Redwood City, Ca.—Speaking from his Broken Arrow ranch in northern California rocker Neil Young was pissed at all the love and attention Joni Mitchell was getting for her recent appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. This was Mitchell’s first public performance since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015. Young was upset that his brain aneurysm and the record he made about confronting his own mortality, “Prairie Wind,” did not receive the same kind of loving embrace from the public.  

It was in 2005 that Young noticed something like a small piece of broken glass in his eye. He consulted with a neurologist and it turned out to be a lifelong brain aneurysm. Left untreated the aneurysm, which is a bulge in the blood vessel would have burst at some point and Young would have had a stroke or a subarachnoid hemorrhage, both of which were life threatening. A successful surgical procedure was performed to correct the issue. Several days after the surgery Young was out walking in New York City and his femoral artery, which doctors had used to access his brain, exploded.

“There I was bleeding out on a New York City street with High Pitch Eric from the Howard Stern Show kicking at me, asking for a few bucks. But does anyone remember that?” Young asked bitterly. “Little Miss blondie sleeps around sings “Both Side Now” at Newport and the whole world is moved to tears and filled with hope and love. It’s bullshit. I made one of my best records staring down that aneurysm and nobody gave a shit.”

Young, of course, was referring to “Prairie Wind,” which features deeply philosophical tunes like “When God Made Me,” “Here For You” and the hauntingly beautiful, “It’s A Dream.” He also complained about having to give up marijuana after the surgery. “I’m never going to be able to fill the world with hope and love without my smokey smoke,” he said despondently.

Asked to respond Mitchell said, “Neil Young is a great artist if you’re into that scowling political activism kind of stuff that lasts for a minute or two. He should have really tried to win people over by going blond and having a big electric smile and high cheekbones. You hook them with your looks and and then rip their hearts out with your vulnerability, intelligence and fearlessness. But I’m just a seventy-eight year old lady recovering from an aneurysm who stopped the world at Newport by singing some of my old songs. What do I know? Neil Young can do what he wants.”  

To work off his anger Young and wife, activist Daryl Hannah are at home searching for a new environmental cause for which to advocate.    

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Buffalo, NY—Loyal readers of Buffalo Mud may have noted a drop off in production in recent weeks. Unlike other area businesses struggling to find employees as the world slowly reopens from the pandemic the slowdown at Buffalo Mud is the result of local author and chief satirist P.A.Kane contemplating a different future for himself and the publication. 

In addition to Buffalo Mud, Kane has penned two novels and most recently a collection of essays: “The Last Playlist: A Sonic Epitaph.” He apologized for the drop-off in articles and said he is at an inflection point in his life and career. “Sorry for the diminished output in recent weeks, I just think it’s time to reassess where I’m at personally and what I want from the site going forward. I mean, how many stories can you write about everyone’s favorite South Buffalonian, Jack Conrad?”

The 1.5 millionth  ranked Amazon author also said he doesn’t expect major changes like when he bumped “Songs in The Key of Life” by Stevie Wonder out of his Top-Ten desert island albums and replaced it with Rickie Lee Jones’ first record. Or like when made the life altering move of going from double cream half decaf to half decaf one Splenda with his Tim Horton’s coffee. 

The change Kane sees for himself in both his writing and outlook is toward the natural world since he purchased a fully outfitted/ off the grid Ram Promaster,  “Yeah,” I don’t know,” he said. “One day I was listening to Neil Young sing about going to Alberta in the fall in the old Ian and Sylvia song, “Four Strong Winds” and I was like that sounds so good—the Canadian Rockies, donuts, hockey and universal healthcare.”

Kane said he could foresee his satire mutating into something like “Buffalo Mud Wild,” with nature-centric articles like “Study Finds Bears Still The Biggest Assholes In The Forest,” and “Local Author Swears That Pine Cone Lodged In His Ass The Result Of An Unfortunate Fall.” 

 Though he is still gathering his thoughts and contemplating his future he did say during this period, it would have been nice if Senior Mud Contributor, David P. Zach would have put down his Churchwarden Bilbo Baggins pipe and stopped daydreaming he was Frodo on his voyage from Middle Earth to the Uttermost West  and all that other Hobbit bullshit and wrote a fucking article or two—if you’re going to be the Senior Contributor at Buffalo’s premier satire publication you occasionally need to do some work .  

Aside from the annoying task of having to dress down his Senior Contributor, Kane remains upbeat and is looking forward to changes in both his life and Buffalo Mud.

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