Baldwin, Baldwin, Baldwin

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Maybe the ‘60s ended about the time it was no longer possible to be the only student in the dorm with the first album by Van Morrison and ‘Them;’ to be the only freak in your small town; to have been one of the 400,000 at Woodstock. Even by that time, everyone had been to at least one Woodstock, everyone owned a pair of hiking boots (albeit not Austrian-made), and almost everyone had climbed Everest

Again, not sure where I am or how I got here.

Return of the naked guy

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Something about Hunter S Thompson transcript

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Did I miss last call? By about 8 years?

I have no idea what I’m doing here, or whether this is real or a weird dream. Don James? Tyrone Willingham? Do you mean Bill Graham the rocker or Bill Graham the holy roller?

Chris Strausser came to my bar mitzvah 43 years ago and is now a line coach for the county I mean the Colts; he was in Washington the state for many years with coach Peterson or Pedersen — the one from Boise. Did Willingham really go 0 for 12? Was he still on the Stanford payroll at the time? I presume Hunter is HST, especially since you mention Aspen. I wil have to go to Chapter 3 next. Transcript! I have Smokey and The Bandit paused at minute 19 – hey, nineteen, that’s six plus seven or who’s counting? I will have to go back and find the NyT story about Petraeus. I also like the one about the guy who says make your bed. Then don’t lie about it. Peace out. Truscott. Will have to remember that. Thank you for your service!

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This guy is semi-naked

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Petra Haden tribute to Morricone VS Stew apropos of Lincoln Memorial

The news feed mentions that the composer Ennio Morricone died and naturally I go to look for famous covers of “Fistful of Dollars” and I land on Petra Haden, from “Petra Goes To The Movies”.
Which sends me back, second post in a row, to Mark Stewart pka Stew. I don’t know if Stew digs the Haden sisters but it is totally true that I gave a copy of The Negro Problem tape — yes, a tape – to Tanya Haden because she had told me she wanted to learn accordion. There was a performer named Jill Meschke on accordion on the early TNP. (Por ejemplo, “Birdcage”).
I also think that Tanya told me that she was part black and part Jewish. Maybe she said that she went to high school with Jack Black and intended to have his baby. Mazel tov.

But the Stew song, a very obscure piece, is interesting to me today not just because I remember that the title of the obscure cd “Something deeper than these changes” comes from James Baldwin “The Fire Next Time” but that the song deals with a monument or something with a sword.

Stew’s a prophet, yo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w9GLORrRL8

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Something deeper than these changes, that frightened me (James Baldwin, 1962, Mark Stewart, 2005)

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cue the Stew aka the booya BASS:

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Godspeed you black empress

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Peter Lorre and I only overlapped for 55 days but I feel him deeply

He was a brilliant actor I was watching an old silent German subtitled movie starts with the letter M like the word “matter“ Or Mater which means mother Or martinet.  Or mark. Twang.
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Don’t believe the hype, fake media

g there might be interlude with references to public enemy about the media and an Outro as a tribute to Robert north earn brother ah;

part 2:

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Rube Marquad VS Brown sugar banana

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d Not sure where I am going with this other than it seemed like a good excuse to eat an ice cream cone  The newspaper says that on this date hundred years ago or more the New York picture on … Continue reading

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BAMR mural Sacramento auspice for Palo Alto BLACK LIVES MATTER

Demetris Washington artist known as BAMR has a mural in Sacramento from 2018 with the diamond image or icon featured in the “B” of his mural here.
I also like his version of Edgar Al Poe raven and tell tale heart.
Flows like Poe, yo.
“Po” is Hebrew for “here”.
I know.

 

Shiraaz and Porat were signing their work, which I thought was like a “taxi” meaning transit or process or motion. Shaped like a “t”, what’s the tea, sis, to a “T”.

I posed in a Richard Sherman jersey, photo by Shiraaz. 

When I was at Dartmouth in the 1980s in a religion intro course the teacher said that Zoro astroism is like imaginging the world as controlled by a good and an evil set of gods playing ping pong.

 

and 1: the mayor Adrian Fine was hanging BLM style this am and I reiterated that he could have been more emphatic to say I LOVE YOU and BLACK LIVES MATTER but don’t think he should resign as I stated previously. I flippered flappered. Maybe if he runs again I will vote for him. He is trying to learn and listen. Between this — the murals –  and the new Monk album coming out — an historic 1968 performance — he is at least a good luck charm. He should keep self-driving cars off the mural forevers. 

 

andand: auspice, augury, I wan’t to trip on it further. In some places it is good luck if a bird shits on you. In other places, you are insane like coltrane. 

edit to add, a few long hours later:

DON’T BULLSHIT A BULLSHITTER by Joey Piziali 2009, commission for Weiss 2009 — was rejected as an ad in the local papers:

 

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PROTECT THE MURAL

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Stuart Robertson Stanford MFA, Davidson B.A.

I think the BLACK LIVES MATTER mural in front of City Hall 250 Hamilton is a high water mark for culture here in the last 25 or 30 years. Kudos to the makers, staff, volunteers and leaders. In that order.
I read it like a codex: not sure what it means, it will reveal itself over time, to me, to you, to each his her or their own.

Briena

I say, as 1 in 10,000 voters here, we keep the cars off it for a few more weeks. And the tenants of 267 Hamilton can park elsewhere for a while.

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