


Jason and Chris briefly rode this freight while we waited for it to back through Detroit


The Detroit show was out in Ferndale, which is about a mile from 8 Mile Road (of Eminem fame.) The venue was actually very nice and clean; the neighborhood seemed great, and we're staying in the supremely classy basement of a friend of Oh No! Oh My!'s. The horror stories about Detroit are probably true but we managed to escape the bad side of town this time.

All of our border crossings went swimmingly too. Both the Canadian and U.S. Customs folks asked "who's the lead singer?" and told us to "rock on." The Canadian customs lady even helped us fudge our paperwork so we wouldn't have to pay any taxes on our retail merch. Thanks Canadian Customs Lady.

Only one more show, in Chicago tomorrow night, and then we get to drive all the way home to L.A.

The van's in Milton

Jason and I went to get coffee and got lost.

Chris's House:

Fenway! Bah-Ston! The Sox win the Pennant!

We left New York around noon today. I miss it. It was an exhausting and fun week and I learned more about New York than I ever thought I would... and I miss it. It's a dirty busy mess, and it's great.

I didn't take nearly enough photos because I kept leaving my camera in the apartment. But I tried to snap some as we drove out of town towards Boston





From Jason's iPhone. On the subway:

Eating ice cream until I was sick at Serendipity. Right before this we took the Roosevelt Island gondola over to the island and wandered around for a minute. There's an abandoned prison out there where Mae West was briefly held on indeceny charges and Billie Holiday was locked up for prostitution. It's an incredible place.


Back to the boredom



This guy is either 250 years behind or 50 years ahead


Fall, real actual fall on the way to Boston


It was a small crowd at Middle East in Cambridge. The Red Sox were playing game 7 of the playoffs for the Series. No contest.


Falafel and chicken shawarma




Joel and Tex going to Fenway after the show to join the madness


Our home for the night: an old home in the woods outside Boston, Mike's friend's place. He works admissions for a prep school out here.