https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djkoXh4axAo&list=UUJYqB9IxpJsQl9mFmJd28JQ

I was working on a parody of Mark Ronson “Uptown Funk” the song that was on SNL; I was going to call it “Upzone Funk” about Palo Alto’s recent land-use debates and their impact on our recent elections.

Meanwhile I noticed an anesthesiologist from Oklahoma City who choreographs, leads and films a long-running and popular (180,000 subscribers) series of short films about dance, set to music of the top 40 or funky jams of the day. Her name, research indicates is Lauren Lee Fitzgerald, M.D. but on certain social media pages she is also Lauren Fitz of Co Motion.

I am tempted to try to reach her by phone and do an excloo for Plastic Alto.

She reminds me of Rupa Marya who is an oncologist and leads April Fishes, the rock band that sings in French, Spanish, English and Hindi and also performs acts of kindness in varying degrees on three continents and a dozen countries.

Both Rupa and Lauren Fitz are candidates in my world (Plastic Alto, which does occassionally interface with more established time-space-continuum) for Surgeon General. And I did briefly correspond with fellow Dartmouthian C. Everett Koop, who like Fitzgerald was known do get his funk on!

(I was briefly working on a parody of Taylor Swift “Shake it Off” — I mean to perform the lyrics and prose poems, not to sing or act them out.)

In my world, I switch out Michelle Pheifer for Elizabeth Wong, the landlordess. (Which begs, “Royals”, no?)

If you don’t believe me, just watch.