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I was tracking down something about a Pinay singer who is 20 years old in London, born in the Philippines.
Then an hour or so later I notice a picture of Gary Floyd in 1984.
I booked one gig for Gary Floyd, opening for Charlie Musselwhite at Mystic Theatre in Petaluma, circa 2004.
Time flies like an arror, fruit flies like to suck a banana.
Pat Blashill’s photo book “Texas Is the Reason” Beabadoobee
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vintage Dana Morgan ad, 1970s, The Cubberley Catamount
These companies that Pat Burt all of a sudden wants to tax — despite 17 years in leadership who were afraid to tax companies, so as not to upset the landlords — now have a trillion dollar market cap.
Leadership had punted the idea until Rebecca started talking it up, and other candidates, seven of eight save Tanaka, joined in.
We enforce zoning at Stanford Research Park, so we can tax them too.
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I saw Pat Burt walk with the people protesting Palantir’s role in ICE separating children from their families, then slink away before the speeches in front of the building, at Hamilton and Alma.
Burt, Tanaka, Lauing, Templeton and Kou are to blame for the mess we are in. We need fresh blood.
But not Varma, who does not know that letting corporations rule us is Fascism not Democracy.
Cubberley basketball hall of fame
as accorded by Plastic Alto, Earthwise Productions and The Titensity Spin On Your Finger Machine Doctors
First team:
Forward Mike Nichols 1959
Forward Rick Kuhta 1964
Center Paul Trainer 1971
Guard Ray Gale 1962
Guard Todd Walker 1974
Second team
Forward Wylie Chenn 1968
Forward Kent Lockhart (1979* — Gunn ’81)
Center Erik Rosenberg 1979
Guard Hans Delannoy 1970
Guard George Violante 1979
Third team:
Forward Greg Sharpe 1967
Forward Tim Ruff 1979
Center Bruce Asch 1961
Guard Gary Prehn 1969
Guard Jeff Sandborn 1965
Honorable mention:
Bob Young, Dave Young, Phil Ashworth 1970, Billy Mitchell 1979, Matt Passell 1979, Jerry Chang 1979*, John Ehrlich 1979*, Mike Twohy, 1960 Shibun Tana 1959, Tup Fisher 1978 Steve Baird, 1970, Rob Evers, 1967
Mr All Time South Palo Alto Basketball: Hans Delannoy
Mr Cougar Basketball Todd Walker
“One of the three L’s — top three players all time, with Jeremy Lin and Jungle Jim Loscutoff: Kent Lockhart” (Gunn ’81)
15 final players
11 frosh soph final players
arbitrarily capped it at 200-The Cougar 200 hoopsters
re-naming the gym presley pavilion for bud presley and elvis presley
Wylie Chen — single game record, 37, vs Ravenswood, 1968
Only 11 players hit 30 or more in a game: Todd Walker (4), Wylie Chenn, Paul Trainer, Greg Sharpe, Rob Evers, Gary Prehn, and Erik Rosenberg in the final season against Los Altos. Only 8 players.
record season: Todd Walker, 1974
record for a soph, 4th all time, Kent Lockhart, 1979 (Gunn ’81)
record for a junior?
Only 2 boys had 10 plus consecutive free throws in a game: Hans Delannoy (13-for-13 vs San Carlos, 1970), Todd Walker (10-for-10 vs Woodside, senior season, and vs Carlmont as a junior); Jim Perman, class of 1960, vs Carlmont 10 for 11. ??? check with Hans for class. says 1967?
only 5 players finished with 70 percent or better from the charity stripe: Todd Walker, Hans Delannoy, Wylie Chenn, Paul Trainer and Bruce Fein. (100 attempts)
One of the five best shooting nights all time occurred versus Gunn, meaning I saw it: Tim Ruff, 10 for 13 from the floor, in 1979. 77 percent. Five of the best all time were from that final team: Ruff, 10-for-11 vs Mountain View (91 percent); Ruff vs Gunn; Erik Rosenberg 13-for-17 76 percent vs Los Altos; Kent Lockhart 12-for-17 71 percent versus Los Altos —same game?
Rosenberg 9-for-9 versus Wilcox.
Best all time shooting for a season, Paul Trainer 155 of 278, 56 percent 1971. Lockhart as a sophomore is fourth all time: 54 percent, 168-of-314. Four of the top ten al time were that final season: Lockhart (54 percent); Rosenberg (51 percent); George Violante (48 percent) and Tim Ruff (49 percent)
Phil Ashworth — top 8 all time assists 58 (1970)
Says 1978-1979 was top shooting percentage all time 615 for 1255, 49 percent (thank you for Jim Yelton and Hans delannoy for providing access to your record books for this deliberate attempt — and for the record I had 4 points on one field goal and two free throws for the 25-3 Gunn Titans champions in 1980-1981).
Best defense performance may have been holding gunn to 29 points in 1978-1979
Record is 16 versus Woodside in 1961 but who knows what that was like.
The final team had record for wins, 19 but was fourth all time at 76 percent to 1957 who was 17 and 2. 1964 who was 17 and 4 and 1975 who was 17 and 5. Han’s team was 16-6, 73 percent.
Mike Mulcahy best defensive player, 1976 tied Bud Presley award, 1965- 1979 to 14 players.
Rich Atchison twice. Two brothers? Dave Young, Kurt Young.
There already was a HOF with 21 players, from 14 classes, including 4 of the final 5.
Coaches wing: Jim Yelton, Bud Presley, Hans Delannoy, Rich Atchison, Ron Jones.
Pro Players: Kent Lockhart, Paul Trainer, Rich Ashworth.
Final squad:Lockhart, Rosenberg, Ruff, Jack Snyder, Matt Passell, Violante, Billy Mitchell, Behrens, Chapman, Kuhn, Martin, Mensick, Salop, Gregg Warren, Young
Plus frosh soph including Chang, Ehrlich, Kirkeby, House, Ng, Neumann, and Peters.
189 players on the scoreboard.
Mike Twohy tied for 187th with 1 point
(later became a cartoonist for the New Yorker
is Bob Evers related to Al Evers? Top 7 all time in rebounds
I’ve mentioned Hans Delannoy my old coach 45 times in the first 3,000 or so posts. Thanks, coach, for putting your faith in me in my two seasons in your program. Gunn had a program, not just a team in the two years directly after Cubberley High School closed. Hans coached a total of 14 teams at Cubberley, boys and girls. Mitch Stephens later called him “Peninsula basketball legend”. He was inducted into the San Ramon Valley High (Danville, CA).
There’s no quid pro quo but I am naming Mike Twohy honorable mention Cubberley Hall of Fame for basketball and using this topical comic on my blog:
edit to add, a week or two later: Hans Delannoy texted me to say that Bruce Asch who played center for Cubberley and Santa Clara is the greatest all time. So maybe there is LAW, Lockhart, Asch and Walker as the greatest Cub or the triumvarate Valhalla or maybe pantheon. Or, lets induct all 187 who are on the scoreboard. Have not heard from Twohy who scored 1.
I watched the League of Women Voters candidates forum and am marking my ballot, were it ranked:
Jesse Fletcher Ladomirak
Jennifer DiBrienza (i)
Karna Nisewaner.
The also-rans for me are, in order: Katie Causey, Todd Collins, Matt Nagle.
I think this is a stronger panel than the 10 running for four slots for Palo Alto City Council.
I am a Gunn grad who went to Dartmouth and moved back to the PAUSD area in 1992. My parents moved our family to this area for PAUSD schools. I am childless, but I have volunteered for schools, worked in alumni relations for Gunn, and follow Gunn (and sometimes Paly) in sports.
I’ve never voted for any of these people before. My favorite school board members all time include: Carorolyn Tucher, Becky Morgan, Camille Townsend and Alan Davis.
(My card for Council is, ranked choice: Rebecca Eisenberg, Greer Stone, Raven Malone and Lydia Kou (I), although I am drifting towards bullet-ballot Rebecca and Greer).
Todd Collins is still on my shit list for a), running a negative attack ad against Kathy Jordan and b) writing me to tell me not to criticize his choices of leadership for PAUSD — the guy with the the diploma mill fake PHD. That he went to Harvard is actually a dis-ad for we of The Big Green.
Good to say Nancy Shepherd walking in the event.
Greg Tanaka does not know anything about the environment nor does he care. He somehow thinks that saying he is interested in the environment will earn your vote. Or having his intern say this, in a 14-second video.
it’s a cool video I admit— he has an electric skateboard and a fancy GoPro 360° camera or maybe a drone. But having cool toys does not make you a leader or a thinker or anything but a spoiled brat with a good balance.
I have a less cool video of him riding his skateboard down the halls of Cubberley community Center right past a sign that says NO SKATEBOARDING.
in the Greenwash hodgepodge environmental debate featuring nine candidates last night he referred a couple times to earth as a spaceship . and he falsely claimed that everyone is in the same ship not refuting Rebecca Eisenberg‘s statement that global warming harms the poor harder than it does us. (I’m middle class).
I am not a psychologist nor am I certainly Greg’s psychologist but I have a strong suspicion that his behavior is caused by a neurological problem. I have met Greg at least 10 times even sat in his office for 30 minutes trying to explain public art.
please do not vote for him.
My Scorecard:
Rebecca Eisenberg – B+ She is still the only person running who I find inspiring. She reiterated her support of electric shuttles — which she introduced back in December in her application for PATC. In that context she said that if Castilleja moved to a better location and housing was built on the R1 zoned lot it currently occupies tax exempt, the millions raised in property taxes could fund the shuttle. She says that despite being from Wisconsin, a trip to a dairy farm made her vegan at age 9.
Greer Stone – B+ I’m giving Greer a tie with Rebecca for the night’s plaudits, grading on a curve because I also posted on the chat function that most of these people work in tech, which to me is not green.
Raven Malone – B I think of our 2020 Palo Alto City Council elections in terms of a panel of 4 being added to another panel of 3 so I include her on my ballot mostly just for being young and Black. She handled all the jargon suitably well, but I thought she could have hit the bike platform a bit harder since it is high on her published priorities.
Steven Lee – B –
Cari Templeton – B-
Ed Lauing– B-
Steven, Ed and Cari are tied for sixth here, although in some ways, and as I started to dash off this post, I thought one of them would temporarily or in this limited sense replace incumbent Lydia Kou as my fourth choice on the ballot. This whole topic, though of interest to me, seems to disintegrate into a hodge-podge of abstactions and jargon and platitudes. I think the Greenbelt Alliance crowd trols here as a type of greenwashing: I don’t believe that growing Palo Alto even with tiny people in tiny boxes near the tracks is green. YIMBY is not green. Its a type of growth, expansion.
Ajit Varma – C I could see him on a geek squad to compare electric bicycles but I don’t think electric bicycles are a green priority. I like my solar power version, although complex creature that I am today mine was powered by fast food and dead cow. Ooops. But the
Greg Tanaka – D
whole experience reminded me that when I ran for Council in 2009 I made it a strict point — and this was before Covid — to bike to every event and not drive, including using bike and train and bike last 3 miles or so to San Jose for Labor Council. And then feeling trumped by Brian Steen who said that he fixed bikes to pay his way thru college.
Pat Burt — F — He thinks he’s a know it all, but it is merely fluent in his own worn cliches and jargon. I called him a polluter on the chat board because the company he led Acteron was listed as a major polluter by the EPA, then sold to Flextronics, another polluter. Plus his machishmo is antithetical to a green, more feminine society. White males more than anybody have caused global warming; Pat Burt more than anybody embodies the problems we seem to be punting, at least since 2009, my first foray. (And in comparison Earthwise Productions started here in Palo Alto in 1994 — I stopped working for corporate capitalism in 1992).
Rebecca repeats almost as a mantra that because we are the richest city in the world we can solve any problem. Potentially true. Plus, we are named for a tree (albeit a tree whose twin was lost; or a tree that was quickly chopped down, and special interests claimed the subsititute twin-pine Palos Altos Minus One was close enough).
A bit of a red herring: I said at the time that the mixed use building at 420 Cambridge was “greed” and not “green” because they crammed too many units in.
“Silicon Valley” has to admit that their proliferation is antithetical to the natural world. Don’t say “we have an app for that”.
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