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Jun 18Liked by Rafi Schwartz

I saw David Yow with Scratch Acid, his band before Jesus Lizard, back in the days when he routinely shat himself onstage and kept performing. I was always a prude when it came to scatological expression, so I got as far away from the front as I could but still worried that some errant diarrhea might splash on me somehow. As you may have inferred, I'm rather elderly.

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Jun 18Liked by Rafi Schwartz

Glad you described the entries, Rafi. I thought "Burns Night" was when Montgomery Burns was shot.

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Jun 19·edited Jun 19Liked by Rafi Schwartz

I had never seen that video of David Yow getting beaned with a bottle so hard that it shatters, so thanks for that. Incidentally, where the fuck does David Sims go right after it happens??? He just walks off stage!!!

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Of all the dates in Uncle Al’s life to commemorate, that’s certainly one of the liveliest!

My personal calendar includes January 15, the anniversary of Boston’s Great Molasses Flood.

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June 24, 1922...Thank you so much, Rafi, for observing a date to remember and celebrate! I submit that a statue of August Warns' foot be placed at the site of his heroic feat.

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