I was called out of the house Saturday evening by the syren call of live music coming from Lytton Plaza and circled in my car to locate the source, Skee3 doing their ongoing Hendrix tribute. I watched a member of Palo Alto public safety get out of her car and ask “You are finishing what time?” — it was more of an order than a query — and then indeed the band played on for another 40 minutes, until about 10:15, for more than a few impressed onlookers. I heard later from their bass player — whose day job is for a hot start-up — that they got parking tickets while they were loading-out, for parking in the alley, both of their cars. And I keep seeing as well the drummer, who works for Palo Alto Bicycles and basically has spun off from Sue Webb’s ongoing Wednesday and Friday’s showcases.
I am invited to be in a “focus group” next month regarding Lytton Plaza and live music.
I’m concerned that meanwhile there are plans to tear out the grass at Cogswell Plaza and futch with it in a way that would preclude the reviving of Brown Bag Series.
As Neil Young says, it is darkest before the dawn. I should really link however, for a variety of reasons, to Jimi Hendrix “Machine Head” — dedicated to all of us keeping up the good fight for the First Amendment and Democracy.
I have his card — Skee — and we had a brief talk about the biz so I would consider him or them a potential client although I explained that I was more interested in the issue of Lytton Plaza per se; I did ring him once to confirm the thing about the tickets. I think they might have let it slide.
At :48 of this two-minute trailer to Coen Brothers “A Serious Man” they flash a still from the scene I call Sussman Can’t Sleep which is also the title of a Hendrix tribute I propose, with Glenn Hartman and Beth Custer and Mark Weiss, that mixes Jimi with klezmer and a reading of that scene (“Machine Head” plays throughout).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iggyFPls4w
Ok here’s a six-minute video mostly audio actually labeled soundcheck at Berkeley “Machine Head” I went out and bought — while researching my “Sussman Can’t Sleep” Jimi at Berkeley — the trailer of course has Airplane.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
Click to access Photo_Competition_Prospectus_2012.pdf
I am preparing an account of the Lytton Plaza challenges, based on attending a meeting Wednesday with staff and stakeholders. Also I read Tommasini on “limited public forums” at Lincoln Center (re Occupy) but also Ward v. Rock Against Racism about Central Park and dissent opinion about “government having obligation to do the least intrusive thing to forward its interest”.
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_v._Rock_Against_Racism
Perhaps you mean the afternoon of November 25th? I had a late lunch at the Creamery that day. When I arrived, I noticed 3 or more police cars with their lights on adjacent to Lytton Plaza. When I left, around 3 PM, I drove past the plaza. There was what appeared to be a body in a chair at one of the tables near the adjacent parking lot, under a yellow tarp. The entire plaza was taped off and the police were setting up orange screens around the table. Does anyone know what was happening? Strange not to see anything about it in the local media.
Comment downvoted • 4:43 on Fri Dec 2 2011
this was posted on quora about was there a dead body found at lytton plaza.
which jumped to a story about medallion rug 165 and their venture fund — not related to lytton plaza or the body, and in an unfair context but glad to find it. the times on
2007 new york times on amida venture fund: