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Jello Biafra
[unsent letter, 1980, apparently transcribed and annotated in the 90’s ] Since that last phone call was a killer costwise, I’ll be sure simply to write this time. Especially since this friend of mine...
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Charlie Parker
I just saw this picture of Charlie Parker on Facebook: Charlie Parker’s funeral. He’s in the box. I see Leonard Feather there, a pall bearer. Charlie Mingus watches from the church door. That was the...
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The King Family
Turned on the television thinking there was a hockey game. Nope. It’s the King Family Christmas Special. Severe flashback time. Blondes everywhere, blondes with big hairdos and perfect children....
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Merging Buses Ahead
The sexiest of all signs is Merging Buses Ahead. There was such a sign, too, on the Hollywood Freeway. I noticed the sign one night a zillion years ago when my bass player, stoned out of his mind, was...
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Flashback
Kim Kardashian you’d expect but nude photos of Vladimir Putin on the web? Wrestling a Siberian alligator no less? For real? Does it matter? I miss the Weekly World News. TMZ is so unimaginative, naked...
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My music career
Just listening to some ancient cassettes of an old band of mine, thirty years ago. I was in a lot of bands for a couple crazy decades there–no one you’d ever heard of–but this band was my favorite. It...
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