DEAL: $10 MYSTERY SHIRT + STICKERS

We need to move some swag to make room for some new trash… We'd rather give it away than reorganize it into a dumpster / fire / dumpster fire.

Here's how it works: $10 (plus shipping) gets you a blind-pick tee and a couple slaps (stickers). Include your size in the order notes. We pick the shirt. You trust us. The designs in rotation include the slick Jason (black on black — 'sleeper'), Demagogo, the M*A*S*H*, some 8-track shirts, and a few premium 3/4-sleeve pieces.

Half price on most of these. More than half on some. We're not going to tell you which ones.

HIT IT — Quantity is whatever quantity is. Don't sleep.

The Full Beard PA had plans. We weren't included. We spent the better part of the afternoon attempting to ‘influence' gear that had no business in the same room with a stage - and arrived, through gritted teeth, at what we're calling an unplugged set. Despite the balmy -40 (yes, minus. four-tee.) temperature, the room was full. Money changed hands. Almost no one left early.

The gear situation started well before we even got to the door. We arrived at the airport in Toronto EXTREMELY early to make sure the bag full of gear made it to Timmins with us. Tracked it to the gate. Got the notification it had been loaded onto the plane. Landed in Timmins…. No bag.

As it turns out, it was pulled from the plane to make room for a mountain of curling rocks belonging to a Manitoba team on the same flight. Curling rocks. A sport that requires ice and a broom — priority one. Maybe they paid for economy-plus.

Paolo regrettably lost it on the agent in Timmins. Security was involved (sort of - he just stood there, blinking at us silently) - This is now officially on Paolo's Air Canada profile as he was unable to check in for the flight back without issuing a formal promise, in person - signed in spirit, crossed heart and everything - that he would not be disruptive on board.

We got the bag eventually - just in time for the PA to deliver a giant sloppy middle finger to all in attendance.  It was a hell of a long way and a lot of effort and irritation for Chez Nous (the show was just a cover story)… Anyway, mission accomplished.

Our saving grace: Slippery Tim - who, right up to the flight home, was repeatedly asking "Do we really need me on this one?" - had his newly minted studio-in-a-backpack running (way smoother than the PA). A solid chunk of the night was captured in gloriously detailed audio and video, catching every gaffe, missed cue, sour note and blemish on our deer-in-headlights faces. For those who weren't there - and you know who you are - we'll be dripping recordings and video out imminently. More on that in the next update.

Morley Bonhomme - JV's kid - came up for the Kyuss Space Cadet cover and it was a hit. Tyler Burns filled in on drums for the second time, which means the benefits conversation is now overdue. Ken Harrison shot the whole thing, again. The Travelodge kept us off the street.

Cheers to all of them.