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                                             July  25, 2005
                                             March  7, 2009

   I ask you to consider this:
                                                  I refer of course to
   Could it be that one of the greatest           Dan Leone, aka Dani Leone,
   writers of our era has been passing            aka L.E. Leone aka
   himself off as a restaurant reviewer?          Lord Exister...

      Someday, someday...

      Dan Leone will be recognized         For many a year, I've been meaning
      as the Jack Kerouac of the           to put up a tribute web page to
      80s, the Damon Runyan of the         great Leone, of Bay Guardian fame.
      90s, and the Ralph Waldo
      Emerson of the year 2025.               In fact there
      And a Herb Caen for all                 should be a
      seasons.  And seasonings.               full Leone
                                              tribute site

                                              One idea would be to do a
                                              better job of indexing
                                              his articles up on the
                                              Guardian web site than
                                              they do.

                                                 This would not be
                                                 a difficult task.

       Dan Leone is one of the few
       people perceptive enough to
       realize that mayonnaise is a
       threat to western civilization.

          One of the great              Another who truly understands is
          frustrations of living        the composer Xenakis (quoted in
          in the Bay Area is that       conversation with Morton Feldman):
          you can't just say
          "Hold the Mayo" and              "In Japan, when they play the
          expect them to know              Biwa. The Biwa can produce very
          what you mean.                   small short glissandi. When the
                                           string is loose you can do very
                                           small modulations of the pitch in
                                           order to enliven the sound in a
                                           melodic way. You can find that also
                                           in western music with the vibrato,
                                           but here it's used as a kind of
                                           mayonnaise to hide the inaccuracy
                                           of the pitch."

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              If I were to recommend one Leone
              column to you as the greatest of
              the great, it might be this one:

                 [ref]

                                                 Provided you're someone
                                                 like me who's still
              (By the way, this is a             thinks that beatnik
              restaurant review column.)         existentialism is heavy.


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