Monthly Archives: June 2021

I would drop football before I’d pay the players

Plunkett was already famous as a high school player

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Rich Outzen ‘89, from Aragon to Antalya

Rich Outzen ‘89 is a retired colonel in the US Army and a language scholar and diplomat. At Dartmouth he was a lineman on the football team and a reporter for The Dartmouth; he used my notes to finish my … Continue reading

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Los Panaderos demo of Cake’s ‘Mexico’ with two-voice-harmony and jawbone

I met Sharon Benitez and her sister Tanya Benitez Sunday busking on University Avenue, near Oren’s Hummus. They peform in a grupo called Los Panaderos (The Bread-makers) and also teach folkloric dance to children under the name Quetzal.They were here … Continue reading

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Ledisi Anibade Young The 1st Elected The New Queen of Stern Grove

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Hark

Despite the fact that i both taped the game and bought the morning paper, it was my trainer James Ward who told me that the A’s lost to the Yankees on a triple play to end the game.

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Jules at 33

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Don’t bullshit a bullshitter, Pacaso

J.K. Dineen of the Chron has a story about a unicorn billion dollar start up buying vacation property in Napa and Sonoma but claiming to be PLUR. He wrote me back a four word exegesis: diversity in the workforce ie … Continue reading

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I bought a book and three songs popped out

I bought Bruce Iglauer’s memoir about Alligator Records from the window of Books, Inc. of Palo Alto, near the Stanford football stadium.I noticed in the index a section about Gaye Adegbalola, a founder of Saffire – the Uppity Blues Women, … Continue reading

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Quick take on Ventura

I like a musicians’ village with subsidized housing for artists from Palo Alto taking serious steps towards careers in music, that don’t have to move to Nashville or Austin to live while they develop their audience. Molly Tuttle, whose father … Continue reading

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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; it is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on

Susan Slusser* in today’s Chron describes baseball pitcher Joe Ross of the Washingtons as a “tarter”. Ross, a Bay Area native who led Bishop O’Dowd to the CIF North Coast sectional quarterfinals held the Giants my favorite team to five … Continue reading

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