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Don't worry, it won't take very long. From an early age, my mother decided to shape her only son into a “man” through gifts of over-sized Redskins winter apparel. I could live with that because it was infinitely better than \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/YQROlsKL3M/?taken-by=excusemybeauty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the bow ties forced upon me in earlier years\u003c/a>. Something that was harder to accept was being enlisted in an actual sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn't recorded in any record books, but it's true: I was the most apathetic defense soccer player in the history of the game. As halfheartedly as Daria plays volleyball, I did my best to be as unhelpful as possible. But that didn't stop a hurtling ball from finding the side of my head. Stars! 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, sports don't come up that often. Well, until recently, that is, with the Warriors killing it last year and the SF Giants winning three World Series in five years. On each of those occasions, I took the “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach and sacrificed myself to \u003ca href=\"http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/90/087cb41702aff307d024cf8f163986a6/l.jpg\">the sporty gods\u003c/a>. And you know what, it wasn’t terrible. With the NBA Finals upon us, what’s a non-sports fan to do?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few tips on how to successfully pretend you care about sports (and maybe even have some fun while you’re at it):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">1. \u003cstrong>Do respect the high holiday and mind your manners.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kNIlbDZHJlU/ThI7plOhyBI/AAAAAAAAAKM/qHKlw3qKOLs/s1600/manners.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not sure if Emily Post ever touched on the topic of talking loudly over an important televised event, but I bet she would have been against it. So don’t be a chatterbox during pivotal plays. Just because you don’t care doesn’t mean that others don’t. This is called manners. You wouldn’t want someone to go on and on about how they just can’t figure out why so-and-so never called them back while you’re watching reruns of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/full-house/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full House\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, now would you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">2. \u003cstrong>Do wear the right colors.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/c4ce9940-1a5f-0131-b0bc-4e7ad7558a4b.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20154\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/01/c4ce9940-1a5f-0131-b0bc-4e7ad7558a4b.gif\" alt=\"clueless clothes gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dressing up is fun (see: Halloween and Quinceañeras, Rocky Horror shows and raves). So get in the mood by putting together an ensemble that is appropriate for the occasion. You don’t have to go so far as to wear a jersey or hat, but at least get the colors right if you plan on rooting for a specific team. Don some midnight blue, gold, and/or international orange for the Warriors. If for some reason you're rooting for the Cavaliers, go for wine, gold and/or navy blue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">3. \u003cstrong>Do find your people.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/RRteokw7m80'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/RRteokw7m80'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Life is too short to surround yourself with people that don't get you so find out where your kindred spirits hang out. If you like to be in the middle of the action, Mission dive bars are the place for you. If you enjoy reliving your college years, head to the Marina. If you don’t like strangers, invite yourself over to a friend’s house. And if you’re gay and aren’t opposed to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2013/01/30/proven-gays-like-sports-too/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a celebratory kiss\u003c/a>, check out Hi Tops in the Castro. If you don't live in San Francisco, I'm sure you know which local spot you'd feel most comfortable in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">4. \u003cstrong>Do your homework.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http://www.bbisd.org/pages/uploaded_images/Garfeils.gif\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one likes a dunce so do some light studying. Okay, let's be real; you're not going to study. Here's a cheat sheet from me to you:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of The Cooler, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2016/06/Warriors.mp3\" title=\"An Oral History of Selfies and the Warriors\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/03/clo.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/DownloadOniTunes_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://play.google.com/music/m/Ig3hk6qa4fzcgjp2kagptfgu4u4?t=The_Cooler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/Google_Play_100x100.png\" width=\"75px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Here are some fun facts about the Warriors that'll make you seem really sports savvy and informed at the next viewing party:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">In 2016, the Warriors broke the record for most wins in a regular season with 73 victories and only 9 losses. The 72-10 record was held by the 1996 Chicago Bulls. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">One of the players on that team was their current coach Steve Kerr.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Cfu7gpgUUAANRRm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Cfu7gpgUUAANRRm.jpg\" alt=\"chicago bulls steve kerr 1996\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Cfu7gpgUUAANRRm.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Cfu7gpgUUAANRRm-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">On the brink of elimination in the 2016 semifinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Warriors rallied and became the 10\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> team to overcome a 3-1 deficit in a best-of-seven series.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">The team originally called Philadelphia home and won the league’s first-ever championship way back in 1947.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Back then, the Warriors joined the Redskins in being as problematic as possible:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26182\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg.jpeg\" alt=\"philadelphia warriors logo native american\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg-400x286.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg-768x548.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">The team moved West in 1962 as the San Francisco Warriors, dropping the offensive Native American imagery. Nine years later, they became the Golden State Warriors.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos.jpg\" alt=\"golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos\" width=\"500\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos-400x482.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Star of the team Stephen Curry's real name is Wardell.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Curry has accomplished a lot in his 29 years, maybe most importantly helping create the most gif-able human being to ever grace this planet, Riley Curry.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/2LBY4H6-e0x.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26185\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/2LBY4H6-e0x.gif\" alt=\"riley curry baby mic gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"175\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/tumblr_np315qXQ1Z1tjrfcvo1_250.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26186\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/tumblr_np315qXQ1Z1tjrfcvo1_250.gif\" alt=\"riley curry gif conference\" width=\"245\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/tumblr_np315qXQ1Z1tjrfcvo1_250.gif 245w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/tumblr_np315qXQ1Z1tjrfcvo1_250-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/tumblr_np315qXQ1Z1tjrfcvo1_250-50x50.gif 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/tumblr_np315qXQ1Z1tjrfcvo1_250-64x64.gif 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/c479756cde05b755_Ril.xxxlarge.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26188\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/c479756cde05b755_Ril.xxxlarge.gif\" alt=\"riley curry eyes gif watching\" width=\"400\" height=\"218\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/y3DBjG.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26193\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/y3DBjG.gif\" alt=\"riley curry curtain gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">In 2016, 131 voters unanimously selected him as the MVP; a first.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Curry loves God a lot. He used to write a Bible verse on his sneakers (Phillippians 4:13), which says “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” Now those words grace his official Under Armour footwear.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/1a545a916fcb5c9ab5f1a9d4719038a3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26194\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/1a545a916fcb5c9ab5f1a9d4719038a3.jpg\" alt=\"steph curry sneakers bible\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/1a545a916fcb5c9ab5f1a9d4719038a3.jpg 736w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/1a545a916fcb5c9ab5f1a9d4719038a3-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Someone else he loves a lot: wife and chef Ayesha Curry. They first met at a church group. Years later, they reconnected in LA and strolled along the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their first date. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Ayesha was in LA pursuing acting; her most notable gig was an appearance in an episode of \u003cem>Hannah Montana\u003c/em>.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/CHAroyxUIAAk0jV.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25983\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/CHAroyxUIAAk0jV.jpg\" alt=\"ayesha curry hannah montana\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/CHAroyxUIAAk0jV.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/CHAroyxUIAAk0jV-400x222.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Rumor has it that, every time Steph commits more than three turnovers in a game, he has to give his mom $100.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"Normal\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Another major player is Draymond Green. He’s super passionate, but maybe too much so. He’s at risk for being suspended over committing too many flagrant fouls, like “accidentally” kicking someone in the balls during a recent game.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/maxresdefault-3.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26195\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/maxresdefault-3.jpg\" alt=\"draymond green flagrant foul kick balls\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/maxresdefault-3.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/maxresdefault-3-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/maxresdefault-3-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/maxresdefault-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/maxresdefault-3-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/maxresdefault-3-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/maxresdefault-3-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"Normal\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Back in the 9\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> grade, he was caught cheating on a biology test so his mother gave away everything he owned. Old school parenting skills in full effect!\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"Normal\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">In \u003cem>Stars: They’re Just Like Us!\u003c/em> news, Draymond was so turned off by the crazy astronomical rents in San Francisco that he moved across the bridge to Emeryville.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"Normal\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">The player with the coolest name from the 2016 roster, Festus Ezeli emigrated from Nigeria at 14 to become a doctor. Needless to say, things didn't really go that way.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"Normal\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Shaun Livingston, a player who doesn't get as much attention as these other guys, is kind of a prodigy. He could walk at seven months and was reading by the age of three.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">And last, but certainly not least, Klay Thompson comes from a family that has very athletic genetics. His father played for three separate teams in the NBA in his day, and his brother Trayce plays major league baseball for the LA Dodgers.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-11.22.57-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26196\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-11.22.57-AM.png\" alt=\"klay thompson dad\" width=\"495\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-11.22.57-AM.png 495w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-11.22.57-AM-400x238.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Without Klay's playoff record for most three pointers, the Warriors wouldn't even be in the Finals this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">Something to watch for in the Finals is how Klay interacts with a Cavaliers player called Kevin Love (nephew of Beach Boys founder, Mike Love). They were childhood friends and played on the same Little League team in Oregon. In 2015, Love had an injury and had to watch Klay beat his team to win the title. Rumor has it he wasn't very happy about that and did something about it in 2016, when the Cavs beat the Warriors.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/kevin-love-klay-thompson-little-league.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26198\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/kevin-love-klay-thompson-little-league.jpg\" alt=\"kevin love klay thompson little league\" width=\"645\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/kevin-love-klay-thompson-little-league.jpg 645w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/kevin-love-klay-thompson-little-league-400x427.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">The main reason to love Klay: he's a shameless \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> geek. Exhibit A: the high school photo of him dressed up as a Hogwarts wizard, wand and all, below. And there's also \u003ca href=\"http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2016/2/27/11125300/klay-thompson-harry-potter-video-warriors\">a photo series of him geeking out\u003c/a> on a recent trip to Orlando’s \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> theme park. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0MyHQNBl.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26200\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0MyHQNBl.jpg\" alt=\"klay thompson harry potter wand costume high school\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This post ends now because there's no way things get better than that photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're still not feeling the Warriors, or sports in general, these helpful tips on how to pretend you care are for you:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2017/06/07/a-reluctant-sports-fans-guide-to-the-2017-nba-finals\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Go Warriors!!!\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The 72-10 record was held by the 1996 Chicago Bulls. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">One of the players on that team was their current coach Steve Kerr.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Cfu7gpgUUAANRRm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26181\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Cfu7gpgUUAANRRm.jpg\" alt=\"chicago bulls steve kerr 1996\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Cfu7gpgUUAANRRm.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Cfu7gpgUUAANRRm-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">On the brink of elimination in the 2016 semifinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Warriors rallied and became the 10\u003csup>th\u003c/sup> team to overcome a 3-1 deficit in a best-of-seven series.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">The team originally called Philadelphia home and won the league’s first-ever championship way back in 1947.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Back then, the Warriors joined the Redskins in being as problematic as possible:\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26182\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg.jpeg\" alt=\"philadelphia warriors logo native american\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg-400x286.jpeg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/0240BSCP1011_lg-768x548.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">The team moved West in 1962 as the San Francisco Warriors, dropping the offensive Native American imagery. Nine years later, they became the Golden State Warriors.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos.jpg\" alt=\"golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos\" width=\"500\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos.jpg 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/golden-state-warriors-historical-logo-nba-funny-photos-400x482.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Star of the team Stephen Curry's real name is Wardell.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Curry has accomplished a lot in his 29 years, maybe most importantly helping create the most gif-able human being to ever grace this planet, Riley Curry.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/2LBY4H6-e0x.gif\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26185\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/2LBY4H6-e0x.gif\" alt=\"riley curry baby mic gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"175\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Years later, they reconnected in LA and strolled along the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their first date. \u003c/span>\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Ayesha was in LA pursuing acting; her most notable gig was an appearance in an episode of \u003cem>Hannah Montana\u003c/em>.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/CHAroyxUIAAk0jV.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25983\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/CHAroyxUIAAk0jV.jpg\" alt=\"ayesha curry hannah montana\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/CHAroyxUIAAk0jV.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/CHAroyxUIAAk0jV-400x222.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Rumor has it that, every time Steph commits more than three turnovers in a game, he has to give his mom $100.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"Normal\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Another major player is Draymond Green. He’s super passionate, but maybe too much so. 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Old school parenting skills in full effect!\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"Normal\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">In \u003cem>Stars: They’re Just Like Us!\u003c/em> news, Draymond was so turned off by the crazy astronomical rents in San Francisco that he moved across the bridge to Emeryville.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"Normal\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">The player with the coolest name from the 2016 roster, Festus Ezeli emigrated from Nigeria at 14 to become a doctor. Needless to say, things didn't really go that way.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"Normal\">\u003cspan class=\"Normal__Char\">Shaun Livingston, a player who doesn't get as much attention as these other guys, is kind of a prodigy. He could walk at seven months and was reading by the age of three.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">And last, but certainly not least, Klay Thompson comes from a family that has very athletic genetics. His father played for three separate teams in the NBA in his day, and his brother Trayce plays major league baseball for the LA Dodgers.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-11.22.57-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26196\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-11.22.57-AM.png\" alt=\"klay thompson dad\" width=\"495\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-11.22.57-AM.png 495w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/Screen-Shot-2016-06-08-at-11.22.57-AM-400x238.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">Without Klay's playoff record for most three pointers, the Warriors wouldn't even be in the Finals this year.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">Something to watch for in the Finals is how Klay interacts with a Cavaliers player called Kevin Love (nephew of Beach Boys founder, Mike Love). They were childhood friends and played on the same Little League team in Oregon. In 2015, Love had an injury and had to watch Klay beat his team to win the title. Rumor has it he wasn't very happy about that and did something about it in 2016, when the Cavs beat the Warriors.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/kevin-love-klay-thompson-little-league.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26198\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/kevin-love-klay-thompson-little-league.jpg\" alt=\"kevin love klay thompson little league\" width=\"645\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/kevin-love-klay-thompson-little-league.jpg 645w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/kevin-love-klay-thompson-little-league-400x427.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli class=\"List_0020Paragraph\">\u003cspan class=\"List_0020Paragraph__Char\">The main reason to love Klay: he's a shameless \u003cem>Harry Potter\u003c/em> geek. 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"content": "\u003cp>I'm nearly a year behind on this, but I finally got around to watching \u003cem>I Am Chris Farley\u003c/em>, the 2015 documentary about the late, insanely talented comedian whose appetites for food, booze and cocaine ended his life far too soon, at the age of 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was sweet, but it wasn't terribly illuminating. It was no surprise, certainly, to learn his over-the-top persona belied a well of insecurity, an almost compulsive need to be liked, to make others happy, often at the expense of his own well-being. In reading a few reviews, though, I saw one sentiment popping up repeatedly: that it was tough to reconcile the fiercely loving friend and practicing Catholic with the addict who died alone on a linoleum floor after a three-day binge, from a combination of cocaine and morphine, following more than a dozen attempts at rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For various reasons, some of which I try not to think about too hard, I've simply never found this difficult to reconcile. Suffice it to say, it makes sense that the relationship between people-pleasing personality types and alcoholism was fresh on my mind a few days later when I called up Sarah Hepola, the author of the 2015 \u003ci>New York Times\u003c/i> best-selling memoir \u003cem>Blackout. \u003c/em>(Full disclosure: Hepola was my boss at my first job out of grad school, an internship at Salon.com, where she was an editor until last year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book is a brutally honest, hilarious and devastating anthropological dig into Hepola's blacked-out drunk years -- what led to them, from her first sip of beer at age 11 to the cool-girl-who-can-hang-with-the-guys persona of her 20s, and what finally led her out of them. (Among other things: nearly burning her house down, a series of semi-existential crises, and a lot of support from friends and AA.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Blackout \u003c/i>was published in paperback for the first time this week, so the writer's embarked on a mini book tour, including two stops in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/event/sarah-hepola-blackout-remembering-things-i-drank-forget-peggy-orenstein\" target=\"_blank\">She'll appear at Booksmith\u003c/a> this Thursday, June 9, in conversation with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/29/472211301/girls-sex-and-the-importance-of-talking-to-young-women-about-pleasure\" target=\"_blank\">Peggy Orenstein\u003c/a>, and again on Saturday, June 11, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/25/what-do-haikus-lesbians-and-cats-have-in-common-ask-anna-pulley/\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Pulley\u003c/a> and other very funny East Bay writers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurelbookstore.com/event/evening-anna-pulley-kelsey-beyer-and-special-guests\" target=\"_blank\">Laurel Book Store\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26164\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The author in her not-sober years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author in her not-sober years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED Pop: The addiction-recovery memoir is, obviously, far from a new thing -- especially when you look at writers talking about how alcohol helped fuel their craft. I'm curious what made you want to write \u003cem>Blackout. \u003c/em>What made you feel like your story had something new to add?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Hepola:\u003c/strong> When I first started thinking about writing a book, I went to Barnes & Noble in Union Square [in New York], and I went to the addiction section and read everything I could find. I found this book about women and drinking, and the upshot was that women hide their drinking and there are no social rituals about drinking for women the way there are for men. And I just went, \"Hmm, this book is not true of my experience.\" By 2010, when I quit, there was the boom in wine for the last 15 or 20 years that's been driven by women, the growth of girls' night, or girls' drinking book clubs, bachelorette parties. All of it was around drinking. And I thought, \"I don't think this story's been told yet.\" We've all been living it, but it takes a while for the studies and the literature to catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing is I was reading a lot of books about addiction that would end when the character got sober. And I'd be thinking, \"What next?\" Okay, fine, I'm going to quit drinking, but my life's gonna be over? I needed to answer what was after that. That's the beginning of a story, not the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/06/03/480460363/a-path-from-blackout-drunkenness-to-sobriety-and-self-acceptance\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to Sarah Hepola talk about 'Blackout' on Fresh Air here.\u003c/a>]\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/427435929/427853008\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the things that stuck with me about \u003cem>Blackout \u003c/em>is the way you talk about using alcohol to get out of your own head -- as a person who had always been the good girl, used to making everyone happy, that drinking provided a sort of way out.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It meant \u003cem>freedom\u003c/em>. Absolutely. I've always been oppressed by my own self-consciousness, by meeting other people's expectations of me and adapting to them -- 'Okay, I have to be cool with these people, and good with these people.' It was different performances on different stages and all of that stuff is so exhausting. Alcohol was the release from that. So when you're young and someone says, 'You have a drinking problem,' you think, 'No, I've got a drinking solution.' [Laughs.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, of course, if you keep using that solution, and you over-rely on that solution and you don't find other ways to fix it, it will stop being a solution and start being a problem. It shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's where I was [in 2010]. I didn't want to quit, but I had to, so I quit -- which, great. Yay, me. Let's all cheer for the heroine, right? But I'm still the same lousy person, oppressed by self-consciousness, desperate to be liked, and loved by men, and what do you do with all that when you don't have alcohol? [Figuring that out] has pretty much been the last six years of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So, you basically just summarized the internal monologue of most women I know, regardless of age or alcohol use. What have you learned in six years? Any tricks we can steal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, I think you have to try to care less. As you get older, you start realizing you have a finite amount of mental energy and, you know, maybe I need to stop worrying what strangers on the street think of my outfit. You realize you do have choices, and you start making choices toward actual agency. When I wasn't drinking the discomfort away, I started to problem-solve a little bit. If I was getting ready to go out and I was feeling like 'I hate going out,' I'd have to go, 'Okay, why am I uncomfortable? Right, I hate putting on clothes, because I'm overweight.' Whereas before it would just be 'Okay, I'm going to drink until I feel better.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's a very female problem, too: I would tell everyone what they wanted to hear. And then it would be, 'Okay, how am I gonna get out of this?' \u003cem>You can say no\u003c/em>. I think my AA sponsor was the first person to tell me that. And it's so simple, but it's so hard. I would shake sometimes doing it. Learning not to get myself into situations that I had to drink away was big. And so was asking for what I wanted and needed. For example, let's say I have a relationship with a guy, and he doesn't text me back. Instead of building a story in my head about why, you can ask \"Is there something going on?\" And for a lot of my life, that didn't seem like a possible option. I am repeatedly struck by the fact that I am 41 years old and learning skills I wish I'd learned when I was 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The impact of sobriety on your dating and sex life definitely jumped out at me in the last third of the book. And it's interesting, because that's an area of life where I think even people who would never consider themselves to be problem drinkers are incredibly accustomed to using alcohol to self-medicate anxiety. It's acceptable, for some reason, in that context. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. I spoke with a friend who's a 27-year-old sex writer about this, and she does not have a drinking problem. She said \"I don't think I could [date] without it.\" She writes about sex for a living! That's telling us something. That doesn't mean we all have to get sober -- believe me, I'm not interested in what other people are drinking. But why is it that we feel we need to drink in order to be sexual, almost to a crippling degree? I've had to completely recalibrate the way I do business, rethink my stance on casual sex. There's a lot of emotional vulnerability that comes with being sober. I think if I want physical closeness with someone, unfortunately, it has to be someone I really feel comfortable with, and not a lot of people jump through that hoop. I keep my door locked now. The door was open for a long time. [Laughs.] The door didn't even have a lock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does that almost feel like a thing you're not supposed to admit -- that sex involves feelings for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right! Because feelings are seen as weak; we see it as too traditionally feminine. You're basically calling bullshit on the party, and nobody wants to call bullshit. It's been hard for me: Am I a prude? But you really do have to stop worrying what everyone thinks of you. I'd be on a date with a guy and think \"If I could just get drunk I could have sex with him,\" where, without drinking, I didn't even want to touch him. And I realized there was a really well-worn path there: if I felt natural reluctance or fear, bulldoze it until you're in fuck-it-ville. I lived in fuck-it-ville for a lot of years, and people who live there, more power to 'em. But it's been an interesting social experiment not to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26167\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26167\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Blackout by Sarah Hepola\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-768x431.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329-960x539.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackout_7319edit_wide-4639bdb09322c0259cd530924d79472930b036da-e1465404626329.jpg 1326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackout by Sarah Hepola\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I'm curious about your take on Amy Schumer in \u003cem>Trainwreck\u003c/em>, and how she handles the women-and-alcohol-and-casual-sex thing, since that film came out at almost exactly the same time as your book last year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I like Amy Schumer so much, and it actually kind of creeps me out how many things we seem to have in common. It's really weird that my book, which starts with me coming out of a blackout in a Paris hotel room, came out during the same summer as Amy Schumer's movie, where she's coming out of a blackout in Staten Island -- but of course she's playing it for laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think both my book and that movie are reflecting, in our own ways, a cultural shift that has happened in the last 20 years, which is that it's seen as a position of power for women to drink and have sex like men. And I think that is both a position of power and a terrible handicap at times. One of the inspirations for my book -- I was reading Chelsea Handler's book, \u003cem>My Horizontal Life\u003c/em>, about sleeping with the wrong people, and that was also all played for laughs. I had just come out of that, and I didn't think it was that funny anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my drinking years I would tell those stories at parties and I always made people laugh, but I was curious: what was the emotional reality of those stories? If you didn't tell those stories at parties for a laugh, what would the real versions be? I mean, you could do that with Facebook, too: What's the real story here? Often, it'd be a lot of grisly shit. You hit some really raw places coming into sobriety. There's all this scar tissue around your sex life in a way I didn't see before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's funny, because in that movie, even though the ending (with Amy Schumer's character getting sober to work on her relationship) was clearly supposed to be good for her, part of me had this knee-jerk thing, like: Wait, why does she have to throw away her bong? For a \u003cem>guy\u003c/em>?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think a lot of people felt that way, and it makes sense: There's a certain disappointment among women that they are not allowed the freedom of being badly behaved. Bad behavior is power, that's cool, that's transgressive. My question is, why do we think being a jerk is aspirational? I did not experience the Amy Schumer character who says cruel things to her friends, who's rude and detached, as \"Yeah, she's so awesome.\" Who wants to stand in line to be a dick?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I also get it. I really do understand that women have felt shoehorned into positions of nurturer and good girl and people-pleaser, these things that have got you and I looking to alcohol. There is this real longing to see freedom from that. And that's a big conversation, but one thing I know is that I, as an adult person, am tired of that freedom coming through alcohol. That's a narrative cliche, but it's true: There's got to be another way that women free themselves aside from taking shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/event/sarah-hepola-blackout-remembering-things-i-drank-forget-peggy-orenstein\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Hepola will appear at Booksmith\u003c/a> this Thursday, June 9 at 7:30pm, in conversation with Peggy Orenstein, and Saturday, June 11, with Anna Pulley at \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurelbookstore.com/event/evening-anna-pulley-kelsey-beyer-and-special-guests\" target=\"_blank\">Laurel Book Store\u003c/a> in Oakland. Read her award-winning piece for Texas Monthly on \u003ca href=\"http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/the-alcohol-blackout/\" target=\"_blank\">campus sexual assault here\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I'm nearly a year behind on this, but I finally got around to watching \u003cem>I Am Chris Farley\u003c/em>, the 2015 documentary about the late, insanely talented comedian whose appetites for food, booze and cocaine ended his life far too soon, at the age of 33.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was sweet, but it wasn't terribly illuminating. It was no surprise, certainly, to learn his over-the-top persona belied a well of insecurity, an almost compulsive need to be liked, to make others happy, often at the expense of his own well-being. In reading a few reviews, though, I saw one sentiment popping up repeatedly: that it was tough to reconcile the fiercely loving friend and practicing Catholic with the addict who died alone on a linoleum floor after a three-day binge, from a combination of cocaine and morphine, following more than a dozen attempts at rehab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For various reasons, some of which I try not to think about too hard, I've simply never found this difficult to reconcile. Suffice it to say, it makes sense that the relationship between people-pleasing personality types and alcoholism was fresh on my mind a few days later when I called up Sarah Hepola, the author of the 2015 \u003ci>New York Times\u003c/i> best-selling memoir \u003cem>Blackout. \u003c/em>(Full disclosure: Hepola was my boss at my first job out of grad school, an internship at Salon.com, where she was an editor until last year.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The book is a brutally honest, hilarious and devastating anthropological dig into Hepola's blacked-out drunk years -- what led to them, from her first sip of beer at age 11 to the cool-girl-who-can-hang-with-the-guys persona of her 20s, and what finally led her out of them. (Among other things: nearly burning her house down, a series of semi-existential crises, and a lot of support from friends and AA.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Blackout \u003c/i>was published in paperback for the first time this week, so the writer's embarked on a mini book tour, including two stops in the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"http://www.booksmith.com/event/sarah-hepola-blackout-remembering-things-i-drank-forget-peggy-orenstein\" target=\"_blank\">She'll appear at Booksmith\u003c/a> this Thursday, June 9, in conversation with \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/03/29/472211301/girls-sex-and-the-importance-of-talking-to-young-women-about-pleasure\" target=\"_blank\">Peggy Orenstein\u003c/a>, and again on Saturday, June 11, with \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/04/25/what-do-haikus-lesbians-and-cats-have-in-common-ask-anna-pulley/\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Pulley\u003c/a> and other very funny East Bay writers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.laurelbookstore.com/event/evening-anna-pulley-kelsey-beyer-and-special-guests\" target=\"_blank\">Laurel Book Store\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26164\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26164\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"The author in her not-sober years. \" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/arts_feature1-1-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author in her not-sober years.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>KQED Pop: The addiction-recovery memoir is, obviously, far from a new thing -- especially when you look at writers talking about how alcohol helped fuel their craft. I'm curious what made you want to write \u003cem>Blackout. \u003c/em>What made you feel like your story had something new to add?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sarah Hepola:\u003c/strong> When I first started thinking about writing a book, I went to Barnes & Noble in Union Square [in New York], and I went to the addiction section and read everything I could find. I found this book about women and drinking, and the upshot was that women hide their drinking and there are no social rituals about drinking for women the way there are for men. And I just went, \"Hmm, this book is not true of my experience.\" By 2010, when I quit, there was the boom in wine for the last 15 or 20 years that's been driven by women, the growth of girls' night, or girls' drinking book clubs, bachelorette parties. All of it was around drinking. And I thought, \"I don't think this story's been told yet.\" We've all been living it, but it takes a while for the studies and the literature to catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other thing is I was reading a lot of books about addiction that would end when the character got sober. And I'd be thinking, \"What next?\" Okay, fine, I'm going to quit drinking, but my life's gonna be over? I needed to answer what was after that. That's the beginning of a story, not the end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/06/03/480460363/a-path-from-blackout-drunkenness-to-sobriety-and-self-acceptance\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to Sarah Hepola talk about 'Blackout' on Fresh Air here.\u003c/a>]\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.npr.org/player/embed/427435929/427853008\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the things that stuck with me about \u003cem>Blackout \u003c/em>is the way you talk about using alcohol to get out of your own head -- as a person who had always been the good girl, used to making everyone happy, that drinking provided a sort of way out.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It meant \u003cem>freedom\u003c/em>. Absolutely. I've always been oppressed by my own self-consciousness, by meeting other people's expectations of me and adapting to them -- 'Okay, I have to be cool with these people, and good with these people.' It was different performances on different stages and all of that stuff is so exhausting. Alcohol was the release from that. So when you're young and someone says, 'You have a drinking problem,' you think, 'No, I've got a drinking solution.' [Laughs.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then, of course, if you keep using that solution, and you over-rely on that solution and you don't find other ways to fix it, it will stop being a solution and start being a problem. It shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's where I was [in 2010]. I didn't want to quit, but I had to, so I quit -- which, great. Yay, me. Let's all cheer for the heroine, right? But I'm still the same lousy person, oppressed by self-consciousness, desperate to be liked, and loved by men, and what do you do with all that when you don't have alcohol? [Figuring that out] has pretty much been the last six years of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>So, you basically just summarized the internal monologue of most women I know, regardless of age or alcohol use. What have you learned in six years? Any tricks we can steal?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First of all, I think you have to try to care less. As you get older, you start realizing you have a finite amount of mental energy and, you know, maybe I need to stop worrying what strangers on the street think of my outfit. You realize you do have choices, and you start making choices toward actual agency. When I wasn't drinking the discomfort away, I started to problem-solve a little bit. If I was getting ready to go out and I was feeling like 'I hate going out,' I'd have to go, 'Okay, why am I uncomfortable? Right, I hate putting on clothes, because I'm overweight.' Whereas before it would just be 'Okay, I'm going to drink until I feel better.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it's a very female problem, too: I would tell everyone what they wanted to hear. And then it would be, 'Okay, how am I gonna get out of this?' \u003cem>You can say no\u003c/em>. I think my AA sponsor was the first person to tell me that. And it's so simple, but it's so hard. I would shake sometimes doing it. Learning not to get myself into situations that I had to drink away was big. And so was asking for what I wanted and needed. For example, let's say I have a relationship with a guy, and he doesn't text me back. Instead of building a story in my head about why, you can ask \"Is there something going on?\" And for a lot of my life, that didn't seem like a possible option. I am repeatedly struck by the fact that I am 41 years old and learning skills I wish I'd learned when I was 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The impact of sobriety on your dating and sex life definitely jumped out at me in the last third of the book. And it's interesting, because that's an area of life where I think even people who would never consider themselves to be problem drinkers are incredibly accustomed to using alcohol to self-medicate anxiety. It's acceptable, for some reason, in that context. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yeah. I spoke with a friend who's a 27-year-old sex writer about this, and she does not have a drinking problem. She said \"I don't think I could [date] without it.\" She writes about sex for a living! That's telling us something. That doesn't mean we all have to get sober -- believe me, I'm not interested in what other people are drinking. But why is it that we feel we need to drink in order to be sexual, almost to a crippling degree? I've had to completely recalibrate the way I do business, rethink my stance on casual sex. There's a lot of emotional vulnerability that comes with being sober. I think if I want physical closeness with someone, unfortunately, it has to be someone I really feel comfortable with, and not a lot of people jump through that hoop. I keep my door locked now. The door was open for a long time. [Laughs.] The door didn't even have a lock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does that almost feel like a thing you're not supposed to admit -- that sex involves feelings for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right! Because feelings are seen as weak; we see it as too traditionally feminine. You're basically calling bullshit on the party, and nobody wants to call bullshit. It's been hard for me: Am I a prude? But you really do have to stop worrying what everyone thinks of you. I'd be on a date with a guy and think \"If I could just get drunk I could have sex with him,\" where, without drinking, I didn't even want to touch him. And I realized there was a really well-worn path there: if I felt natural reluctance or fear, bulldoze it until you're in fuck-it-ville. I lived in fuck-it-ville for a lot of years, and people who live there, more power to 'em. 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I had just come out of that, and I didn't think it was that funny anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During my drinking years I would tell those stories at parties and I always made people laugh, but I was curious: what was the emotional reality of those stories? If you didn't tell those stories at parties for a laugh, what would the real versions be? I mean, you could do that with Facebook, too: What's the real story here? Often, it'd be a lot of grisly shit. You hit some really raw places coming into sobriety. There's all this scar tissue around your sex life in a way I didn't see before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's funny, because in that movie, even though the ending (with Amy Schumer's character getting sober to work on her relationship) was clearly supposed to be good for her, part of me had this knee-jerk thing, like: Wait, why does she have to throw away her bong? 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"content": "\u003cp>While Kanye West’s proposed bid for the 2020 U.S. presidential election won’t start for another few years, there have already been plenty of overlap moments between music and the U.S. election cycle, a coupling that goes as far back as our first president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While George Washington didn’t have any official campaign jingles, many songs were written about him, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPXNlnfKpj0\">“God Save Great Washington”\u003c/a> based off of “God Save the King.” Originally, many political tunes paired new lyrics with pre-existing melodies, like William Henry Harrison’s famous \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XcDeRJ_Osc\">“Tippecanoe and Tyler Too”\u003c/a>, which was set to folk tune “Little Pigs” and swept the nation during his successful 1840 campaign. It has since been covered by They Might Be Giants:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaRklAYanY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other politicians were savvy in a different way, picking well-established songs and singers to help define their campaigns. Abraham Lincoln’s chose \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhCheCryopA\">“Battle Cry of Freedom”\u003c/a> (also known as “Rally Round the Flag” and used again by Garfield in a later election) for his 1864 campaign. FDR’s\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqsT4xnKZPg\"> “Happy Days are Here Again”\u003c/a> ended up defining the Democratic Party’s soundtrack for years. Presidential heartthrob JFK turned to Frank Sinatra's 1959 hit “High Hopes” to convince voters that he was the man for them:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/lHRTCVwSKMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent history, there have been some missteps in the campaign song game. In the complicated 2000 election, George W. Bush attempted to use Tom Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down.” The singer, who was a supporter of Al Gore, threatened to sue him and subsequently played the song proudly at Gore headquarters just minutes after he’d conceded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUTXb-ga1fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, President Obama has set the bar so high with selections like Ben Harper’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOZj1Xyx354\">“Better Way”\u003c/a> and Motown favorite Stevie Wonder’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC_lab-34\">“Signed, Sealed, Delivered”\u003c/a> that many political analysts have blasted the current candidates for uninspired choices. Luckily, this armchair commentator is here to help, especially as Californians head to the polls today to Rock the Vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some suggestions for the remaining candidates:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Donald Trump\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like his hat merch proclaims, Republican candidate Trump wants to “Make America Great Again.” However, Trump’s original pick of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” was denied by the rocker, as were tunes from Adele, Aerosmith, and R.E.M. So Trump took matters into his own hands and unveiled \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/14/listen-to-this-terrifying-new-donald-trump-song-sung-by-small-children/\">The Freedom Girls, a girl group that sings lyrics like “Deal from strength or get crushed every time.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump enjoys reminding Americans of better days, he might take a cue from JFK and pick another one of ol’ Blue Eyes’s hits -- “My Way” -- to explain how his presidency would shake up politics:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egY8rUpxqcE\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump might also want to warn his voters about the sometimes violent protests that have been erupting at his recent campaign stops. My suggestion? Outside each of his convention halls, he could blast Kenny Loggins’ hit “Danger Zone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Bernie Sanders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musically, Sanders has made some smart choices; for example, the use of Simon and Garfunkel’s perennial hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug\">“America”\u003c/a> in his campaign ads was very well-received. But, at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/07/despite-a-gloomy-forecast-san-francisco-feels-the-bern-at-crissy-field/\">his Bay Area campaign rally yesterday\u003c/a>, his headliner Dave Matthews Band had some scratching their heads at Sanders’ momentary lack of street cred for his constituency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Sanders likes to dig back into musical archives for material, here’s an idea that people of any age would appreciate: \u003cem>The Underdog\u003c/em> theme song from 1964. Here’s why it’s perfect: not only will a large voting block -- the Baby Boomers -- respond with nostalgia for this folksy show, but younger voters might remember the 2007 adaptation. And the lyrics reflect many of Sanders’ campaign ideas of wanting to help the, well, underdogs of American society: “Speed of lightning, roar of thunder, fighting all who rob or plunder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHej4ZqZDwo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, if the associations with a popular cartoon aren't considered presidential material, he might do well to make use of 1984 Twisted Sister hit “We’re Not Going To Take It.” I bet he and Ellen would have a fun time dancing to it, at the very least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmckWVPRaI\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Hillary Clinton\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Hillary is determined to leave no opportunity behind, so she released a carefully-curated \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/politics/election-2016-hillary-clinton-spotify-playlist/\">Spotify playlist\u003c/a> featuring plenty of female artists like Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Sara Bareilles and Jennifer Lopez. (Unfortunately, the playlist does not feature a hit suggested by many to be Clinton’s unofficial campaign motto -- “Shake it Off.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s helpful that songs like Clarkson’s “Stronger” reflect her message, I am left wondering if they truly reflect Clinton’s personal taste. Instead, I would suggest that she take a cue from her husband’s successful 1992 campaign. While aides thought that the Fleetwood Mac #3 hit on the 1977 Billboard charts \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3JA1nWPFqM\">“Don’t Stop” \u003c/a>would seem not “cool” enough, Clinton held firm and still uses the song since it proved such a crucial part of that election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what would I suggest for Hillary Rodham Clinton? If she wants to emphasize the historic aspects of her campaign and her history of fighting for women’s rights, she might try using Helen Reddy’s hit “I Am Woman” from 1971 that helped shape the International Woman's Year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUBnxqEVKlk\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUBnxqEVKlk\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or she could also pick everywoman’s Bridget Jones’s favorite anthem, “I’m Every Woman” as sung by Chaka Khan in 1978:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8xuUdI1an0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She could also pick the Beach Boys’ “Be True to Your School” to reflect her hope that Democrats remain loyal to their party this election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ijkYkJfg0s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, only one nominee can ascend to the presidency, so what about the others? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent history, there have been some missteps in the campaign song game. In the complicated 2000 election, George W. Bush attempted to use Tom Petty’s song “I Won’t Back Down.” The singer, who was a supporter of Al Gore, threatened to sue him and subsequently played the song proudly at Gore headquarters just minutes after he’d conceded:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/nUTXb-ga1fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, President Obama has set the bar so high with selections like Ben Harper’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOZj1Xyx354\">“Better Way”\u003c/a> and Motown favorite Stevie Wonder’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inXC_lab-34\">“Signed, Sealed, Delivered”\u003c/a> that many political analysts have blasted the current candidates for uninspired choices. Luckily, this armchair commentator is here to help, especially as Californians head to the polls today to Rock the Vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some suggestions for the remaining candidates:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Donald Trump\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like his hat merch proclaims, Republican candidate Trump wants to “Make America Great Again.” However, Trump’s original pick of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” was denied by the rocker, as were tunes from Adele, Aerosmith, and R.E.M. So Trump took matters into his own hands and unveiled \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/01/14/listen-to-this-terrifying-new-donald-trump-song-sung-by-small-children/\">The Freedom Girls, a girl group that sings lyrics like “Deal from strength or get crushed every time.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Trump enjoys reminding Americans of better days, he might take a cue from JFK and pick another one of ol’ Blue Eyes’s hits -- “My Way” -- to explain how his presidency would shake up politics:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/egY8rUpxqcE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/egY8rUpxqcE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Trump might also want to warn his voters about the sometimes violent protests that have been erupting at his recent campaign stops. My suggestion? Outside each of his convention halls, he could blast Kenny Loggins’ hit “Danger Zone.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/siwpn14IE7E'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/siwpn14IE7E'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Bernie Sanders\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Musically, Sanders has made some smart choices; for example, the use of Simon and Garfunkel’s perennial hit \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug\">“America”\u003c/a> in his campaign ads was very well-received. But, at \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/06/07/despite-a-gloomy-forecast-san-francisco-feels-the-bern-at-crissy-field/\">his Bay Area campaign rally yesterday\u003c/a>, his headliner Dave Matthews Band had some scratching their heads at Sanders’ momentary lack of street cred for his constituency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Sanders likes to dig back into musical archives for material, here’s an idea that people of any age would appreciate: \u003cem>The Underdog\u003c/em> theme song from 1964. Here’s why it’s perfect: not only will a large voting block -- the Baby Boomers -- respond with nostalgia for this folksy show, but younger voters might remember the 2007 adaptation. And the lyrics reflect many of Sanders’ campaign ideas of wanting to help the, well, underdogs of American society: “Speed of lightning, roar of thunder, fighting all who rob or plunder.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/qHej4ZqZDwo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/qHej4ZqZDwo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Of course, if the associations with a popular cartoon aren't considered presidential material, he might do well to make use of 1984 Twisted Sister hit “We’re Not Going To Take It.” I bet he and Ellen would have a fun time dancing to it, at the very least.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4xmckWVPRaI'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4xmckWVPRaI'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>Hillary Clinton\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">Hillary is determined to leave no opportunity behind, so she released a carefully-curated \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/13/politics/election-2016-hillary-clinton-spotify-playlist/\">Spotify playlist\u003c/a> featuring plenty of female artists like Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Sara Bareilles and Jennifer Lopez. (Unfortunately, the playlist does not feature a hit suggested by many to be Clinton’s unofficial campaign motto -- “Shake it Off.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s helpful that songs like Clarkson’s “Stronger” reflect her message, I am left wondering if they truly reflect Clinton’s personal taste. Instead, I would suggest that she take a cue from her husband’s successful 1992 campaign. While aides thought that the Fleetwood Mac #3 hit on the 1977 Billboard charts \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3JA1nWPFqM\">“Don’t Stop” \u003c/a>would seem not “cool” enough, Clinton held firm and still uses the song since it proved such a crucial part of that election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what would I suggest for Hillary Rodham Clinton? If she wants to emphasize the historic aspects of her campaign and her history of fighting for women’s rights, she might try using Helen Reddy’s hit “I Am Woman” from 1971 that helped shape the International Woman's Year:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUBnxqEVKlk\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUBnxqEVKlk\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or she could also pick everywoman’s Bridget Jones’s favorite anthem, “I’m Every Woman” as sung by Chaka Khan in 1978:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/Q8xuUdI1an0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/Q8xuUdI1an0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>She could also pick the Beach Boys’ “Be True to Your School” to reflect her hope that Democrats remain loyal to their party this election.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/-ijkYkJfg0s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/-ijkYkJfg0s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, only one nominee can ascend to the presidency, so what about the others? I might suggest one more tune to comfort them, the hauntingly beautiful “Once I Was Loved” from Melody Gardot, which has the power to heal any broken heart:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/0BIuXvZqlNs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/0BIuXvZqlNs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "Despite a Gloomy Forecast, San Francisco Feels the Bern at Crissy Field",
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"content": "\u003cp>\"Sure, you can take my photo, but you also have to take my flyer,\" says a man holding a sign with some factually tenuous statements about Hillary Clinton, walking down the line to get into the Bernie Sanders rally at Crissy Field. It's 4pm on Monday, June 6, just a few hours before the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/06/clinton-has-enough-delegates-to-claim-democratic-nomination\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press will proclaim that Clinton has clinched the Democratic nomination\u003c/a> on the eve of the California primary, and roughly 15 hours before the polls open in this fine Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/HillarySign-800x746.jpg\" alt=\"HillarySign\" width=\"800\" height=\"746\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26076\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/HillarySign.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/HillarySign-400x373.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/HillarySign-768x716.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many of the thousands of people convened at the park on this cold, foggy June evening, what the AP has to say is of very little concern. They're staging a movement -- a revolution -- and it will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.periscope.tv/EdwinLindo/1OwxWbzqMwwJQ\" target=\"_blank\">Periscoped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the docket for the day's free rally, billed as A Future To Believe In GOTV (Get Out the Vote) Concert, are Dave Matthews, Fantastic Negrito, Fishbone, Yarn and speakers Dr. Cornel West, Shailene Woodley and Danny Glover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, the Bern himself, fresh from an appearance in the Mission District. From the looks of the line to get in, very few people came for anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26040\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28-800x1169.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (28)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28-800x1169.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28-400x584.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28-768x1122.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28.jpg 876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he definitely still has a chance. But I do hope if he loses that he considers running as Hillary's vice president; I hope she asks him,\" said Brittny O'Connor, a teacher in her thirties who traveled from San Jose. \"If not, I'll probably vote for Jill Stein, the Green Party, like I usually do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26021\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0552\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With entrepreneurs hawking shirts, hats and pins in every direction, the vibe at Crissy Field felt akin to that of the pedestrian bridge between the Oakland Coliseum BART station and Oracle Arena before and after a Warriors game. Maybe a little less drunken stumbling. Likely more white people with dreadlocks. Certainly no less enthusiasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are those shirts union-made?\" asked one woman who looked to be in her 70s, of a T-shirt salesman. \"If they are, they should be about $50 each,\" said another in her 20s. Laughter all around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"berniebuttons\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-800x602.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-400x301.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-768x577.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-1180x887.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-960x722.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26019\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"bernie t shirts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, spirits were high at Crissy Field yesterday -- and that's not just thanks to Bernie's Papers, the official Bernie Sanders-branded rolling papers being sold in the photo below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26026\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-800x1066.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (27)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-1440x1919.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-960x1279.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27.jpg 1845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernie's Papers proprietor Michael Jones and his partner Rissy Berliner raised money to make the trek out from rural Virginia to California during election crunch time, they told me; 10 percent of profits go to \"the people's revolution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are you supposed to roll in them?\" asked a nearby woman in her 60s. \"Whatever's legal in your state,\" Jones replied, not missing a beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26031\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-dog-che-chao-hsu-on-facebook-800x594.jpg\" alt=\"The Bernie Dog. Photo by Che Chao Hsu / Facebook\" width=\"800\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-dog-che-chao-hsu-on-facebook-800x594.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-dog-che-chao-hsu-on-facebook-400x297.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-dog-che-chao-hsu-on-facebook-768x570.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-dog-che-chao-hsu-on-facebook.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bernie Dog. Photo by Che Chao Hsu / Facebook\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Past the security gates, as the fog rolled in, the Bernie throngs stood -- and eventually sat or laid down -- in layers of down vests and beanies. Doors were technically at 3pm; the Brooklyn Americana band Yarn took the stage around 4:15, noting how humbled they were to be added to the bill at the last minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/BGV_IRlj1Tf/?taken-by=gnarwhalvision\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hippies, punks, and stiltwalkers were all welcome. In between speakers and performers, the P.A. blared music clearly intended to illustrate Sanders' alignment with the counterculture: Dead Kennedys, Janelle Monae, Against Me!. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn't catch any Black Flag being played, nor any speeches by Che Guevara, but that doesn't mean they weren't well represented as presumptive agents of Sanders' message -- while roughly 500 miles away, Hillary Clinton hosted a decidedly not-free concert and fundraiser event featuring John Legend, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cher/status/740083172101083136\" target=\"_blank\">Cher\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackflag-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"blackflag\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26078\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackflag.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackflag-400x534.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackflag-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In SF, Dave Matthews, who performed a handful of songs solo with a guitar, provided an interesting contrast to the younger, more diverse definition of counterculture -- \"my mom loves Bernie Sanders,\" said the inventor of white college-rock mumblecore, on numerous occasions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=076dnz9BYzY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite my \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emmaruthless/status/739994355897761792\" target=\"_blank\">knee-jerk distaste\u003c/a> for this particular branch of the jam-band family tree, I will admit that \"Ants Marching\" sounded pretty darn okay. Fun fact: Bill Clinton was president when that record was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26035\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (26)\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-768x577.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-1440x1081.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was between sets by the spirited \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbQvTL0Wb-g\" target=\"_blank\">Fantastic Negrito\u003c/a> (Oakland hometown hero that he is, with a new album to boot) and old-school funk vets Fishbone (who tweaked their single \"Everyday Sunshine\" to include lyrics about Bernie), however, that I encountered my most enthusiastic Bernie supporter of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26023\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0614\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm looking for a petite lady,\" said Evan Gary Hirsch, the founder of the Facebook group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BernieLovesUs\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Loves Us\u003c/a>, by way of introduction. Hirsch, I learned, had purchased lots of shirts in bulk and was now trying to give them away. All he had left was a women's small, and he wanted me to wear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-26041 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (29)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan Gary Hirsch\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Bernie Sanders changed my life entirely,\" said Hirsch, noting that he's donated $2,700 to Sanders' campaign, and now routinely buys merchandise and tries to give it away. \"Bernie awakened my purpose for life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the goals Hirsch has pursued following his Bernie awakening: The creation of a sustainable planet. Also, the creation of a Facebook group with 9,000 people in it. \"It was just tying in the word 'love' with 'Bernie,' so that we could really have not just a political revolution, but a revolution of our consciousness and our spirit and motivation, to resolve all of the issues that are so clearly suffocating us,\" he explained. \"It took a voice like Bernie, a call to action, to say 'Hey, there's a machine eating our planet!' for us to come forward to participate in tipping that scale toward the love paradigm.\" Also, ideally, 3D printing is going to make it so we don't have to work anymore and can spend all our time being creative. As for voting, if Bernie doesn't get the nomination, Hirsch said he'll do \"whatever Bernie tells [him] to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/winning-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"winning\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26079\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/winning.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/winning-400x534.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/winning-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few feet away -- as Dr. Cornel West took the stage and proclaimed that Bernie Sanders has a little bit of John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' in him -- one couple offered a more succinct explanation for the Bern they've been feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I liked [Bernie] the minute I saw him,\" said the woman, who goes by Jenni Wretched. She added, somewhat deflated, that she would indeed be voting for Hillary if Bernie doesn't win the nomination. \"Unfortunately, there's no other option.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-26024 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (25)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenni Wretched plus one.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the temperature dropped and the hordes grew impatient to see the man himself, tired children were hoisted onto shoulders; sweatshirt hoods were pulled tight around faces. A girl next to me, a recent transplant who lives in the Marina, asked if I knew how long Bernie usually talked for. She kind of wanted to go home, she said, but she was holding her friends' jackets -- they were among 40 or so people who'd been selected to jump and wave signs just to the right of the stage, perfectly set against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge, perfectly in line for the news cameras. She gestured over at them; they looked cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26025\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-800x753.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (24)\" width=\"800\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-800x753.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-400x376.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-768x722.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-1180x1110.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-960x903.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a who's-who of local progressives, flanked by his family, Bernie spoke. You don't need me to recap it: you can watch the \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/hYE5zO8f41o?t=1h24m55s\" target=\"_blank\">whole thing here\u003c/a>. He comes on around 1:25, or you can skip right to the end and watch a performance of \"This Land Is Your Land,\" featuring Sanders' guest musicians for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0640\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then? People scattered, headed home. Many had been on their feet for a good six hours. And they had to get up and vote tomorrow before work, after all. But not before a pit stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/JoshHarkinson/status/740038977344802816\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\"Sure, you can take my photo, but you also have to take my flyer,\" says a man holding a sign with some factually tenuous statements about Hillary Clinton, walking down the line to get into the Bernie Sanders rally at Crissy Field. It's 4pm on Monday, June 6, just a few hours before the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/06/06/clinton-has-enough-delegates-to-claim-democratic-nomination\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press will proclaim that Clinton has clinched the Democratic nomination\u003c/a> on the eve of the California primary, and roughly 15 hours before the polls open in this fine Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/HillarySign-800x746.jpg\" alt=\"HillarySign\" width=\"800\" height=\"746\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26076\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/HillarySign.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/HillarySign-400x373.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/HillarySign-768x716.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many of the thousands of people convened at the park on this cold, foggy June evening, what the AP has to say is of very little concern. They're staging a movement -- a revolution -- and it will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.periscope.tv/EdwinLindo/1OwxWbzqMwwJQ\" target=\"_blank\">Periscoped\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the docket for the day's free rally, billed as A Future To Believe In GOTV (Get Out the Vote) Concert, are Dave Matthews, Fantastic Negrito, Fishbone, Yarn and speakers Dr. Cornel West, Shailene Woodley and Danny Glover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, of course, the Bern himself, fresh from an appearance in the Mission District. From the looks of the line to get in, very few people came for anyone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26040\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28-800x1169.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (28)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1169\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28-800x1169.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28-400x584.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28-768x1122.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-28.jpg 876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think he definitely still has a chance. But I do hope if he loses that he considers running as Hillary's vice president; I hope she asks him,\" said Brittny O'Connor, a teacher in her thirties who traveled from San Jose. \"If not, I'll probably vote for Jill Stein, the Green Party, like I usually do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26021\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0552\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0552.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With entrepreneurs hawking shirts, hats and pins in every direction, the vibe at Crissy Field felt akin to that of the pedestrian bridge between the Oakland Coliseum BART station and Oracle Arena before and after a Warriors game. Maybe a little less drunken stumbling. Likely more white people with dreadlocks. Certainly no less enthusiasm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Are those shirts union-made?\" asked one woman who looked to be in her 70s, of a T-shirt salesman. \"If they are, they should be about $50 each,\" said another in her 20s. Laughter all around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26020\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"berniebuttons\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-800x602.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-400x301.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-768x577.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-1180x887.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons-960x722.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/berniebuttons.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26019\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"bernie t shirts\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-t-shirts.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, spirits were high at Crissy Field yesterday -- and that's not just thanks to Bernie's Papers, the official Bernie Sanders-branded rolling papers being sold in the photo below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26026\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-800x1066.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (27)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-1440x1919.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27-960x1279.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-27.jpg 1845w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bernie's Papers proprietor Michael Jones and his partner Rissy Berliner raised money to make the trek out from rural Virginia to California during election crunch time, they told me; 10 percent of profits go to \"the people's revolution.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What are you supposed to roll in them?\" asked a nearby woman in her 60s. \"Whatever's legal in your state,\" Jones replied, not missing a beat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-26031\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/bernie-dog-che-chao-hsu-on-facebook-800x594.jpg\" alt=\"The Bernie Dog. 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In between speakers and performers, the P.A. blared music clearly intended to illustrate Sanders' alignment with the counterculture: Dead Kennedys, Janelle Monae, Against Me!. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn't catch any Black Flag being played, nor any speeches by Che Guevara, but that doesn't mean they weren't well represented as presumptive agents of Sanders' message -- while roughly 500 miles away, Hillary Clinton hosted a decidedly not-free concert and fundraiser event featuring John Legend, Stevie Wonder, Christina Aguilera, and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/cher/status/740083172101083136\" target=\"_blank\">Cher\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackflag-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"blackflag\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26078\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackflag.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackflag-400x534.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/blackflag-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In SF, Dave Matthews, who performed a handful of songs solo with a guitar, provided an interesting contrast to the younger, more diverse definition of counterculture -- \"my mom loves Bernie Sanders,\" said the inventor of white college-rock mumblecore, on numerous occasions.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/076dnz9BYzY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/076dnz9BYzY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Despite my \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/emmaruthless/status/739994355897761792\" target=\"_blank\">knee-jerk distaste\u003c/a> for this particular branch of the jam-band family tree, I will admit that \"Ants Marching\" sounded pretty darn okay. Fun fact: Bill Clinton was president when that record was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26035\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (26)\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-800x601.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-768x577.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-1440x1081.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-1180x886.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1-960x721.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-26-1.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it was between sets by the spirited \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbQvTL0Wb-g\" target=\"_blank\">Fantastic Negrito\u003c/a> (Oakland hometown hero that he is, with a new album to boot) and old-school funk vets Fishbone (who tweaked their single \"Everyday Sunshine\" to include lyrics about Bernie), however, that I encountered my most enthusiastic Bernie supporter of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26023\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0614\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0614.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm looking for a petite lady,\" said Evan Gary Hirsch, the founder of the Facebook group \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/BernieLovesUs\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Loves Us\u003c/a>, by way of introduction. Hirsch, I learned, had purchased lots of shirts in bulk and was now trying to give them away. All he had left was a women's small, and he wanted me to wear it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-26041 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (29)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-1920x2560.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-29-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan Gary Hirsch\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Bernie Sanders changed my life entirely,\" said Hirsch, noting that he's donated $2,700 to Sanders' campaign, and now routinely buys merchandise and tries to give it away. \"Bernie awakened my purpose for life.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the goals Hirsch has pursued following his Bernie awakening: The creation of a sustainable planet. Also, the creation of a Facebook group with 9,000 people in it. \"It was just tying in the word 'love' with 'Bernie,' so that we could really have not just a political revolution, but a revolution of our consciousness and our spirit and motivation, to resolve all of the issues that are so clearly suffocating us,\" he explained. \"It took a voice like Bernie, a call to action, to say 'Hey, there's a machine eating our planet!' for us to come forward to participate in tipping that scale toward the love paradigm.\" Also, ideally, 3D printing is going to make it so we don't have to work anymore and can spend all our time being creative. As for voting, if Bernie doesn't get the nomination, Hirsch said he'll do \"whatever Bernie tells [him] to.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/winning-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"winning\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26079\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/winning.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/winning-400x534.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/winning-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few feet away -- as Dr. Cornel West took the stage and proclaimed that Bernie Sanders has a little bit of John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' in him -- one couple offered a more succinct explanation for the Bern they've been feeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I liked [Bernie] the minute I saw him,\" said the woman, who goes by Jenni Wretched. She added, somewhat deflated, that she would indeed be voting for Hillary if Bernie doesn't win the nomination. \"Unfortunately, there's no other option.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_26024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-26024 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (25)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-25.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jenni Wretched plus one.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As the temperature dropped and the hordes grew impatient to see the man himself, tired children were hoisted onto shoulders; sweatshirt hoods were pulled tight around faces. A girl next to me, a recent transplant who lives in the Marina, asked if I knew how long Bernie usually talked for. She kind of wanted to go home, she said, but she was holding her friends' jackets -- they were among 40 or so people who'd been selected to jump and wave signs just to the right of the stage, perfectly set against the backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge, perfectly in line for the news cameras. She gestured over at them; they looked cold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26025\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-800x753.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender (24)\" width=\"800\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-800x753.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-400x376.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-768x722.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-1180x1110.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24-960x903.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/FullSizeRender-24.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a who's-who of local progressives, flanked by his family, Bernie spoke. You don't need me to recap it: you can watch the \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/hYE5zO8f41o?t=1h24m55s\" target=\"_blank\">whole thing here\u003c/a>. He comes on around 1:25, or you can skip right to the end and watch a performance of \"This Land Is Your Land,\" featuring Sanders' guest musicians for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26034\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0640\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/IMG_0640.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then? 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"content": "\u003cp>To my left, the billboard beside the highway shows a silhouette of a person in handcuffs and big block lettering — \"STEAL COPPER LINE, DO HARD TIME.\" To my right, there's a wall of junked-out tires lining the sand. The air is harsh and dusty. The convenience store is the market. Cyclists ride with plastic bags on their handlebars. This is Banning, California — a desert country place. A town with Gramma’s Barbecue and feed stores and bumper stickers that read “God, Guns, & Guts Made America Great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just one and a half miles off the interstate, I drive past some ranch gates and enter a whole different world, a place that serves cocktails all day long, where the smell of polish sausages fills the air, where belt buckles and t-shirts with arrows pointed down to the crotch and the words “Ask Me About My Buckle” are for sale. There are tons of cowboys and cowgirls. At first glance, it might seem like a regular rodeo. Look closer. This is the Hot Rodeo -- a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsgra.org/index-Regular.html\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Gay Rodeo Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25830 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Wes Wilkinson and Jeff Barr \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wes Wilkinson and Jeff Barr. (Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wes Wilkinson grew up on a 575-acre farm in Missouri. The Wilkinsons raised 150 head of black angus cattle (for beef), 120 head of sheep (wool and lamb), 30 pigs, chickens, and a couple of work horses for farming. At the first peep of light, Wes tended to his chores, throwing feed to the animals, cleaning out coops, picking up or wiping down, cooing, and brushing. He began to resent this lifestyle of constantly tending to things. All the beginnings and endings of livestock on a seamless loop powered by the sweat and worry of his family. Wes could not wait to leave the demands of farm life. In the late '80s he did just that. Wes moved to California — a place where he did not have to live through his hands, and a place he could live fully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1997, he attended a barn dance event held by the Gay Rodeo Association. He learned how to country line-dance, two-step, and finally, truly, be comfortable. The same year, he registered for his fist gay rodeo, which was held in the small town of Ramona, California (35 miles northeast of San Diego). He competed in the Wild Drag Race event, which incorporates a wild steer, a cowgirl, a cowboy, and a person dressed in drag. That person in drag was Wes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been hooked ever since. In May 2000, Wes worked the door at a barn dance when he locked eyes with Jeff Barr. A year later, they bought a five-acre piece of land with an old dilapidated ranch house on it. They spent the next two years taking it apart and building it back up to suit their dreams, board by board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25836 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1547-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_1547\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1547-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1547-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1547-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1547-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1547-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1547-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1547-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back at the Hot Rodeo 2016, the first event is calf roping, one of a handful of events that are not done at the straight rodeo. The others are chute-dogging (this is when a cowboy or cowgirl wrestle a steer to the ground coming out of the pen), goat dressing (a team of two put a pair of underwear on a goat), and drag racing. The drag race is when a team of three (one of whom is in drag) tries to put their teammate in drag on a steer and walk it across a line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing you’ll find on the International Gay Rodeo Association site and not on other rodeo sites is a statement of Animal Welfare:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) hereby endorses and adopts the promotion of animal welfare and the humane, responsible treatment of animals in their housing, feeding, training, exercising and competition. We shall strive to assure that our events are purposefully tailored and executed to provide animal and human participants the safest environment possible and shall act to immediately disqualify or reprimand any contestant, official or contracted personnel found to be treating animals in an inhumane manner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, in the goat dressing exercise, each goat has to be rested after eight dressings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big difference between the gay rodeo and the straight rodeo: Both women and men compete in all the same events. In the straight rodeo, women aren’t often able to compete in steer wrestling or bull riding, they only compete in the horse events. Here, everyone does everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In calf-roping, the competitor stays in the gates, the calf is let out, and the contestant swooshes his or her lasso around and tries to get it over the calf’s neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all in the wrist, so gay guys are really good at this,\" jokes Wes. These calves are small. They’re only one to two months old and about 75 lbs. They’re called drop calves, I'm told, because when they’re born they drop to the ground, and that’s what starts their hearts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25832 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"HOT Rodeo buckle won for steer riding in 2014. The buckles are the “trophies” of the rodeo. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HOT Rodeo buckle won for steer riding in 2014. The buckles are the “trophies” of the rodeo. (Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watching everyone in the competition get butch, puff out their chests, and spread their peacock feathers is quite the sight to behold. Add in the mountains in the distance, the hay stacks laid about -- there's something thrilling in the air, even before they get that rope lassoed over a calf’s neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up is a team roping event that involves two people on horses and one steer. These types of events, I am told, are born out of the Texas Rangers riding out in the open. This is how they would get to the cattle to give vaccinations or perform castration. At the Hot Rodeo, this is performed to the sound of the music and the livestock contractor hollering “Hip! Hip! Hip! Hip!” Then there are the small crop whips and slaps on horse butts, and the occasional shout-out to one of the more popular sponsors: “Gun oil lubricant, for when you want your ride to last longer than six seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25833 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_0939\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For these team events, Wes tells me, you have to know your partner really well. You have to able to communicate nonverbally — where is he going? What’s coming next? I ask Wes if, in this case, he thinks gay rodeo might have an advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees readily. \"[If] you’re sleeping with this guy,\" he says, \"you know everything about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a place where people get names — Dirty Dan, Stud Monkey, Wild Wes, Rapture, and Teenie. A place that's safe. Teenie, who describes herself as three-foot-nothing (but actually stands about five feet tall) is as stubborn as she is short. I learned this from her playful banter, teasing me as I jumped back every time the steer got near -- “Oh, watch out, get back now!” -- and the way she held on to her steer’s horns and skidded around the arena for as long as time would allow. Teenie does not give up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25835 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Teenie in a chute dogging event. Traditionally women are not able to compete in steer/ bull events.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teenie in a chute dogging event. Traditionally women are not able to compete in steer/ bull events. (Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teenie also explains that she brings straight women from Colorado to compete here, and they can’t believe how nice everyone is. “One woman’s horse was hurt so someone else let her borrow their horse. She couldn’t believe it. They’d never do that at the straight rodeo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t get the wrong impression. This is still a rodeo, and no event better encapsulates the rodeo than bull riding. The riders wear chaps and some put bells on. The chute opens and the rider comes out holding on for dear life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the first guy gets bucked and the bull stomps on his arm. I hold my breath. Falling off is inevitable — it’s just a matter of not getting stomped. Having the wind blown out of you. Inevitable. People break their necks, people die. One guy in D.C. had a steer’s horns slice through his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanging on the fence, wincing but unable to look away, I ask, “Why on earth would anyone do this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gate opens and the next contestant is atop a bull, one hand on the saddle, one in the air. He holds on for eight seconds, lands with a bump, and then jumps up delighted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adrenaline,” says Dirty Dan, but I have trouble hearing him over the whooping and hollering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25837 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Canada put the “I” in the International Gay Rodeo Association. These cowboys are standing by waiting for the “riderless horse” to pay tribute to those who have passed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada put the “I” in the International Gay Rodeo Association. These cowboys are standing by waiting for the “riderless horse” to pay tribute to those who have passed. (Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1975, gay rodeo forefather Phil Ragsdale was able to secure a date to hold an event at the Washoe County Fairgrounds in Nevada, but none of the farmers or ranchers were willing to rent livestock for an event sponsored by the gay community. The day before the event, Ragsdale broke down and purchased his own livestock, and the very first Reno Gay Rodeo opened with five cows, ten calves, and one Shetland pony. Over the next several years, the rodeo drew larger and larger crowds, and raised tens of thousands of dollars for charities such as the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the rodeo grew in popularity, so did the conservative backlash. In 1980, Christian protesters marched against the rodeo outside the fairground fence. In 1981, Nevada’s Mormon lieutenant governor, Myron Leavitt, complained that \"They're inviting 7000 queers to come to the northern part of the state for a rodeo. … They call them queers because they've got a screw loose. I'm strongly opposed to queers using public property. ... It's illegal, unnatural and abnormal behavior. ... I think they're sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Hansen, founder of Nevada’s Independent American Party, wrote in\u003ca href=\"http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/las-vegas/articles/rgr\" target=\"_blank\"> letters to the editor of the\u003cem> Nevada State Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that “The termites of civilization have brazenly oozed out of their closet to proclaim that they have a right to maim, molest and embarrass society ... Homosexuality, like all parasites, survives by preying upon the healthy. If left unchecked, like cancer, it will destroy the body politic. History is our witness.\" And, “license and social irresponsibility cause venereal disease, divorce, highway deaths, mental disorders, and the destruction of civilization and nations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, the Chief Deputy DA of Washoe County made a decision that denial of the Gay Rodeo’s access to the fairgrounds was a violation of their First Amendment rights, so the event went on as planned. In 1982, the Rodeo drew 20,000 people, with Joan Rivers as grand marshal — despite the ongoing protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1983, a newly formed anti-gay Pro-Family Christian Coalition, who called themselves The Patriots to Normalize Reno, launched a newly energized effort to dismantle the rodeo. The Patriots referred to gay people as “perverted, poop-packing punks.” They circulated petitions and collected nearly 7,500 signatures to prevent the rodeo from happening. The Rev. Walter Alexander of the First Baptist Church was quoted in the \u003cem>Sun Valley\u003c/em> referring to gay people by saying, “I think we should do what the Bible says and cut their throats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the Washoe County Commission admitted it couldn’t do anything to stop the rodeo and the event went on as planned, but the attendance was greatly diminished from previous years. Anonymous telephone calls to Reno’s television stations warned that snipers were poised to shoot rodeo attendees. The 1984 rodeo was an even greater disaster, with stifled attendance; the Comstock Gay Rodeo Association left Nevada State Fair Inc. with an unpaid bill of $7,530.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no gay rodeo in Reno in 1985, 1986, or 1987. But what died in Reno began flourishing everywhere else: Chapters were founded in Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Wyoming, Oregon and even Calgary. Today they have formed what is now the International Gay Rodeo Association. IGRA is alive and well, with 13 rodeos in the circuit. It all culminates in the world gay rodeo finals, which will take place in 2016 from Oct. 21 to 23 in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the gay rodeo, whether you're a rodeo lover or not, it's hard not to feel the sense of care between participants. Back in Arizona or Texas, some of these contestants are still hated for being gay. One livestock contractor tells me he’s even lost some clients when they find out he contracts with the Gay Rodeo. But everyone here looks out for each other. Here at the gay rodeo, you are in close proximity to both a celebration and a wild rebellion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25838 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_1079\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The final day, I noticed Wes was late to compete and, contrary to the previous day with the matching shirts and kisses exchanged between each event, he was alone. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>To my left, the billboard beside the highway shows a silhouette of a person in handcuffs and big block lettering — \"STEAL COPPER LINE, DO HARD TIME.\" To my right, there's a wall of junked-out tires lining the sand. The air is harsh and dusty. The convenience store is the market. Cyclists ride with plastic bags on their handlebars. This is Banning, California — a desert country place. A town with Gramma’s Barbecue and feed stores and bumper stickers that read “God, Guns, & Guts Made America Great.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just one and a half miles off the interstate, I drive past some ranch gates and enter a whole different world, a place that serves cocktails all day long, where the smell of polish sausages fills the air, where belt buckles and t-shirts with arrows pointed down to the crotch and the words “Ask Me About My Buckle” are for sale. There are tons of cowboys and cowgirls. 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This is the Hot Rodeo -- a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.gsgra.org/index-Regular.html\" target=\"_blank\">Golden State Gay Rodeo Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25830 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Wes Wilkinson and Jeff Barr \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0586-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wes Wilkinson and Jeff Barr. (Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wes Wilkinson grew up on a 575-acre farm in Missouri. The Wilkinsons raised 150 head of black angus cattle (for beef), 120 head of sheep (wool and lamb), 30 pigs, chickens, and a couple of work horses for farming. At the first peep of light, Wes tended to his chores, throwing feed to the animals, cleaning out coops, picking up or wiping down, cooing, and brushing. He began to resent this lifestyle of constantly tending to things. All the beginnings and endings of livestock on a seamless loop powered by the sweat and worry of his family. Wes could not wait to leave the demands of farm life. In the late '80s he did just that. Wes moved to California — a place where he did not have to live through his hands, and a place he could live fully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1997, he attended a barn dance event held by the Gay Rodeo Association. He learned how to country line-dance, two-step, and finally, truly, be comfortable. The same year, he registered for his fist gay rodeo, which was held in the small town of Ramona, California (35 miles northeast of San Diego). He competed in the Wild Drag Race event, which incorporates a wild steer, a cowgirl, a cowboy, and a person dressed in drag. That person in drag was Wes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been hooked ever since. In May 2000, Wes worked the door at a barn dance when he locked eyes with Jeff Barr. A year later, they bought a five-acre piece of land with an old dilapidated ranch house on it. 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The others are chute-dogging (this is when a cowboy or cowgirl wrestle a steer to the ground coming out of the pen), goat dressing (a team of two put a pair of underwear on a goat), and drag racing. The drag race is when a team of three (one of whom is in drag) tries to put their teammate in drag on a steer and walk it across a line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing you’ll find on the International Gay Rodeo Association site and not on other rodeo sites is a statement of Animal Welfare:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) hereby endorses and adopts the promotion of animal welfare and the humane, responsible treatment of animals in their housing, feeding, training, exercising and competition. We shall strive to assure that our events are purposefully tailored and executed to provide animal and human participants the safest environment possible and shall act to immediately disqualify or reprimand any contestant, official or contracted personnel found to be treating animals in an inhumane manner.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, in the goat dressing exercise, each goat has to be rested after eight dressings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another big difference between the gay rodeo and the straight rodeo: Both women and men compete in all the same events. In the straight rodeo, women aren’t often able to compete in steer wrestling or bull riding, they only compete in the horse events. Here, everyone does everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In calf-roping, the competitor stays in the gates, the calf is let out, and the contestant swooshes his or her lasso around and tries to get it over the calf’s neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s all in the wrist, so gay guys are really good at this,\" jokes Wes. These calves are small. They’re only one to two months old and about 75 lbs. They’re called drop calves, I'm told, because when they’re born they drop to the ground, and that’s what starts their hearts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25832 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"HOT Rodeo buckle won for steer riding in 2014. The buckles are the “trophies” of the rodeo. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0607-1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">HOT Rodeo buckle won for steer riding in 2014. The buckles are the “trophies” of the rodeo. (Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Watching everyone in the competition get butch, puff out their chests, and spread their peacock feathers is quite the sight to behold. Add in the mountains in the distance, the hay stacks laid about -- there's something thrilling in the air, even before they get that rope lassoed over a calf’s neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up is a team roping event that involves two people on horses and one steer. These types of events, I am told, are born out of the Texas Rangers riding out in the open. This is how they would get to the cattle to give vaccinations or perform castration. At the Hot Rodeo, this is performed to the sound of the music and the livestock contractor hollering “Hip! Hip! Hip! Hip!” Then there are the small crop whips and slaps on horse butts, and the occasional shout-out to one of the more popular sponsors: “Gun oil lubricant, for when you want your ride to last longer than six seconds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25833 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_0939\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_0939-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For these team events, Wes tells me, you have to know your partner really well. You have to able to communicate nonverbally — where is he going? What’s coming next? I ask Wes if, in this case, he thinks gay rodeo might have an advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He agrees readily. \"[If] you’re sleeping with this guy,\" he says, \"you know everything about him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is a place where people get names — Dirty Dan, Stud Monkey, Wild Wes, Rapture, and Teenie. A place that's safe. Teenie, who describes herself as three-foot-nothing (but actually stands about five feet tall) is as stubborn as she is short. I learned this from her playful banter, teasing me as I jumped back every time the steer got near -- “Oh, watch out, get back now!” -- and the way she held on to her steer’s horns and skidded around the arena for as long as time would allow. Teenie does not give up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25835\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25835 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Teenie in a chute dogging event. Traditionally women are not able to compete in steer/ bull events.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1561-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teenie in a chute dogging event. Traditionally women are not able to compete in steer/ bull events. (Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teenie also explains that she brings straight women from Colorado to compete here, and they can’t believe how nice everyone is. “One woman’s horse was hurt so someone else let her borrow their horse. She couldn’t believe it. They’d never do that at the straight rodeo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But don’t get the wrong impression. This is still a rodeo, and no event better encapsulates the rodeo than bull riding. The riders wear chaps and some put bells on. The chute opens and the rider comes out holding on for dear life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the first guy gets bucked and the bull stomps on his arm. I hold my breath. Falling off is inevitable — it’s just a matter of not getting stomped. Having the wind blown out of you. Inevitable. People break their necks, people die. One guy in D.C. had a steer’s horns slice through his neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanging on the fence, wincing but unable to look away, I ask, “Why on earth would anyone do this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gate opens and the next contestant is atop a bull, one hand on the saddle, one in the air. He holds on for eight seconds, lands with a bump, and then jumps up delighted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adrenaline,” says Dirty Dan, but I have trouble hearing him over the whooping and hollering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25837 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Canada put the “I” in the International Gay Rodeo Association. These cowboys are standing by waiting for the “riderless horse” to pay tribute to those who have passed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1303-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canada put the “I” in the International Gay Rodeo Association. These cowboys are standing by waiting for the “riderless horse” to pay tribute to those who have passed. (Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1975, gay rodeo forefather Phil Ragsdale was able to secure a date to hold an event at the Washoe County Fairgrounds in Nevada, but none of the farmers or ranchers were willing to rent livestock for an event sponsored by the gay community. The day before the event, Ragsdale broke down and purchased his own livestock, and the very first Reno Gay Rodeo opened with five cows, ten calves, and one Shetland pony. Over the next several years, the rodeo drew larger and larger crowds, and raised tens of thousands of dollars for charities such as the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the rodeo grew in popularity, so did the conservative backlash. In 1980, Christian protesters marched against the rodeo outside the fairground fence. In 1981, Nevada’s Mormon lieutenant governor, Myron Leavitt, complained that \"They're inviting 7000 queers to come to the northern part of the state for a rodeo. … They call them queers because they've got a screw loose. I'm strongly opposed to queers using public property. ... It's illegal, unnatural and abnormal behavior. ... I think they're sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Hansen, founder of Nevada’s Independent American Party, wrote in\u003ca href=\"http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/las-vegas/articles/rgr\" target=\"_blank\"> letters to the editor of the\u003cem> Nevada State Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that “The termites of civilization have brazenly oozed out of their closet to proclaim that they have a right to maim, molest and embarrass society ... Homosexuality, like all parasites, survives by preying upon the healthy. If left unchecked, like cancer, it will destroy the body politic. History is our witness.\" And, “license and social irresponsibility cause venereal disease, divorce, highway deaths, mental disorders, and the destruction of civilization and nations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, the Chief Deputy DA of Washoe County made a decision that denial of the Gay Rodeo’s access to the fairgrounds was a violation of their First Amendment rights, so the event went on as planned. In 1982, the Rodeo drew 20,000 people, with Joan Rivers as grand marshal — despite the ongoing protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1983, a newly formed anti-gay Pro-Family Christian Coalition, who called themselves The Patriots to Normalize Reno, launched a newly energized effort to dismantle the rodeo. The Patriots referred to gay people as “perverted, poop-packing punks.” They circulated petitions and collected nearly 7,500 signatures to prevent the rodeo from happening. The Rev. Walter Alexander of the First Baptist Church was quoted in the \u003cem>Sun Valley\u003c/em> referring to gay people by saying, “I think we should do what the Bible says and cut their throats.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, the Washoe County Commission admitted it couldn’t do anything to stop the rodeo and the event went on as planned, but the attendance was greatly diminished from previous years. Anonymous telephone calls to Reno’s television stations warned that snipers were poised to shoot rodeo attendees. The 1984 rodeo was an even greater disaster, with stifled attendance; the Comstock Gay Rodeo Association left Nevada State Fair Inc. with an unpaid bill of $7,530.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was no gay rodeo in Reno in 1985, 1986, or 1987. But what died in Reno began flourishing everywhere else: Chapters were founded in Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Wyoming, Oregon and even Calgary. Today they have formed what is now the International Gay Rodeo Association. IGRA is alive and well, with 13 rodeos in the circuit. It all culminates in the world gay rodeo finals, which will take place in 2016 from Oct. 21 to 23 in Las Vegas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the gay rodeo, whether you're a rodeo lover or not, it's hard not to feel the sense of care between participants. Back in Arizona or Texas, some of these contestants are still hated for being gay. One livestock contractor tells me he’s even lost some clients when they find out he contracts with the Gay Rodeo. But everyone here looks out for each other. Here at the gay rodeo, you are in close proximity to both a celebration and a wild rebellion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_25838\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-25838 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"_MG_1079\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2016/06/MG_1079-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Jaimie Sarra)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The final day, I noticed Wes was late to compete and, contrary to the previous day with the matching shirts and kisses exchanged between each event, he was alone. 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"content": "\u003cp>Maybe it was the way his life transected areas that define America – race and religion; war and sports – or perhaps it was his own love for words. Whatever the reason, Muhammad Ali’s life and career inspired writing that was nearly as captivating as the man himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Ali – The Greatest – \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/06/04/171025748/boxer-muhammad-ali-the-greatest-of-all-time-dies-at-74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now dead at age 74\u003c/a>, here’s a list of some of the best stories written about him. Ali’s large personality was perfectly suited to books, such as Norman Mailer’s \u003cem>The Fight\u003c/em>. For this subjective list, we’re looking at shorter pieces. Feel free to share your favorites in the comment section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘Lawdy, Lawdy, He’s Great’\u003c/strong> – \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/HistoryToLearn/status/738921292250812416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Kram in Sports Illustrated, 1975\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“True to his plan, arrogant and contemptuous of an opponent’s worth as never before, Ali opened the fight flat-footed in the center of the ring, his hands whipping out and back like the pistons of an enormous and magnificent engine. Much broader than he has ever been, the look of swift destruction defined by his every move, Ali seemed indestructible. Once, so long ago, he had been a splendidly plumed bird who wrote on the wind a singular kind of poetry of the body, but now he was down to earth, brought down by the changing shape of his body, by a sense of his own vulnerability, and by the years of excess. Dancing was for a ballroom; the ugly hunt was on. Head up and unprotected, Frazier stayed in the mouth of the cannon, and the big gun roared again and again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My Dinner With Ali\u003c/strong> — \u003ca href=\"http://thestacks.deadspin.com/my-dinner-with-ali-511528500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Davis Miller in the Louisville Courier-Journal,\u003cem> \u003c/em>1989; republished in Deadspin. 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘I know why this has happened,’ Ali said. ‘God is showing me, and showing \u003cem>you’\u003c/em>—he pointed his shaking index finger at me and widened his eyes—’that I’m just a man, just like everybody else.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sat a long, quiet time then, and watched his flickering image on the television screen. It was now 1971 and there was footage of him training for the first Frazier fight. Our Most Public Figure was then The World’s Most Beautiful Man and The Greatest Athlete of All Times, his copper skin glowing under the fluorescents, secret rhythms springing in loose firmness from his fingertips.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Champ, I think it’s time for me to go,’ I said again and made an effort to stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘No, stay. You my man,’ he says, and pats my leg. He has always been this way, always wanted to be around people. I take his accolade as one of the greatest compliments of my life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Showing Muhammad Ali as a Martyr for Refusing to Fight in a Bad War\u003c/strong> — \u003ca href=\"http://www.georgelois.com/pages/Esquire/Esq.Ali.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photographer George Lois writes about his 1968 \u003cem>Esquire\u003c/em> cover.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Hey George, this cat’s a Christian!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I blurted back, ‘Holy Moses, you’re right, Champ!’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I explained to Ali that St. Sebastian was a Roman soldier who survived execution by arrows for converting to Christianity. He was then clubbed to death, and has gone down in history as the definitive martyr. Before we could affix any arrows to Ali, he got on the phone with his religious leader, Elijah Mummad. Ali explained the painting in excruciating detail. He was concerned about the propriety of using a Christian source for the portrayal of his martyrdom. He finally put me, a non-practicing Greek Orthodox, on the phone. After a lengthy theological discussion, Elijah gave his okay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Muhammad Ali in Excelsis\u003c/strong> — \u003ca href=\"http://www.gq.com/story/muhammad-ali-in-excelsis-gq-1998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter Richmond in GQ, 1998\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d expected the disease to have robbed him of the vitality that once exploded from him. I’d expected the disease to represent the ultimate cruel triumph of the world that had always wanted the black boy from Louisville, Kentucky, to shut the hell up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But up close, I am discovering that his affliction has taken nothing away, none of the energy, none of the wit, none of the pride; it has only bound all of it, captured and constricted it, with the entirely unexpected result that, as an aeon of geologic forces can compress a large vein of coal into a very small diamond, whatever was the essence of Muhammad Ali is now somehow magnified. He is at last what he always pretended to be but never was: the Greatest. For it must be axiomatic that if someone calls himself the Greatest, as Ali did for years, he cannot possibly be; the Greatest would never have to label himself as such. Only when he was forced to stop proclaiming his greatness did it become possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Outsized Life of Muhammad Ali \u003c/strong>— \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-outsized-life-of-muhammad-ali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Remnick in The New Yorker, 2016\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cassius’s father was a man of thwarted dreams. He distrusted whites, and felt he was prevented from becoming a painter of canvasses rather than of signs and billboards. He drank too much, and his bitterness sometimes tipped into chaos. He was, one of Ali’s friends said, the source of a great deal of pain in the family. His mother, Odessa, was usually the object of Cassius, Sr.,’s fury and fists, and she was the boy’s comfort. Odessa was the first to know that her son was hyperverbal and quick with a left hand. As she once recalled, ‘He was always a talker. He tried to talk so hard when he was a baby. He used to jabber so, you know? 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