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Ozomatli Closes Out Stern Grove 2006

God love Ozomatli for doing their usual... From political booty swinging to throwing your arms in the air noddin your head like ya just don't care, from the usual Sesame Street sing-alongs to crowd weaving acoustic parking lot post-show jams and all. I even forgive them for the cult-on-rocker action of getting everyone to throw up peace signs (causing me to almost throw up in the process). Bless you my lovely friends old and new for making the fog-filled eucalyptused wrist-stamped dragon-flied whisk(e)y-thermosed yes-dope-no-cigs-smokin newly-landscaped "improved" (ha) grove such a pleasuah as always.

Mi Lindo Peru

Missin' mountains to la playa
when everything's long-haired tight and orange with elevators only goin' to every several floors,
Inkan crop circles abound 'round altiplano nopales
winter silence screams hushed with the sound of waterways
mist it's streaming
over my hair in high sun
steaming,
dancing til 6:30 a.m sunrises,
Boulder seams masks music magic surprises
quinhoa lisas calabaza maiz grow heavenly,
blue eyed pigeons side-ball me suspiciously,
picaflores condores connecting god and (hu)man
masked men run me through fire and put me down again
little boys duck hiding behind my legs from whips
while reggaeton and Shakira run off my lips,
breath-keeping altitude scenes with che selling everything,
crazy Violeta Luna plunges nails into cow hearts, bites down in the name of Frida's art,
sacras quake at Virgin dolls in green petticoat layers,
an entire country of knitters and weavers and titeres makers,
and it is fuckin freezin in July and
I am holding everyone's hand and kissing your cheeks right and left hello and goodbye.

Les quiero Ericka, Jacki, Jorge, Doris, Mauricio, Gabby, y mi little tiny tattooista-piercer chiquillo. Una locura completa era en 2006.

Streets of San Francisco, An Update

Great sadness. The original stenciler, the ever-romantic hippified 'blue lost love' serialist of course ended hir stencil in "hope".... But haterism being what it is, it took little to transform this into its present state.

Sigh.

I personally blame all the transplants from Boston (nothin' personal, Tasha, Shalanda and Jaime-Nhu.... I know y'all would too, if you didn’t still live there)