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Mools* of woosta Full with gold watches Mools of woosta Full with gold watches Epigrammatists marching Through the blue land of milled cotton Cry me back mother I’ll pay the black piper Cry me back mother I’ll pay the black piper And tip the bearded lady Dreaming of my sweet cake shortening My sweet dumb crumbly cake In Woosta in the wake Of the parade. - Jack Vaughan A mool is a grave. This poem is loosely about an encounter with a gravedigger. Or graverobber, hard to say. First appeared Sunday, November 17, 2002 on Jack Vaughan's Radio Weblog.

I have had three dreams of heaven in my life. One was about 1957 inside the Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin; it was night; there were shepherds and clouds. Two was around 1975 not so much heaven but the afterlife. I was getting a personal check okay'd at Calumet Market , a small old-style food supermarket in Brigham Circle; Max, who pased the judgment on checks, was Jehovah. IT was very crisp to me. Max was fair, but it was not easy to get him to ok a check. And third was Yankee Stadium, about 1973, when I lived in New York. As Yankee Stadium has had its last game and is scheduled to be demolished - might as well share. It was a simple dream as these always are. I was in center field in Yankee Stadium, either talking with Babe Ruth or looking at his plaque. It was otherworldly. Neverland. I have seen this place. Why did this happen? All I can think is this: When I was a boy we were driving at night - part of a long trip. There was this hospital all lit on a palisade. My ...

Ok. They took it to the 7th game, then the odds, and the Bays, got to them. The manager could have made some diffferent moves - the hitters could have made some more hits. Close but no cigar. Just for the record. Tampa wins ALC series 4-3.

Boston's Red Sox are against the wall again. I tend not to devote energy to teams' down 3-1, as history has shown that is an absurd position to place oneself in in a 7 game series. Yet .. at this time, I recall last year, and three years ago. So I will post link to last year's writeup on this topic. The Sox won the fifth game, and did not lose again for the rest of the championship post season. What will be will be. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Boston beats Cleveland to stay alive; Canadian Soldiers at bay Cleveland, Oct 19, 2007 – When the Boston players began Thursday night’s game with the Clevelands, their backs were to the wall. Trailing three games to one in the American League Championship series, the Hubsters needed a win just to stay alive as the teams met at Jacobs Field. When it was over, the Crimson Hose succeeded in holding off the Clevelands, benefiting from a five-hit effort by ace Josh ‘Waiting for Godot’ Beckett, outscoring the Erie Lake fellows 7-1. .......... Read the Rest...

Was watching a DVD of Cecelia's. Pow Wow Trail Episode 1: The Drum . Was impressed by some words by Eddie Benton Benai, of the Ojibwa nation. More or less he said: Computer storage is going to obviate the need for [human] memory somewhere in the future. But you cannot program the Creation Song. The computer cannot sing the song that will bring the voice of the drum alive. I think he strikes a chord here. One of many things that has changed during my time is respect or use for memory. At the same time, recordable media has flourished. Words can be codified, and filed away to be re-used. That's an old known fact. But given present traced path, when retrieved, will they have the voice of the drum?

Paul DeMark was in touch recently with much musical news. His group’s second CD came out, and he is at work in spare time writing about his experiences in music. And the group recently opened for Willie Nelson. The new Delta Nationals’ CD takes a big step beyond the first CD. It is still a compendium of American music but it is all original material this time and it is called “All over the Map” – my fave rave on the outing is Everlasting, co-written by none other than Paul and including Joyce Hough on vocals. Check out the Delta National’s web site . Is this the same guy that I encountered sitting cross-legged on the steps of Cambridge Castle on the East Side of Milwaukee in 1971? Really serious dude who could watch the world go by waiting for the lotus in the stream? Yes! He divulges: Eddie Floyd is an influence. Who’d a thunk?! Paul on the path of dharma is a wonder. This music business can cut-cha – but Paul has stayed on the case and has much to show with All Over the Map, bro....

I am in a dance forever with the news. I try to slow down or give it up. Conflagraton brings it to fever. The stock markets are unpredictable now and sectors are melting. And there I am at the news counter. Gotta have it. And here on page A22 are the Rosenberg boys - then and now - in one of those stories that plays on and on - this is a very sad picture, the folks are about to be executed - one wearing a Dodgers shirt and riding a rocking horse like mine; other reading the Daily News; healine: SPIES GET 1 MORE DAY - and Sam Roberts' story is called "Rosenbergs' Sons Sadly Accept That Father Was a Spy" - whew! Appartenly Martin Sobell on his way to a Better Place has let the world in on some factual details of long ago. It seem pretty clear for a long time that David Greenglass was doing what he could for the World Congress of Communism Cause, and was in cahoots with Julius Rosenberg - that Klaus Fuchs was working his butt off too - that the Ruskies were capabble of...