A Postcard to the gang at West Coast Live from Meadville PA

Sub-titled "Why Do The Wrong People Travel?"

October 2004

Flew from San Francisco to Pittsburg on Thursday, an airport with the best relationship between "baggage claim" and "rental car" in the whole world. All you have to do is exit the terminal and walk 20 yards to your car.
Beautiful.
Which is more than I can say about one's fellow travelers.

My latest villain is the guy sitting next to you who is sneaking in another call on his phone long after the "turn off all electronic devices" mantra has been intoned. It wouldn't be so bad if his conversation was along the lines of....."Send help, we're under attack", but usually it's some inane comment like......."I'm just taking off!" Duh!

Anyway, arrived safely in Meadville, a college town in upstate Pennsylvania. Wesla and I have been performing here annually for 10 years in a lovely little theater in an ancient town hall. We do Friday, Saturday and Sunday and people come for the whole weekend and as far away as Cleveland, Pittsburg, Erie and even Toronto............
Well at least my cousin Nick and his wife come from Toronto!

My cousin is famous for having written a Canadian best seller entitled, "Drinking, and Why it's Necessary". A long and comprehensively researched book covering all aspects of the art of the pub.
I'm proud to have assisted in some of that research in New York and London though I'm a bit vague on the details.
Also attending this year, a dear San Francisco friend Priscilla Alden Coleman whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower and helped found Meadville and Allegheny college though she denies any responsibility for the Wal Mart.

Everyone stays at the Holiday Inn Express, the best hotel in town, and the after gig parties would make a rock star blush. There's cookies and homemade apple pie and the occasional beer. Then a ritual trip to the aforementioned 24 hour Wal-Mart - the only one I've ever been in I must say - we go to make fun of the camouflage clothing section, guiltily buy a Krispy Kreme doughnut and usually attempt to purchase the whole firearms inventory in order to dump it in the Allegheny River. But I guess we best not get into politics again.......
though I have received many encouraging e-mails from all over the country this week after last Saturdays rant about George W.
Thank you Sedge for West Coast Live!

That's all for now I'm off to rehearse with our lovely bass player David Morgan from Cleveland.
The wrong people may travel but, as I'm sure Karl & Carl would say, the wrong people travel.

Love to all at WCL.

Mike Greensill

P.S. Tell Sam Barry not to be so funny when I'm away!