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Summer job in the day included hod carrying. In this alley here I got a scar, that I still have, when some steel rods clenched on my forearm. Among my colleagues were prisoners on day work release. Nice fellows that got caught in more serious binds. Didier Mfg. at Right. Racine Phillips St near Taylor? Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers - Sadie - I saw him one blizzardy night in Madison Wis. I met a guy one time, and this was his dream. Stompin at the Washington Square. No panhandling.

Another one of those 50th anniversaries ... something to think about ... Oct 21 is the 50th anniversary of Great Jack Kerouac's Death. When I first heard the news, I was in a TV commons space in a dorm at Marquette University in Milwaukee. I recall the big news of the moment was around the Chicago 8. Then Walter Cronkite announced the author of On the Road had died. Caused me to pick up Selected Letters and turn to a page on the process of Spontaneous Prose. Whew ! Here is a pretty good take on Jack Kerouac's Spontaneous Method from the Bard Himself. March 19, 1957, Jack Kerouac complaining about to editor working on an excerpt of The Subterraneans for the Evergreen Review. He, Don Allen, had been cutting up the run-ons into shorter sentences. Ultimately, “October in the Railroad Earth” was swapped in instead. March 19, 1957. “Don, I cant possibly go on as a responsible prose artist and also as a believer in the impulses of my own heart and in the beauty of pure spontane...

My old pal Rob Halle was always taking pictures. I didnt think about it at the time. But he really captured the time. Which was Wisconsin - mostly Madison - in the 1970s.

I found these to be utterly remarkable. At 97, John B Goodenough has just won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. What a lovable prof! And very telling: He easily cut to the heart on an issue we have continually pondered. The use of technology. Says Googenought: "Our inventions are morally neutral - it depends on how people use them." 🚨Bonus #podcast alert🚨Just ahead of the main show, we’ve got a quick Podcast Extra where @JacquesHughes speaks to John B. Goodenough who was awarded a #NobelPrize in Chemistry today. (Listen out for his infectious laugh). Find it here https://t.co/PZCcLbLn5v pic.twitter.com/5gXPOfbyRr — Nature Pod & Video (@NaturePodcast) October 9, 2019

Kicking thru an old post on a Journalism site - Thoughts: Good journalists develop common sense rules of thumb to gauge a source's motivation, veracity, and so on. They establish these over time, with the help of more experienced editors (some would call them 'mentors'). I learned this most vividly thru a book, The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens. In it he described the method he took on when he went (at behest of Mr. Filenes) to muckrack Boston. He'd seek out the folks on one side (say the police and the politicians) and then the other (say the criminals and the merchants). And look for fissures in those groups, and the differing motivations that drove what they did and what they said about it and each other. Vividness resonated because, at the time I was reading this tome, I got access to Boston City Hall Records only (probably) because a councilor vouched for me. And he did it because he thought he might get something useful on the mayor. Not that he'd ev...