flickr commonist notes
Oh dear.
(I have even lost myself !)
Looking for order and clarity.?
But reality requires a poetic mix of ingredients in our lab-work, art-adventures, and in writing notes to cabbages.
This is fun, but perhaps not worth your lab time.
We will fade away very soon.
So, IT IS ALL  FUN  CODE, CABBAGE.
My funky translation is in the capital letters.
Cabbage wrote and I tried to clarify:
Fighting the urge to exclaim "was that code?" with a puzzled face (and assuming it wasn't), I think I must point out that although I manage quite well with high-horsed literary English, I really don't understand slang or dialect that well (especially not of the Northern American variety), so if any of the words listed below were of vital importance to understanding your last mail, please feel free to supply me with translations into, well, English that a foreigner with a basic understanding in English would understand. Again, no disrespect intended at all, but in between "at your whim" = WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT,  and "marijuana" I kind of lost you in translation (although I'm not sure why the pot popped up, I'm glad to assume you're not a fan - neither am I). And no, Google translate didn't improve things (although it did add some humurous twists, such as you being a "stabber" = HUGGER = ONE WHO HUGS PEOPLE, and rinsing laundry while 18 = SOAKING UP EXPERIENCES LIKE A SPONGE)...

"wonder stuff" - would that be imaginary ideas?
AMAZING-ENTERTAINING SHIT TALK,

"no hustle" =  DO NOT PROMOTE MYSELF FOR MONEY - would that imply that you don't engage in fraud, or that you don't like to move around? I MOVE A LOT, C.

"$non-starter"  = I HAVE NEVER REALLY MADE MONEY, AND CERTAINLY NOT A LIVING, FROM THE SALE OF MY PICTURES - I assume it has to do with money, and that money is not a great motivating force to you, would that be correct?

"unholy shit" = YOU ARE REALLY ON MY CASE CABBAGE, YOU ARE IN ATTACK MODE, TRASH-TALKING - is that good or bad? and would it be better or worse than "holy" shit? SAID WHILE GRINNING, WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK.

"army weekends" = I SPENT A YEAR STUDYING RUSSIAN IN THE ARMY IM MONTEREY CA, AND WENT TO S.F. = SAN FRANCISCO,  ON WEEKENDS TO GO WHERE THE 'BEATS' WERE, ETC- no idea
"S.F." =  SAN FRANCISCO - I'm stumped. Science Fiction? Swedish Film? Sinn Fein? Security Forces?
"A.G." = ALLEN GINSBERG,  WROTE "HOWL" I assume it's a person, but I can't for my life recall enough modern US history to figure out who it might be (or why he/she would howl, for that matter)

"soaking" = EXPERIENCING - I can only suspect that it has nothing to do with actually being placed in a waterbath"

Anyway, time for some tea and then pick up the kiddies = MOSES & ESTHER ARE BOTH 23 + MONET IS 39,THIS IS HER HUSBAND NICK, http://lofisymphony.com/, AND WE DESIGN MY WEBSITE TOGETHER. I STILL PICK THEM UP SOMETIMES!
Hope you're having a pleasant day.
Swede  = RUTABAGA / TURNIP (vegetable pun intended)

YOU WILL ALWAYS BE "CABBAGE" TO ME.
Os = HUGS,  Bill

Thank you D. for your Flickr Group propping +.
Fine Mother's Days Years for you.
Heard that Szarkowski thought long ago that I'd gone 'too literal'.

I must expand and short-circuit my 'literal' - rather than whatever a vice-versa might be:
the old me?  Garry   Lee  . . .
Some kinda 'literal' winds up everywhere - after all.

My head offers itself no choices - very strict - hunt and gather and edit my way:
see - struck - click - edit.  

There is room for  and there certainly are plenty of  different 'style' picture folks. 
There may be an excuse here for this indulgence --->  John Szarkowski
- - -
Append:

You are screwing up my story M.   

'Conceptual - mail art', hmmmnn,  an issue for J.S. - doesn't figure ... 'literal' fits perfect.

My first photo-pictures were informed by pop - process & environment art - finding existing subjects.

Rather than spending millions wrapping shit - digging big holes - buying $$$studio materials ... 

Defrocking the masterpiece ... then seeing Ruscha parking lots-gas stations - then Frank +  ...

What about that could have bothered J.S.?

I'd started mailing in '69  - met him in '71 and started mailing him the pictures from the '73 show +++

I will assume you gotta be right M.  but 'conceptual-mail art' never registered = 'literal' forever.

It's all stories . . . this one's fun fragmented.

Edith Thacher Dane  '13 - '02
Thank you.

Lucky Us.
Thank You Nancy !

! Do I know some Wonderful Mothers !

Flickr Fun !

"The Journey Of Man; A Genetic Odyssey"
Spencer Wells
Making sense.

Mario Martinez  "The Mind-Body Code" +

I heard him with Amy Goodman this AM

Science and research based theory   very provocative good

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar making sense.

"Jewish Voice for Peace" making sense.
Anti-semitic? I don't think so. 
We guided Esther and Moses thru 10 years of Jewish 'education' and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
In a Synagogue that supports Justice for both Palestine and Israel.

I hunt the streets for striking pieces of our human adventure.
Photographing to see if my finds will make poignant pictures.

Yes, I live here on the edge of realities - going on no matter:

Khalidi: It's Time for Palestinians `to get  off their knees' and Turn to Europe and the ICC.  

Rashid Khalidi is an American historian of the Middle East, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He is a former adviser to the PLO.

The untouchable and unjailable.

BART 5pm:
"Are you tired?"
"I'm good."
"Are you tired?"
"I'm fine."
"Are you tired?"
"OK."   She takes the seat.

me:
(he favorited my Flickr pictures late this easter eve)
You're f---in' on duty WK!
him:
I sleep such weird schedules. I'm supposed to be watching horror movies with the partner but just wanted to get some texty things done real fast and then jump off.him:
I was having such fun reading Etgar Keret short stories in the tub.
Hope you're having a great evening..morning..well, whatever time it is where you are now.
me:
lucky us - we're horrified by most all of it
+! whatever & whenever you decide ta do it - jesus rises WK.
him:
The eighties movies are a hoot. I had forgotten how many The Blob remakes there are. crazy religious maniac in tent...going town to town, transmitting his Apocalypse...forgot that one.
&
I forgot it's Easter most of the day. We didn't do anything, family wise or diet wise or anything. 
I do have a sparkly bunny on the door. So I think I'm safe from the sword.
me:
i'm speechless
lucky for you

Why not constant amazement.
So many people we know constantly do such special stuff.
See what's happened since our Africa.  Look around.
Also Gandhi  Mozart  ...

"This is not a recession it's a robbery."

Major Powers & The Lo-Fi Symphony

Fear of cancer gets a mainstream break from a well schooled maverick.
Jim Allison.

Matt's poem.

3 days - 9 hours hunting - same camera.

Titmice squeak at my puny catch - I feed them.

Back on the bus tomorrow - new head.

In '63 I lived on a fork:
   Graduate UC in PolSci and wander.
   Be a bad sad grad school guy.
   Try something completely different.
Walked into the Art department - stayed to graduate and wander with focus.

Re the passage of time film you sent

I have an itching - it's probably personally best that the 'scene' I lived with - the brain I got - here on a western edge of reality - offered the degree of blind that perped my picture making identity all these years - at 75 it will be entitledly painless and quite entertaining to slowly discover the naive futility of my gestures - I loved those guys' films -  missed whole points in my swoons - Bresson  Godard  Truffaut  Renais  Rohmer  Bergman  - Vous êtes un remorqueur! (tugboat) And there are folks who say they love my pictures - they must live on an edge too.  I love it - and will evolve some shit tomorrow to Keep On Truckin'...  Thanks

My tiny picture evolution means scattering the 'unwashed' into electro space - less=more. 

You Your Books should be reapin' audience share! 

Commonists coming on board the good ship 'You Us All'.

How to keep your head in touch - !caution.   (I am not challenged.)

Marc James Leger
An Interview With William Thacher Dane Le Boulevard

Seeking clarity in our Flickr+ detritus:

me:

You are having more fun (your pictures tell me).

him:

More like the usual level. How about yourself?

me:

Probably I just want your picture-poetry more at my usual level - things are often just too mysterious.

Best to ignore lil'billy!  Tend your own very productive garden.

Will be floatin' til we all re-realize that folks don't much visit the Website.

And the pictures that we love here in the family circle.

In for the long hell and high water,  Bill.

him:

Hi. I have no idea what your email meant. Have a nice day.

me:

My day is at the usual level.

Os William (lil'billy).

bs: Why I don't sell pictures fer 45 yrs? - gallery folks and  visitors,  "I have no idea what they mean."

Go Buddha!

bss: They could just be middling gatherings . . .

him:

Heh. Thanks for the explanation. This email is priceless, a lovely dialogue poem. I figured your email was good-intentioned but after getting (random, undeserved) attacks on here lately, I sometimes look askance at things and think they're attacks when they'r not. I had no idea who "lil billy" was. Two Bills confuse a brew or stew?

It's strange. When I used to "live wrong" (or wronger, who knows what is "right," really) I would get upset if I thought someone was "badgering" me. But now it's more a blip in my day and I float on.

Your work is challenging to people, Bill, and that's the great thing. I can honestly say you to I think your stuff is truly great and you didn't fall into any of the "time traps" that so many of the people who came up alongside you seemed to have done with various genres and such.

Your work is all-out deliciously weird and divinely inspired and you crash through all that genre nonsense to get at the essential poetry and talkativeness of the image (which is, of course, a plurality of images that never stop).

I don't know about website traffic and all that but the longer you keep at it (your website is relatively new) the more you will attract people. Probably if you bragged more, you'd go up even quicker, but somehow it doesn't seem to be your personality. Tant pis. ;p

I saw you posted some good-hearted politically motivated stuff on there but it seems like we're in this post-dialogue state in America. Probably the haves love apathy on the part of the have nots.

I'm at the age where I'm realizing that not just the social world but existence itself is fundamentally insane, so I try to worry less. I don't know if that's apathy. I don't try to feel less but I do try to worry less. Maybe that's a contradiction in terms and I'm doomed for that strategy.

I dunno.

We just found out our water was disgusting through much of 2013 and our township never told us. Who knows how many people died of giardiasis in that period because they chose not to tell us. I just got a brochure for a town meeting about it. I hope someone passed it on to the ambulance chasers. One good way for the poor to get rich around here is for some entity with money to poison one of their own. The Mill did it for about a century. Now apparently it's the water company. I'd just like to get a reduced rate. I mean for the poisoning.

me:

More 'priceless'  William!  Thank you.

(What do folks call out? William?)

Your turn, what's this, 'Tant pis. ;p' ...

Oh .... ;p is one of those cons!

That leaves me wit  'Tant pis.' .

Tequila, then gin n vodka are clean - sips help me.

Wish they had no ethanol = nectar or noose.

'politics', I've been 'in-the-street' since '38.

What?  Of a sudden I should go shut-in?!

I do take your meaning - enough sanity to move is required.

I've been lessoned that me consciousness grows on.

I wanna get-it at my level.  I street-walk and hunt with it.

Not to mention the absurdity of living chipless.

Drink carefully.   Os Bill.

Every time we evolve this Website we're self-highed for days.
Comes time to re-realize - who cares but the family circle.
Then - so what!
Ready to re-evolve!?  Oh yeah.

Dear People.

We are so grateful to Nancy Dulberg and Monet Zulpo-Dane for making us possible.

Seven years we sit side by side at Nick's computer evolving our website (we take breaks).

We love it now - we always do.

We hope you find poignant pieces of our adventure to make your own.

Please take this web-blast personally.

Love, Bill n Nick   billdane.com

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

John Steinbeck

13 faces of capitalism from the 397 I met in '04-'05

Invented my latest lil'billy health and diet thing today when I hit 225#s and BP=144/80.

Maximum Vibrance - serving twice a day = food  +  cocktails for calories.

Adolescence lasted years.
Then I had two male trust friends.
One just died.
Everywhere every split second for all of us.

Hotty standardized test takers have had their anti-democratic, entitled 'Affirmative Action' programs for ages.
¡Give them a chance at Community College!
Mine was actually 'better' than Cal.
It's Our Public School System.
Let the Real Public in.
Use census data - give us all places in public 4 year colleges and universities if we want to go. 
Limited space?   !Oh dear. 
We created this mess - we can figure it out.
We have lots of schools.
&!  Want a democracy?  Make Education Free!

Jeremiah Moss.
Hyper Gentrification in New York City.
Oh dear.

Nick sat down with Ethan Varian at SF Deli Mag after you helped Major Powers win the Reader's Poll for Best Emerging Artist 2013: check it out.

Love,  Major Powers & The Lo-Fi Symphony

Major Powers is also Monet's husband and the mind behind our billdane.com

Russell Brand:
On revolution.

I spent the last 4 weeks editing-pruning-naming-dating-sequencing 

All my stuff-files since '71

For sanity and quality-dignity and a major website makeover 

Got to the end and whammo  thought I'd lost my whole life's doo-doo 

With the funky clicks of naughty buttons  

Unholy shit days    my computer is now in the hospital for surgery   

I was planning a whole new picture-life using thumbnails

Tiny costco prints and the postal service  again

I'm not suicidal

But  2 hours in the emergency room = found all the files - then off to the operating table  

Lucky billy escapes the clutches    I'm going vegan    started today   stopping soon

Blake Andrews'
Q & A With Bill Dane

It is really difficult for me to place me.

I spend no voluntary moments thinking about it.

Under the press of editing, "How could I have put these pictures into public places?!".

We'll redo the website with pictures gut-pruned to 1/4 the number.   

I 'know' Atget pictures. Walker Evans. Et Al.

I 'know' Mozart. Pavarotti. Pollock. Morrison. Miles. Marx. MajorPowers.

I have chosen to let them be and keep on TRUCKIN'...  no matter.

Only The Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited
Galerie Rudolfinum  Prague  Czech Republic
Michal Nanoru
1/24/14 to 4/6/14

San Diego 1972

One of the high 99% things to think about, at least annually:

What would we do, think, feel, say if we 'wound-up' inside with the 1-10%ers?
I try to.

Signed,  Bill

Respectfully to some friends:
No Hillary Clinton - unless you can tolerate stuff like NAFTA - global neoliberal capitalism - big$$$elections - No universal healthcare and education - Banking system 'right' back on top - capitalism - human nature doin' us all.  
Even the Pope is down - appearing.  
For salvage folks - Elizabeth Warren speaks some truths.
Love Bill.

Think for our very own selves - look around our very own spaces. 
We are the 99.99%.
What can we actually do = (at least) know what they & their flunkies are doing

¡ Use Our Internet !

Bill Dane

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Pope Francis.

BART Workers Strike.
Oh dear. We now have 7% of USA workers unionized & can't even get a 15$ minimum wage. Spoiled/Entitled brats w/o history/head cred wanna bitch at Workers who actually have the leverage to lead for us all - 99%ers. Oh dears. Sad again n again ...

White BoyTarantino.
And his Beautiful Black Nigga Knowin' Co-Workers.
Masterpiece: "Django Unchained". 
Should Be One Of Our American Myths.
And for JFox-SLJackson-KWashington-LDiCaprio-WeinsteinBros and all all all the others,
To invest in the experience. 
To accept and co-build this vision.
Thank You All. 
PeaceOut.
Love. 
OffWhiteBill.
= = =
I smell this/our U.S.A.
All the way - BART to S.F.
Get on a packed am train.
Go car to car.
Here are empty seats - lots - why?
She is piled in blankets.
Black.  Wrapped-up.
Blank - resigned - sad - staring into other places.
Soon I breath thru my mouth.
Rapid transit is designed to get fast-past America-Stink.
I smell it everywhere now and stare into other places.
We have tiny experience with how most people on our planet survive.   
We take so much for granted. 
As if it's some god-given-right.  
Here in our by-chance and by-luck tiny piece of the planet.  
These are the feelings and actions of 'Entitlement'.  
If there is sin - this kind of 'Entitlement' is major.   
We are going to be guilty often.

Our Myth Maker 
Toni Morrison.

 Esther Dulberg Dane 2013
Final Project at Hampshire College  

Nuremberg Trials
Some of our Heros:

Ellsberg.

Assange.  

Manning.  

Snowden.

"The Pirate Bay" folks listened & did their thing.
106,748+ views in 3 days. 
Major Powers & The Lo-Fi Symphony does theirs.
Nick Powers
Kevin Gautschi
Dylan Gautschi
Now at:  YouTube 
SLIM'S:

How do I decide to Brechtly-communalize.

I do public strolling for striking telling trinkets. 

(Might even be incompletely-literal  oh dear   like you   experience.)

Erect   bending   crouching   kneeling    won't recall prostrations.

Simply always loved hands-on hunting for lost and unknown goodies.

! TheLacan/Bertold/Slavoj/Marc/Cayley know-shit.

? I thrash.

Amazed-starving.

This is where I communalize recent pictures.

These strike me but probably won't be in my next volume, 16:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/billdane/

here at outsider hq

99% of $100

My teeny 99%er gesture.

I am losing my mind.
!This will help:
http://lofisymphony.com/

Neighborhood Watch.
When 'stuff' hits home it is difficult to remember that the 'perps' are also victims.

HumanNature plus capitalism 'creates' sickness - often beyond our 'entitled' comprehension.

I must think of theft as 'recycling'.

Hopefully without injury.

The injured are everywhere among us and within.

We live in a 'maiming' culture - always have.

We are the 99%.

Good luck for all of us.

Bill.

Like yours.

'Just' reminded that Nancy's 'parents' have whisper-dissed me for years,

"He doesn't work."  + ...

(Sad: these 'workers' have mostly treated Nancy & their grandchildren like ...)   

((Good: I really cant remember ever 'not-working'.))
Oh dear.

My self-serving construct:

1938 + 

We played our asses off constantly w/o much supervision.

Like lots of kids in the '40s - '50s. 

Started working at about day-one = self-care.

Gardening + 'caring' for my frightened parent-mother. 

(1 week mommy had measles - in the dark - I did meals + beck n calls.)

While the funky-father used the merchant marines. 

A 'relatively-safe' WWII  3-year-escape from his family fears. 

At 10 yrs yardwork for neighbors + family-connection odd-jobs.

Delivering drugs w/car at 16 and thru hi sch & PCC. 

Army at 18 = 3 years of pretty-much work.

PCC w/jobs ... UCB w/jobs ... BA & Ma w/jobs ... teaching credential w/jobs ...

Berkeley Schools '66 - '98 = pretty-much work.

'63 to '70  I painted pictures constantly while pretty-much 'working' at BHS. 

'69-'70  started taking pictures while teaching-'working'. 

Nancy & I connected in '80 (!& I've always been 15 years older than Nancy).

Nancy works her ass off = Jobs-U.C.Doctorate-writes Book-Does Twins-me.

Berkeley Schools - taught & w/med benefits '66 til 2003 - incl twins meds.

2004 Edie died - we made her inheritance Nancy's retirement fund.

We live in the house that Edie underwrote = Nancy's & M&E's now.

Cant recall being out-of-work.  

In-Love  - retired -  guilty  - sad  - elated  - medicated  - ejaculated  - small, oh-dear 

Not-working  = !never.

I simply gotta comprehend that 'art-work' + life  is difficult to digest/consume.

& that's only me-tiny parts of it ... so much left ... like yours ...

'Love'.

Bill.

PSsst:

!Commonist +-! Fa-Sho.

(((Hmmmnn - Edie never questioned what I be.)))

((((& she went ta Vassar n got A's.))))

!Mostly,  "Bill Dane on the internet.".

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My new and two-faced 'pr' card:

?! '1st world democracy here'.
For 2 we get 230K$+ college debt.
?! How many usa citizens are going to college.
Not 99% ... !Fa-!Sho.
"Read All About It":
Capitalism + HumanNature = sicker n sicker ...

Age-appropriate walking.

I notice I now stroll while picture-hunting.

This includes some weaving.

My first fall is hilarious.

I stumble for literally 19 ft and almost down. 
Grab onto a tourist from behind who is initially dumbfounded.
We all guffaw with the guy across the street. 
He watches the whole thing unfold and cheers.

Again - again forever.
!Always The Big Shames.
Zuckerberg with Christie.
Capitalism - HumanNature.
We have a sadder smaller facebook.

? How in the 'worlds' are our dreams delivered.
? From what 'collections' are these amazing events fabricated.
! I believe in dreams.

Neurotic emperor without clothes.
A seminal authority remembrance.
My father naked on the toilet taking a dump.
He does that.
I do that.

?! What is there to say.
! Plenty.
?! Say it.
Necessity is the mutha of sayin' stuff.

Sam says that his day has gone completely out of control today.
Can you come in tomorrow at 4pm??
I am William Thacher Dane.
Roofing on the east coast of England for ages.
Humped by Vikings +-1100 AD.
My life gone completely out of control daily.
And you expect me !? ...... at 4pm tomorrow.
Injuries-insults-boohoo's. 
Poor lilbilly.
See ya.
Punctually.

I dont even know how to 'play' the lottery.

But I am lucky.

Berkeley public-schools art-teacher 32 years.

Picture-hunter w/$1600 mo 'pension'.

Way-underpaid Edu-Prof-Wife doin' good-works.

Twins in colleges = loans n joys.

Plus hella-goodies.

Entitled-white-guy still gotta chuckle every time I'm asked to donate.

My Grandfather could - William Larned Thacher = Thacher Gates.

My Thacher-Mother couldn't afford Midland -Grampa's gates got me 2 years free.

Forget Thacher.  Even I said that.

'Poorish'-blacksheep cousin Edith Thacher Dane born at Thacher School in '13.

'Raised' at Thacher.  We got to come up from LA every xmas n summer to play.

Vassar whizz But, "You cant be a doctor, Edie." = WOMAN in the 1930s.

Her fucking favorite uncle-male doctor at Yale dished-up this bile.

She worked at LA County hospital screening cancer-slides.

With doctors always coming around the house & her pants.

A communist-symp & socialist-heart.

Lucky for Pasadena area she then lived off her died-father's leftovers. 

Started HeadStart in black-Pasadena.

Headed the Valley-area EconOppCouncil under LBJ.

Got a cross burned on our lawn for fighting to get jesus outta-town-center at xmas.

There's a dreidel & Star o David there today.

HoHoHo.

! OhOhOh was Midland a huge Gift for me.

Literally saved my-pink-ass.

I went to silly-pasadena-high 12th grade. 

In order to complete my momentary-renaissance.

I needed to physically leave Midland and my past for a billy-tabula rasa.

Relieving myself in public. 

The least of stuff.

Be well.

Bill.

Pasadena, CA. 

Talk about ice-stone-cold racism in the '40s n '50s ... Now.

Immersed !& life-saved by !Mommy's Acts ... little-talk. 

How we even danced-in-awe 9 feet from Nat King Cole.

!? At the Pasadena Civic Aud in '56.

A kind of real.
I put 'new' pictures on Flickr every week.

Bob Dylan.
I use Pandora.
Feels like I could find words that pretty-much-sum-it from each of his '60's + songs.
Being a Baroque n Mozart guy - I've mostly 'listened' to 'sounds'.

Wrote:
I would AdventureRock this:
(I could do mo-betta)  ((Spike)):
The '70's = Leadbelly-JamesB-AC/DC-Hendricks-Joplin-Marley- + -
+ Your,  Et-Al ... 
I listened, +.
Queen was good, w/o, among other ingredients, the-taut-intensity.
but: !No MP&TL-FS.
Today's folks need to have touch-stones,  launching recent mostly-fine-reviews of MajorPowers.
I experience your 'takes'.
!ThankYou.
!&, Oh dear, we're differnt too.
!So:
What I can-do-hear is MP&TL-FS. :
http://lofisymphony.com/music.html
Good luck for all of us.

People.
End of November.
(another)
Beginning of "Bill Dane on the internet.".
Thank You.
Bill & Nick.

(! DeltaDental only covers our front 6 whities.
IE: I have a gap at #7.
Helping to define The 99%.
! And proud of it.)

! MajorPowers live in NorCal:
lofisymphony.com/

Now I will read Toni Morrison's novels.
In the order she wrote them.
See you later.

I finish this "Light In August".
Lightly-stoned on "Lava" from Iceland.
I'll just float here a bit ...

?! R&B in East Pasadena:

Wilson Jr Hi +  '51+.

Listen to Huggie Boy on our radios.   Wolf Man Jack.

Three little whities ride the trolly & bus to LA's Vernon At Central record store.

Buy R&B 45's to bring back  for selves   and 7th grade parties.

We found LittleRichard in mid '50's.

He fucking came to Pasadena in '56.

We got front row. 

All by himself  the Man was explosive  messianic. 

Danced   balanced his piano-chair  up in his mouth.

Seems we imported black R&B to the lil-ole-white-ladies-of-East Pasadena.

Some of their children can still be heard sayin' "Nigger"   if you listen.

Joined the army to get out of town.

Berkeley next.

Now  you sign books & I'm invited.

Stay well Joel Selvin.
And Thank you for this back-in-our-day picture at Vernon and Central.