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The local musicians have already taken over my house. I was not aware that they’d formed a government, though.
As for @Kate’s question about musicians and geography: The gripes can sometimes be legitimate. There has never been a w00tstock more than a few hundred miles from an ocean or inland sea. Never one in Denver, even though it’s a major metropolis. (There was once a shorter show that included Paul, Storm, Phil Plait, and Adam, but not Wil — we affectionately called it a half-w00t — in Boulder. Alas, as fate would have it, they did not check other local events and scheduled it directly against MileHiCon, Denver’s largest fan-run science fiction convention. They got a pretty good turnout, but would have packed the theater to the rafters if they’d picked a different weekend.) JoCo skipped the Rockies when he opened for TMBG and will do so again on his Artificial Heart tour. So, I or anyone else from my region (I live in Laramie, in southeastern Wyoming) would have to travel more than a thousand miles to see a w00tstock or to see JoCo. Can’t tune into a stream, even a paid one, because (at least up to this point) the shows have not been streamed. Unless, by sheer luck, I happen to be on one of my rare trips out of town, and in the right city on just the right night (the only w00tstock I’ve attended was in Dallas, where I just happened to have a speaking gig that day), they have wonderful shows and all I get is a lousy, fuzzy, muffled, incomplete YouTube video. (Snif!) And so do millions of fans and potential fans who would show up, pay for tickets, and buy merch if they could.