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Word is that Ali Farka Toure died. Blues has its aspects of tradition and experimentation. For me one of the great experimentalists of blues was Toure. It is said he heard Detroit’s John Lee Hooker records coming east to Africa. And was like many smitten. Clearly, parts of the Mali griot musics that went to North America’s American South and then up to the U.S.’s northern industrialist cities had come back to Africa and gained a new set of drones and timbres and keys and fretboard runs. Yes it was conscious, but to hear Hooker in Toure, blues in Afrique, was astounding trance. And what is wrong with conscious trance? Messages like Beethoven’s across the time of foam. Bonde, ASKA, Diraby... What is wrong my love? It is you I love. Do not be angry, do not cry. Do not be sad because of love. http://www.counterpunch.org/harris03132006.html Corey Harris on Ali, CounterPunch http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0611,eyre,72469,22.html Ali Farka Toure 1939-2006, Village Voice http://www.amaz...

For peter bochner I awoke one morning And I was Chuck Knobaluch knobby lost the ability to throw the ball to first base I’d move from third to shortstop To second My arm suspect Some bat Good onbase Percentage Not a detriment In the field And i could handle the pepper And was glad for the spot and yes theyd found a spot for me second until i couldnt catch a fish in a barrel or drop a wad in a urinal or hit a giant enos side of the barn slaughter I knew it would come To something like this But not This I thought I'd be a bug kafkaeque but I am a knoblauch knobby and yet the grounders the fungo wont stop.

CNET/News.com A strain of bacteria that releases electrons as a waste product could become the secret ingredient for developing fuel cells for small robots. The idea is that colonies of Shewanella will attach themselves to anodes, and produce electrons, say researchers at Rice University and the University of Southern California. http://news.com.com/Bacteria+could+power+tiny+robots/2100-1008_3-6050161.html

The Ides of March? As the U.S. enters year three of "The Iraqi Police Action?" The Pogues? The Pogues. 1991. They were going to America and opening for Dylan on his tour and singer and lyricist Shane MacGowan was drunk and on hallucinogens and was disallowed to fly on the plane. So they did the tour without him. They went their separate ways. But have started doing small reunion tours. And now come to America. To Atlanta, Washington, New York, and we caught them in Boston. They started with Rivers of Whiskey. Then they did If I should Fall from the Grace of God. Quite and assortment from the many years. Some I do believe from Shane’s solo career..some more from the Pogues career without Shane. He always had for me a bit of the look of Charles Laughton. And trouble about to happen. Throughout the concert wrestling with the mike stand. He at first stumbles about as if just awakened, and we are watching. But when the time comes at the end of a verse he will do his trade...

On St Patrick's Day historically we run an Irish poet. Today, beware, it is rough old Shane MacGowan and his tale of going to the race track. Erin go Braugh. Pogue Mahon. Thanks and praises Thanks to Jesus I bet on the Bottle of Smoke I went to hell And to the races To bet on the Bottle of Smoke The day being clear The sky being bright He came up on the left Like a streak of light Like a drunken fuckOna Saturday night Up came the Bottle of Smoke Twenty fuckingfive to one Me gambling days are done I bet on a horse called the Bottle of Smoke And my horse won More...with Wav fragment And from the past ... St Patrick's Day 2005 http://radio.weblogs.com/0115044/2005/03/17.html When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When allyou have is a heap of debt - A pint of plain is your only man. - Flann O'Brien [seen in foto above at Flann OBrien's Pub in Mission Hill, Boston, Mass. St Patrick's Day 2004 http://radio.weblogs.com/0115044/2004/03/17....

Families pass music on. Transmission of culture needs a place. That is the message as NPR provides a ride in a van through brokedown New Orleans with Dr. John . "This is my heart and its broke," says Dr. John, "The city is broken in a million ways." It is like he is looking for the ghost. The landmarks are all obscured. You cant tell where Mr Google Eyes ["I'm a hen laying rooster and my feathers dont match"] or Cousin Joe ["You'll Never Get Nothing Without Trying"] was. The Ninth Ward. "This was such a vibrant chunk of different ends of New Orleans music." "If you look at what's left. It's all over. It's like dat," he says, passing a house lying on top of another house." He is crying. Looking at Fats Domino's house. Looking at Dukie Chase's restaurant. Noting the line from Ray Charles' Early in the Morning. "Went to Dukie Chase to get something to eat .. the waitress looks at me and s...

When they find out how to burn water, And the gasoline car is gone. When an airplane flies without any fuel, And the satellite heats our home. One of these days when the air clears up, And the sun comes shinin' thru. We'll all be drinkin' that free Bubble-Up, And eatin' that Rainbow Stew. -Merle Haggard, circa 1982

Porky falls asleep always. In the audience, interesting gags for the nation. A pie to Bugs. Porky chalks town. Nailing posters advertising his wanting face, while realizing that part means insanity. Sylvester to the life hotel where, ghostly, refusing to say who, he volunteers to pie the Uncle. “Magic All Allegiance,” Porky Pig - murderous mice to heckle. The error of plastering and magic – spending, vows revenge. Later, at lots, magician sees from end after pledge, and Sylvester realizes this pranks. [This derived with auto and manual intervention from synopsi of Looney Tunes. See below. Auto cut-up courtesy of The Grazullis Cut-up Machine technology. http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/burroughs/cutup_machine.htm ] Porky falls asleep after refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Uncle Sam comes to him in his dreams and explains to him what the pledge means, and how it honors those who gave their life for the nation. Porky sees the error of his ways. Porky Pig doesn't realiz...