My patient peeps - it's time for the long-awaited recap of Wednesday night's big show with Kay Hanley at TT's. Here goes, and keep in mind I slept until 1pm yesterday, so I'm still a little logey:

- Your Scamperrific heroes arrived at the venue around 5pm for soundcheck, as we were instructed to do. Unfortunately, the only person in the building was the janitor. He was, in a word, ornery. He was nice enough to let us load in, but it was clear from his demeanor that he didn't much cotton to us youngsters "opening doors" and "using the bathroom." Us meddling kids.

- After soundcheck, we played a little pool in the back room (and no, that wasn't a veiled reference to homosexual bumpy bumpy, you immature perverts). It was Nate and Keith vs. me and Sarah from Grand Evolution. Now, if you don't know this, Keith is one of those incredibly irritating people that's good at everything. Naturally, he (with zero help from Nate, by the way) was absolutely wiping the green felt with us. Sarah hit two balls in, whereas I was working on a very sexy oh-fer. Then, as Keith was finishing us off, he scratched on the eight ball, giving Sarah and me (Team Scamperlution) the completely undeserved, but still very sweet victory over over our opponents (Team Wicked Jerks).

- It was time for the show to begin. As Grand Evolution rocked the house on stage, we performed our usual vocal warm-ups in the green room. For reasons that I still don't quite understand, part of our warm-ups involved me spanking Kay Hanley's drummer Pete over and over again. I sort of wish I were making that one up.

- When we finally got on, we had an absolute blast. The crowd was terrific - the room was packed full of you creeps. I was having some trouble with the A string on my bass slipping down on the bridge, but no one seemed to notice my struggling. It was one of those shows that was so much fun that when we got off stage, we were like "That's it? It's over?" Our half hour set flew by for us in what seemed like a minute. And you all were terrific and warm and loud, like you always are. As much fun as everything else is, looking out from the stage at your smiling faces, seeing you dance and sing the words, hearing you cheer is the greatest part of being in Scamper. I wish I could bottle you up and take you home with me and drink you until I slur my words and black out and make embarrassing phone calls to ex-girlfriends and then pass out in some fourth grader's bed like Robert Downey Jr. That's how great you make me feel.

- Then, it was time for the main event - Mike changing his shirt in the green room. Hoo delolly. After we all recovered from that, I headed over to the merch table to chill out and watch Kay Hanley. She was predictably terrific. There's a reason she is who she is - she left everyone in the place satisfied, but also wanting more. Meanwhile, I sat at the merch table for the next hour with a lovely merch girl on my lap. Sometimes, it's really good to be a rock star.