Vote for ‘SMEK’

Posted on July 25, 2020 by markweiss86
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Four fingered slate: 1, Stone; 2, Malone; 3, Eisenberg ; 4, Kou (named for a Dreamworks character from 2015 voiced by Steve Martin

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Now we’re messing with The Kid: Earthwise announces content development deal with Christoffer Andersen of Greaseland Studios for Lions With Wings imprint

Posted on July 21, 2020 by markweiss86

Kid Andersen of Greaseland quickly found, when prompted, two or three of his projects charting in the July issue of Living Blues

 

He is both the Bay Area’s best kept secret and the all time greatest bluesman from Tunisia.

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‘Brave Dragons’ VS ‘Dragon Hoops’

Posted on July 19, 2020 by markweiss86

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AKA YARDLEY V YANG

One guy is a MacFound Genius Grant laureate who wrote a graphic novel 2020 bleeds black and gold of Bishop O’Dowd, the other was a Page Pirate and Gunn Titan, won a Pulitzer has a book about pro basketball in China circa 2010 and is being groomed to be editor of The New York Times. Also, maybe the last time I saw Yardley was Times bureau in Brooklyn circa 2000 — we met in 1980 — I think that bureau is near the new Nets crib.

 

edit to add, a day later: I’m really enjoying this book, about two-thirds of the way thru. I know a fair amount about hoops, but this book has me filling in gaps. For instance, that George Mikan went to private school. That the Harlem Globetrotters are from Chicago. The thing about the weird previous coach did come to mind, and he, Yang Man is handling it in a smart way.

I want to suggest he add a page about The Mikan Drill. Am I the shortest and youngest person who still does that? Also, to see footage of the first woman to dunk. Meanwhile, Stanford recruited for class of 2024 the first woman to alley oop.

Can’t wait to find out if BOD finally wins State.

The books also reminds me of my coach Hans Delannoy who a, came in second in CCS section in 1981 for Gunn, losing by 2 points to St. Ignatius the BOD of SF, then b, 25 years later won sections for San Ramon against Berkeley for Girls, and c, his school San Ramon won state a few years later; Hans was not a coach but knew most of the kids and saw alot of the games live. He was later inducted into their Hall of Fame and is nominated for the Cubberley Hall of Fame here.

Also: in the way I once confused Al Pacino with Robert Dinero, I admit I confuse Leon Powe with Ivan Raab. Isn’t there something about BOD and Jesse Gonder or his son?

And Pumpise Greeen was a supervisor for Berkeley during the time of Altamont, accoding to Joel Selvin.

And today I rang a door bell in Mountain View that was NOT the former home of Paly janitor circa 1969 Roy Hartgraves AND met the owner of a house in Belmont that was NOT the home of his colleague Don Coyne. Small world, amazing, yo? Wait, wait, we –meaning our circle, rang the doorbell of Larry Bailey a former Paly (and NFL Falcon) hoopster who id’d Bruce Davis, another custodian, may he rest in peace, or all of them. All of us.

Between binge-watching Ray Romano and Chris O’Dowd’s “Get Shorty”, this poker book The Big Bluff and Gene Yang, I’m finally getting that gradaute degree.

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Lions With Wings logo reveal

Posted on July 18, 2020 by markweiss86

By Queen Sara Saturday:

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This is a pretty random Segway but apparently Leicester England Has the same liensHas the same lions in a big fountain that is famous there

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A peaceful protester in Portland was shot in the head by one of Donald Trump’s secret police: Now Trump and Chad Wolf are weaponizing the DHS as their own occupying army to provoke violence on the streets of my hometown because they think it plays well with right-wing media.

Posted on July 17, 2020 by markweiss86

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US senator and former Paly basketball star Ron Wyden via social media, Thursday, July 16, 2020 regarding Black Lives Matter

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from Anna Eshew newsletter gazing tight

For what purpose, and under what legal authority, did the FBI conduct such aerial surveillance?
(b) How many flights for aerial surveillance over protests has the FBI initiated since May 25th?
(c) How many law enforcement actions were investigated or initiated by the FBI based on data collected during aerial surveillance?
(d) Has the FBI transferred any data collected through aerial surveillance to other federal, state, local, or international agencies (including law enforcement agencies), to private corporations, or to any other organization? If so, please list what was shared and with which organization.
(e) Other than the FBI, which federal, state, or local government agencies, law enforcement or otherwise, participated in or conducted such surveillance that the FBI is aware of?
(3) If the FBI did fly aircrafts over Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Nevada, or other U.S. cities as described in question (2), what surveillance equipment did the aircraft have on-board?
(a) Please identify whether or not each of following the types of equipment was on-board the aircraft and whether each was activated during the associated flights:
(i) fixed or mobile video surveillance systems.
(ii) rangefinders.
(iii) thermal imaging devices.
(iv) radar.
(v) ground sensors.
(vi) dirtboxes, stingrays, other cell site mimicking equipment, other radio frequency sensors, or other telecommunications interception equipment.
(vii) wide-area surveillance system.
(b) What is the maximum resolution of the camera system(s) attached to associated aircraft?
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(i) How many pixels does the imaging sensor possess?
(ii) Can any camera system discern specific vehicles or individuals, even if it is not able to identify them on its own?
(c) Did any equipment on-board the aircraft include any equipment that has associated software for facial recognition, other biometric identification, or automated license plate reading? Was such software used during or after the flight?
(4) What policies, protocols, and procedures – including any Privacy Impact Assessments and System of Records Notices – does the FBI have regarding the use of aerial surveillance? Please provide a copy of any associated documentation for these policies, protocols, and procedures.
We would appreciate your prompt response to these highly important

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Mays Vs Fingers

Posted on July 14, 2020 by markweiss86

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bert campaneris bunt base hit soundtrack to Mary fall fall fall fingers down my spine

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Bruce Springsteen ‘American Skin (41 Shots)’

Posted on July 13, 2020 by markweiss86

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Jake Clemons nephew of the Big Man:

song about Amadou Diallo (who, sadly I confused with Abner Louima who was brutalized but not killed by police)

 

 

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Big ups to Sean Wilentz in Rolling Stone RS 1341 on was the battle of Lafayette Square the beginning of the end for this presidency; Great cover art about the new lady liberty by Kadir nelson

 

 

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I May S1:01 Or Hemingway black cat story

Posted on July 13, 2020 by markweiss86

I watched the first 10 minutes of HBO date rape show and then went to walk my dog and then watched the final 5 minutes or so, then reviewed backwards minutes 26 thru 13 — the meat of the matter.
But my brain bounced to a story that I think I read at Dartmouth in the 1980s, maybe Peter Saccio was my prof, maybe it wasn’t a class on great American short stories but some sort of meta-class, rudiments of scholarship, like choose two of four of English 15, 16, 17 or 18 but not a seminar English 70 and only after you do English 5. There is something about a couple and they are in a fight or not actually in love and the man has to climb out a window to rescue a black cat. Get it? Not sure if I do or did, or will or I’m merely dreaming. (I think I had the same thing regarding the cat in the Coen film about folk music).

I heard Micaela Coel on public radio yesterday. From Ghana and London and now world wide. 

The writer was trained in drama as well, but does not star in this show. At first I thought the star was maybe a dude.

(I also happened to tape on TMC Turner Classic Movies Black Girl a Senagalese film from the 1960s in French. The star is now 71 years old. MT Diop. I watched the first 10 minutes of that. My tv is set such that I cannot read the subtitles of that film.

I have a bunch of stuff qued in my memory. I bunch of stew quoffed in my memory, as it were.



Apropos of “Raisin in the Sun” ithought I recall William Cook saying it was overrated and he called it “Raving in the Sun”. I can write to Professor Porter to see if he would confirm or deny that. Apropos of someone making a comment about how different ethnics groups preserve their looks or not. I cannot repeat the actual statement here. But I agree.

I bought a Bruce Iglauer book about The Blues but not a book about a Japanese baseball playe, Mash. I bought Toni Morrisson’s “last interview” but gifted it already. I have about 40 books I bought and have not read.



The movies in my cue include: “All the Kings Men”, “House of Wax” “House of Bamboo” “The Vikings” “the Seventh Cross” “My Darling Clementine’ “Fort Apache” “A Hard Day’s Night” “Mighty Joe Young” “Private files of Hoover” “M” “The Maltese Falcon” “You’ll Find Out” “Stranger on the Third Floor” “Rhapsody in blue” “Blues in the Night” “Pete Kelly’s Blues” “Lady sings the Blues”.

Coincidentally, PBS is showing a series of woman who are veterans claiming that they are date raped. Vanessa Guillen.

Blurring of reality and fiction.


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Should the new Palo alto police headquarters be reviewed in the light of Black Lives Matter and coronavirus?

Posted on July 12, 2020 by markweiss86

Should the new Palo alto police headquarters be reviewed in the light of Black Lives Matter and coronavirus?

The answer is yes of course.
I wrote separately about my dismay that the bureaucracy arbitrarily cut the guts out of the art element the 1% for the arts and the difference between what staff approved and what the artist Peter Wegner had presented regarding the new police station near California Avenue.

Michael Kimmelman inthe New York Times yesterday Saturday, June 13, 2020

discusses a movement among architects to boycott new prisons and death chambers on ethical and racist or anti-racist grounds.
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Artist seeks to capture the order — and chaos — of emergency response

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Bowden Bell Ringers does Dameron

Posted on July 11, 2020 by markweiss86

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