Play Quarter Notes, get US dollars, dinner, beer, and free puppet show

So, as a musician, it's pretty rare to play your instrument and get paid in US Dollars. It's even rarer to get paid in US Dollars and also get compensated for your efforts with a bottomless beer pitcher. It's exponentially rarer to get paid in US Dollars, rewarded with a bottomless beer pitcher, and, for all of those awesome quarter notes you played, get comped a dinner from a restaurant that doesn't suck. However it's really a once-in-a-career moment--even spanning several careers--when you play your instrument and are compensated in US dollars, rewarded with a bottomless beer pitcher, given a nourishing dinner for your wonderful use of quarter notes, and are given a FREE PUPPET SHOW for the duration of your performance in a public setting.


We are rich, we are lucky, we are residents of Eugene, who see stuff like this all the time--so much so, that it doesn't strike us as odd when it happens.

Note: I couldn't bring myself to ruin the beauty of this moment or to jeopardize the feeling of enchanted gratitude emanating from the musicians to the puppet operator by obnoxiously snapping a picture of high quality. For this reason, the details in the photo are blurry, so I have labeled them so you can see them clearly. I hope you enjoy this as much as the musicians most certainly did. It goes without saying that if we all had a little furry Kermit-esque muse to inspire us in our daily lives, the world would be a better place, for certain.