DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME;

"No Bummer this Summer; part deux"

Now Toronto is a very cool city and it kind of reminds me
of Boston in some
ways, NYC in other ways, especially Queen street and the
fact that their is
such a variety of people leaving there. There are great
bars and resteraunt on
the Danforth, as well as Queen street and, for people who
want to do some very
unique shopping (like clothes or beads or whatever) and
maybe sample some
carribean food, I suggest kensington market, which is north
of west Queen.
Now, if you like Jamaican food, there's nice place on east
Queen called, "Real
Jerk." And for the adventureous, there's a nice strip club
across the street
(I forget the name but trust me on this one.)

From there, the tour heads to Boston, where we play the
Middle East club. I've
been to Boston once and thought it was a nice town but i
didn't have a lot of
time here. I did play a club opposite Fenway park (one of
the oldest ballparks
in America, by the way), but that's as close as I got to
the Red Sox! After
that show, we play the Bowery Ballroom (which i've played
2x already), which is
just below Soho (SOuth of HOusden) in manhattan. There's
so much to do in NYC
there's no point in me even getting started. but there is
an amazing, no, THE
MOST AMAZING resteraunt in NYC that my pa;. Michael
Shelley, took Daddyo and I
to in the east village. I am prevented from saying the
name because it's one
of those things that new yorkers take seriously; they don't
want everyone and
their mamma eating at the place they know and love. So,
out of respect, I will
only say it's a very small place in the east village, near
the corner!

And I now see that we'll be playing a show in Philadelphia on August 12, which
means it's a MUST that i stop by JIM's STEAKS on south and 4th street for one
of those huge, authentic PHILLY CHEESE STEAKS. Anyone who's been there will
tell you that it's like the size of your elbow to your wrist; a huge, thick
"Baggette-type" of bread, split down the middle but not seprated. Then they
add a mountain of tasty, thick sliced steak that's been marinated and cooked
with seasoned bellpeppers and onions. But that ain't all...get this; they top
it off with a healthy squirt of CHEESE WIZ! No lie! This is what they call a
true Philly Cheese Steak. If you don't feel your arteries hardening after you
eat it, then you didn't go to the right place.

And that's it, so far, for our future USA dates. And that gives us about a
week before we head off to Scotland and England. Hopefully, we'll get some
decent weather this next time around in the UK. heck, who am I kiddin'?

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Mike Randle
mike@lovewitharthurlee.com

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