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My Locker

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at 09:49 ET Jed

The other day I told you about some of the stuff Mike sent me in advance of the new Dave Barnes album coming out on April 1. What I didn’t tell you about was the poster. You see, it came in this big padded manila envelope, but all I found in it at first was the CD and some stickers. I’m like, “That’s a lot of envelope for a CD…”

Then I noticed the poster. There was this little Dave Barnes poster in there. I didn’t really know what to do with it, because I don’t really celebrate celebrity in a normal way. I don’t think Dave (or any singer, actor, etc.) should be idolized or imitated or fawned after. He’s just a good singer and guitar player and I really like his CDs.

So last night I was sitting around with my roommate Matt. We were talking about the stickers and the blog, and somehow I thought of the poster. Trying to be funny, I said something like, “I’ll take it to school and put it in my locker.” Well, in about two seconds I realized that I actually do have a locker, kind of. (A locker at work, not at school.) Where most people have a set of four drawers to file things in, that space in my cube was empty when I was hired for this role. I looked around and found this storage cabinet instead — it’s very handy since I have almost zero files. Sooooo I brought the poster to work today and put it in my locker. I never did put anything like this up in my locker in high school, who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks!

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