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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 

Category: Music


SoundSafe Interviews Chicken John Posted on 05/04/09 Chicken John: Showman and “A Man of Possibility” By PAUL ZOLLO “America,” he said during a faux debate with Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, “is a land of possibility and I am a man of possibility.” It’s an adage that could well serve as his motto, as possibility is at the center of his life; the possibility to live by your own rules, to survive on the streets, to play in a punk band, to run a circus, to run for mayor, to run a bar, to run an artists’ warehouse, to use farce to force issues, to debate Newsom even when he refused to debate by enlisting a life-size puppet to stand in for the mayor. “I think that running for second place is a powerful tool for idiocy,” he said then to his assembled constituency, who might have been laughing the whole time but were also paying attention. “To be your first choice for second place, and your second choice for first place; if you add both of those second places together, that’s four places, and that’s three more places than Mr. Newsom. Because I think America wants more, and San Francisco wants more, and I’m gonna give you more.” Read MORE on SoundSafe.org ...

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