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Smooth sailing for A, C, ND, M for College Championships in Santa Clara and correspondingly appropriate Leon Bridges joint

I like your way (Alabama) I like your way (Clemson) I like your way (Notre Dame) I like your way (Michigan — although still not sure, after 37 years, about Harbaugh) The Posers that Be, um, Powers announce a group … 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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Free Lou Gehrig

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Goodbye Johnny Mac’s / Ugly’s / Bert’s Alibi bars, hello four story mixed use undergrounded parking

At 1313 El Camino, between El Monte and Shoreline, Mountain View  That is between Swetka‘s tennis shop and Alison is garden fresh vegan Chinese restaurant Actually this is news to me until 10 minutes ago in between my tennis racket … 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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3 Teens kill 4 no motive w 4 pols run with mo money

3 Teens Kill 4 is a band from the 1980s that sound like Talking Heads meet Negativland. No Motive was their first album, both names ripped from the tabloids. Here is my comment in the PAW board — I habitually … Continue reading

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$70k Zia pot owned by Maynard Dixon, on AR

Earth knower, at Oakland Museum edit to add, the next day: speaking of “pot” or “tea” this is what flew out of mein fingers today as I read Diane Diamond in the PAW (looking for my previous post of dense … Continue reading

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Kanye West screen test for Bowfinger remake

    Keep it together. Keep it Together. Keep it together. the times article linked to this video of Kanye West on his twitter which has more than 1M views; it was difficult to watch but what I think it … Continue reading

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‘Das boot’ booty

file under “film” and “filthy lucre” from those formiddables at MoFo: Jost Vacano, acclaimed cameraman of the 1980s blockbuster “Das Boot,” has landed another – though tainted – success in his chain of legal proceedings for additional remuneration on the … Continue reading

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Will Vinton closed Thursday, at 70

In 1981, or 1982, at Gunn high school in Palo Alto, I took an elective course on film as literature with Frank Ratliff. He showed closed Mondays the 1974 film by will Vinton which won the Academy award. Years later … Continue reading

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