Warhol soup VS Thiebaud pie

After Scott Shields in Wall Street Journal Emily Borrow

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We’ve been ‘burted’

I would not say Pat Burt “championed a business tax” in that during his sixteen years in leadership Palo Alto failed to enact a business tax and now had budget cuts, having let off the hook a trillion dollars worth of market cap companies like Google, Facebook, Tesla headquartered here, as a favor to landlords. Rebecca Eisenberg a complete outsider and failed candidate for planning commission arguably is the one that got business tax on the agenda during campaign as current council, again, put it off.

This election means either business as usual — rule by landlords and “downtown interests” — and a false dichotomy between “the Residentialists” and “Build Baby Build” — or something encouraging by a strong showing of also rans like Eisenberg, Lee, Templeton and Malone. 

I doubt though I voted for him that Greer Stone can stay independent from that force given that he is mentored by Burt and Karen Holman, the only person who served with Burt in his first term but continues to support him. 

Incumbents Tanaka and Kou though from different pseudo-camps both took the arguably racist dog whistle stance of excluding outsiders from Foothills Park — council voted 5-2 with their dissent to settle a lawsuit from NAACP and ACLU that claimed the park rules had disparate effects on Blacks. 

I would think Palo Altans are already discussing a Burt recall on these and other grounds. He’s polarizing as much as popular.

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Eight female forms painted by Marcy Friedman of Sacramento

Marcy is a Stanford grad and a major donor to the Crocker Museum of Sacramento; not to be confused with Marcy Freedman of San Francisco and San Diego who is a writer it would be cool if Friedman with an “I” painted Freedman with an “E” while listening to Liza with a Z not S.

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Spectacular catch by Davante Adams of Palo Alto and Packers should count as a touchdown

Same exact thing happened to me on the final play of the Terman -Wilbur game in 1977, right Zlotnick, Kjos?

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Twenty five years of Dawn Richardson drums

Dawn with Four Non Blondes circa 1994

Dawn with Mental 99 (Joe Gore Dawn Richardson duo) 2010

I know I know my math is off, but the headline references a song lyric, it’s been 25 years since a 25 yo sang such and such, plus I can only count to four, or by fours….

There’s more to say but for now I tagged this “music” “sfmoma’ “sex” I forget when I split “sex” and “sfmoma” into two categories. If you are a woman from SF, you are “sfmoma”. And “math” because drummers count by fours or other divisors.

Aka Dawn Rich.

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Still waiting

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Personal to Plastic Alto voters in Palo Alto: you have 90 more minutes to get to the polls and vote REBECCA

Rebecca and Zoey, at Hoover Park

I met Rebecca Eisenberg walking our dogs at the new park at Peers Park and then have followed her campaign avidly since it started in June.

I mention her here 23 times.

I voted for she and three others, but she is by far the best person on the ballot.

Thank you, Rebecca. Regardless of the vote total, you are officially part of leadership here.

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There once was an agent named Dan

He’s doing the best that he can.
his clients all do it

they never say screw it

it’s an endeavor of sorts for a man.

meanwhile Tegan and Sara have announced they have canceled their tour of Ireland due to a gay potato band according to Bruce solar there at one time agent at absolute artist San Francisco or the agency group Los Angeles or shit I’m forgetting my own punchline
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On the basis of ‘MET’


I won’t know until I walk into the ballot box drop off place also known as the polls which for me might be in front of Palo alto city Hall although I’d prefer something with a human attendant but right now I am wondering about an all female panel, on the basis of sex, featuring Raven Malone, Rebecca Eisenberg, and Cari Templeton also known as MET.I won’t know until I walk into the ballot box drop off place also known as the polls which for me might be in front of Palo alto City Hall although I’d prefer something with a human attendant but right now I am wondering about an all female panel, on the basis of sex, featuring Raven Malone, Rebecca Eisenberg, and Kari Templeton also known as MET.

As in the place where Ruth Bader Ginsburg notorious RBG would hear her opera, the Met.

As in I met Rebecca about two years ago walking our dogs and today I met Raven and Cari finally 48 hours before election day .

I published previously that my school board card likewise features three women or might likely Jesse Fletcher Latin America, Jennifer DiBrienza incumbent, Karna Niswarner.

How much better and fairer would our society be with more leaders who were women and people of color and women of color?

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Vote Cari for Palo Alto


Cari Templeton told me that she has heard the stories of Pat Burt being a bully but vowed that if tried such with her she would “kick his ass”.

That earned my endorsement.

Kick some ass, Cari Templeton.

(She is also a mother of two from Atlanta, went to Vanderbilt where she had a dual major in theater and engineering, recently completed a competitive and rigorous masters of liberal arts from Stanford University the home team where she did original research on some under-studied manuscripts of the brothers Grimm fairytale collection and the economic impact of the stories as a set, in Germany. She said she would send me an e-file of her work. She is chair of the planning and transportation commission which is the launching ground for numerous recent council members including Mayor Karen Holman, and was endorsed by the local Democratic commission).

PS I published a lighthearted riff on the website of a leading popular local news service in which I gave pet names to six candidates and I called this one Karaage Temple Tana — topic was Japanese noodle culture and business— partly in honor of my friend and colleague Akira Tana whose father was a leader at the Palo Alto Buddhist Temple.
But Bill Johnson who is a white supremacist asshole and publisher censored my comments in fact he censors all my comments or worse than that he occasionally lets me post he is such a child but a child with powerful backers hence a menace to free society. Reminds me how when I studied William Faulkner with Chauncey Loomis at Dartmouth our professor explainEd that William Faulkner had predicted the Nazis as Mississippi in books published before Hitler took power.
And then on my way home from the farmers’ market I saw a bunch of douche bags with pick up trucks waving flags and honking about their trunk or something, their rump. Nothing but gas not liquid in the pump.

bw (backed with — record industry lingo, ie the b-side of a single)

Linda Otero who was wearing a United Nations Palo Alto film Festival T-shirt and caring a matching tote bag I missed took it for her colleague Yasmina both chick who I claim I meant by putting her on the COD list for my otherwise sold out train concert back at the Cubberley 300 capacity theater on January 28 my birthday 1998. I am posed next to a custom built and designed the logo EarthWise Sandwich Board that I had only put out twice before designer in San Francisco made it in the idea it was it would be in front of the library next to the bread old him owls bollards on days where I did a show.I am posed next to a custom built and designed logo EarthWise Sandwich Board that I had only put out twice before designer in San Francisco made it in the idea it was it would be in front of the library next to the Bret old him owls bollards on days where I did a show.

i’m not sure why I slept it from my car to the farmers market I was mainly there to meet Raven Malone and Kari Templeton and hand out flyers for my first choice which is Rebecca Eisenberg. but prophetically I ended up meeting Tommy Farley who is Dar Williams nephew and I paid him 20 bucks to let me put my shingle next to him. I am sort of vamping until Earthwise continues perhaps in a year. I am vamping which means repeating the same sequence of sounds or stalling although I could be Lamping which is black vernacular for…..Eating chocolate vanilla sarsaparilla husky Malewski yeah boy

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