Monthly Archives: March 2015

Henry Butler is no small, Japanese woman although Mimi Jones is a West Indian ram

I was Henry Butler’s manager, for six months. (blind piano player from New Orleans) Malcolm Papa Mali Welbourne (who actually got his moniker from his reggae days, dubbed such by Burning Spear himself, because Malcolm or Mali had four kids … Continue reading

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She’s literally the 6th man

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Scharff: Not a cap, a halo

Live from 250 Hamilton, in real time: Council members are taking five minutes each to tell us their latest thinking, on the downtown cap (meaning: LIMIT) which has been on the books since at least the 1998 Comp Plan, general … Continue reading

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Office versus culture in Palo Alto

I am late for the City Council study session on water because I am reviewing the voluminous packet of letters regarding tonight’s later item about a Downtown Cap or a moratorium on office space. I want to chime in, via … Continue reading

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Chip Conley where r u?

I met Chip Conley the day he was touring Uni Ave apropos of his conversion of Casa Olga into The Epithany and Lure +Till. I said I had stayed in his rock and roll dive, The Phoenix in SF. I … Continue reading

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Down with hateful license plates from Texas and Florida

NPR radio had a report about rightwing weirdos and hate-mongers in Texas wanting to use the government to sponsor their views via special license plates and how the Roberts Court is trying to figure whether the First Amendment applies here … Continue reading

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This is the best link to Cheryl Wheeler gun song

Quick back and forth with Nashville music manager and mensch Tony Gottlieb reveals that the best link to Cheryl Wheeler “If it were up to me…” is via Soundcloud. Here. God bless. Cheryl played the Cub back in June, 1998, … Continue reading

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‘Mr. Mastodon Farm’ w. ‘Guitar’: birds fall w. if i throw my guitar

windows 1,418.0* Birds fall from the window ledge above mine Then they flap their wings at the last second w. this is deep hamlet-type stuffing: If I threw my guitar Out the window, so far down Would I start to … Continue reading

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Media images and the Fabian Way murders

This is somewhere between a red herring and besides the point, but I couldn’t help noticing that the Daily News (The Mercury) had two photos Friday that seemed to glorify gun violence, on the day that the double-killing was discovered. … Continue reading

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Belated kudos to Norm on the mallard stamp

and1: And kudos to EPA for enforcing the Clean Water Act apropos of the Cargill scheme to develop 1,400 acres of marshland in Redwood City, CA and to KQED forum with Joshua and San Jose Mercury with Paul Rogers for … Continue reading

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