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Voracious DPC:

The journal of an omnivorous reader, nerd for the arts, and believer in the public good.

The One and Only Yola

Yola’s “Walk Through Fire” is an album I can’t stop recommending to people. It is gorgeous and generous, entrancing from the first note to the last. Yola’s voice and guitar playing are tender, precise, and powerful. She commands her musical gifts with singular grace. Yola has the rare ability to create the simultaneous and contradictory…

August 21, 2020
Little Richard is Gone

The final member of the Rock N’ Roll triumvirate has passed. May Little Richard rest in peace and paradise with the ancestors and may the memories of those moved and transformed by his music be long. Little Richard was a righteously vainglorious genius. He was the blueprint for the energy, the showmanship, and the verve…

May 9, 2020
“Life is art, it’s connections,” he said. “I want to live my life fully, to love fully, instead of just existing. I try to enjoy every moment — and those moments, for me, are understanding art.”- Ben Barcelona, superfan of LA’s art museums

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-23/81-year-old-ben-barcelona-lives-and-breathes-museums-but-what-happens-when-culture-collapses

April 24, 2020
Los Angeles Remains Undefeated

The contradictions of LA flora: verdant and dry, delicate and robust. The plant life provides the outrageous metropolis with unparalleled beauty.

November 22, 2019
Office Space

Last week I attended a gala in a new, not completely finished office space that formerly housed the Custom Stamping and Manufacturing Company.

November 22, 2019
Gordon Sondland’s Greatest Hits:

“I’m A Throw You Under A Bus” “Everyone Was In The Loop” “Quid Pro Better Believe It’s Quo” “Let Me Read These Emails To You” “Zelensky (House impeachment remix)” “I Bought An Ambassadorship, I’m Not Going to Prison” “Me and Mr. Giuliani” “Devin Nunes Eyes” #demdebate

November 21, 2019
We Wear the Mask By Paul Laurence Dunbar We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties. Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and…

September 26, 2019
Dispatch From Ontario, Oregon

On a Monday morning, I flew from Portland, Oregon to Boise, Idaho. From Boise, I drove an hour west back to Oregon. The drive was longer than the flight. When I got out of my rental car in Ontario, it was 102 degrees. My hosts and colleagues told me it was a dry heat, so…

September 4, 2019
September 2, 2019
Toni Morrison in Her Own Words

The function of freedom is to free someone else. 1. Whatever the work is, do it well- not for the boss but for yourself. 2. You make the job; it doesn’t make you. 3. Your real life is with us, your family. 4. You are not the work you do; you are the person you…

August 9, 2019

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