I don’t have time to actually write either of these but I was seized by two ideas while wandering Foothill College today: one, Janis Stevenson had a notion that Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” was influenced by Woody Guthrie, and two something about Jo Ed the dj “Lubbock or Leave It” who played today: Adam Carroll, Fred Eaglesmith, The Damn Quails (not to be confused with the former Vice President, he said), Dan Reeder, friend of John Prine who makes his own axes, JC Brooks, a Wilco cover, which is what drew me in like a syren.

outro: Sharon Jones “This Land” — which should be our national anthem: molehill in title because it is small not big and maybe it should split into two like an Amoeba: