Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Dr. Frank meet Dr. Frank

I traded notes last week with Dr. Frank the author and punk folk singer, Frank Portman of San Bruno Carlmont 650 area who many people think of as Mr. T. Experience on Lookout and also he played the Earthwise 5-year … Continue reading

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Tale of two Weiss stump speech transcripts

And this is a voice mail I left my neighbor and coreligionist the former Google exec and current Bridgepoint or something exec and Palo Alto planning commissioner Eric Rosenblum parroting back to me what “Google Voice” thinks I said to … Continue reading

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Wor(l)ds of wander with friend and former client Dao Strom

Writing this at 12:03 past midnight although it is lifted from something called 3AM Magazine dot com. Not really writing just cut-pasting: In the mountain town of Tam Dao, a man in the market points to the Chinese character tattoos … Continue reading

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Curtis McMurtry & Rachel Garlin to headline ‘earthwise@20’ Friday, Nov. 21 at Cafe Zoe Menlo Park

Austin-based Curtis McMurtry and San Francisco’s by way of Berkeley singer-songwriter/activist Rachel Garlin headline a bill at Cafe Zoe in Menlo Park Friday. The event, open to all ages, is also known as the Earthwise Productions Twentieth Anniversary concert or … Continue reading

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Newsvendor be livelier (1973/2014)

Newsvendor, be livelier! The lady with the dog, faster! More activity around the subway! Now the white car! Alphonse, get ready! Come out of … Continue reading

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My jazz treatise stands at 24,776 words

My jazz treatise stands at 24,776 words. I bought the book on Thelonious Monk by Robin D.G. Kelley because it mentions Danny Scher and the concert he presented on October 27, 1968; she has his yearbook, the Madrono as a … Continue reading

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Dartmouth codex for English Studies, 12/84 thru S86

Eoanthrophus will triumph finally over Homo sapiens Mencken, 1926 Horse-man Weiss, 1984 & 2014 According to a notebook I dug out of storage yesterday which would be also known as November 10, 2014, these are the classes I took towards … Continue reading

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Ann Hagedorn elevator pitch plug review and or preview

1. the first part; Or, The Pledge THE director of the Secret Service has resigned after, among other problems, the revelation that, in a visit to Atlanta on Sept. 16, President Obama rode in an elevator with a private security … Continue reading

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‘oohhahhhheeeeeoooohhh yeh yeh!’ 4 2 Toms

Or, We Are Broadcasting Live and Want To Hear All of “Yah” at the bottom i am re-posting Tom Jordan 2 aka Tommy Jordan of Geggy Tah at Earthwise Showcase in 2009, trumpet solo and splits we are broadcasting live … Continue reading

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Schauer defeats Sndyer

Mark Schauer is a guy I met on the campaign trail here in Palo Alto, on Santa Rita Street to be precise, so I was excited to punch his name into the search-injun to learn that he got 47 points … Continue reading

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