Here’s another Kansas City ramble. I’ve always been a baseball fan, and a bit of a history buff and an early reader of Negro League Baseball histories. Back in the day, there was only one really good work out there, a book by Robert Peterson called Only the Ball Was White. I wrote a songContinueContinue reading “Right On Time”
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Bird Lives
RIP, Charlie Parker. Reportedly, Bird told his wife, “please don’t let them bury me in Kansas City” . And, there he lies, with his mother, lonely, isolated, up on a hill, behind a iron rusty gate I had to move in order to drive down a potholed gravel road and reach the site. A small signContinueContinue reading “Bird Lives”
Printing the Revolution
Shout out to the Frist Art Museum here in Nashville, for the excellent “Printing the Revolution” exhibit, showcasing Chicano graphics from 1965 to the present day. (It’s there until September 29, btw) The work in Printing The Revolution is culled from the Smithsonian and follows the thread of activist Chicano art, from the posters ofContinueContinue reading “Printing the Revolution”
Bob Dylan & Memphis Musings
Late post from March 30, but time is an illusion, time is a jet plane, time out of mind. This was a Memphis trek, in and out to see Bobby D one more time, at the Orpheum Theater. Great old palace, Elvis loved it and rented it out a lot, before the days of movieContinueContinue reading “Bob Dylan & Memphis Musings”
Trailblazers (Musee Melies)
When my son Jude was little, we had a bunch of routines, including a weekly Pizza Party Movie Night. This one carried on until he went to college, really, and over the years it included everything from typical kid movies to classics to new releases to foreign films to the silent comedies of masters likeContinueContinue reading “Trailblazers (Musee Melies)”
Doug Hoekstra 