SUNY's Chancellor King denies orchestrating recent campus multi-agency enforcement actions

Plus, Bob Dylan's birthday, a look at his chart, a conversation with the outgoing editor of The Spectrum student newspaper (at Buffalo), and the self-centered sexuality series continued.

This is Bob, not the SUNY chancellor. Photo by William Claxton.

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Here is video of me confronting SUNY Chancellor John King earlier this week

I have a new program for you; I might have skipped it, but it’s Bob Dylan’s birthday.

For today’s musical selections, I worked with Jeff Rosen, head of Special Rider Music in New York City. Jeff manages Bob’s creative property and a few other things, and is also the most knowledgeable witness on matters of Dylan’s history and creative work. We are fairly steady pen pals, as he patiently answers my many questions, irons out my misunderstandings and tells me things I could never read in a book.

I sometimes send him photographs of a seemingly ordinary architectual feature he’s fond of, located on a building across the street from my apartment and office. I don’t know why but this little detail tells stories. If one comes to mind, please drop it into the comments.

Wall Street, Kingston, New York.

Tonight: Women Cover Bob Dylan Songs

A couple of months ago, prepping ahead for this program, I asked Jeff for a list of Bob songs covered by women, which he tapped into email off the top of his head; and that’s what you will get today on this rather lavish program on the occasion of Mr. Zimmerman’s 83rd birthday.

Tantra Studio is also special — I go through the history of the word “masturbation” and its inflections, and end up in the inner sanctum of Tantra were sex and sexuality are recognized and experienced as existential matters. I think this may be my best effort at explaining the concept of Tantra.

I’ll be Off Next Week

Please note, I’m planning to take next week’s program off (though I may have Tantra Studio concluding Masturbation Month).

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with love,

— efc

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