Eugene M. Babb spent a life in gigs, and then wrote about it. His book Grit and Roses, published by Third Place Press (yes! Third Place books has a press! They print books on their Espresso Book Machine, Ginger), covers his thirty years of life as a working musician.

We have two expcerpts from this short, sharply told book on our sponsors page. How wonderful to have a local author, published by a local press, as a sponsor this week. We loved the work, and thin, you will too.

And thanks to Babb and Third Place Press, we're able to bring you the content we do every day. Sponsors like them help us in our campaign to make internet advertising 100 percent less terrible. All we ask is that you take a read.