BONAFIDE TACHE!

Mood:  crushed out
Now, now...I know you've all been hyperventilating in confused suspense, waiting for me to provide you with your weekly tache...late again. But I'm going to make it up to you!
After we played that cemetery chapel concert at Forest Hills a couple weeks back, Craig sidles up to me during all the mingling and wine-sipping hoo ha and says something about a primo tache in the other room. Naturally, I snapped to attention like a Marine on a mission.
Unfortunately, *pause for effect*, the tache in question was not real, per se, but of the marble variety...perched on the stony lip of a humdinger of a handsome bust in a corner of the hallway.
Or course the next thing we knew, I was climbing behind the wine table for a closer look.
And who should catch me in the middle of the monkey business but Ms. Colmore...Director of Development for the cemetery trustees? Luckily, she was not put out and began to tell me the touching story of the man immortalized by the bust.
I give you today's valorous Tache o'the Week!
Mr. John Reece. (1854-1896)

(Unfortunately, I look like a mentally challenged, amorous orangutan wearing a great hat in the photo...so you don't get to see that bit. Be thankful.)
Mr. Reece was the inventor of an important sewing machine that could quickly sew the buttonholes on the ubiquitous button boots of the time. (KA-CHING!
I bet he was a sharp dresser!) On March 31, 1896, whileworking in his office building, he witnessed an
elevator worker in danger of being crushed by a moving elevator. He bravely lunged for the elevator rope, hoping to stop the car...but he narrowly missed it, and plunged to his death, three stories down the shaft. I believe the man in danger was crushed at the top, too.
The next day, the Boston Globe ran the story with the headline, "Hero's Death."
A very tragic tale.
So, Mr. Reece....we salute you!
Seriously...there is supposedly a great monument of him at his grave there at Forest Hills. As soon as it ceases to be an Arctic expedition to go see it, I will do so.

In other news, we are preparing for a couple upcoming shows...both by ourselves and with Craig Robertson. Do check the Concerts page for details. I'll be in London for the next several days, so Karen may have to entertain you in the interim. *cue tapdancing music*
Or if not, just wait til I get back...! We're hanging with the Handlebars
there on Friday...and believe you me, there will be photographic evidence! Please, try to amuse yourselves til then....I know it's difficult.
While you're at it, why not find out exactly what all the fuss was about the irresistable Clara Bow by watching "It," now out on DVD! Fantastic!

Oh, AND: check out the photos page, as the pictures from X-Mortis at Man Ray are up, as well as the Forest Hills cemetery performance!