Have you read SappyTimes? For the past three SappyFests my pal Sean Michaels of noted mp3 blog Said the Gramophone burns the midnight oil, madly tapping on his laptop into the wee hours in order to file his daily newspaper sometime before dawn. The result is a double sided 8.5 x 11 sheet filled with keen-eyed reporting on the previous day’s music and good feelings, distributed throughout downtown Sackville, NB. It’s a fun read.
Sean Michaels reading both fact and fiction at the Sackville Legion Hall as part of the Sappy zine fair
This year Sean asked me to contribute a 150 word column every night of the festival with a 3 AM deadline and what resulted was “Jeff’s Weather Report.” Instead of predicting the weather I reported about it after the fact because no one writes about the weather after it happens unless someone dies because of it. You can read my columns here, where Sean has conveniently archived all three numbers of this year’s run of the newspaper.
Yours truly looking dorky with Motivist editors Al Barbour and Sarah Evans at the Sackville Legion
