On the way in to work at Ginormous, I listen to Andrew Loog Oldham; on Thursday afternoons and Saturday night, I listen to Tom Petty. When I want Jazz, I tune in KPLU FM at Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma. And, on the way home, I usually listen to "Handsome Dick Manitoba" on XM59, Little Steven's Underground Garage. He mentioned that he and Tommy Ramone and some other Yiddish Punk guys were going to do this gig on the Jewish Roots of Punk.
Like Jews elsewhere, the four represented varying degrees of
Jewishness. Mr. Manitoba recalled losing his place reading his portion
of the Torah at his bar mitzvah. “After the bar mitzvah?” he said. “I
bought a pound of pot.”
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