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Peace, health and oy

Installation by Terry Acebo Davis, private collection

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Six days later, I am way cooler than Superchunk

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Sam Gendel 1964 Impala VS Mateo Romero, 1969 SS

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Wah hoo wah to Cleveland baseball franchise for changing its racist name and mascot

In a related matter, I paid $40 at Bell’s Books for a Better little book about Big Chief Wahoo “based on the famous comic strip”.

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Double ‘chai’ Fay Victor and Bandcamp

I paid 18$ to Fay Victor via bandcamp, on the prompting of Dave Douglas’ Greenleaf Music blast. It is the 18th project I have supported in this very convenient manner. I think it is three clicks, maybe four. Meanwhile, I … Continue reading

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Lance Hahn, 1967-2007

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Calder Spanier gone too soon twenty three years this week

Scott Amendola reminded me that December 4 was the twenty third anniversary of the sudden and tragic passing of his friend and bandmate Calder Spanier. I only met Calder once or twice. He played in the Charlie Hunter Quintet I … Continue reading

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Kudos to Cam for new release ‘Otherside’ on Thirty Tigers

Cam aka Cameron Ochs of Lafayette, CA (East Bay, Contra Costa County, but also in her case UC Davis and time at Stanford labs) has a new cd out, “Otherside”. Expectations are high; her song “Burning House” from 2015 has … Continue reading

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Tracy Chapman, ‘Baby Can I Hold You’, 1988 and 2020 VS Pop Smoke posthumous New Yorker review, August, 2020

I found a copy of The New Yorker in a free library two blocks from my house and tore out pp 78-79 to read or reread about Pop Smoke. I own a Pop Smoke t-shirt. I bought it on the … Continue reading

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Warhol soup VS Thiebaud pie

After Scott Shields in Wall Street Journal Emily Borrow

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