1. Laurel Nakadate ‘The Wolf Knife”, free in Believer;
2. Andrew Bogut, and Kent Lockhart: Kent told me he once coached Bogut, who worked out with Dandenong, Kent’s old team, in 1997 as a teenager and guard;
3. A Passover Haggadah, from the perspective of a spider;

http://www.amazon.com/Sammy-Spiders-First-Haggadah-Passover/dp/1580132308
4. One Direction, the boy band, on SNL, which used to have edgy, indie and outsider bands like Talking Heads doing Al Green;

ACT FAST TO BE THE NINETY TWO MILLIONTH PERSON (BEFORE ME) TO SEE THIS VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJO3ROT-A4E
5. Ai Weiwei–and my crude drawing of his “Fragments” 2005
6. An update of books I have bought or borrowed intending to read: Lethem’s essays, Wallace Shawn “Fever”, Arcadia Press “History of Candlestick Park”, 2012 Baseball Almanac, especially list of players born in Illinois — as I was;
7. Buckminster Fuller and or Beth Custer and or Rob Bell of Zomes;
8. Mark Bradford at SFMOMA; I recall sitting next to Mark Bradford the Stanford athlete — football and basketball — on a Southwest flight between LaLa and San Jo a few years back; I have a project of homophone celebrities, for instance Steve McQueen the dead actor and live filmmaker, Penelope Houston the punk singer and British film critic, Chip Hooper the tennis star and music agent and or photographer et cetera; sort of related to the fact that I am ranked no better than fourth about four music Mark Weiss’s I know;
9. “The Last Picture Waltz” (TLPW456) update and re-set; especially Tuck and Patti outreach;
10. Build The Empire live at Palo Alto City Hall (photo);
11. Rasputin Records, rises like a phoenix, in Mountain View; I wrote this entire 800 word, twelve-link blog in one hour and 10 minutes, paying $21 for the privilege, at a Kinkos/FedEx two doors down from Rasputin, while waiting for it to open, so I can fulfill my quest to buy the new Matthew Shipp cd;
12. Matthew Shipp record review;
13. Kabbalah klezmer from France update;
14. 101 things in my phone, which is like 100 books intending to read;
15. Dr. John review in New York Times by Jon Pareles including supergroup with James Andrews or Troy Andrews, Ricki Lee Jones, Rene Marie;
16. Debra K a waiter at Boxing restaurant in the former Citizen Cake site, at Grove and Gough, recommended by Mr. Derby (?) from SFMOMA gift show, which plays Galactic in-house on tape although Soundhound wouldn’t capture it, says that all the bands on tour go to Alex Andreas’ Boom Boom for Late Night jams, although I don’t think he took me up on my idea of gathering Fred Wesley and Josh Roseman;
17. Guest column by Eric Hanson brief review of Hermeto Pascoal;
18 Guest column by Eric Hanson, baseball poetry “tribelines”;
19. Guest column by Michael Young, my neighbor;
20. Santa Clara Valley has a “teen poet laureate”;
21. It may neve get beyond this stage but I texted Glenn Hartman about a new band idea or name called Beignet and the Yats, a play on “Bennie and the Jets” described as “Elton John meets Dr John” — beignet if I spell it correctly is a type of doughnut from New Orleans while “Yat” I believe is a derogatory term for certain denizens of New Orleans that are outsiders and greet each other with the phrase “where y’at?” — although built into the name might be the fact that the rhythm section might have to be comprised of these types, if they actually exist; see also John Kennedy Toole; they lyrics could be adaptations of scenes from “A Confederacy of Dunces” and the melodies could be mixes of NOLA and Elton John — get back honky tonk;
22. Somebody told me that James Franco is getting a PhD in art history and his thesis is on James Franco;
23. Dohee Lee was in the Times yesterday; I saw her at DeYoung with Scott Amendola, Larry Ochs and Jean Jenrenaud;
24. I caught about 30 minutes of a doc called “Beautiful Losers” about Chery Dunn, Barry McGee, Harmony Korine and several others, skate crossover, et cetera, at SFMOMA;
25. Woody Guthrie liner notes proposed for Stella Brooks Folkways cd, circa 1940; “sounds tough and good”;
26. Mexican wrestling and picture of yours truly wearing a mask at Los Straitjackets at Mitchell Park, circa, 1998;
27. more gossip about Gidon Caine;
28. Morley Safer and “60 Minutes” covering the Basel Miami art show and being covered by New York Times;
29. Grateful Dead in Rolling Stone suggesting that the government in America should underwrite as a public service their tours;
30. Jeff Clements, Citizens United and Yiaway Yeh;
31. David Choe, Mark Zuckerberg and my $20 worth; I walked in on Choe the night he was finshing his job for Facebook, on Emerson above Jing Jing and bought a calendar from Choe for $20; I like to think that without that coin in pocket he might not have deferred his payment to the now famous $200 million;
32. Linsanity recap, Woody and Spike, Hubie, Magic;

and lastly but not leastly, #33, the sixties era modern poet John Wieners who I heard about while promoting Alden Van Buskirk.

Edit to add, on April 20, 2012 4-20: I talked to John Paye about #2 above, and yes, he remembers Kent Lockhart. (See also my pingback “The Lockhart Loo (proposed)” about renaming part of Seale Park in Palo Alto for the former Gunn High, UTEP player, or about putting a plaque there about The Three L’s — Lockhart, Lin and Loscutoff, three former Palo Alto prep stars with NBA ties — Lockhart was drafted by Hubie Brown to play for the Knicks in 1985).  John Paye and I spoke about the fact that Gunn-Menlo was the first game at the new Menlo Gym which opened in 1980. John, as a freshman, probably guarded Kent as a junior in that tilt, won my Gunn I wouldn’t have to look up. Meanwhile, and perhaps snarkily, I reminded Paye that the Frosh-Soph game preceded the Varsity game, so technically I and not he played in the very first competition there, and further, that I started the game — a rarity for me — because Brian DiBiaso, son of Stanford Coach Dick DiBiaso, and eventually a D-1 player for Oregon — was benched for a disciplinary reason, and that I covered Beau Brown, my eventual Dartmouth classmate and more known as a football player. Menlo probably beat us — they had Tony Fenwick as well, on frosh-soph and as varsity dudes a few years later Paye of course won state and even as a junior I think they ran off 20 or so wins, to our 22 or so the year before, as I recall. But John Paye recalled Lockhart, DiBiaso, coach Hans Delannoy and was polite enough to say he remembered me; when John was in 7th grade and I was in 8th grade, at Stanford Basketball Camp, I asked him to play 1-on-1, to 20 by 2s, losers, during lunch break one day; he won 20-16 but looking back he was probably being polite and just guarded me enough to make me push myself. He also recalled, when I brought it up, that the Times Tribune, where I was a stringer in 1982, named him Athlete of the Year as a junior, bypassing Paly’s Jim Harbaugh. “I think this still bothers Jim,” John added. Paye mentioned there is an event coming up in December at Menlo, regarding Menlo-Salesian and the Warriors owner, who is a Menlo parent. Paye of course is ex-Stanford star in football and basketball, ex-49ers quarterback for a minute, a local coach and owns a gym in San Carlos, Paye’s Place. He said I could pop by and reintroduce myself but I doubt I would have the guts to come in shorts and sneaks and ask for a rematch.

This is weird, but this photo of John Paye has him in the exact same outfit I have today, light blue Carolina dress shirt, khaki’s and although we are about the same height and were born within 13 months of each other, no one would ever mistake me for him:

John Paye, Menlo Girls Coach, circa 2008

Regarding #4 above, One Direction, in the time of two weeks that it took me to get 40 views of this blog post, 15 million more people have seen their video, up to 106,000,000, but not me. I should add the tag “one direction” if that helps me.