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Okay, I'll break it to you gently (well, no, I won't); I stopped watching mainstream television after 911. The news and commercials just became unbearably, audaciously offensive. They were probably that way before 911, but for some reason, that was when it became obvious to me. Not watching television on a regular basis has actually been incredibly freeing as a lifestyle choice. I write a lot more and read a lot more and go for more hikes and know all of my neighbors and take a lot...

Whew, I've finally found some time to take a deep breath and write about Jason Freeman's Flock in presentation with the Rova Saxophone Quartet. See the video here. Franciscan Monk and I headed down south to the Black Box Theatre at MACLA in San Jose, early June. Flock was being presented in correlation with the highly lauded inaugural Zero1 Festival in downtown SJ. We exchanged our tickets at the door for baseball hats with glowing plastic half baseballs attached to the top. The room...