Justice Putnam

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• Website: www.dailykos.com/user/justiceputnam/diary
• Location SF Bay Area
• Party Democrat
• Politics A nod to the Wobblies and the Ham and Egg Movement; Ceasar Chavez and Medgar Evers; Barbara Jordon and Delores Huerta; a dash of west coast autodidact Secular Humorism and a large measure of Paul Wellstone Progressive edicts.

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• Favorite Blogs Daily Kos, Firedoglake, Arts and Letters Daily, Editor and Publisher, Nieman Watchdog, Media Matters, TruthOut, Washington Note, Truthdig, FindLaw Commentary, Alternet, Huffington Post, American Prospect, Consortium News, Tom Paine, Blue Oregon, Calitics, Beyond Chron, The Panda's Thumb, SCOTUS Blog, The Project on Government Oversight, Poets Against War
• Favorite Books "Raids on the Unspeakable" by Thomas Merton, "Martin Eden" by Jack London, "The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud, "The Palm at the End of the Mind" by Wallace Stevens, "The Twelve-Spoked Wheel Flashing" by Marge Piercy, "Little Tales of Misogyny" by Patricia Highsmith, "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters, "Factotum" and " Ham on Rye" by Charles Bukowski, "Ultramarine" and "Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry, "November Grass" by Judy Van der Veer, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories" and "Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades" by Ernest Hemingway, “The 42nd Parallel” by John Dos Passos, "Sexus" "Nexus" and "Plexus" by Henry Miller, "Desolation Angels" and "The Subterraneans" by Jack Kerouac, “The Big Sky” and "The Big Rock Candy Mountain" by A. B. Guthrie Jr, " Flow My Tears... The Policeman Said" "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" and “The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldridge” by Philip K. Dick, “The Foundation Trilogy” by Isaac Asimov, "Angle of Repose" and "All The Little Live Things" by Wallace Stegner, "Plainsong" by Kent Haruf, "The Missouri Breaks" and "Ninety-two in the Shade" by Thom McGuane, "The Sound of the Mountain" by Yasunari Kawabata, "Bells in Winter" "Visions From San Francisco Bay" and "The Separate Notebooks" by Czeslaw Milosz, "City of Night" by John Rechy, “Aura” by Carlos Fuentes, "The Best of Myles" by Flann O'Brien, "The Woman In The Dunes" by Kobe Abe, "Difficult Loves" by Italo Calvino, "Arctic Dreams" and "Of Wolves and Men" by Barry Lopez, "Scribelrus" by Alexander Pope
• Favorite Quotes "True artistic freedom can never be a matter of sheer willfulness, or arbitrary posturing. It is the outcome of authentic possibilities, understood and accepted in their own terms, not the refusal of the concrete in favor of the purely interior." --Thomas Merton "Raids On The Unspeakable"/// "A Poet is at the same time a force for Solidarity and for Solitude" --Pablo Neruda

Bio

First a road manager and back-up singer for the rock group, Cottonmouth in the mid-70's, Justice Putnam then re-emerged with the Laguna Beach Free Poets briefly, part of the Los Angeles Art/ Performance/ Poetry/ Dance/ Punk movement during the early 80's. He then performed solo shows and also as a member of Meta-4; then later with the likes of Jimmy McAllister of Rabbit Choir and Chris Watkins of Preacher Boy and the Natural Blues at such venues as Gorky's in Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque in Santa Monica, Cafe du Nord and Biscuits and Blues in San Francisco, Freight and Salvage and The Bison Brewing Company in Berkeley, The Sweetwater in Mill Valley; and also at music festivals in California, Oregon, France, Belgium and Germany. His poetry and prose has been published in Elektrum Magazine, Vol. No. Magazine, American Poetry Anthology, Literatus World Review, Berkeley Daily Planet, San Francisco Chronicle and other academic, small press, print and online journals. A scholar-athlete in his youth, Justice Putnam worked as an orderly, an emergency room technician, a Roustabout and a Production Operator at an oil refinery. He taught History and English in private schools briefly, while coaching football and track. He has been a professional chef and restaurant owner, a surfer, deep-sea fisherman and a Grinder on a racing yacht. He was the co-host with the chanson francaise impresario, Simon Dray, on his "Fm/French Connection Bistro Radio" broadcast from KUSF 90.3 in San Francisco for a number of years. Currently, Justice was empaneled with Nykk Fell of Galaxxy Chamber every second and fourth Wednesdays from 6pm- 7pm on SF/Comcast Channel 29 in San Francisco, California; discussing the events of the day with Richard Rants on his live call-in television show. If not in San Francisco, stream live on the web at accesssf.org, choose Livestream 1 to view and participate. Some old shows are also archived at Richard's website: www.richardrants.com. Residing in the SF Bay Area, Justice has also traveled around the world with a keen interest in literature, music, photography, art and culinary culture; living briefly in France, Italy, Japan and Mexico.