Dance-Nik and Franny Potts

We spoke to The Great BZWZ a few minutes ago, who just happens to be in PhoolyDelphia where a certain baseball game is scheduled to take place in a few hours, and it's already down into the 40s, cold, windy and rain is expected. The length of the baseball season is ludicrous, unless they want to play the entire season in Panama.

The Great Dance-Nik is in town and Plot and Duck went to see her read a new set of poems last night but got there a few minutes too late, because first they went to see Ann Randolph's new solo show "Loveland" at the Marsh, which started late and took longer than advertised. The Plots were very sorry to have missed Dance-Nik, but they did get to the gallery in time to hear another New York poet shout loud stanzas about farting, puking and peeing. Oh, shitting too. Lots of shitting, really, more shitting than farting, I'd say, wouldn't you dear?

He was actually pretty good, but God help you if you'd just snacked on a felafel.

Valencia Street was absolutely packed on Saturday night with young people attending various other events during LitQuake. It's fun to have the streets and clubs filled, but of course that's because the entertainment is free. (The owner of the gallery where Dance-Nik was appearing spoke to the two old folks in attendance about how hard it is to stay in business these days.)

But BOY the drunks and street people must be cashing in, because they were everywhere, camped along Valencia Street, lying on the sidewalk, or waving imaginary guitars while lurching from side to side singing atonal stanzas of "Kiss My Ass!" in English and Spanish.

The Great Plotnik has read Shantaram. He knows he is not being hip to notice these citizens, but criminy already.

As for art and lit, he only heard the one guy. And the bilingual "Kiss My Ass."

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Now then, about Ann Randolph: She's a phenomenon, very very funny with an elastic face and a new show even better than last year's "Squeezebox." You can read the San Francisco Theater Blog review of "Loveland" here. This is a fabulous show that is also cheap. Couldn't recommend it any more highly.