To Barbara the writers Allman is next followed by the morning cup with me Alosi Good morning. And here is the writers for Monday it's the 20th of February 2016. 17 why did 2 on this day George Washington established the u.s. Post Office Department and bunch when Franklin became the 1st postmaster general 962 John Glenn became the 1st American to orbit the earth circled the earth 3 times in the course of about 5 hours in his space capsule Friendship 7 which landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean about 800 miles off the coast of. It was on the stay in 1915 Dylan Thomas the Welsh poet arrived in New York City for his 1st American reading tour born raised in Swans he wails Dylan Thomas already well known for his poems such as Do not go gentle into that good night and his poem and death show have no dominion his 1st stop was a reading at the Poetry Center in New York City read his own poems in somebody's aids and Hardy and theoretically about a 1000 people came to see him Robert Lowell was there and described him as having a dumpy absurd body hair combed by a salad spoon brown button Well as always moving suspiciously or fixing on the most modest person in the room Dylan Thomas toured the United States often and for the next 4 years he wrote to his wife Caitlin back home about New York City and I have no idea what on earth I'm doing here in this very loud mad middle of the last mad empire on earth I've been to a few parties but lots of American poets writers critics hangers on some very pleasant all furiously polite and hospitable it's a nightmare night and day there never was such a place I would never get used to the speed the noise the utter indifference of the crowds the frightening politeness of the intellectuals and most of all those huge phallic towers but not been up hundreds of floors into the impossible sky I feel so terrified of this place I hardly dared to leave my hotel room Dylan Thomas who died in New York City at the age of 39 after a night of heavy drinking. Being at the White Horse Tavern in Greenwich Village and it's the 1st day of the filmmaker Robert Altman born Kansas City Missouri 1925 served in World War 2 flew over 50 missions in the Army Air Force went on to direct many films including Nashville McCabe and Mrs Miller Gosford Park and The Long Goodbye Robert Altman who like to work from a basic plot what he called a blueprint encouraged his actors to improvise freely like overlapping dialogue Altman said I never knew what I wanted except that it was something I hadn't seen before. Here's a poem for today by Mara Donaldson when I'm old I'll have do laps and a hump and say watch all the time on the cross was on every one of my bony cronies fingers a ring in my lips painted with a slash a bright future I'll drink Margarita's by the tumbler full on of my dealer dies before I do I'll just have to look for younger suppliers I can't imagine not being interested in sex but if it happens so be it really I could do with the rest complete hormone lessness I may forget who I am and how to find my way home but be patient remember of always been more than a little confused and never did have much of a sense of direction if I'm completely demented I'm depending on friends you know who you are. One of them old a poem by Myra Donaldson from selected poems published by liberties press and used by permission here on the writer's. 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This week is the latest from jungle fire they played around the central coast a few times is the name of their new album we're going to listen to it for you from this new release coming out their little label tied with Nasional records as well check it out right here jungle fire that featured. Thank. You. Know and. At the. Shock was. Like we've. We've exceeded. Was 6. Weeks. We've. Got. Know I'm. Sure he'd. Gone through a. Good. Night No no no no no no no. No no. No money. Little. Grant Green doing the James Brown song and it funky Grant Green from that era when he was playing some funky funky Tunes great jazz guitar player where James Brown with funky drummer and that was in tribute to Clyde Stubblefield the drummer the Funky Drummer himself one of the most important drummers in funk history he passed away this last weekend at the age of 73 wanted to take a minute to remember him with the funky drummer and he played on so many great James Brown songs he's a performer that you have heard many times but maybe never knew his name also one of the most sampled drummers in the world that track right there that funky drummer would has been sampled and used in songs over a 1000 times that's when has been repeated and just wanted to remember him for a 2nd Clyde Stubblefield who was a great drummer and had that nice career with James Brown for about 6 years and then when we moved back to Madison Wisconsin and just mostly played in local bands every once in a while get back together with the j.b.s. . 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