I do not know who Anohni is nor whether he is a he or she is a she or they is they. But it caught my eye that the mother was a photographer and the father was an engineer who took the family to Silicon Valley, according to Page 14 of today’s Sunday Times. My Jenn Pelly.

This is one of six pages I tore or clipped from today’s paper, which my neighbor left, on vacation. Oftentimes, I go by Mac’s on Emerson and buy three papers.

I never read them. Too busy. I usually just flip thru and then drag the tear sheets home. So I read headlines mostly or only. Then my wife, Terry Acebo Davis throws them away. Then I get angry, and sometimes kick a small object across the room or swear.

It’s weird that my wife has a printing press and makes monotypes but does not buy my argument that there is something unique about newsprint, or different than finding the same articles online. (But yes even a Luddite like me is being seduced by the net; I like the links.

On the other hand I like the way a sheet of newsprint sometimes has interesting juxtapositions, especially if the art of one side of a thin sheet bleeds into the art of the verso.

(On a separate but related topics, when I buy a book my wife claims I have to discard one. Like there is an equilibrium of books in our home, and one displaces another. It is true that I buy a book and read one page and feel I got my $20 worth, or that I am banking $100 worth of knowledge by that construct for another day

(Maybe this follows from spending $50,000 on a liberal arts degree and saying you are a lifelong learner….)

The six clips are: Anohni, mainly because it mentions Silicon Valley and I am tracking the cultural history of this area independent of the tech sector — and I can research who or what this act is on Pollstar — who is the agent? who is the label? is this a $5,000 act, a $50,000 act or what?

Something about Boots Riley and “I’m A Virgo” — not sure how or when I can see this show. I am slow on the uptake of “television” these days if its not in my normal package.

Something about The Cure Live shows by Lindsay Zoladz — I am not that into the Cure other than Allette Brooks covered them as did Davey Havok of AFI. But it lists nine tracks I might as well test myself. (CF: Jim Compilongo set list from recent show at Lytton Plaza with Ben Davis, who is from UK as is the Cure. Although his wife is Nigerian: the Times had something I missed about Rwanda or Hotel Rwanda or the man who was in prison there; and Ghana, a photo essay about.

The World at My Back and I go italics not quotes for book titles someone taught me. By Thomas Melle, a German. Review by Rob Doyle. But only. because he claims he had sex with Madonna and it reminds me of a song by Dan Bern (who is appearing here in my Earthwise music series on October 8 and will debut new songs about baseball (The Reds new slugger; the Yankees German perfecto) and cars (re Santa Fe and my Cochiti plus Camero Chevy) and tennis or class and Stegner (“As Cool As Them”). The topic of Melle book and the review “Moments of Clarity: a writer recounts his ordeals with bipolar disorder in a memoir” is mental health. I have come out so to speak several times about my own experience with depression and bipolar. (Or bipolar II which I claim means some people only when they take pharmaceuticals might end up manic not depressed).

Terry was watching a doc about Rock Hudson and a man said he didn’t want hi smother his mother to know that he was gay and then Armistad Maupin said “he should tell his mother he was fucking Rock Hudson” which made me think I am not sure about those guys: was Rock a top or a bottom? Or why should I care?

I was thinking that they should re-make “McMillan and Wife” as “McMillan and Bob” about a hunky SF police commissioner who looks like Rock Hudson and his special friend Bob.

The current version of the NyTimes newsfeed which is usually a day or two ahead of the paper version has something about a 91 yo mandolin player who died. I am always trying to improve my ear and my crate-digging. I hope “crate-digging” does not sound homoerotic juxtaposed to questions of whether Rock Hudson stuck his 9-inch shlong into dudes or liked to take it.

Also, I will admit I am the guy who tore down about 10 of the 50 green flyers taped to poles in downtown Palo Alto — and that is not phallic either, right? — mainly because I want people to notice the two or three extant posters especially near Lytton Plaza about: Jim Campilongo, Adam Levy, Lydia Lunch, Chuck Prophet. The poll by “Friends of Palo Alto” seems Orwellian as fuck. I told them that. Then I wrote City Council to ask that the company that made the survey should be charged $10m to use our problems to attract users to their site. Not that the creators of the poll are equity holders in the software although they may be. I am sick of We the People taking it up the ass from corporate America and big tech with out the metaphorical reach-around.

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edits:

1. by Jenn Pelly not my Jenn Pelly;
2. four clippings or tear sheets not six. Its actually: boot Riley, tear sheet gate fold meaning consecutive pages 8, 9; tear sheet re Anohni; clippings for Cure and Clarity — wait, its a half a tear sheet since book section is half tab — see there is more to it than what you see on the internet. 
3. close parens graph four although I omitted a parens as a new graph still in parens or something 
4. topics plural versus topic singular (cf: verses, versus and verso);
5. the use of “package” in graph IX apropos of Boots Riley tv show of course presages the thing about Rock Hudson and his 9-inch dick. Someone actually said that. I think they had tapes on this unless it is a deep fake audio. See also: Big Unit. Randy Johnson. 
6. In graph X it misidentifies Jim Campilong0 — auto correct fucked me in the ass. 
7. I don’t think I typed a period in the next graph I think the computer added that for me or to me. 
8. the Reds’ new slugger is Elly De la Guerra and the Yankees’ is German something. Both Dominicans I am pretty sure. The guy from the Reds is the youngest since Cesar Cedeno in 1970 to hit for the cycle, whereas German is the fourth Yankee to throw a perfect game, which is only the 24th all time for anybody and in the three previous times New York has won the series.
9. hi smother his mother is a Jungian conceit that you need a good enough mother not a great mother nor one that will smother you. Not sure if me or the computer came up with that one but I stet it. There was a man named I think Sherwood who taught a lit course for UC Extension circa 1990 who was a Jungian. William Sherwood maybe? 
10. if my reference to the man who wrote the gay chronicles of SF is incorrect here is where I would correct it.
11. when I say “yo” I mean “year old”, yo. 
12. the company that made the formatting for the weird pro-commerce anti-government propaganda, flyers on poles leading to online data mining, is called Pullback or Pullout — something gay-sounding in this context. Its sort of like SurveyMonkey I would think.
13. without versus without (apropos of the neologism or trope “corporate reach-around” — my main thing is we should have raised $100m in taxes not $9m. And we should go after Palo Alto Neworks of Santa Clara — founder of such built the Monster House abutting my tiny abode. 
14. pollster does not have much info about Anohni beyond a couple UK and EU shows, and that United Talent of Beverly Hills is the booking agent, same in UK. The link to her or his url uses “events” not “tour” and adds the helpful detail “anohni and the Johnsons” which to me means a dude who wants to be a girl and takes it up the ^%#. 
15. Which reminds me that the ten-thousandth objection to Palo Alto Post (!) is that their summary of recent Supreme Court thing probably mis-states the case or puts their misanthropic spin: I think the website designer is now free to hate openly gay potential clients not that he or she was ever forced to service them. “hate openly” seems a weird phrasing here but I kind of like it. 
16. shout out to Elizabeth Weiss of San Jose State no relation. Nanette of the Chron had it kind of bass-ackwards in that in graph 20 or so she says that Professor Weiss will be paid for one year to not teach. That sounds like a win, not a loss. Weiss posted a picture of herself and a skull and the cutline “great to see old friends again” or something; she was the target of a cancel campaign by Native American activists or something. Sometimes when I write something ballsy like this I feel I will get backlash. Like, should I eliminate “d&*^”, “a*&” and *&(**. My letter to council about “Friends of Palo Alto” used growlix for my actual wording. 
17. 17 this took me about an hour and 20 revisions and I changed the headline from “quick post” sans cap down style to capital Q and “Quickie” which has the sexual image. OK, Dr. Kinsey or Rodgers Elliot types, what does Freddie Mercury mean when he says “fat bottom girls you make the rockin’ world go round”? which reminds me somehow that I have a confirmed show with Flamin’ Groovies and Sonny Smith but I am not to actually  come out of the closet of such until Sonny and them hit the GAMH with WITCH.