Gordon Parks has died.

Granted, Parks was 93, but I still feel a sense of loss whenever an innovator passes.

So let’s see…Dana Reeve, Kirby Puckett, Ali Farka Toure, Gordon Parks, Mortimo Planno, Johnny Jackson. Enough, already.

Ali Farka Toure has died.

Discuss.

Great time tonight out at Jester’s Cafe in Westfield…the hosting by dkeali_i was excellent, it was great to see psyches_task and thisrabbit come out for it, and the open mike was of particularly high quality.

One of the open mike readers was a woman who won an honorable mention in a contest I took second in back in 1995, when she was fifteen, and she remembered me because tonight I pulled out an ancient poem that she recalled me reading back then at the winners’ reading. Weird.

The feature went well, despite the fact that I messed up “Snakes On A Plane” a little by shuffling the order of certain images, but I managed to make it come out ok.

Next feature: the Cantab, March 29. DVD recording, most likely. C’mon out.