Category Archives: ethniceities

when i say ethniceities i mean “jewish”

Kraus – Ginsberg, 1978 Loisaida

B/w Broken Flowers, 2006 Palo Alto early light  This is a coincidence but Nilaja Sun, appearing thru Dec 16 at Berkeley Rep, is from the Lower East Side. Kristine Guillaume, president or editor of Harvard Crimson This isn’t all beautiful … Continue reading

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Springtime for H-tler and Bill Johnson

hey i just subscribed 10/mo because I had posted something sensitvie about Nazis (or “natzi’s” which might mean “not Nazis”????) at Stanford and then the computer logged me out for having read a whole 10 articles in one month!! I … Continue reading

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Tiny desk, giant hearts

BLUF: “Fair play to those who dare to dream…and never give up!” Glen and Marketa ten years ago but the same muse courses thru Essence and Bernie, stay tuned. Stay strong! Frisco song-strong!!     edit to add, an hour … Continue reading

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Enter Sandberg

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    edit to add: I was reading deeper into the New York Times expose about Facebook hiring opposition research to bad mouth other tech firms, to deflect attention to their flubs regarding true fact of Russians hacking our elections … Continue reading

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One long tollway just heading north, and one even longer heading south

  I remember Illinois Governor-elect J.B. Pritzker at a Hebrew School talent show, in 1976 singing “If I Were A Rich Man” from “Fiddler on the Roof”. Everyone knew that his family were the founders of Hyatt Hotels. I’m not … Continue reading

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The Red Sox, a ‘patriot’

On the night that the Boston Red Sox won the World Series in Los Angeles, Anna Eshoo Member of Congress in Los Altos Hills called my mother Barbara H. Weiss “a patriot”. On October 26, in Washington Anna had also … Continue reading

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Thinking of Sukoenigs of musical varietal for no specific reasons (2)

I wonder if the cantor above is related to the folksinger below (there is likely a town somewhere near Minsk with 500 Sukoenig tombstones — and how many more sukoenigs and semi-sukoenigs in the diaspora?) Me:   Guy on the … Continue reading

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Thinking of Frances Toor (1881-1956) this week, 62 years later

We have a couple signed copies of books about The Americas (Peru, Mexico) by Frances Toor. She was a relative of my mother. Before my parents collected Pueblo Pottery, they were gifted a piece of  Peruvian antiquity from the Toors, … Continue reading

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Omaha heart of the matter

lyric fragment in my head, see previous

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Brief plug of Chris Knipp’s review of Matt Tyrnauer’s ‘Studio 54’ (2018) w 3 photos of small fire Sept. 30, 2018 at Ian Schrager’s PUBLIC at 2nd and Houston

  Chris Knipp is an artist and writer who was briefly in the class of 1960 at Dartmouth before going south a few clicks^ to become an Amherst man, who Terry and I met on our honeymoon, on the Jet … Continue reading

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