Hey guys how y’all doing!? I write to you from my living room to say I’m excited to get back on the road and tour… “Excited”? you ask. Yes excited! Not only will it be awesome to see all of you again but I’m looking at the Weather Network right now and I don’t see any snow in the forecast ...... that’s exciting!  C’mon summer!!! This tour will be taking us from Toronto and all through Ontario to New York City and then finishing up in Kenora. Don’t worry for those of you in the west we’ll be heading out with Theory of a Dead Man and our friends in Rides Again in June… check the website for the details.....  Hope to see you all out there!
Also, for any of you guys that are in Edmonton, I am displaying some of my artwork at Steeps the Urban Tea House at 11116 82nd Avenue. I have been painting a lot the past year and I thought that getting them off my walls and putting them on someone else’s would be fun. check em out and tell me what you think!
Travis
Here’s a few for you to see

Growing up in Edmonton, AB, Canada there have always been a few things that come with absolute certainty: 1. Discussions will either involve cattle, oil, Oilers, or weather or any combination of the aforementioned. 2. Winters will be long and harsh; This means that at least 5-6 months out of every year will be filled with cold and snow.

This year we’re definitely getting our 6 months worth and the truth is, I don’t always remember getting exactly 6 months of winter. Usually we see lots of cold and snow but the trend I remember included a slow cool down as winter eventually crept in and then a gradual warming trend as spring emerged.

There’s not a lot of creeping or emerging going on anymore as we bounce from one extreme to the other then back again during any season. It seems that temperature and weather trends are much more erratic then they’ve ever been before and I’m no scientist but I really don’t think it’s necessary for me to be to quantitatively comment that things are a little f*$#ed up. (Side note: I store all physical data and measurements in my sub conscious day to day with absolute precision and then my gut translates this information and provides me with flawless, indisputable facts. Everybody does that right?)

Anyways, today is Edmonton’s scheduled celebration of Earth Day. There’s a nice park in our cities river valley called Hawrelak Park where the festivities are to be held on the south side (though it really feels a lot more like the far north).

My wife and I have intended to take in the celebration of earth for a few weeks now. The weather had warmed up and most all the snow here had melted and what could be better than a spring festival celebrating earth and a nice walk in the park?

[April 20, 2008]

Could anybody lend us some snow shoes or cross country skies? Maybe some giant mass consuming electrical heaters or perhaps a fossil fuel burning generator to keep the attendees warm as they spend the day outside sharing concepts to lessen the load on Mother Earth?

The truth is, this festival should have been warmed by our Mother herself but she’s quite sick and I fear there just hasn’t been enough effort to love her and nurture her back to health.

Instead of the doom and gloom approach with the pessimists or ‘the ignorance’ and allowing our Mother to get worse, I propose to share in some some optimism… I know there’s many ways to phrase ‘the question’ but how about we phrase it this way: “What are we gonna do about it?” (our sick Mother that is).

The mentality should really be - what’s done is done because there’s no going back (so stop pointing fingers). What are we gonna to do now?

Please share if you have something to say. Maybe some of you could post some links or some ideas or thoughts on the subject. Whatever you want really. The more people talk about solutions the more people think about solutions and for those of you like me who believe “thoughts become things"… well, let’s think about it. It’s the very least we could do.

Enough said for me at the moment. I’m gonna go throw on some snow pants and play in the snow.

Logan

PS Next stop: Organic food.

Gonna need some help with this one people… Go to --> MTV for details!!

WINTER WOAHS
a poem by Travis Nesbitt

And so it goes and goes and goes,
and so it snows and snows and snows
Shivering and cold they froze they froze,
their bodies grew numb from their heads to their toes
Their faces turned red as they all blew there nose
Their feet became wet as their socks melted the snow
And so it goes and goes and goes
and when it stops nobody knows.......