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October 26, 2007 on 10:53 am | In Happenings | No Comments

Y’know, back in the early days of the so-called Enlightenment, as hard science began its sway over the minds of men, the New Science was seen as a complement and augmentation to belief in the Supreme Deity. In knowing the mechanics of His creation we would grow closer to Him.
But since the beginning of the great disillusionment with science, abetted by such inventions as the atom bomb and the pill, religious folk often see the failure of science in the face of the unknown and probably unknowable infinitude of the natural world as proof of God, and religion and science are more often seen as antithetical paradigms. There’s sort of a fair-weather attitude toward science that fuels a lot of the God people.
So keep believing what you will — there’s always a way to rationalize it.

Sunday, October 28, 9:30-11:00 pm, WXDU: Yearning for the Long Returning.
Good old-timey songs about longing for death. Mostly proto-bluegrass and country blues gospel type stuff. But a few other things thrown in.
It’s gonna be really good.
wxdu.org 88.7

Tuesday, October 30, Nightlight, Chapel Hill, 9:30: Thollem McDonas & Crowmeat Bob with Cab Caligari.
Nightlight’s Pagan Spook Festival for the pre-Halloween creep set. With video projections and other kooky stuff.
Thollem McDonas (an excellent pianist) bio: http://www.thollem.com/biography.html
And his MySpace spot: myspace.com/thollemmcdonas
Cab Caligari is Steve Burnett and John Randall Pelosi.

Wednesday, October 31, Local 506, 10 pm: Dexter Romweber and the New Romans with Evil Wiener.
Yup. It’s Halloween again.
We’ll have some belly dancers gettin busy with us. They’re called The Caligulettes.

And I’m fixin to go on tour with Horseback and guitarist Mike Tamburo for the first couple weeks of November, so if you’re in any of these places, get in touch with me about where and when to catch us, if you’re of a mind to (crowmeat@hotmail.com):
Washington, DC
Philadelphia, PA
Burlington, VT
Brooklyn, NY
Boston, MA
Rochester, NY
Detroit, MI
Chicago, IL (at the Empty Bottle’s Four Million Tongues festival)
St. Louis, MO
Milwaukee, WI
Bloomington, IN
Pittsburgh, PA
Amherst, VA
Greensboro, NC

Right.
–Bob
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