This one's for all that TRAFFIC....

I figure I should post some fresh material here, seeing as the three-dog media circus will likely be drawing more folks here, or already is. For those who haven't heard, or like the echoey sound of old news ricocheting through their cortex-as, I'm referring to the Laughing Squid New York Show which I will be participating in along with a horde of San Francisco's finest underground artists n' characters. ["Characters" would that cover the PORN CLOWNS??? I guess it's a start; a vague, rude n' amusing gesture.]

A tweeker's dozen or so of these friend's n' neighbors of mine are already sur la route from the City by the Bay to the Apple that is Big. You can follow their adventures on a daily basis--pictures and journal. Check it out.

Hey Bush: Remember not to Forget Iraq

Like you did Afghanistan. I'm sure it gets a bit heady when you're trying to figure out all that money (which friends to favor and what not); but don't leave them out of the budget like you did the last people that we bombed into freedom. Yeah, like you care.

There's something called the Group On Mass Violence at Harvard, here is a stunning personal letter from a US Citizen to his president listed amongst a group of readings on their website. The person's name is Jonathan Ingbar, and I cannot find anything on the web to identify him as a person of any particular political, academic, or social prominence. But he's articulate and expresses well many of my own concerns about the conduct of the administration at this time.

Designing my own behavior

I want to train myself to use this blog as a scratchpad and to-do list. Start page, hotlist, PORTAL, whatever. I'm not there yet. And if I get closer then the question will be--is there privacy, or do I need to have privacy. The Internet has always had an impulse of voyeurism mixed in with its community (and an impressive tradition of both at once!). Not that this is so dramatic. But I need to have a long think on how to make this space a bit more a part of my daily life, and from that will come more usefullness for me and for "you" more postings and a more interesting view of my life. So this is the start, I suppose, a note to self.
[Now that was an obscure reference.]

For fans of Boondocks

a nice interview with Boondock's creator Aaron McGruder at the 2002 NAACP Image Awards, on BlackVoices.com where they also have a Boondocks Archives that is a couple months behind. That is good, because the UComics site only keeps a 2 week archive. And you sometimes need more than 14 strips at a time.

That was a great show!!

The benefit for Tim North was an incredible show. It was a great crowd, a
large crowd, and there was a lot to take in--
two stages, several large video screens, lots of things to buy, a raffle AND an auction.
There were some incredible performances (and others that I wish I'd seen, there was
so much going on). In the auction one small SRL piece for $800
bucks (and there were other big auction items). So I think that the benefit part did really well.
The SRL folks deserve high praise for all the work they did and
how well-run it was; they put the whole thing together in about a month!!

Tim looked good considering; he's lost a lot of weight, but he was chipper, and walking around some, while also
spending time in a rather majestic recliner that had been provided for him. And Tim even
got on stage and played drums at the very end of the show, with an all star Jam band
featuring former members of Saqqara Dogs and Rhythm & Noise. That was the highlight. The Extra Action Marching Band was a close second with a SCORCHINGly great set.

There's an awesome t-shirt, with a picture of Tim on it, and there
is an INCREDIBLE SRL nudie calendar. No sign of it being for
sale on their site yet, but I'll let you know if I find out where you can buy
it (or browse it). It is hilarious and very well done.

Tuesday, please don't miss

The Tim North Benefit

Tuesday, March 25

7 p.m. to 2 a.m. at SOMARTS Gallery

934 Brannan, San Francisco

door $10 - $10,000 sliding scale

Tim North is the man behind the Hoverdrum, one of the Ten
Percussion Wonders Of The World; he has also performed with Crash
Worship, Sauce of the Future, Comfort Control, and, the Indiana
new wave wonders, Dow Jones and the Industrials.

There are a lot of benefit shows, for many good causes, but for me
this is the most worthy I've ever known. Tim is a great guy with
a lovely family, and he is a talented and original musician. He
has cancer which incredibly unfair because he should have many
great years ahead of him. He recently moved to Southern
California after being a stalwart member of the San Francisco art,
music, machine, industrial scene for years and years. Because he
was focusing on music there, he was not working a corporate gig,
and thus does not have insurance. He needs all the help we can
give him, and he is 100% worth it. Please come out for this!!!

I give TT some credit on this one

Ted Turner says that he volunteered to cover Iraq for CNN.