Category Archives: ethniceities

when i say ethniceities i mean “jewish”

I woke up in a big yellow taxi, counting crows and pondering dense housing

I woke up in a SoHo doorway, a police man knew my name. Twenty years in the Tin Pan, Lord there’s got to be another way. That’s a pretty close to direct quote of a famous song by a famous … Continue reading

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I’ve got your 3

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Dan Hicks, ‘I Scare Myself’ w. Terry Allen, ‘Shaking Man’

Dan Hicks wrote and recorded a song “I Scare Myself”. Terry Allen, a visual artist and musician, has a statue at Yerba Buena Gardens in SF, depicting a man whose hands shake so much that in this dimension it looks … Continue reading

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Cloud gates between 2009 and 2018 and 2009

Hello, Dao. I am still in Chicago and leave for airport at 6 a.m. for 8:30 a.m. flight. I am meeting my former high school basketball coach directly from airport to help him plan his 400th victory party (representing his … Continue reading

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I’ll trade you two Mike Mills and five Bob Lawtons for one Jimmy Carter ‘Crisis of Confidence’

No, thanks Yo la tengo

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Joseph Zirker at Palo Alto Art Center, the former Council Chamber

Amanda Salisbury, a recent hire in the front office of Palo Alto Art Center, Embarcadero at Newell, did not see the Joseph Zirker show in the small conference room a few years ago, but showed me to Zirker’s work, part … Continue reading

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Big day coming (ramen mix)

edit to add Barry eisler John Rain novelist eats here  https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1V0gxdQ-Ep8 add: weirdly I did run into Barry Eisler the spy novelist whose books have a hapa spy named John Rain and often take place in Japan, like Ian Fleming … Continue reading

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Kudos, Earning’ Chip Fleischer, my freshman dormmate, 25 years of small press publishing: or, getting to ‘forth’

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If it’s 7 o’clock that must be Panda Sandoval throwing out a runner from first base foul territory, but if it’s 10:30 that’s Calexico sitting in with Yo La Tengo at The Fillmore, got it?

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Blue roses benefit with mother hips Jackie Greene and live reading of Tennessee Williams ‘glass menagerie’ to benefit the Stella Brooks

Degree from Dartmouth finally pays off

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