‘Tioga George’ Burns of The A’s VS George Burns of The Giants, 1918

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There was also an Ed Burns in 1918, Edward James Burns, born Halloween, 1887 in San Francisco, died at age 54 in Monterey, played 321 regular season games plus three World Series games, for the Phillies, as a reserve catcher with no punch at the plate. No dingers.

George Burns played for John McGraw’s Giants who went 71 and 53. He hit .290 with a team-leading four home runs during the dead-ball era. (The NL leader hand only eight — Babe Ruth of Boston Red Sox lead the league or tied for title with 11 while also winning 13 games on the mound).

The other George Burns played for the Philadelphia A’s as a first baseman who hit six home runs for a mediocrity of a Connie Mack squad. He came in second (behind Cobb) with a blistering .352 clip — lot of cheese in his steak sandwich that year. Or a lot of Tioga, as the case may be. (I’m actually writing this near Tioga Court, near Cubberley High. I had a friend who grew up there, D_, who played varsity soccer for Stanford and was tragically and mysteriously killed in a mugging at the New York subway, during Final Fours in 1990, if you excuse the digression; getting to: not sure what Tioga means or why George Henry Burns had that sobriquet unless, like the Chrissy Hynde Pretenders song, there is a Tioga falls near Niles Ohio. TK

for “Collegiate” Ed Burns

Say good night, Ed

“Good night Ed”

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Better Than Ezra VS Jimmy Eat World

no idea.

edit to add:  kind of reminds me of a story I tell l even though I’m missing a few of the pieces right now: the lady name Previn like the composer but probably not related had a band that had major management and opened for no doubt at Shoreline before she got her big song on the radio    I Remember she did a cart-wheel onto stage.  I saw her once at slims maybe even more ironically with Linda Perry band after the break up of four non-blondes but before Linda met pink.  And as her encore she asked the audience “would you rather hear my version of a David Bowie song or a song you already know but covered by Natalie Imbruglia ?”

She was torn.

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I just told this fact to a Facebook bus driver with long braids from lake Charles who said she was related to the Edwin Hawkins singers or CeCe Winans or something or Tony! Toni! Toné! that Bobby McFerrin at SF Jazz did not play his big hit.

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Closed Mondays

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H In 1988 when it was announced that Dan Quayle who’s only qualification was being photogenic would be the next vice president I remember wanting to make a film marking George Bush based on the song let’s get it on … Continue reading

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Amendola, Dunn, Greenlief, Weiss by Bui— Palo Alto, October 11, 2019

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He done good

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Of good chair

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Played to a draw

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Trevor Paglen at Altman Siegel

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Detail of a Chris Johansson painting that reminds me courtesy of Altman Siegel of Thai Bui portrait of “Mr Weiss” I met Chris once at a dinner in the Mission

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Wild Caf Royal Crown

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Mary Histia vs Ajax lady

Well the first is a famous artist with a pot on her head and the second is a woman who was in a movie about famous potheads

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Halliwell scores of 7 bills vs handbill of my Conrad Veidt silent film Oct 25

0FC4D6A8-9985-4529-A675-EC685AE8CFC8.png would say that Frankenstein and Dracula bills crush the contemporaneous universal romance and what knots.  Yet my Orlac with six musicians at the Mitchell Park on Friday, October 25 will be as unique as six months worth of the offerings at the Stanford theater.  Tickets on sale at Eventbrite for $20.  Ada’sCafe will stay open at least through the first half of the movie

by A.B. Which coincidentally was my father’s nickname on his boat in 1944 during World War II when he was barely 19 or 20 years old he was born the year that Hans or lack was produced and coincidentally he broke his wrist around age 80 or at least sprained it severely and I believe he was insulted by my Dartmouth classmate Dr. Andrew Gutow who would make a great sponsor of my film.  Which coincidentally was my father’s nickname on his boat in 1944 during World War II when he was barely 19 or 20 years old he was born the year that Hans or lack was produced and coincidentally he broke his wrist around age 80 or at least sprained it severely and I believe he was consulted by my Dartmouth classmate Dr. Andrew Gutow who would make a great sponsor

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Pillar VS Joker

80C81836-1750-4CB2-AD18-1108040E6B07Yesterday I bought roughly 200 baseball cards seeking the card of my new favorite player Kevin Pillar of the Blue Jays and now the Giants. I struck out. 200 whiffs.  I have roughly another 200 cards upstairs somewhere but my wife mix them in with 5000 other categories and objects thanks wife.  I have a vague plan to sort them. I had searched the image of the pilar card as a visualization device. He is depicted making a difficult catch with his legs akimbo as compared to crazy legs Hersh or stretch Podolski.  I had searched the image of the Polar card as a visualization device. He is depicted making a difficult catch with his legs akimbo as compared to crazy legs Hersh or stretch Podolski

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Mike Trout I got two of he’s a better player. And he is similarly depicted in the field not on offense. That is odd since he has led the league 12 times in a category five different categories  Mike Trout.

Meanwell flipping through three different newspapers I see Gia Kourlas  the dance critic of the Times writing about the joker play bow River Phoenix or Joaquin Phoenix as the case may be.

Is there a movie wherein The Joker meets Superman?

Are there other MLB named for superheroes?

what proportion of Topps poses depict defense of field players?

Bat Man seems too obvious.

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I am Bat Man!

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Coolest card ever

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Dunn and Dylan Highlight Huge Palo Alto Concert Weekend

One and Dunn.


Trevor Dunn, Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan appear within 4 miles and 80 hours of each other in separate shows produced by the Big 4 of Another Planet, Golden Voice, Stanford Live and Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto.
First up, Friday, October 11 — tonight — basisst Trevor Dunn, along with drummer Scott Amendola and reedsman Philip Greenlief play Mitchell Park Community Center at 8 pm with tickets $20 at EventBrite.

Saturday, at 6:30 at Frost Amphitheatre at Stanford campus, Texas troubadour Willie Nelson appears, tickets $40 at AXS. His son Lukas Nelson opens the show. (Motoko Honda, a Japanese jazz pianist, opens the Dunn show)

After a brief respite for sports fans to take in a 49ers Rams clash on tv, the music lovers fantasy continues with singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (“blowing in the wind”, “masters of war” “Hurricane”) making a rare local appearance, to celebrate that Jewish holiday about the makeshift housing and the lemon and the palm fronds – Sukkot — 7:30 Monday, which even more intriguingly is also Indigenous Peoples Day (earthwise productions was founded in 1994 by Palo Altan and Dartmouth grad as a spin off from an Earth Day indigenous people’s initiative; he also studiend with Michael Dorris at Dartmouth). Tickets were $70 but are sold out. Tickets remain for Amendola, Dunn Greenlief.

Willie Nelson, left, Bob Dylan, right?

Weiss points out that a former Stanford student Bryan Perez, a Latino, is now CEO of AXS, the Golden Voice AEG ticketing service and answer to TicketMaster, who are generally regarded as EVIL.
Weiss also claims, plausibly, that his Jewish lay rabbi, Danny Scher, who promoted Grateful Dead concerts at Frost in the 1970s before becoming Bill Graham’s right hand man, tried to get BGP leadership to buy out Weiss, based on a run of jazz shows in the 1990s at Cubberley, that included Scott Amendola (with Charlie Hunter). Further Weiss claims that Greg Perloff’s assistant at the time, D_ , told him that Greg kept a file on Weiss and considered buying him out when he launched Another Planet Entertainment but opted for Allen Scott and Bryan Duquette of Mystery Machines when he needed Gen X input to his venture. Weiss said he confronted Perloff on these rumors, after the Dylan show at The Regency on Van Ness a few years ago. Weiss’ guest that night, he recalls, was half Jewish scottish teacher activist and singer songwriter Rachel Garlin of Berkeley and Harvard.

Hold on to your hats, fans, this is going to be a bumpy 4 nights!

ed note: I guarantee that music fans for $20 at The Mitch Friday for Trevor Scott Phil and Motoko will be as satisfied as the people (including myself) who paid $70 each to see Dylan and Willie Nelson at Frost. Here is Andrew Gilbert weighing in:
Before Trevor Dunn relocated to Brooklyn at the turn of the century, the bassist was a whirlwind of activity on the Bay Area music scene, touring relentlessly with influential experimental rock band Mr. Bungle while also exploring variously structured and unstructured situations with improvisors such as pianist Graham Connah, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, guitarist John Schott, drummer Scott Amendola, and saxophonist Phillip Greenlief. Dunn doesn’t make it back to the Bay often, scarcity that heightens the anticipation of this reunion with the inveterately creative Greenlief and consistently inspired Amendola, who also contributes buzzy textures and unsettling blips on electronics. Encompassing furious flights, low down grooves, and spacious soundscapes, the trio’s music is volatile, protean, and delectably unpredictable. They also perform Friday at Palo Alto’s Mitchell Park Center.

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