Manifesto Joe's Texas Blues

Your guide to anti-social media

Saturday, March 29, 2008

This kid's great. This is Pasquale Ale Strizzi, playing Hallucinations, by the great bop piano virtuoso Bud Powell.

Look out for the Europeans on the jazz scene. They're beating Americans at what should be our game. -- MJ

Manifesto Joe: As all my posts state, I am an underground writer living in Texas. I am doing political blogging under a nom de plume for various reasons. I was born in 1956 in a small Texas town; I now live in a medium-large city. I have been writing my entire adult life, and have been published, both mainstream and underground. In my teens I was actually a libertarian-type conservative. Meeting Young Republican types in college was crucial to my being cured of that once and for all. At one point in my 20s I was something of a Trotskyite, but eventually became a more moderate progressive. Since I started this blog and affiliated with other blogs, my writing has appeared in the USA Today, CNN and Reuters online editions, in Buzzflash.com, Crooks and Liars, and a number of other popular sites. My invaluable mentors have been Marc McDonald at BeggarsCanBeChoosers.com, and Blue Girl of They Gave Us a Republic and other fine blogs. In keeping with anonymity, this is all I should say.

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