The local real estate rag in their celebrity digest mentions a crack up by Drew Carey and the fact purported that he social media-engaged with an “offensive song” by one of my heroes Robbie Fulks. That prompted me to finally upload from dumbass phone to public internet (here I am at Foothill College, at their admissions office — I study this quarter, “The Literature of Poverty and Inequality, with Dr. Jordana Finnegan” — my photo of Robbie Fulks shot at a semi-private event he did at Ladera Country Club in Portola Valley — I have it dated July 29, 2011.

Robbie did me a solid by letting my client Dao Strom open for him at a radio show in Springfield, Illinois that was back in 2009, last time I was on the road at all.

He also, and I don’t mean to brag, signed by cd something like “To Mark Weiss a fuckin’ awesome manager” not sure if he was being sarcastic or just liked Dao. He was traveling at the time with a very pregnant string player by name of Jenny Scheinman who years earlier gave two stellar clinics here, at Castilleja and and at Ohlone Elementary. Jenny attended Palo Alto schools for exactly year — I recall her sister being in my class that year at Gunn. A couple times, fucking awesome manager that I am, I hinted to Jenny that I could rock her world in that department but she held out until now she shares manager with David Bowie.

The local rag — which sounds like the title of something I was taught to dance to, back at Mount Mousilake — says Carey is fond of a little dittie called “Fuck This Town” (although they wrote it up as “F___ this Town).

Earlier in Plastic Alto I had merely cut and pasted something Robbie wrote in his Own Damn Blog, about REM, and called it a “guest submission” but I owned up to that state of affairs to RF in July and he didn’t seem to mind.

My title here also references the fact I was psyched to steal a flyer from a kiosk on Cali Ave for a ((folkyeah)0 show upcoming. The promoter is a based in Big Sur but is making waves up and down the coast; this was for a show in Oakland at New Parish that, according to Rich Corny features the same sitar player that sat in with him at my Earthwise 15th Anniversary show at Bottom of the Hill — boy, a lot of 2009 news here.

Also, and now I am way of course, I ran into a guy from my 1974 Los Altos Hllls Little League team the Dodgers, Charlie Crakeler, who recalled me as being new in town that year from Saratoga. We had not spoken in 37 years. We met at Peets.

don’t get me wrong, i love los altos hills, palo alto portola valley, saratoga; robbie’s rant is on Nashville:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmq1xOh6YRk

edit to add, later that night: I put this or tried to on Robbie’s own blog, but it goes better here: later that day I requested RF – cued by their playing a Pine Valley Cosmonauts death penalty track — to KFJC Sally Goodin and she responded about a half hour later — as I waited in my car and had to reinsert into my NEW Chevy Cruze keys — with Robbie Fulks song about she likes all kinds of music except country.  Robbie has a more thorough account of his Drew Carey lovechild therein. Also: this led to Jenny Scheinman pregnant and new cd out on her own label with Nels Cline, Jim Black and Todd Sickafoos. Sick!

Bill Friskics-Warren covered the matter at the time for No Depression.

edit to add, March 16: I left a voice mail for Robbie Fulks hoping to do some original research but so far no response.