
If you turniped yer radio for last week-end's Rock Garden Tour on SDPB Radio you probably noticed the glitch. At some point during an interview with Brookings, SD film-maker Aaron Toronto our audio skipped worse than a thrift store copy of Rambo First Blood Part II (soundtrack). As you already know, a scratchy lp's utility stretches far beyond its sonic offerings. You can hang them from fruit trees to deter deer and possom and the neighbors. But for the Rock Garden Tour, an audio glitch can kill an entire week's worth of work. And it did. Bummer. So, long story sort of mid-sized, you'll have the opportunity to catch last week-end's show this week-end instead.
So what happened? Why the glitch? We suspect paranormal activity, probably a vaporous entity of some kind. It was the week-end of Halloween after all. Which reminds me, we dressed our baby up as Johnny Lawrence from Karate Kid.

The above image documents our experience. Johnny tough guy started strong, lost a little edge as soon as we left the house, at some point morphed into a skeletal Andy Warhol, and then into Uncle Fester. All in all, a great night.
One last thing before I sign off and start working on next week's show (would love to tell you more about it but I'd rather not give away the ending).

For the second year in a row Rock Garden Tour is sponsoring a piece in Ipso Gallery's major fund raiser (that's me holding the piece, it arrived in the mail yesterday). This year's event is called Artifact. Ipso paired 10 sponsors with their own artist, sponsors provided their artist with an object (the artifact) and a word to inspire a work. The sponsor also put up some money, half to the artist and half to the Ipso Gallery who donates the bounty to the downtown arts community. This year's take goes to the Sculpture Walk in downtown Sioux Falls.
Rock Garden Tour's Artifact: A jackalope mount we picked up a few years ago in Plankinton, SD.
My word: Township

Ipso Artifact features works from Rock Garden Tour regulars Letwan from Pest Control (the above picture features the extreme upper right corner of her piece), Mary Groth, and 8 others. Learn more about Artifact right here. If you're in the neighborhood on Friday November 4, please stop by the gallery and say hello.
If you're wondering about that image at the very top of this post, that's the pic of the week, a new "feature", corporate's idea.