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 Happy New Year! Never hurts to look back - or does it? I don't think I reviewed Moon Traveller Herald 2019 - at least not in general. But here is a look of some of the posts during some of the months of a year when Corona Virus hit the world, and slowed much to a halt. January In January got a  call one day to go to City Hall  for a meeting on a neighborhood project. I am opposed to greater density in the city. That doesnt come out to clearly in my speech here. Ill prepared when fame came. A little more clarity in an interview I did with the Boston Globe on the topic of zoning. Recalled days with Sunnyland Slim , and the time he opened with the art school shites called the Talking Heads, er, Hands. It was late for a year in review, but in January also ran a review of Space in 2019 . Unfortunately, there wasn't much follow up on topic in 2020. Well, not cohesive coverage. Just little blips on the radar screen of my mind here and there. Poetry sort of appeared on the site ...

A journey once placed me with the folks on "the other side of the tracks." Very kind, warm people and innovative. I courteously tried to be helpful with chores and the like, and mind my manners as a guest. But that was not always easy. Someone there subscribed to the National Enquirer or it might have been The Star. The headline story that week was the discovery of a WWII bomber on the moon. All I'd ever seen in my house growing up was Time magazine. I'd only seen the Enquirer at stores, and bus stations. The imp in me arose and I asked: "Do you believe this stuff?" and the answer, a little meek, was: "Well ... it could be true." Travel is a teacher if you are a learner. This should have prepared me then and there for life in America in the future. This election has been the biggest example, but there are others, of the fact that "it could be true" is good enough for a lot of people. Not the majority, except in some states, but a lot of p...

  Short song of Sunnyland: Cotchball In that time / there was a thing / called cotch balls / cotch is just a three-card game / And I was very bad / I could steal with the back of my hand / palm a dollar / I was a hustler.  

  Like his 1960s compatriot Marshall McLuhan, who wrote of a dramatic "electric circuitry that has overthrown the regime of ‘time’ and ‘space’ and pours upon instantly and continuously the concerns of all other men,” Sanders similarly sees a global import in the glyph-like character of the new age circuit.  &^*+ The signals become the lyricist's medium, as Bradley Plunket and Lester Kushner would demonstrate in the cicuit they built and wired to a foot clutch to make the Wah-Wah Pedal, emblazoned on'60s consciousness by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, the Fugs and others. With the Wah-Wah for Sanders, card carrying member of the East Side Gilbert Erector Set society of  sharing, creativity, love and buzz , the connection between the Wah-Wah, Hendrix, and was palpable. And was described in a 2011 sit-down with Interview Magazine. @#&% "No country that invented the wah-wah pedal can be totally evil. The Fugs’ equipment manager, a guy named Danny Green, showed an ear...

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  Digging Our Way Through the Data Midden: On Ed Sanders’s Investigative Poetry and Broken Glory: The Final Years of Robert F. Kennedy by Ammiel Alcalay - @BOMBmagazine https://t.co/GuZ47vmoew — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) December 28, 2020

  Short song of Sunnyland: Spann Spann was bad /  I'm gonna tell you  Spann put out a sound /  he didn’t have nothing to do after he got with Muddy /  if there’s whiskey there / that's the reason he died / Whiskey

  Short song of Sunnyland: Ramblin Then / he started to ramblin / Mean stepmother / caused him to drift from home / A marriage and a murder / Caused ALOT of things to drift.

  Short song of Sunnyland: Denton We had a lotta cane / rattlesnakes, bears, panthers / come up to you alot / we chewed the sorghum that grew on stalks / Cleaned up the land at six bits a day.

  The whole video is quite historic and excellent from beginning to end if you are into roots, ethnic music or just into music. Ry Cooder's number around the 8 minute point is a fave of mine. I also liked his description of encountering it.  Which follows. [I have a little NLP trascriber known as Otter that is like magic for stuff like this...] Ry Cooder on Joe Williams’ Sloppy Drunk . I bought the record in 1960 I think it came out. I was a young boy. And I used to go down to this little record store in a house these two ladies had. And they had it in an old bungalow house downtown Los Angeles, that I had to take two buses to get to. Regular bus and and electric bus. And they let you play the records on a little Webcor schoolhouse record player. I put the needle over there, took it out of the sleeve and you know and put the LP down the record itself and then put the needle on and Sloppy Drunk JUMPED OFF! Never heard anything before so crazy and violent. I was only about 1...

Came across an interesting movie of yore last night.  “Primary” was a 60s documentary about the 1960 Wisconsin Democratic Presidential primary. I’d see it long ago. It is a notable example of cinema verité style of the 1960s – directed by Robert Drew, his cohorts on the Time-Life tab on this included Ricky Leacock and D.A. Pennebraker, the guys who did “Don’t Look Back” with Dylan. I plays a little differently after the election we just endured. The town and the country divide coming up sonorous.  The time encapsulation is in celluloid, dancing images in black and white and fluid. Two lane black highways of west Wisconsin in March when the ground gives up expectant breathful vespers of moisture. Humphrey the happy warrior from nearby Minnesota selling his bromides to farmers reluctant to show how they feel. Exclusively and expensively charming for the south Milwaukee Poles shoulder to shoulder in the parish hall. I like him because he’s a catholic says a catholic. I wouldn’t ...

 On the New Land O Lakes box It’s the same old story. They get rid of the Indian and keep the land.

THIS APPEARED IN NOV 2016 - Why did Hilary lose? There is a bias against intelligent woman, she didn't motivate the black vote, Nafta & rich gutted middle America factories and a downtrodden white class woke up for 5 minutes, incumbent party loses White House after 8 years regularly, the debates ended too soon, the FBI got involved (in today's NYTimes, Hilary cites this), 20 years of gerrymandering weighs on outcomes – through this and before, when he vanquished a string of Republican contenders that to an exceptional degree resembled losers on the Apprentice, Trump was lucky. Does any of this sound familiar? When I was a lad what a kick in the face it was when Nixon took power. In 1968, in March, I'd gone door to door for McCarthy, all my friends had seen the Democratic Convention debacle, had no use for Johnson, or his appendage Humphrey. As the days to election day neared, as they got closer, as we descended like drowning swimmer into November '68, there w...

 

  The president has one last stand — the Jan. 6 vote in a joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes. Trump lost in Supreme Court yesterday. Today the so called proud boys are taking to steets of D.C. Cnn writes: Already at least one Republican lawmaker, Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, has said he’ll challenge the electoral vote that day. If just one U.S. senator joins him, the Electoral Count Act of 1877 will force every member of Congress to vote on whether to accept the results in the states where Republican baselessly decry voter fraud. Google tells me There are a total of 535 Members of Congress. 100 serve in the U.S. Senate and 435 serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. How long do members of Congress' terms last? Members of the House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are considered for reelection every even year. Yahoo tells me (and I adjust) Before the 2020 elections, Republicans held 53 Senate seats, Democrats held 45 seats, and independents caucusing...

  Find out who will be the 2020 TIME Person of the Year tonight at 10/9c on NBC #TIMEPOY Made possible by @ProcterGamble pic.twitter.com/mVPBz70vph — TIME (@TIME) December 10, 2020

Saw your post on John Lennon. Thought I'd tell you a true story. I had a girl friend from NYC and we were there on New Years Eve 1975. She was from a wealthy art family, and one of their college mates was having a party at the Dakota. The schoolmate lived next to John Lennon, and lo he and Yoko came to the party. My girl friend's father (Sidney, a sculptor) had met John when John was looking for a place to live. So Sidney and I were talking in the hall just when John and Yoko left to get in the Dakota elevator. They'd only recently had the kid.  Sidney amicably said: How's the kid? (a lesson to me - people, including famous ones, are happy to talk about their kids).  Says John: "Oh, well. but it's a lot of work.  "We havent hired a nanny yet. We cant get out at all! Even to buy a paper!"  To which I said "That's good!"  You see I was immediately hooked by this picture of the great man stuck with the kid.  He shot me a straight eyeball lo...

  Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission package located in Australia’s Outback https://t.co/aJnFNSfIcz — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) December 8, 2020

  This year has been pandemical. Not funny at all. Been in prison, in effect. If I were to do a year in review, it would be me in an easy-boy. May do it. Certainly in the mix would be Bob Uecker, broadcasting Brewers games (all desperate) with fake crowd sounds on the MLB app and swatting at night bugs on the back portal. Uek is 85 and has tremendous energy in description. Things go on four tracks: the count/immediate action, the overall game narrative, season-level background and advertisements for sausages. Nicky Lopez will start things off against Brent Sutter Then. It's Merrifield followed by Monaci.  Five one  Brewers all of the scoring via the home run balls by Daniel Vogelbach. Sutter deals and he missed or did he? Got enough. Strike on the outside corner. One two run shot in the opening inning and then another shot in the sixth with two on.  All five rbis for Vogelbach today.  One ball and one strike. 

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  Warning. If you don’t want to hear news don’t read further. Stay pure! Cab driver, once more round the block.  We cant have our joy.  The Baby Boy is on the rebound. Wringing his lil bitty hands. I sat in on President Trump’s update on his efforts to protect the integrity of the election. He won great victories despite historic interference from big media and big money [which is party has no access too, I guess] and big tech (nerds). As everyone now recognizes, Trump could never lose, and millions of people who don’t like him vote against him via illegal votes which we shouldn’t count and a lot of the people who voted against him are dead but he is not responsible. There’s lots of litigation but this process is almost as unfair as in any process where he does not win. Ultimately judges will decide this. He said Detroit and Philadelphia are terrible places “as everybody knows” and I don’t know why he forgot Milwaukee. He said “It’s not a question of who wins” but since n...