When: Monday, Mar 24th 7:30PM ET

Where: https://youtube.com/live/CzHYnX1tXhI?feature=share ^{external link}

Who gets 10%: https://www.fbd.org ^{external link} FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE shipments of vital food aid to the Food Bank of Delaware scheduled to be delivered between April – July 2025 have been cancelled = Almost 900,000 less meals to distribute to our community's most vulnerable - like seniors.

I don’t usually go out of my area, but fan friend Jenny Brown alerted me to this crisis in Delaware where she lives, so

http://paypal.me/vancevancevance ^{external link} or https://venmo.com/vancevancevance ^{external link} or VanceFunder P.O. Box 17, Arlington, MA 02476

UPCOMING SHOW:

4/5 ROCKPORT, MA / OLD SLOOP PRESENTS https://oldslooppresents.org/performance/vance-gilbert-2025 ^{external link} the amazing slinger writer singer Joe Wilkins opens

"Old Sloop" got its name from playful playing of the dozens out between Black Sailors in Rockport with one ending “Awwww, you ain’t nothing but an Old Sloop”, which was mid 19th century Ebonics for “you dance like a one-legged, twice-caught crawfish”. Look it up. I might be lying, but it’d be racist not to believe me, so take a chance...

*PRIVATE COACHING AVAILABLE - Contact me (vance@vancegilbert.com) for songwriting, performance, and voice coaching.

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**CUSTOM SONGS - Expensive, but sure, you want one about you or your family or something.**

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MY DOCTOR

I love my Doctor. He’s at a teaching hospital practice. So yes, precepting (which the online dictionary says is *not* a word hmmmm) interns often do the major part of my yearly exam, and I don’t know her name but she was a kind, young, Chinese pre-doctor from New Jersey.

I know these things because in an effort to be just relaxed (me) and professional (her) at that one upcoming part of the exam ok the prostate check we were conversational, sure, but at the point where she was snapping on the glove and lubing I asked “What part of the medical field do you eventually want to concentrate on?” in my most sincerely interested and yet casual business-as-usual ethno/age/gender neutral voice and she headed on in and I think up and she replied quite matter-of-factly: “Well right now ophthalmology looks the most interesting to me” and hell yes I wanted to shout at her “WELL NEE HAAO LITTLE SISTER I DON’T THINK THIS IS YOUR MOST DIRECT ROUTE TO EXAMINE THE BACK OF ANY NIGROE’S RETINAS FOR FRIGGIN GLAUCOMA AND AT THIS MOMENT I’D SINCERELY TRULY HOPE THAT YOUR PRIMARY STUDY INTEREST MIGHT BE THE WELFARE OF MY MID-ANAL SQUIGGLE TRIGGER…

What came out was “How interesting! Good luck with that endeavor.”

You never really truly appreciate the “N” in “endeavor” until you’ve had to grunt it in a sentence.