Monthly Archives: March 2019

I’m in love with my czar: Queen biopic recut as Peking lame duck

taking tiger mountain by force

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Marika Anthony-Shaw of Arcade Fire spoke at Pollstar about her activism

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Talking Cree in the crease

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Who owns Renty?

edita: Steal this book: b/w Robert Johnson i’m not the one to talk me w

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‘Bemsha Swing’ by 86 different artists including Charlie Hunter, TJ Kirk and MMW– but I learned it from my then-client Jack Walrath, at the Octopus Lounge in Pacifica, on October 5, 2004

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41bvnmYBz1M   And I once wrote about it to a Penn grad student Bethany Klein, who apparently had different ideas of what is “our song”. The song of course is by Thelonius Monk and Denzil Best. It’s a pigeon of … Continue reading

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A short memoir about Louise Erdrich (occassioned by The New York Times Book Review section, interview with author and memoirist Laurie Halse Anderson)

BLUF: Six minutes into the Glenn Close Jon Pryce thingy about a fake Philip Roth and I sort of want to switch to the Fred Rogers doc while I make a pork stir fry for my wifey; the jumping (not … Continue reading

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Quincey Tyler Bernstine, Elizabeth Holmes, Natasha Lyonne

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Primed to be the 8,501st finisher at next month’s sf half

edit to add, the next day: So I did sign up, via my smartphone, for a 12 mile race next month, inspired by a fellow student in Lynn Stegner’s writing class, who chronicles her development as an endurance athlete. I … Continue reading

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Piscotty gives A’s early lead

you can tell it “ sayonara” or “All right now” For the slugger it’s 10 years from Amador Valley hi to the Tokyo Dome plaudits But in the end the Mariners out slug the local Eastbay guys 9 to 7. … Continue reading

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14 piano players with whom I’vry worked

  Taylor been paid since his days of underoos — which is actually a Biggie Smalls line; which I copped from Spider-Man Spider Verse; and sample Herb Alpert. andand: I just got off the phone, eight minutes, with the advertising … Continue reading

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