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Wildlife; I love those long-winged swallows that dart around the lake eating insects. They're erroneously named "Nighthawks."

Weather: Low clouds and scattered showers. I'm feeling well enough to go to work today.

Funky Update: P-Funk graphic artist and 420 Funk Mob performer Stozo Da' Klown (Ronald Edwards) has a very pleasant CD available on his website: STOZO'S LAND Sounds GREAT, Stozo! (He autographed a copy for ME!)
Review by Robert "Maggot Minister" Ward -- STOZO THE CLOWN PRESENTS DigiDonz 'The Lower East Side Story Vol.1 DAYUM! Stozo's DigiDonz is the funk done with digital horns,all kind of guitar noise on top of some fonkyass beats.This one will put a hump in yo back. Known for his legendary album covers for Funkadelic,The Horny Horns,Fuzzy Haskins,Zapp and Parlet just to name a few,Ronald P."Stozo" Edwards is funkin' in clownred,and now filling those album sleeves with some FUNK !Not to be confused with just a borrowed sample but ample,right from scratch with no scratching.Hatching a modernmaggots class-sick! The DigiDonz scartoon minds and multicolored sound has gone not only from visual to audio but into some new territory.FUNK has always been accused of being futuristic or ahead of it's time in time,but the sound of the DigiDonz is new even for the Funk. IT jumps off with a serious instrumental with Stozo the Clown on guitar and bass.Psychodelic as his good friend Eddie Hazel,and a Jimi influence but the whole thang is in a new context with Zo also on the digital horns.While instrumentals fuel this collection of streetwise mackadelic funk,'She Freaked Me Out!'has some flow on the track Kenya D.O.G.,while Stozo dropped some p-fied backing vocals,over a slick bass track by Brian Vasquez.The beats are plain stoopid enough to keep a party jumpin' as the colors are filled in with that carnival like atmospheratic mastery that says it was laid down by the funkiest clown around.But,'Guitar In The Closet' is just on a grand funkmatization level with some in-perspirational organ keys.9/11 Emergency is some laid back groove with Stozo hangin' way out there on lead guitar sounds.Hangin' on the roof.The bass on the whole thang is monster. The cover art depicts the 'Lower East Side' night skyline and under such conditions you drift with the groove that is the soundtrack for million stories of the naked city.All endowed with technical wizardry fused and fussing with some old analog getback, as only the funk can bring.In the tradition of concept meets music meets a tale of the LO-E-SO!

Media Watch: It seems like only medium where people are telling the historical truth about Reagan's stint as "thief-in-chief" is the Internet. Most news people and commentators are simply being civil to his family, thereby enabling propagandists and liars to dominate the general mass media with their self-serving rubbish.