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                                                           Delores Fisher Just a brief hello to thank you for putting us over the 20,000 mark! Special November hello to Ukraine, Brazil, Russia, Canada, and India. Yes, my readers are diverse ... Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving is fast "trotting" onto the holiday scene. We seem, in general, a bit more solemn and contemplative this year due to acts of violence and oppression. Perhaps we are becoming more deeply grateful for blessings in the middle of hurt and pain and confusion, and yes, anger, and frustration, and yet...humility.  Words also can not express our profound acknowledgement of bigger than life natural forces beyond o...

                                             Delores Fisher Blogger 2018 Hello to all, especially my longtime readers/followers in Canada, Russia, Brazil, the Seychelles, UK, China, and of course France. As each new year approaches and each year end fades, we as a global people often consider watershed pop culture events that have changed our perceptions. Musician scholar and pop culture critic William Banefield states, "Popular culture allows us to see so many meaningful elements, fixtures, and symbols of our culture. This is the means by which our identities are concretized in many ways."1  Through the lens of this quote, I must say: 2018 has been a very disturbingly interesting year. Hurricanes in the United States: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/accuwe...

Notesong readers: On Thursday, August 16th, Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul died at the age of 76. We have lost so many from her generation on a global scale in the last few years, in politics, theater, music, medicine, literature, engineering and many other fields. Can you sense it, my global readers? An age, an era is coming to its close. I may not pay tribute to all of the people who have impacted my life here in this, our Notesong blog space. Perhaps I will include several chapters in my new book. The following post is a short tribute to Aretha Franklin's life, her talent, and her inspiration to performers who copied a few of her soul stirring vocal and piano licks and carried on her sound to secular and religious audiences. Aretha Franklin's official website has a  treasure chest of additional memories http://www.arethafranklin.net/  I am still quietly grieving . . . THE ANNOUNCEMENT A Twitter (USA) announcement on Monday August 13th informed the world that Gospel...

                      Delores Fisher pre Comic Con San Diego at the pier Hello to new readers in the Seychelles! It's hotter when it's supposed to be cooling down and cooler when it's supposed to be heating up! San Diego's weather is Really interesting this summer. However, to  visitors here for Comic Con International at San Diego https://www.comic-con.org/cci  , this weather is usually considered gorgeous when compared to back home. Before I start . . . . a shout out to new readers in India. I spent some Comic Con time just hanging out with and talking to India's Rabindra Sarkar. He's back in America for a few months after traveling to South East Asia and Europe  for interviews and appearances.           Rabindra Sarkar July 2018 at Seaport Village, San Diego We've known each other for several years. Rabindra was one of the first people I recorded when I sta...

             Delores Fisher and Gingerlily Lowe inside Fringe Offices  (I've known Gingerlily for many years now.  We re-connect at San Diego International Fringe.) Asian Story Theater  https://www.facebook.com/AsianStoryTheater/   presentations are always finely staged and acted. After the show ended an hour later, San Diego International Fringe Festival format, I sat in my seat wanting more... more ... MORE ! The stage for  There And Home Again: More Stories From the Sun Cafe opens with a brief history of San Diego's Asian immigrant populations whose migrations brought them to participate in the fishing industry of the late 1800s.  Asian immigrants' life-narratives intertwined with those of other immigrants whose daily activities played out in diverse historic sections located along San Diego's  waterfront and Stingaree district. Historical Society wall plaques record facts that open a small window onto th...

Hello all you 2018 International Fringe Festival Frolickers! Happy World Fringe Day! (July 11th) Keep playing and enjoying progressive artistic creativity at its most extreme humanity embracing expression.                                    Delores Fisher Fringe Festival San Diego 2018 This year I attended the beginning festivities, at the Spreckels Theater on Broadway, for our San Diego International Fringe Festival. The Spreckels historic stage, the smaller Geoffrey Off Broadway stage, and the Lyceum Theater stage complex were the festival's performance center with various outlying venues including Writer's Ink, Starlight Bowl Upper Palisade, the Bristol Hotel, and adult entertainment space Les Girls.  Tijuana again hosted Bi-National performances at the Avenida Revolucion in Mexico. Fellow Fringe supporters and I joined with performers for this year...