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I think of music I heard this year ..and its like film...bird and strings...desmond drops in..also the king of slow soul.. praying, I take it, at wedding..but who knows..at least it is church. Percy Sledge...is set to wait, like old Milwaukee poet Bob Watt, for the answer...buncho'stuff here..if you want to click ..ten for me ..ones I listened as motorin over Chestnut Hill and past its Universalist church [scene of T.Roosevelt's first wedding] to my computer cell unit. Elliot. Fogerty. Auerbach. The musical notesters in my blue hebin. Skipped list in 08 but here's link to 2007 etc.

Let's start the cavalcade of year in review...remember this piece about cityCityCITY? ...Last year saw release of the beat manuscript legend known as “And the Hippos Were Boiled in their Tanks,” a book about Lucien Carr’s killing of David Kammerer composed by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs in their early writing days [circa 1945]. But that is not what I came here to talk about - Boston sports writer George Kimball does a real good job on the 'hippo' book in the Nov 8 [2008] issue of the Boston Phoenix in a piece entitled Back Beat ; I will take another tact. I am here to write about a short story by Kerouac called “cityCityCITY” . This is a Kerouac story stylistically unlike any of his others. In a beat buff blindfold test, I’d bet most people would guess that William Burroughs wrote it. Yes, stylistically it is closely related to the Missourian’s work... Read the rest of the story...