Monthly Archives: February 2015

Colin Bonini for Governor (of Delaware, a small state back east)

I tried to place this comment on a news site, but could not: I am not on Facebook, I am a refuse-nik, so was not actually able to post this: I think Colin Bonini has a core value system about … Continue reading

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Lincecum under control

I bought a pack of Topps baseball cards, for $3, to bring me back to 1972 when Andy Dieden and I would ride our bikes ten minutes into the Saratoga Village to get the same 10 cards plus gum for … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Holmes portrait by Jenny Hueston in 12/15/14 The New Yorker

I conducted a mock interview by voice mail with New York based photographer Jenny Hueston. I wanted to know if, like David Choe and Facebook, she was given a choice of either her day rate in cash or Theranos stock. … Continue reading

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I Wish

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Sharod garners ‘Toga laurels

For my money I like Sharod Miller as man of the match, Gunn over Saratoga by 2, in that in crunch time he back-to-back made a tip-in then swatted inside the Falcon shot. This after the Saratoga rooters were heckling … Continue reading

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David Carr also starred in the doc “Page 1” covering Vice media. Cut to Orozco 1934 at dartmouth in ray Faulkner 1969:

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Ada’s Cafe slightly less special Friday the 13th

Tony Hughes, a former Paly golf champ, a Barclays banker of muni bonds and an all around White Hat (good guy) is holding down the fort today at Ada’s Cafe for wife Kathleen. Golf holiday? Personal chef to Obama? No, … Continue reading

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Kurt Schwitters

Originally posted on The As It Ought to Be Archive:
Portrait of Kurt Schwitters by El Lissitzky, 1929. GOODBYE KURT SCHWITTERS by Matt Gonzalez “I use any material the picture demands.” Kurt Schwitters, 1920. Today marks the conclusion of an…

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Pubic defender

Broke Ass Stuart has a website, and Alex Mak of the BAS confederacy profiled Matt Gonzalez, the public defender, former SF Supe and artist. I thought it neat, and commented to such, that next to the article there was an … Continue reading

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Divisa Ensemble of the Peninsula

Any chance they as a quintet would busk at Lytton Plaza? I brought the Magnolia Sisters, Grammy nominees in Cajun bluegrass, there once, April 1, 2010. Here is a duet by two members. I haven’t quite focused yet to name … Continue reading

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