Monthly Archives: June 2020

Super Wash VS Ferris Bueller

I did not know until reading the New York Times obituary of Claudell Washington, 65, That the Berkeley man’s swing produced the foul ball caught by Ferris Bueller on his famous day off in 1985. I think I taped part … Continue reading

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Groundhog Day for drum buskers at Lytton Plaza soft re-opening

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My rap on Cari Templeton campaign that the Weekly hides or deletes

Of the twenty comments so far, mine are the only ones that come from someone who signs their name. Of my three comments, two are behind a fire wall — I don’t even remember what I wrote and cannot access … Continue reading

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Mac’s gains a week and momentum in push back against clumsy nanny ordinance

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God bless Brianna Noble the woman on horseback at Oakland Black Lives Matter protests

thanks to Oakland Roots soccer club for hipping me to this via their mural in their blast: also not sure I already said this but what about Ruth Bader’s use of the quote of boot on my deck and women’s … Continue reading

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Mayor Fine opens meeting but does not resign; votes to close session, for labor negotiations, per agenda and as exception to Brown Act

bw Gunn graduate and PhD in communications and robotics Leila Takayama Conversation with Kamla bhatt   Toggling between channels 23 and 26 makes me want to Outro this short item with a Beatles song one after 909 I guess it … Continue reading

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Revised version of Adrian fine Adrian Figg riff for readers of the Palo Alto Weekly

(Eleven hours later, kind of reminds me of the joke when I was a kid about Gilligan and Ginger and Gilligan asks if he can stick his finger in her belly button and she says “If Black Lives Matter”..)I saw … Continue reading

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Jenny Scheinman found footage project coming to Stanford Bing Second Stage a year from now, lord willing and the Covid-19 creek don’t rise

Stanford announced a slate of shows for 2020-2021, including a small show in Bing Second Stage with Jenny Scheinman, violin; a banjo player, a guitar player and some found footage from 100 years ago.Her Parlour Game was booked into Palo … Continue reading

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You had me at ‘ARRRGGHHHH!!!!!!!’

It’s been six years since the biggest sea change about corruption in Palo Alto vis a vis the developers, the billion dollar industry micromanaging every last parking spot and tree planting in Palo Alto and things have sure gotten better. … Continue reading

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Pitter Pat pear

Pat you were in leadership here for 16 years, 2000 thru 2016. Two companies, now worth a combined $1.6 trillion market cap were either founded here or based her during that time (FB, 2004; Google, 1999-2003). Why did we fail … Continue reading

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