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From the vaults A trip up a hill in 2006

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Five o’clock exact – Dave and Jim show up – all of us ever pressing time – they, eating fiddlefaddle and calling out for wine. We hug, up from Union Square, natty drakish doorman in red and pontoons – there is a Dump Bush Demonstration in the Square -- pretty much like old days but for four or five helicopters hovering overhead. It is night of State of the Union. “Up for the demonstration?!” say I. “No, dinner!” is the answer. And we are off. Sent on our way in the Francis Drake Derby.  To read the rest of the story ... 

Sensible Bob

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I call this Sensible Bob because my friend Gordon Thomas said: What's with this guy being so sensible all of a sudden?" It is a wonder - wonderful we have it as he tells more about how he views art and business than in any one place. Bob Dylan's MusiCares person of the year acceptance speech begins: I'm glad for my songs to be honored like this. But you know, they didn't get here by themselves. It's been a long road and it's taken a lot of doing. These songs of mine, they're like mystery stories, the kind that Shakespeare saw when he was growing up. I think you could trace what I do back that far. They were on the fringes then, and I think they're on the fringes now. And they sound like they've been on the hard ground.  Full transcript Bob Dylan's MusicCares Person of Year Speech 2015 - LA Times And here's a neat addenda with Bill Flanagan - I was sure he was getting big laughs with the "Why Me Lord" stuff and this co...

Nova Cash Scapula

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His brother Roy cowrote I still miss someone. In the school morque there was the Herald with news of Burroughs and Mexico. These things came together, were hung on a ribbon. THus it took form Remembrant of scapula we’d buy in 2nd grade to get to heaven and I gave this to Jeff DeMark a year ago to honor his art and his heart.

They called the storm Juno

Langston Huges recalled

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