Stone Cupid Real

Can't wait to get my hands on Mo Dowd's ARE MEN NECESSARY? Went back and started a book I'd gotten awhile ago, Naomi Klein's indictment of the Global Corporate Monolith, NO LOGO. Gets my dander up. Found BLINK purty blinkin' fluffy. Let's see. Still have a borrowed copy of Sam Fuller's A THIRD FACE. But that just reminds me that what I really want on a cold night is a good crime novel by James Ellroy or Jim Thompson.....

I've been reading since December, really I have!!!
It's just that I've also been working on my new record, and fueling my work on that, I've been reading things like Bob Dylan's CHRONICLES. The Wayne Shorter biography by Michelle Mercer called FOOTPRINTS is what I'm immersed in now. Marvelous. Read all that stuff people wrote about Hunter Thompson when he died, cuz my record is sort of seventies-style political...POWER AGING by Gary Null. Don't laugh. I'm still not through with the epic twentieth century thrill ride of THE THIRD FACE, Sam Fuller's autobiography (finished and published posthumously by my email buddy, his wonderful widow Christa Fuller, who really really likes Love is Driving....
I've been reading to my son at night sometimes....even tho he's twelve, he still likes to be read to.

Following are some of the agencies accepting contributions
for aid to people affected by the earthquake and tsunami in
Asia.

OXFAM AMERICA
Donor Services Department
26 West Street
Boston, MA
12111-1206
800-77-OXFAM


DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
P.O. Box 1856
Merrifield, Va.
22116-8056
888-392-0392


INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT


INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS
Earthquake/Tsunami Relief
1919 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Suite 300
Santa Monica, Calif. 90404
800-481-4462

ACTION AGAINST HUNGER
247 West 37th Street, Suite 1201
New York, N.Y. 10018
212-967-7800 x108

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE
AFSC Crisis Fund
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, Pa. 19102
215-241-7000

ISLAMIC RELIEF USA
Southeast Asia Earthquake Emergency
P.O. Box 6098
Burbank, Calif. 91510
888-479-4968

AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE
45 West 36th Street, 10th Floor
New York, N.Y. 10018
800-889-7146

DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, Calif. 93117
805-964-4767

MERCY CORPS
Southeast Asia Earthquake Response
Dept. W
P.O. Box 2669
Portland, Ore. 97208
800-852-2100

INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
CHARITIES
Asia Disaster Response
P.O. Box 630225
Baltimore, MD 21263-0225
877-803-4622

OPERATION USA
8320 Melrose Avenue, Suite 200
Los Angles,
Calif. 90069
800-678-7255

SAVE THE CHILDREN
Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, Conn. 06880
800-728-3843

( I checked the gushy corporate donor page against "choosetheblue.org"
and it looks to be as much blue as red. Let's hope the corporate
partners give a lot, too...)
I actually went to the web pages of all the charities listed in the New
York Times and left off some that looked too partisan, and American Red
Cross and a couple others that have been in the news as being shady.
If you'd care to see that full list, you can go here:
NEW YORK TIMES

Have a safe and strong new year.