Downbeat

Mmmmm ESTEBAN!





The Esteban!

Jazz, Reggae, art, books, chess and more!

2nd floor above Grooming by Gia



Emily “Goldilocks”Madison

Coffee is my spinach.

Downbeat at the old location in West Plaza

Sister Anne’s

Damn you Demiurge!

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Darth Vader from Wikipedia

We are hoping for the gorgeous weather of Indian summer.  I really miss my old coffees shop/third world snack cafe.

Sister Anne’s

Sometimes after work during my version of happy hour I come to Sister Anne’s records and Coffee.  I work on my videos or blog and listen to music and drink cawfeee.

Anne Winter at Culture Under Fire in1991Jim, who owns the coffeeshop used to work at Recycled Sounds and named his shop after Anne Winter.

They are celebrating their first birthday anniversary the first weekend in October.

https://youtu.be/DfUpfc02xe8
I’m starting to reminisce and get sad.  It’s time to go home to my Darth Vader machine and sleep.

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Don’t Go Shopping on Saturday

The lines are long.  People are impatient and rude.  What does that have to do with anything?  This ha been a long week.

We find that this next month or two may be a critical crossroads in our lives.
This next week will certainly be busy.

Bar-K Dog Bar

TMI

BRD

Adrift

It takes nothing to make us unmoored and adrift lost in the vast stillness of being alone in the world. Too much is unsettling the calm nature of my peace.  I can not fear the distant sails on my horizon as fear is paralysis.  I must keep moving with the current.

City Market KC

It was a nice fall day.  What a good time to go to Bar-K.

Dash Cam Time-lapse from last week

TMI

BRD

Stevo

Ten Years of Svoboda

September comes and goes and I rarely acknowledge the Birthday of my blog.  This year was no different as I have been super busy with many things. However, belatedly I have decided to write a post for the tenth anniversary of Svoboda.

September 17, 2009 

When I first started this blog, I was feeling insecure about my own personal future and the future of the entire media industry.  Ten years has not changed that.  

We went on our first trip to the Grand Canyon that year and we lost someone who was significant to the life of our city...

Anne Winter

We have lost much...

Tom Deatherage— I could only find a link to a video shot in his place — the Late Show Gallery

On another of our trips, I reminisced about my friend who also had passed away.

David Goodrich

Very painfully to me and my family personally is the loss of 

Jose Santa Cruz

The gains over the years have been too many to really list out.  Probably the biggest gain has been that Kansas City has become a genuinely nice place to live.  Artists have lead the way in that.  I want to keep this post short, so I will end with a video.

BRD TMI

Stevo

Testing an App

I’m testing an app on my phone.  I do everything via the phone anyway.

I’m sitting at a place where you can guess where.

Also, guess what I’m doing.

Just for fun I’m going to insert my last video...

Lessee how this woiks.

20190729 Poppy’s Ice Cream and Coffee, Lee’s Summit MO

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