oral minority

  

"books unconstitutionally caught up in the law, wrote Locher, include Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, and Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure, writing that it had been applied unconstitutionally in many schools and that books of “undeniable political, artistic, literary, and/or scientific value” had been caught up in it, including Ulysses by James Joyce,  

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell,  

Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. " 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/26/iowa-law-banning-books-including-1984-and-ulysses-blocked-by-us-federal-judge

"during the trial of Ferlinghetti, respected writers and professors testified for the defense. Judge Horn rendered his precedent-setting verdict, declaring that Howl was not obscene and that a book with "the slightest redeeming social importance" merits First Amendment protection. Horn's decision established the precedent that paved the way for the publication of such hitherto banned books as D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. The media attention resulting from the trial stimulated national interest, and, by 1958, there were 20,000 copies in print. Today there are over a million. Ginsberg continued to publish his major books of poetry with the press for the next 25 years. Even after the publication by Harper & Row of his Collected Poems in 1980, he would continue his warm association with City Lights, which served as his local base of operations, for the rest of his life. " 

"Ferlinghetti had heard Ginsberg read Howl in 1955 at the Six Gallery; the next day, he offered to publish it along with other shorter poems. William Carlos Williams — who was Ginsberg's childhood Pediatrician and himself a future Pocket Poet with a 1957 edition of his early modernist classic, Kora in Hell (1920) — was recruited for an introduction, perhaps to lend literary justification to Howl's depictions of drug use and homosexuality. Prior to publication, Ferlinghetti had asked, and received, assurance from the American Civil Liberties Union that the organization would defend him, should he be prosecuted for obscenity "

"Over the years, the press has published a wide range of poetry and prose, fiction and nonfiction, and works in translation. In addition to books by Beat Generation authors, the press publishes literary work by such authors as Charles Bukowski, Georges Bataille, Rikki Ducornet, Paul Bowles, Sam Shepard, Andrei Voznesensky, Nathaniel Mackey, Alejandro Murguía, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernesto Cardenal, Daisy Zamora, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Juan Goytisolo, Anne Waldman, André Breton, Kamau Daáood, Masha Tupitsyn, and Rebecca Brown. In 1965, the press published an anthology of texts by Antonin Artaud, edited by Jack Hirschman.^[17]

In 2014, the press published its first New York Times bestselling book, Rad American Women A-Z, the press's first book for children, by Kate Schatz with illustrations from the outset with radical left-wing politics and issues of social justice, City Lights has in recent years augmented its list of political non-fiction, publishing books by Angela Y. Davis, Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Ward Churchill, Tim Wise, Roy Scranton, John Gibler, Todd Miller, Clarence Lusane, Ralph Nader, Henry A. Giroux, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Lights_Bookstore 

open near an Innernet portal at most Lie Bury in the USSA 

wikipunk shadows misidentified

 

a bird powerpecks at some metal on the yurt

cockadoodle doo the sheep bleat, the owl hoot,

the jet rip air, car fart by,

mama kitty chase moth then ask for what, milk

they have plenty kibble

they eat two mice in an hour at night

I pet the frog in the beaver canal

I film the newt swimming sunshine

same canal, didn't know they're deadly toxic

they hide in two feet shadows

I hide in wikipunk

yellow flutterby freezes to act flower

I drag gravity up, down terrain

pat myself on the nature

with my own tail 

nw portland

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Ray Mitchell at Ekone

 

Bend Developer or SNAP

  

"A developer who has received millions in state funding to build more than 100 affordable homes in southwest Bend  

told the city he won’t follow its recently adopted tree preservation code,  

setting the table for continued land-use disputes 

 and raising questions about whether the quest to save trees is compatible with the city’s housing needs." 

 

https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/developer-refuses-to-comply-with-bends-new-tree-code/article_ec71da50-5ba7-4b39-89bd-512c7a6b57f8.html

"Kine, who is no stranger to brushing elbows with government agencies, would rather fight than submit to a code he feels is unjust and impossible to meet.  

He argues the tree code is in violation of the U.S. Constitution,  

multiple state laws and directives of Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek to increase housing supply." 

"The Tree Code as currently written is illegal and prioritizes existing trees..." 

(Over short term profits and green washing) 

"Kine also builds more luxurious developments. Just to the east, at Murphy Crossing, his new 174-space RV park is up and running. He has plans to build pickleball courts and an airplane-themed food cart pod called “The Hangar.” On Bend’s west side along Century Drive, Kine is working on 100 single-family homes to be priced between $875,000 and $1.1 million.

To prep each of those developments, Kine made stark clearcuts across acres of ponderosa pine. Both instances were propellers of public concern that rapid development in Bend was sacrificing too many mature trees, and would mean less shade, warmer temperatures, acceleration of climate change and loss of Bend’s rural character." 

.

"Nazis got better treatment "

  

"Nazis got better treatment 

 under the Alien Enemies Act 

 than has happened here," Millett said, to which Ensign responded,   

"We certainly dispute the Nazi analogy." 

(Musk, Bannon, C-pac stage design etc etc ) 

Prior to the Trump administration's invocation of 

 the Alien Enemies Act, 

 the law had been used just three times in U.S. history, most recently 

 to intern and remove 

 Japanese, German and Italian immigrants during World War Two." 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-rejects-trump-administration-request-end-block-some-deportations-2025-03-24/ 

____

"Nidal Jboor, another founder, noted that medical institutions such as the Red Cross failed to speak out against the Holocaust while it was happening. I 

f US doctors and medical students continue down the same path with regards to Gaza, he said, “it’s putting us on the wrong side of history.”

The project has been a rare bright spot for Mohammad. “Repression often brings you new community,” she said. " 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/emory-university-student-suspended-gaza-protest

  

"Nitwitskoff, a real estate developer who had no prior diplomatic experience 

 before being tasked as Donald Trump’s special envoy, downplayed fears of Vladimir Putin launching a broader aggression.

“I just don’t see that he wants to take all of Europe,” he said. “I take him at his word in this sense"

"He ain 't that Hungary."  

(Neophytes-R-US outlet in closest megayacht) 

Witkoff said he “liked” the Russian president – “ 

I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy … He’s super smart”, he said

is that mutually exclusive, smart/bad? duh

"I think there’s this, you know, this sort of notion of we’ve all got to be like Winston Churchill, the Russians are gonna march across Europe. I think that’s preposterous. By the way, we have something called Nato that we did not have in World War II.” 

and Allies were USA/ Russia, bad/smart Nazis had Germany.  

Real Estate History from Felon Trump, Nitwit scoff, Kushner Inc , etc etc

“The largest issue in that conflict are these so-called four regions, Donbas, Crimea, you know the names and there are two others,” said Witkoff,  

in remarks that appeared to be an attempt to name Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson and that confused Crimea for one of the four occupied eastern territories. " 

"historian Anne Applebaum. “If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, 

 spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin,” she wrote"

____

"The post-second world war taboo on acquiring territory through force or by the threat of force is being unravelled by a generation of political leaders, led by expansionist threats from Donald Trump that are unprecedented for a US president.

Experts are warning that a combination of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and 

 Trump’s comments explicitly pushing for 

 the US to acquire Greenland, Canada, the Panama canal and Gaza 

is fuelling a permissive environment that threatens long-recognised borders and the international rules-based order that has existed since the end of the war. 

In Europe, what was once unthinkable, that Russia could physically threaten the Baltic and eastern states, is not just imaginable but an urgent security issue. 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/23/trump-expansionism-threatens-the-rules-based-order-in-place-since-second-world-war

objects subject to swoon

Rambling jack could tie a knot

A mental marriage sure slips out easy

Filly run the sailor has a use more than his voice

Sharing stone well shorn nuff

Came be a hollywood star

She came on a meteorite right bob

Joan d'arc Baez landed by a meaty alright 

Who rote lyrics  who penned the desire

Who stoned the lute into a lyre 

Who face painted the orgy kiss

Who shaved Ginsberg metaphorically 

And literally castrated the band wax figures 

On speed who borrowed the thunder

No wakan prop ira hayes

Maggie's form a presidential cutout 

Get iwo jima in the door 

That's two hundred years here's the beads for a nobel 

Wampum them drums 

I could replace him in a second 

I'll stare at scarlet if she rides my melody 

I'll harmonica and guitar and stop nasal activity

Pregnant with pause 

That's mental pregnancy that is 

The babies all mine 

They mine your desire your desire mine finds 

A diamond ain't shit with no klieg sun upon him

Scalping tickets or integrity grin

Who wants to act poet 

Carry my gear I drive further the loons 

Bow to me objects subject to swoon 

• Album: Desire is the 17th studio album by Bob Dylan, released in 1976. 
• Co-authors: Jacques Levy co-wrote the lyrics for the majority of the songs on the album with Dylan. 
• Exceptions: "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)" and "Sara" are the only two songs on the album that were not co-written with Jacques Levy. 
• "Hurricane": The opening track, "Hurricane", is a song co-written with Jacques Levy and is a protest song about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. 
• "Joey": Another song co-written with Jacques Levy, "Joey", is a biographical song about mobster "Crazy" Joe Gallo. 
• "Mozambique": This song began as a game between Dylan and Jacques Levy to find as many rhymes for Mozambique as possible. 
• "Oh Sister": This song was recorded and often performed with Emmylou Harris. 
• "Romance in Durango": This song tells the story of an man and his lover on the run in Mexico. 
• "Black Diamond Bay": Dylan "bumped into theater director and lyricist Jacques Levy" in New York during the “humid summer of 1975” and the two wrote the song. "

 

"Desire reached No. 1 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart for five weeks, becoming one of Dylan's best-selling studio albums, and was certified double Platinum; the album reached No. 3 in the UK. It claimed the No. 1 slot on NME Album of the Year. Rolling Stone named Desire No. 174 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time." 

Dylan's songwriting partnership with Jacques Levy continued to grow. Jacques Levy was then best known for "Chestnut Mare", a collaboration with Roger McGuinn that ultimately became one of The Byrds' last hits. Dylan had met Levy the previous spring, but they became reacquainted at The Other End.

One night, Dylan met Levy at his loft and showed him an early draft of "Isis". According to Levy, "Isis" began life as a "slow dirge", unlike anything he had ever heard before, which he felt gave the appearance of setting the listener up "for a long story" 

Guitarist Eric Clapton was present, just one of five guitarists in the studio. Clapton recalled later that Dylan appeared to be seeking an opportunity to work with new people he had met, although Clapton felt that Dylan was uncomfortable performing personal songs with such a large group present 

Of the participating musicians, only Emmylou Harris was dissatisfied with the results. 

Renaldo and Clara is a 1978 American film directed by Bob Dylan and starring Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan and Joan Baez. Written by Dylan and Sam Shepard, the film incorporates three distinct film genres: concert footage, documentary interviews, and dramatic fictional vignettes reflective of Dylan's song lyrics and life.

Filmed in the fall of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, the film features appearances and performances by Phil Ochs, Ronee Blakley, T-Bone Burnett, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Arlen Roth, Sam Shepard, and Harry Dean Stanton. Renaldo and Clara was released in its original four-hour form on January 25, 1978, in the United States. Its limited release in theaters in New York City, Los Angeles, and other cities was discontinued after a few weeks following widespread negative reviews.^[2]

Production

[edit]

Renaldo and Clara was influenced by the French film Les Enfants du Paradis, and was written by Dylan.^[3] Most of the performers are musicians or members of Dylan's inner circle; the only professional actors in the cast are Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, Helena Kallianiotes, and Ronee Blakley.

Many of the artists performing with the Rolling Thunder Revue are featured in the film, which also includes clips of concert performances and footage of Rubin Carter, the subject of Dylan's song "Hurricane". The film also features an appearance from the musician, David Blue, who gives some insight into the 1960s New York City folk music scene while playing a game of pinball. The machine was a Big Valley, built by Bally in 1970. The film also contains the last known footage of Phil Ochs, who is shown preparing to take the stage at Folk City in October 1975; he committed suicide six months later. 

Renaldo and Clara is a 1978 American film directed by Bob Dylan and starring Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan and Joan Baez. Written by Dylan and Sam Shepard, the film incorporates three distinct film genres: concert footage, documentary interviews, and dramatic fictional vignettes reflective of Dylan's song lyrics and life.^[1]

Filmed in the fall of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour, the film features appearances and performances by Phil Ochs, Ronee Blakley, T-Bone Burnett, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell, Mick Ronson, Arlen Roth, Sam Shepard, and Harry Dean Stanton. Renaldo and Clara was released in its original four-hour form on January 25, 1978, in the United States. Its limited release in theaters in New York City, Los Angeles, and other cities was discontinued after a few weeks following widespread negative reviews.^[2]

Production

[edit]

Renaldo and Clara was influenced by the French film Les Enfants du Paradis, and was written by Dylan.^[3] Most of the performers are musicians or members of Dylan's inner circle; the only professional actors in the cast are Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, Helena Kallianiotes, and Ronee Blakley.

Many of the artists performing with the Rolling Thunder Revue are featured in the film, which also includes clips of concert performances and footage of Rubin Carter, the subject of Dylan's song "Hurricane". The film also features an appearance from the musician, David Blue, who gives some insight into the 1960s New York City folk music scene while playing a game of pinball. The machine was a Big Valley, built by Bally in 1970. The film also contains the last known footage of Phil Ochs, who is shown preparing to take the stage at Folk City in October 1975; he committed suicide six months later. 

Cast

[edit]

• Bob Dylan as Renaldo
• Sara Dylan as Clara
• Joan Baez as Woman in White
• Ronnie Hawkins as Bob Dylan
• Ronee Blakley as Mrs. Dylan
• Jack Elliott as Longheno de Castro
• Harry Dean Stanton as Lafkezio
• Bob Neuwirth as The Masked Tortilla
• Allen Ginsberg as The Father
• David Mansfield as The Son
• Helena Kallianiotes as herself
• Rubin "Hurricane" Carter as himself
• Scarlet Rivera as herself
• Roger McGuinn as himself
• David Blue as himself
• Joni Mitchell as herself
• Rob Stoner as himself
• Steven Soles as himself
• Mick Ronson as Security Guard
• Anne Waldman as Sister of Mercy
• T-Bone Burnett as The Inner Voice
• Larry Sloman as Newspaper Man
• Sam Shepard as Rodeo
• Howie Wyeth as himself
• Arlen Roth as himself
• Arlo Guthrie as Mandolin Player
• Roberta Flack as Guest Artist
• Phil Ochs as himself 

 

Soundtrack

[edit]

• "When I Paint My Masterpiece" performed by Bob Dylan, War Memorial Coliseum, Plymouth, MA, October 31, 1975
• "Mississippi Blues" performed by Bob Dylan, Gas Station, Augusta, ME, November 25, 1975
• "Kaw-Liga" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "Isis" performed by Bob Dylan, Montreal Forum, December 4, 1975
• "Ballad in Plain D" performed by Gordon Lightfoot, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "In the Pines" performed by Ronnie Hawkins
• "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" performed by Bob Dylan, Montreal Forum, December 4, 1975
• "Nurse's Song" performed by Allen Ginsberg, Gerdes Folk City, NYC, October 23, 1975
• "People Get Ready" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "I Want You" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "Need a New Sun Rising" performed by Ronee Blakley
• "Mama's Lament" performed by Mama Maria Frasca, Dreamaway Lounge, Becket, MA,^[6][7] November 7, 1975
• "God and Mama" performed by Mama Maria Frasca, Dreamaway Lounge, Becket, MA,^[6][7] November 7, 1975
• "Salt Pork, West Virginia" performed by Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Seacrest Motel, Falmouth, MA October 29, 1975
• "Mule Skinner Blues" performed by Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Seacrest Motel, Falmouth, MA October 29, 1975
• "What Will You Do When Jesus Comes" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "Little Moses" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "It Ain't Me Babe" performed by Bob Dylan, Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 20, 1975
• "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" performed by Bob Dylan, Clinton Correctional Facility, Clinton, NJ, December 7, 1975
• "Hurricane" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "She Belongs to Me" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "Catfish" performed by Rob Stoner
• "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" performed by Bob Dylan, Boston Music Hall, November 21, 1975 (evening show)
• "Longheno de Castro" performed by Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Gerdes Folk City, NYC, October 23, 1975
• "Diamonds & Rust" performed by Joan Baez
• "If You See Her, Say Hello" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "Romance in Durango" performed by Bob Dylan, Montreal Forum, December 4, 1975
• "One Too Many Mornings" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "The House of the Rising Sun" performed by Bob Dylan and Rob Stoner, Hotel Room, Quebec, November 28, 1975
• "One More Cup of Coffee" performed by Bob Dylan, Montreal Forum, December 4, 1975
• "Eight Miles High" performed by Roger McGuinn
• "Chestnut Mare" performed by Roger McGuinn
• "Sara" performed by Bob Dylan, Montreal Forum, December 4, 1975
• "The Water Is Wide" performed by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Palace Theater, Waterbury, CT, November 11, 1975
• "Patty’s Gone to Laredo" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "Suzanne" performed by Joan Baez
• "Never Let Me Go" performed by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, Montreal Forum, December 4, 1975
• "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" performed by Bob Dylan, Studio Instrumental Rentals, NYC, October 1975
• "Tangled Up in Blue" performed by Bob Dylan, Boston Music Hall, November 21, 1975 (evening show)
• "Just Like a Woman" performed by Bob Dylan, Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 20, 1975
• "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" performed by Bob Dylan, Harvard Square Theater, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 20, 1975
• "In the Morning" performed by Hal Frazier, Seacrest Motel, Falmouth, MA, October 29, 1975 

____ 

"Levy was born in New York City in 1935 and graduated from the City College of New York in 1956. He then received his M.A. (1958) and Ph.D. (1961) in psychology from Michigan State University and was certified by 

 the Menninger Institute for Psychoanalysis in Topeka, Kansas.  

After returning to New York, he practiced as a clinical psychologist while pursuing his avocation in the city's experimental theatre scene.

 

In 1965, Levy directed Sam Shepard's play Red Cross at the Judson Poets Theater, New York City 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Levy 

____ 

"in 2022, a lawsuit filed by the estate of Jacques Levy, co-writer of songs on Bob Dylan's "Desire" album, seeking a share of the profits from Dylan's $300 million catalog sale, was dismissed by a New York appeals court, upholding a lower court's decision that  

Levy's contract only entitled him to specific royalties, not proceeds from the sale. " 

• The Claim:

  The lawsuit argued that Levy's 1975 contract with Dylan entitled him to a share of the catalog sale proceeds, specifically seeking at least $1.75 million from the sale and $2 million in punitive damages. 
• The Ruling:

  A New York judge, Barry Ostrager, ruled in favor of Dylan, stating that Levy's contract was an  
• "employee-for-hire" agreement which granted all ownership rights to Dylan, 
•  and that Levy's estate was only entitled to his ongoing royalty payments for the "Desire" tracks, not a cut of Dylan's overall rights sale.