Semi-Coherent Musings - from one of the leading masters of this questionable art form!
22 May 2025 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Glass House, as it came to be known over time, was a memorable and dare I say even legendary residence located at the corner of Mulford Avenue and McClain Road. Well, the house is still there, of course – it’s just that the people and circumstances...
15 May 2025 17 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Victorian’s Midnight Cafe was a former…well, I’m not even sure what you’d call it, but it sure was something. A cafe, yes, I suppose, and definitely located in Victorian’s Village, in Columbus Ohio. And though I was certainly there past midnig...
9 May 2025 11 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
This day begins as a virtual, bizarre repeat of the one before it, except downsized to Bucyrus scale. Or maybe a parallel universe where you find yourself in Bucyrus instead of a fairly nice casino in another state. Once again I dip out...
2 May 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
My first Kevin and Lynn encounter of this trip is something of a Shanghai attack, unexpectedly encountering them down in the continental breakfast area of our West Virginia hotel. I’ve met them before, of course, and they are roughly th...
25 Apr 2025 8 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Day One curious logo for place allegedly promoting happiness A strange though perhaps apt logo choice, for a place allegedly promoting happiness About a month before the unplanned Florida trip, I found myself taking a much happier, antici...
17 Apr 2025 14 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
As someone who was at their first and last shows, not to mention countless in between, I had a bird’s eye view of their all too brief flight path. During that time, Early Empire went from being a good group to one I was going around proclaiming as t...
10 Apr 2025 4 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
This scene from my brand new novel, Well-Behaved Monsters, finds our main characters Dylan, Joe, and Sid gathered at their favorite watering hole, Triads Lounge, for a state of the union type chat. Dylan and Joe both have serious girlfriends a...
3 Apr 2025 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about my forthcoming book, Well-Behaved Monsters, so this seems like a good time to do so. To clue in newsletter newcomers, but also to remind you existing loyal readers that it’s set for official re...
1 Apr 2025 19 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Though a local live music institution at this point, it’s kind of funny to look back and recall that Cafe Bourbon Street took considerable arm twisting before owner David Brown agreed to host a single show. Considering it was the guys from Sup...
20 Mar 2025 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
We get up on Wednesday and are still in this holding pattern, waiting on Mom's ashes and the death certificate paperwork to be processed. Erin and I of course took Dad's truck last night when driving back to the hotel. She badly wants...
