Well, folks, we're back in Portland...like SHeDAISY (who the f are they, anyway??), we're sleeping in our own beds tonight. For the record, we were out for 54 days this time. No tour bus or roadies either. And yet, I maintain that our hair has equal shine and bounce to that of the SHeDAISY ladies! Take that!

Howdy, Slow Drags fans (and curious acquaintances)...we're in Lewiston, Idaho, about to play the second-to-last show of our illustrious 6 1/2 week tour.  We've been having a great time, but it will be nice to get home.  Like that Sleep Number bed commercial with SheDaisy...how I feel for them!  23 days on the road with roadies and a tour bus...how do they do it?

On to the main idea of this blog - I admit it, I'm easily amused.  When we're out on the road, any entertainment is welcome, no matter how small.  We were in Lakeside, Montana, in Flathead county (see the song Fall Hard for a Flathead reference) when I stumbled upon this comedy gem...the Flathead Police Blotter (selected entries):

Tuesday 5/27

9:17 a.m. A West Glacier resident reported that a suspicious woman called and tried to sell her an extended warranty on her '56 Chevy.

4:15 p.m. A Whitefish woman called in to report that she went home to find that someone had stolen one of her stuffed animals.

8:20 p.m. A man called in claiming that his wife stole his gun. After reporting the thievery he quickly hung up.

Wednesday 5/28

8:43 a.m. A Whitefish woman called to report that her neighbors have been watching her.

4:10 p.m. An adult male attempted to steal a handful of delicious candy bars from an Evergreen store.

7:47 p.m. A call came in from Solberg Drive about a man wearing a multi-colored shirt who was riding his bike. The caller said he looked like he was on drugs. Deputies talked with the cyclist. He was not on drugs.

10:40 p.m. A woman hit her husband in the face and left. Deputies were unable to find her.

4:46 a.m. Parents took their 15-year-old daughter to the emergency room because they thought she had been with her "older" boyfriend that night and they thought she might be high on something. Turns out she wasn't

Thursday 5/28 [sic]

2:45 p.m. A man ate a doughnut in a Kalispell grocery store and didn't pay for it.

Friday 5/30

9:07 p.m. A Somers resident reported a suspicious and "scruffy" looking man who has wearing his hat backwards by the yacht club.

Saturday 5/31

4:01 p.m. A very thin and old horse lives on Foothill Road.

11:01 p.m. A very intoxicated young man was tackled after tried [sic] to run out of an Evergreen bar with a sign he had stolen off the wall. The fellow beer drinkers held the drunken thief down until deputies arrived. The man claimed he didn't steal the sign, but had no idea why he was holding it.

11:58 p.m. A woman called in to report that her ex-husband had sent her a mean e-mail.

Sunday 6/1

10:28 a.m. The driver of a horse and buggy called in to report a driver that swerved in front of him and yelled "get into the 21st century!"

11:19 a.m. Someone called in from Kila to report a dead baby horse. When a deputy arrived they found that the horse was alive. It had just been taking a little nap.

12:37 p.m. A driver called in from Forest Hill Road to tattle on two hitchhikers who had flashed some offensive hand gestures at him.

1:03 a.m. A man on Shady Lane got angry and threw things.

If you'd like to monitor the shady goings-on of Flathead County, you can do so here: http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/policeblotter/

Also check out my new favorite comic strip, Garfield Minus Garfield:  http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/  . 

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let's laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb.

All for now....

Your pal,  Bryan from Scotland Barr and the Slow Drags

I've been keeping a blog about our tour, so I'm going to mirror post them.  The photo blog can be found here.

Hope you find it entertaining...

cheers,

DF & SBSD

Been a while since I was able to do a blurb out here. I do want to point you to Bryan's Myspace blog. It's got some great photos over the past couple weeks.

We arrived in Denver a bit after 3pm today. We are staying in this palacial high rise condo in which you can see all over downtown. Talk about feeling like a rockstar...anyway, we play out in Boulder this evening. Strangely enough, it's a late night show (10pm) for a Sunday night.

Last time I checked in, we had just played the Cowgirl in Santa Fe. Since then, we extricated the van from the caliche(spanish for clay). The guy who owned the car wash was at our show in Tijeras and allowed us to vacuum and wash the van for free. Now that is rockstar treatment.

It took most of Friday to get everything straightened out, so it was nearly 5:30 before we got on the road for Trinidad. It was a late night, but it was nice to have the whole day Saturday to relax, do laundry, get the van serviced, sleep, and see the sights. Trinidad is actually a rather remakable town. It was a major cog on the Santa Fe trail, and it has a rich history. The downtown area still holds a lot of the original adobe structures that were erected over a hundred years ago. Rather fun for a guy that craves such things.

The show in Trinidad (at the Trinidad Brewery) went pretty well. It was outside, which was okay for the first set, but everyone's fingers started seizing up by the end of the second set. The crowd amazingly ebbed and flowed, even in the chilly night. Or maybe it's because they couldn't smoke inside. Either way, we at least enetertained the peoples when they came out. Interestingly enough, Trinidadians were fans of the slow songs. They wouldn't dance to anything fast, but they were all over anthing that they could stumble about slowly too. One guy actually requested such a song...on account that he couldn't dance. He was right, he couldn't. He nearly knocked over two tables during his one turn on the dance floor.

I'll get some photos up later this evening. Hope all is well.

cheers,
DF & SBSD