edit to add, or ask: now why would the robot brain ai in WordPress suggest these three “Plastic Alto” titles or posts as follow up to this little ditty: a) “Happy Travels Patience Young” about a woman who retired recently from Cantor Museum and I met her and Jeannette Smith Laws at Windhoever and I tried not too hard to book either a Motown cover band or Big Bang Beat or Keta Bill solo for her going away party, and she’s a friend of Aleta Hayes, months ago i.e. during my campaign for council when I was like that Jim Carey movie and would say “yes” to everything, for karmic and kismetic purposes; b) Pass the Crisco which is about Stew my former client creator of “Passing Strange” but in this case I think I am previewing his newest cd, “Making it” I think it was called, about 2 years ago, a document that I lent to Beth Custer and it then disappeared into the aether, the title is an inside joke, a line cut from the workshop version of “Strange” and having something to do with stereotypes about men and anatomy, more than food; c) Remi Benson Serving Our Country is about a young woman I met in Birmingham, AL while on tour with Henry Butler in 2003 or so, and she has been in the military this whole time. At one time I thought Beth’s song “Home” should be re-title “Saving Remi Benson” and would become an anti-war anthem.

Dohatsuten might be the best restaurant in Palo Alto, dollar for dollar, noodle by noodle.