Elvin and Charlie and Bruce and Jack and Michael & Ashlyn and me

I just got word and or deduced that there is a new collaborative record featuring Charlie Musselwhite and Elvin Bishop. I tried to feature this concept in my Earthwise productions concert series last year and could not get them within nine days of each other and about 2 miles apart, Alvin December 20 at Mitchell Park Charlie December 29 at the Jewish center.
In 2004 Alvin Charley Henry Butler Cory Harris Debbie Coleman and I and a few others had something called front porch blues Tours that started in San Diego and finished in Maine, around Houston we went in circles literally about 50 times they had a theater in the round thing that was going to have a wreath or the next night or two; in 2004 Alvin Charlie Henry Butler Cory Harris Debbie Coleman and I and a few others had something called front porch blues tour that started in San Diego and finished in Maine, around Houston we went in circles literally about 50 times they had a theater in the round thing that was going to have a wreath or the next night or two which was tough on Henry being blind I had to lead him on and off the stage or maybe just on and somebody else let him off it was sort of a tagteam wrestling grand finale thing at times people like Robben duke Robillard came and went;

ashland Burke is a body worker and part time graphic designer who did Charlie on a hopper or is that a chopper? I remember he had a Vallejo motorcycle club hoodie back in 2004. Now it can be told somebody brought Alvin about an ounce of weed but Elvin left it back stage but then his road he called in the middle of the night asking me to give it to Charlie I am no square but that’s not how I roll. Worse than that the roadie guy wouldn’t just say what he wanted for me. He said euphemistically “salmon?” And I said “Valerie Troutt?“ Tastes good on a cracker.

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Avenge Hana Morita

Hana Morita Is a community member, artist and activist who is Heritage is Okinawa. She is part of a collective of 20 or so like minded people whose comment on Black Lives Matter were briefly displayed on the 200 block of University. Literally on the 200 block

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Mbappe VS M- Base

20 woodwind vs denied by the woodwork Lewandowski for red, but I’m blue

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Pop Smoke, tee shirt Vs MC Lars bandcamp

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Cam, burning house VS Duffy, orange ball

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Thank you for your service

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Big Sister


I voted for Hillary Clinton and not Donald Trump and I will definitely vote for Joe Biden with Kamala Harris and not Donald Trump and my wife was very very disappointed that we did not have a female president yet .

but there is some thing a little bit Orwellian about having our leaders talk to us in this format as compared to being a fly on the wall at an event.

I guess I like having music at these things. I hired Marcus Shelby once to play in City Hall Palo alto regarding the installation of a Mildred Howard piece at our Martin Luther king plaza at 250 Hamilton. And Aleta Hayes saying “Rolling and Tumbling” once at my campaign event she also sang “harvest Moon“ by Neil Young at another event.

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Meanwhile today was a banner day for me in that my fledgling content company or record label Lions With Wings  released its first song Nancy Wright with Bob Margolin and Mitch Woods doing Bobby Marchan and Big Jay McNeely’s  “there is some thing on your mind“ and you can already download the audio version at bandcamp. The video by Kid Andersen who also produced the session is on Kid’s YouTube account. Not to politicize or to assume any of the musicians have any particular political beliefs besides believing that music makes the world better, but I am connecting these two thoughts because of technology and the media. Big brother big sister big J, big ups to Nancy and crew.

 

 

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Malcolm X was born within six months of my father, and killed within six months of my birth



From “AKA Cassius Clay” (1970)

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I heard back from first-time Palo Alto City Council candidate Raven Malone and left her a voicemail suggesting that she develop a plank regarding Ventura or the Fry’s site. I pointed out that Ventura may have been the home of as many as 100 Black Palo Alto families over the years and is still our most diverse neighborhood. I suggest that a park of 7 acres or more on the 39 acre up-zoned former Fry’s extended region would help all current Palo Altans who live there. In the enthusiasm of Black Lives Matter which by the way took out the political career of Mayor Adrian Fine — I thought he might’ve resigned and not just refused to run again—and that that alone would get him admitted to the Kennedy School— we could raise the bet to 40 acres and a pool.

Good luck, Ms. Malone.

(If you excuse the typical plastic alto digression and while Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay are on pause and I am taping the Democrats for when my wife Terry Acebo Davis gets home from working a long day in the emergency room reminds me of picturing my ex-girlfriend I’ll call her D— getting hit on in the parking lot of the Philadelphia whole foods by none other than Moses Malone. And worse than that because I had given up on the possibility of D and I having a future, I imagined reaching Moses by phone and offering to fly him out here to speak to the incipient group that wanted to honor Danny McCallister.  Also a woman from the neighborhood and perhaps those 100 families, named Dina Philyaw or Radina  Philyaw is a candidate for the arts commission I hope she makes it. I think she’s a former Gunn high school softball star. Also, and sadly only because a dog was mauled at Johnson Park by a pitbull, I met the longtime city employee and gunn high graduate from the same neighborhood Jeanette Washington.

Tre: Apropos of Ms. Philyaw I was thinking about the 1976 movie “bingo long and the traveling all stars…” about a barnstorming black baseball team. It starred Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor but also former Cleveland Indians slugger Leon daddy wags Wagner who was 42 at the time.

 


 

Raven, ”V” for victory

 

Raven is having a kickoff event Saturday 2 p.m. here, on the internet. 
https://www.ravenmalone.com/kick-off

 

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Bucolic Labarinth by Paz DLC

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Ty Cobb of the Tigers, Chief Meyers of The Giants baseball pin suite

Between various feng shui burglaries in the general chaos of the universe it was a pleasant surprise to find my set of 12 vintage baseball player pins, sweet chaparral P2 equivalent to T206.

I pulled my 1975 baseball encyclopedia from the shelf meaning to flash some of these names out.
I thought of Myers yesterday because I also realize that the closer for the Baltimore orioles with four saves is a recent Dartmouth grad he was a classmate of Kyle Hendricks and teammate but it took him a while to get to the Biggs I guess due to some Tommy John surgery issues see also Mike Remlinger.

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