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The Lockhart Loo (2023)
The Brigham Young player called Pony the N word. Later Goodwin reprimanded Lockhart, who watched the overtime from the bench, for not letting him fight his own battles. (Kent’s account, circa 2009, of the fight in 1984 seen on the internet) Continue reading
Posted in art, Plato's Republic, sports, this blue marble
Tagged andrew bogut, jeremy lin, jungle jim loscutoff, kent lockhart
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We are the world
Gertrude Stein said I write for myself and strangers. As I sit the world around me is increasing, approaching 9 billion souls and bodies. I am actually South County today, so we are more like 2 million not the 60,000 … Continue reading
Because I was reading Jerry Mander ’In The Absence of The Sacred’ (1992), Dr. Cindy Russell put me in charge of the ‘Earthwise Traditions’ section of Stanford’s Earth Day, and that led directly to me founding a company Earthwise Productions”
Posted in Plato's Republic, this blue marble, words
Tagged Earthwise Productions, jerry mander, john markoff, stewart brand, whole earth
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Every day is Earth Day: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and, especially Sunday, April 24, with MC Lars and Matt The Electrician, in Palo Alto
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered I’m producing an Earth Day concert Sunday 2 p.m. at Mitchell Park Bowl. I’m writing early Wednesday morning, or Tuesday night, depending how you look at it. So … Continue reading
Slopestyle, freeski or just peoples
I met FoxFace from “Hunger Games” at Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto – – three feet where I am sitting right now as I write this. I had no idea who she was — a movie star — I only … Continue reading
Posted in sports, this blue marble, words
Tagged eileen gu, freeski, jessica zang, slopestyle
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Please welcome the SF VZ NYC Albuquerque Baltimore Kalamazoo jazz collective
SF Jazz collective members’ home towns: Chris Potter music director, tenor & soprano saxophonesChicago/South Carolina/NYC David Sánchez tenor saxophone Puerto Rico/NYC Etienne Charles trumpet Trinidad/Detroit Warren Wolf vibraphone Baltimore/Boston/NYC Edward Simon piano Venezuela/Philadelphia/NYC/Kalamazoo/maybe Bay Area these days? Matt Brewer bass OKC/ALBQ/NYC/Toronto Kendrick Scott drums … Continue reading
Saying ’tah-tah’ to Desmond Tutu
Not sure why my mind flashed to Bhi Bhiman singing about the circa 1990 assasination of Bobby Saele but here goes: I’m not sure we’re all these items for together But I guess when you die it’s better … Continue reading
Happy chanukah and happy 147th birthday, in advance, dead French author Colette aka Gigi
There’s a group of four scholars here at the Cafe on Middlefield, one of whom has two books cracke (open) simultaneously; they are reading “Gigi” in the original — talk about cognate — and are charmingly subtle counter-revolutionaries. The woman … Continue reading
[I had a different headline here but it was ambiguous that I am sympathetic to the victims of sexual assault in Ann Arbor]
ed to ad an hor later: I wrote Geiger back to say “nevermind”. Also, I know that the agent of Trevor Noah does not get 10 percent of gross, as much as he may deserve such. and another reason … Continue reading
Posted in big shoulders, ethniceities, sex, sf moma, this blue marble
Tagged jim harbaugh, jon vaughn, trevor noah
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Dave Douglas in Berlin, Anoushka Shankar in Hamburg
FIRST I’LL TAKE HAMBURG THEN I’LL TAKE BERLIN; or, I’m Your Gent Two great shows, for all you Germans and your superfast touring sedans and the highway: Anouska Shankar in Hamburg, Dave Douglas in Berlin. Auto-something. Precision auto, if I … Continue reading