Sharpshooting Aidan Braccia of SHP –I’m sure it was a splash
edit to add, two weeks later: Gunn finished among 30 of 130 teams in CCS with 17 or more wins; top quarter; Paly finished with 18 wins. I saw Riordan twice, Sacred Heart twice, Cupertino twice, Paly five times, Gunn six times. Also: San Ramon twice. I saw half of CCS championships of both boys and girls – i.e. I came at half of one and left at half of the other, in Santa Cruz for the Dessa concert. I’m done for the season unless San Ramon or Paly has an interesting NorCal game. I think I saw parts of 20 prep games total. MaxPreps has Gunn #28, Paly #23. Gunn beat Paly in a thriller (“Hot Rog Lincoln”) but one of the moms pointed out that her son was hobbled by Achilles Heel and that another stalwart was out due to Covid. I think I met three Gunn hoops family members and three more from Paly.
I went to the CCS championships in Santa Cruz because I arrived early for my concert and asked a tall man my age, wearing a Colorado College sweatshirt if he was going to the games; it turned out he was Patrick Jones, father of Haley Jones the Stanford star and Mitty alumna. His wife Monique joined him and they said they’d see me Saturday at the Stanford game (one of 10 I caught, plus one mens).
“‘Dirt it tough’ at Dartmouth: jah and shakespeare in the reagan irie”
Actually Peter OutLoud had a great story this week about the history of the tenderloin but he could’ve name checked “the hard crowd” by Rachel Kushner whose parents were introduced by Dartmouth beat poet alden van buskirk, her essay about being a bartender at the blue lamp…
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On Feb 9, 2022, at 9:26 AM, mark weiss <earwopa@yahoo.com> wrote:
Coinkydinky I licensed a photo from this guy to use in my blog I think I paid him 150 bucks:
Actually I was indirectly discussing this with Julian Shore the part about Henry Butler and Mulgrew Miller in France
Coinkydinky is a coined phrase one of the few coined phrases that literally uses the word “coin”
I was meaning to write this morning a post about the word “Negro” and the word (N-word) and the fact that between 1984 and 2018 they discovered 150 years of prior uses, that the word dates from 1550 not 1700 I’m referring to Webster’s ninth versus Webster’s 11th of course of course I took with noel Perrin or Peter Saccio At Dartmouth in the 80s — I took James Shapiro but it was Marley not Othello; Strike that it was Marlowe not Marley—DAM bully fool
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On Feb 9, 2022, at 9:01 AM, Matt Merewitz <matt@fullyaltered.com> wrote:
Photographer John Rogers’ Book Debut Showcases Images of Acclaimed Improvisers Including Ornette Coleman, Paul Motian and Dr. Yusef Lateef Along with Pandemic-Era NYC Street Photography in Old and New Dreams
Old and New Dreams, is a striking document of veteran NYC music and street photographer John Rogers’ evolving vitality. In his first published collection of photography, Rogers draws from his fifteen-year, pre-pandemic live concert image catalog featuring master improvisers such as Ornette Coleman, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Paul Motian, Dr.Yusef Lateef, and Bill Frisell juxtaposed with the starkness of present-day New York City behind its pandemic mask.
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Am I the only person to bring to your attention that a white supremacist or Nazi was allowed to speak to City Council last night under a fake name and used the opportunity to call out “n-word/plural” and say “F**** R****** E*********”?
1st time I met Will Bernard was on Telegraph in Berkeley. He was sitting in with Alphabet Soup, whose cd I had. I approached him to get their contact info and he said that no one in that set was actually in the band, they were all subs.
2nd time I met Will, his quartet opened for Medeski Martin and Wood at The Cubberley Community Center, July, 1996, which is 25 years ago, nearly 26.
45th or 46th time I met Will Bernard, he and Beth Custer played my music series at Lytton Plaza. We had Thai food after the show.
Today I get word that Will Bernard has released a new album, his 11th*. It’s called Pond Time. I listenened to two sampler tracks, “Lake of Greater Remnants” and “Four Is More” although I may not have gotten the full effect because I am in a cafe and they have their own music going. Actually, I heard three minutes of “Four is More” about three hours ago then a guy came to my table and wanted to talk to me — or us, me and Duffy, a dog on my lap — about the word or concept of “superfan”. So I just now heard the last minute or two of “Four is More” and then the 2nd song in entirety. Plus the background noise, or more background noise I should say.
This set has a horn section or a reeds player — I will skip my anecdote about he or them. Also, Will will be out west — he goes between Brooklyn and Berkeley — later this year with Jenny Scheinman. He also did something with TJ Kirk, a secret reunion in Berkeley recently. Not sure if I knew much about Monk before “TJ Kirk” — certainly I had never heard of Rashaan Roland Kirk.
This cd is on Dreck to Disk. Which dear reader can assume is a better label than Lions With Wings. Let’s all give a rouse or a roar for Mr. Bernard.
*All Music dot com lists 174 credits but some of those are redundant.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
