Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss

Ninety-nine dreams I have had

Posted on February 17, 2019 by markweiss86

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I would have had to have started with Sermon on The Mount to have produced as many shows to date, as Earthwise, as Live Nation does in one year

Posted on February 14, 2019 by markweiss86

Dave Grohl former drummer for Nirvana and Michael Rappino current CEO of Live Nation, worlds most active concert promoter Beverly Hills, Tuesday February 12, 2019 AD

Me: 300 concerts in 25 years

Them: 30,000 concerts each year

Earthwise Posters set and checklist (1993-2001)

(Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto is or was a concert and artist management company founded by Mark Weiss that produced more than 200 shows in Palo Alto most notably a run of 150 events at the Cubberley Community Center. Beyond the posters and flyers, the events were marketed with mailings, email, commercial radio, college radio, and ads in Palo Alto Weekly, Bay Guardian and San Jose Metro)

Durham /The Basics, March 18, 1995,, Cubberley Theatre (Tina Dussault)11 x 17
Eskimo / Oxbow / David Brian / Rob Craig of Number Nine / Mono Pause / Curbside (benefit for Making Contact) September 16, 1995, Cubberley 4 1/2 x 11
Zen Cowboys / Susan James Band / Sunshine Club / David Elias w/ Roger Powell June 21, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium 5 1/2 x 17
Kristin Hersh, April 16, 1998, Cubberley(Donna Sharee) 10 x 16
A Great Laugh /22 Brides / Number Nine /Alison Faith Levy, November 10, 1995, Cubberley 11 x 17
Broun Fellinis, November 11, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium, 11 x 17
Pele Juju /Pamela Martin Band / Rilke String Quartet, October 28, 1995, Cubberley Auditorium (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
SF Seals featuring Barbara Manning /Stephen Yerkey Trio, May 5, 1995, Cubberley, 11 x 17
Early Earthwise handbill for Sermom on the Mount, featuring Jesus Lizard, Matthew Nathanson and Negativland
Tin Hat Trio, May 18, 2001, Museum of American Heritage, 11 x 17
Dar Williams / David Brian / Charlie Hunter Quartet / Seven Day Diary / Huge /Two Lane Blacktop, November 25, 1995, December 14, 1995, January 13, 1996 Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
The New Morty Show featuring Connie Champagne & Vice Grip / Billy Nayer / Billie Eyeball October 6, 1995, Cubberley (Sally Lieber) 11 x 17
Rainforest Awareness Project 1993 Bay Area Tour (including 10/28/93 Peninsula Peace Center Palo Alto)(Donna Sharee) 9 1/2 x 16
Bimbetta, March 12, 1995, Cubberley (Tina Dussault) 10 x 17
Pansy Division / J Church / The Peechees / The Electrocutes, January 31, 1997, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
J CHURCH OF LANCE: THAT WHICH HE SCREAMS AT THE LEAST OF MY BROTHERS, SO HAS HE SCREAMED FOR ME
Greyboy Allstars, September 11, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
The Palo Alto Soundcheck (various artists — calling for entries, 1995 fall/winter series, (Pierre-Paul Pariseau) 13 x 19
Archers of Loaf / Frightwig, March 10, 1995, Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
Calobo / Sweet Virginia / Laura Kemp Band / Shelley Doty, May 16, 1997 Cubberley Auditorium (“The Big Room”) (Michele Nelson) 11 x 17
Pinetop Perkins / Bob Margolin / Rusty Zinn / Wendy Waller Duo, February 11, 2000 Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
Jimmy Dale Gilmore, May 11, 2000, Spangenberg Auditorium (Andrew Hardy?), 11 x 17
Engine 88 / Spoon / Van Gogh’s Daughter / I.B.O.P.A / Van Gogh’s Daughter / The Keeners / Peel / The Babysitters Club March 1, 1997 & March 7, 1997, Cubberley 11 x 17
Archers of Loaf, November 8, 1998, Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
Mest / Luckie Strike / Wunder Years July 13, 2000, Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
Alvin Youngblood Hart Band / Slaid Cleaves June 9, 2000 Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
Femi Kuti August 2, 2000 Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
Superchunk / Creeper Lagoon / Dr. Frank / Ralph Carney’s Partial Parrot September 11, 1999 Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
Frank Black / Victor Krummenacher December 8, 2000 Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
Danilo Perez Motherland Project / Kitty Margolis / Beth Custer’s Dona Luz 30 Besos / Austin Willacy / Rachel Z / The KGB / Big City Rock / Eleventeen / Box Set Duo / Richard Shindell / Jerry Hannan / Taylor Eigsti / Mermen / Stanley Jordan (“Situation Fall ’00” series /The Cubberley Sessions) October 16, 2000 thru January 12, 2001 11 x17
Mother Hips, City Hall Plaza August 12, 2001 11 x 17
Stroke 9 / Mumblin’ Jim / Bozac / Imperial Teen / Anna Waronker, July 24, 1998 & July 31, 1998, Cubberley, 11 x 17
Stanley Jordan, January 12, 2001, Cubberley (Adrienne Drayton) 11 x 17
Mother Hips / Etienne De Rocher / Oliver Lake / Broun Fellinis / Train / Far Too Jones / The Billy Nayer Show / Beth Lisick January 16, 1999 thru February 5, 1999 Cubberley 11 x 17
Stone Fox / Lyme / Groovie Ghoulies / Blink-182 / Soda / 98 Mute April 13, 1997 & April 20, 1009, Cubberley Auditorium (Bruce Meyers) 8 1/2 x 14
Bill Frisell, November 7, 1999 Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 11
Warm Weather Series / The Toasters / Spring Heeled Jack / Monkey / MU330 / Janitors Against Apartheid / Slapstick / The Queers / The Hi-Fives / The Mr. T Experience / The Groovie Ghoulies / Zen Cowboys / Susan James Band / Sunshine Club / David Elias w/ Roger Powell / The Clarke Nova / Marginal Prophets / Groovie Ghoulies / Martin Sexton / Stephanie Mechura / Rebecca Riots / Idiot Flesh / Oxbow / Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto / Medeski Martin & Wood / The Basics May 24, 1996 thru August 1, 1996 (9 dates) Cubberley & Cubberley Auditorium (Michele Nelson) 11 x 17
Box Set / Stroke 9 March 20, 1999 Cubbeley 6 x 11 1/2
Jello Biafra May 8, 1999 Cubberley 6 x 11 1/2
The Olivia Tremor Control / The Music Tapes April 24, 1999 6 x 11 1/2
New Orleans Klezmer Allstars / Stephen Yerkey / Royal Fingerbowl March 26, 1997, Cubberley (Michelle Nelson) 8 1/2 x 14
Vinyl / Steve & Eric Cohen, “Thursday” (circa September, 1998), Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 14
Bill Frisell, October 4, 1998 Cubberley 8 1/2 x 14
Cake / New EZ Devils / The Negro Problem September 2, 1995, Cubberley Auditorium (Lane Wurster / Mac MacCaughan), 11 x 17
Tarnation / Virginia Dare / The Buckets / Stonefox / Spit Muffins / Slip April 1, 1995 & April 22, 1995 Cubberley, 11 x 17
Slow Gherkin / IBOPA / Marginal Prophets May 2, 1997, Cubberley (Keith Knight) 11 x 17
M.I.R.V. / Bimbo Toolshed / Ripple / Amanda Krugliak / KZSU’s Glenn Smith, September 1, 1995, Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
Pansy Division / Crumb / Odd Numbers / Trunk Federation September 4, 1998, Cubberley (Jon Hess) 11 x 17
Broun Fellinis / New Orleans Klezmer Allstars March 29, 1996, Cubberley 11 x 17
Charlie Hunter Quartet / Will Bernard Quartet / Broun Fellinis / Anibade / Galactic / Stephen Kent, Eda Maxym & Friends / Toledo / Action Plus / Mingus Amungus / Dave Ellis Quartet, March 28, 1998 thru April 25, 1998 (five dates jazz series) (Michele Nelson/Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
The John Doe Thing / onelinedrawing / Matt Nathanson, September 10, 2000, Cubberley, 11 x 17
Penelope Houston / Bonfire Madigan / Umami / Billie Eyeball / Noelle Hampton / Allette Brooks, December 4, 1999, Cubberley 11 x 17
The Basics / Squeeze The Dog, August 10, 1996, Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 14
Freedy Johnston / Matt Nathanson / Sparkler / the girl and I / Stefanie Gleit / Nick Thompson/ The Birdwatchers April 7, 1998 thru May 12, 1997 (six shows) Stanford Coffee House “CoHo” 8 1/2 x 14
The Mermen / Pothole, March 20, 1998, Cubberley, (Lynn Grant) 11 x 17
Cheryl Wheeler / Rebecca Riots / Allettte Brooks June 26, 1998 Cubberley (Callie Withers) 11 x 17
Box Set / Vivendo De Pao / Shelley Doty, October 2, 1999, Cubberley 8 1/2 x 14
Richard Shindell July 11 (circa 1998) Johnson Park (Charles Goldman) 8 1/2 x 14
Three Day Stubble / Heavy Into Jeff / Susan James / Huge / Cottonhead / Sally Ann / KZSU’s Glenn Smith / Rufus the Bobcat /( “the Palo Palooza”) July 3, 1995 11 x 17
“The Palo Alto Soundcheck” “series starts September 20, 1996”, Cubberley (John Yates / Harvey Bennett Stafford) 18 x 24
Asylum Street Spankers June 2, 1999, Cubberley, (Colby Printing) 14 x 22

format is: Performer/Date/Venue/Artist designer or art directer where appropriate/size. compiled 2016 by Mark Weiss, earwopa@yahoo.com

also:

Oxbow silkscreen by Frank Kozik, 1995 available thru Frank Kozik

Idiot Flesh / Oxbow silkscreen by Christine Shields, 1996 — few remain

Third Eye Blind – Heavy Into Jeff 1995 flyer few remain

Fifteen handbill ca. 1996 few remain

Ragady Anne handbills, redeemed for dollar-off, few remain

Earthwise 2009 at Bottom of the Hill by Robert Syrett

1993 Earth day mini Pow Wow at Addison School by Jeannell Steiner

1993 Rainforest Awareness Project by Donna Sharee

#35 is scarce — Warm Weather Series (otherwise all of above numbers is available in 40 sets of 58 or so?? I am researching making this available as sets only to collectors and collections, up to 40 sets — the remaining overruns were destroyed by MBW in 2016. There are 59 lots of 40, destined to be 40 sets of 59.

There are bands and artists that appear on this list but did not appear at the concert; there are bands that appeared at these concerts that are not listed above. (There are also concerts that had no poster)

Should I reformat this list by date? by size? Alphabetical by first headliner?

There are also ticket designs and some scarce handbills (Femi Kuti – Steve Lacy)*

Private collection of signed posters (signed by the performers)

Collection of correspondence, contracts, publicity still provided by record labels, et cetera— nine boxes ie. 30 yards or so. There’s about 40 hours of audio tapes, of varying production value, mostly on analog tape not digital.

Part 2, prologue to “Pollstar Round-up; Or “Sermon on the Mount”

To be clearer, these bands played Earthwise Productions at Cubberley Theatre or auditorium, at the former high school, and went on to earn Gold Reocrd (500,000 sold), Platinum (1,000,000 sold) or multiplatinum certified:

Third Eye Blind 6x Platinum, 2 Platinum, 2 gold 5 million combined worldwide (“Semi-charmed Life”, “Jumper”)

Cake, 2 Platinum, 3 Gold (“The Distance”, “Never There”)

I don’t think this is Cubberley, 1996, but same set, clothing and book, plus shot from above.

AFI 2x Platinum 2x Platinum 2 platinum (“Miss Murder”, “Girls Gone Grey”)

The Donnas Shipped Gold* (“Fall Behind Me” “Take It Off”)

Train 2x Platinum 2x Platinum 4 Platinum 5 Gold (“Meet Virginia” “Hey Soul Sister” “Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)”)

Matt Nathanson (“Come On Get Higher” certified platinum as a single)

blink 182 5xPlatinum, 2x Platinum 4 Platinum 6 Gold (“All The Small Things” “What’s My Age Again?”) (estimated 13 million total sales US, 50 million worldwide)

Stroke 9 1 Gold (“Little Black Backpack”)

*The Donnas, — Allison Robertson, Maya Ford, Tory Castellanos and Brett Anderson — all Palo Altans, who formed at a Jordan Middle School talent show — were reported by major label Atlantic Records to have “shipped Gold” meaning 500,000 units were sent to retail, but 20,000 came back unsold, according to Ford –my neighbor, Jon and Marjorie’s daughter. I suggested that the band’s former manager press the label to buy the remaining units and send the ladies their gold!!

In July, 1996, AFI, Medeski Martin and Wood (jazz) and Cake appeared on consecutive nights, all sold out, total of 1,000 plus ticket sold, including standing room. Charlie Hunter jazz guitarist appeared 5 different times, with 5 different lineups and sold out most shows.

Gunn graduate and Blue Note recording artist and Stanley Jordan also appeared, well after receiving his gold record.

Oakland based recording artist Ledisi appeard at Cubberley under the name Anibade in 1997 and later signed to Verve Records, was nominated for Best New Artist, has released five albums, 8-time Grammy nominee and topped the U.S. R&B charts with “Pieces of Me” in 2011.

Joan Baez appeared with Dar Williams in 1995, as a surprise guest on one song (and has 6 gold records, 1960 to 1975)

Jazz musician Steve Lacy appeared at Cubberley in 1996 after winning the MacArthur Genius Grant.

Mark “Stew” Stewart, appearing as The Negro Problem in 1996, later won a TONY award for “Passing Strange” on Broadway.

Past performance do not indicate future results, but if you don’t build it they won’t come.

Mark Weiss, dba Earthwise

Part III:

Beyond posting two lists, of 59 and 13 items, about me, as prolog to my discussion and processing of Pollstar, it is a funny place to start by saying that I met two diferent people who claimed a connection to Average White Band; they both may have been the drummer.

Part IV: Or, AUFL

1. Julia Lofstrand Photography, (301) DC area;

2. Dead Nation, Haytham Abdulhadi (310) but I think maybe Portland

3. Chris Porter, Porter Productions (206) Seattle and SF and Lowell, MA

4. SR 51 Motorsports Complex of Lake Station, IN in the (443) Ryk Lee Waddell

but I wrote “Atlanta” “drummer” “45m Chicago ” $150M”

5. Nelly Neben, Axis Mgmt (818) I forget how we met although it may be that she is friends with Wayne Forte who manages Joe Satriani and I embarrased myself twice in 30 seconds or three times in that I mistook his friend for Madina Salaty (who did work for Wayne and also sold me the above showcased AFI) and then I said that Joe was jazz whereas I meant instrumental rock (and I do have relations with two x-JS students Charlie Hunter and Kevin Cadogan – or history rather) and I mentioned that his building connected to that of Michael Woolf the jazz pianist and movie star — I had been to both offices and thought they connected but from different street addresses like in the breakthru maguffin in “JFK”, who manages Rita Coolidge, among others. I think.

6. Georg Leitner, in the +43 which is or was Austria

7. torrantial dj Caleb Crump

8. Bryan Meckelborg Brockcom in the (310);

I have to stop here for now to go have lunch with my wife Terry Acebo Davis, at Stanford Barn but I have been saying that i met 50 people I’m going to do busy with, but also my goal is 10 shows this year, including one that should have gone on-sale a month ago, my bad.

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By magic I show you Earvin Johnson’s high school team

Posted on February 11, 2019 by markweiss86

I ran into a college classmate who owned $400m worth of Fusion-IO, my brother’s employer, then and now, I think:

Dartmouth classmates Mark Weiss and Scott Sandell at the Alma maters 250th anniversary party in San Mateo, California.

edit to add: It’s kind of random to go from Magic Johnson to Scott Sandell when the thing should be Magic Johnson 1977 to the fact that LA Times February 10, 2019 picture in paper (circa) but the closest I could find, and better in some ways in that you go from a 1977 Converse basketball yearbook to a screen capture of a Twitter earlier this week i.e. 42 years later:

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Dude in Pet Store 510 Saw AFI 18 Times

Posted on February 9, 2019 by markweiss86

The Jonathan — met at PetCo Albany Saturday, February 9, 2019 -loves his dogs, and the hampsters, and his lady-friend (not pictured, but has the same first name as Billie Joe Armstrong’s spouse)

GREEN JUMPSUIT PERCUSSION MARTIAL ARTS DANCER WITH BECK ‘E-PRO’ ON SNL, TOM BRADY-HOST, 2005

edit to add to name that tune dude soon

and1:

Dreams of his crash won’t pass
Oh, how they all adored him
Beauty will last when spiraled down

Now I seem to come to you

Hammer my bones in the anvil of daylight.

andand: whereas Jonathan wore a Star of David medallion in honor of his mother who acknowledged Jesus of Nazareth as a rabbi, Beck (not pictured) is the half-Jewish son of a Fluxus artist

anand or dust brothers beasties:

Jersey City, 2006 dude is live in concert plus they have a puppet of him on screen:

song is “E-Pro” track 1 from Guero

AFI I’ve maybe only seen them once, July, 1996, in my own room at Cubberley where they set the record for most tickets sold and most stage divers; Beck I’ve never worked with — although Anna Waronker played there — but I saw him at Stanford and in Vancouver.

Miss Murder video

(This is a hot mess but it is true that Beck Guero “E-Pro” and AFI “Miss Murder” overlap in that 2006 way, and the video itself here is self-similar to the blog post in that the first two minutes seems like a completely different composition, of this video — shabbat shalom)

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Goodbye, Hovey murals

Posted on February 9, 2019 by markweiss86

I’ve never seen the Hovey Murals, But I did spend considerable time scrutinizing the Orozco Murals last time I was in Hanover which was six years ago now. And they recently visited us at art institute to see the Diego Rivera mural There.

There’s a 161 page PDF by a current Dartmouth anthropology professor of native descent I believe . I would buy the book hardcopy when I get the chance.

Terry and I between us have three Mateo Romero paintings.

I manage a collection of 300 pueblo pots amassed lovingly by my parents Paul and Barbara Weiss that is bound for the Deyoung museum Lord willing and the creek don’t rise.

I’m a little worried the moving of the murals it was an overreaction. It’s hard to believe people were uneasy going into Thayer because they knew this type of expression was locked in the basement.

And I do regret i used the term “Wa hoo wah” even out of context and my own context in an exchange with a classmate of mine who took offense apparently. I was quoting the ultra liberal Jim Newton 85 who was trying to diss arm the dispute semantically with a bumper sticker that said “wah who cares?”

I did take Michael Dorris’ class and got a beer maybe. A “B”.

A painting that illustrates a drinking song in the basement of an eating hall is hardly supposed to be reverential and it was locked up during my previous 1000 visits to Thayer. Maybe I have a vague memory of Glimpsing it once. I think Dorris had a theory that SamSam occam was made to dress in drag so to speak he was already modernized but we lock made him dress down to solicit funds like those of Laura Dartmouth exactly 250 years ago .

I also wrote something somewhat oblique about Notre Dame covering up a mural I flashed to something about Saturday night live and touchdown Jesus.

There was also something about a mural in Atlanta a few years ago that made the workers look too animalistic maybe.

There is something to the argument that if you take down the hubby mirrors you expose yourself to critique of the Orozco Miral.

seinfield 1993 Winona tickets to Knicks game

Kimberly Norris aka Kimberly Guerrero

04B696CE-2F6B-4733-A29C-E1471275169E AD540BD7-BE48-419E-9884-16134662BAC2

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Ted Hoagland’s three nature essays in Sports Illustrated, all in the 1970s

Posted on February 6, 2019 by markweiss86

Hoagland was born in December, 1932, about a year after my mom. He’s still kicking.
OR: TED, NOT DEAD, HEAD
“In a Lair with a Bear,” Sports Illustrated, March 26, 1973
“A Mountain with a Wolf on It,” Sports Illustrated, January 14, 1974
“Big Frog, Very Small Pond,” Sports Illustrated, March 3, 1975
(from Lynn Stegner class)
from wikipedia
caught my eye — class was reading an essay from 1988 about suicide–because I cut my teeth so to speak as a reader with Sports Illustrated in those years. I started in 1972, I think with Bill Walton of UCLA “red hot red head”, when I was 8.
I probably skipped these nature essays.
I may remember the illustrations, if there were any
Why SI?
Why stop SI?
I saved my complete collection until about 1986 — 15 years, or so, stacked in order, in the shelf in the back of my closet, in my parents’ home; then I saved only the covers; now I have a handful of articles, about local teams mainly.
But I’d like to see these articles, maybe on microfiche.
It may be online.
Fellow Dartmouthian Robert Sullivan became main SI nature writer, later
B/W
Fuck is you saying: Emantic Bradford, obituary or tribute: he was a 21 year old veteran shop during a crime active shooter incident at a mall in Alabama. My four-word reaction is from a song by young hip hop artist “NoName”, from Chicago. And the tie in to the brief thing above about Edward “Ted” Hoagland is that we were discussing him in my memoir class at Stanford, taught by Lynn Stegner, who says she knows him and now he’s quite old. The essay we discussed is about suicide. So there is a theme of morbidness (“morbidity”??) in the two topics. One is an old guy who considered suicide. Another is a young guy killed or murdered. (Only in Plasty — yeah, fuck is you saying?)
edit to add: well, if you think of madness as either the Bridge Over River Kwai fighting to blow up a bridge “Madness!” or a condition correlated to suicide (see also: depression) it turns out that the Hoagland essay, his first, in March 26, 1973 was in the same issue as “March Madness” ie a preview of the NCAA playoffs; cover featured Bill Walton, Larry Kenon, Steve Downing and Marvin Barnes i.e. the competitors to UCLA the favorite. “Baiting the Bruins” (Playing UCLA), Oh Lord, He’s Perfect (Secretariat), Rise of the Underground Tour (Golf), In a Lair with a Bear (Bears[ed: not the Bobby Douglass football variety]), Riding for a Fall (Grand National horse racing), Fold It Out and Presto! (Squash), The Rinks Were Running Red (Hockey)
and1: from bear world magazine, — i mean bear study not org –although now i’m concerned my title, ie from wiki is a bit off:
1973. Sports Illustrated. March 26, 1973. Pages 32-40. Getting in a lair with a bear. By Edward Hoagland.
It’s actually about “Lynn Rogers”?? — there’s an archive —

Bears appeal to a side of us that is lum- 
bering, churlish and individual. We 
are touched by their anatomy because 
it resembles ours, by their piggishness 
and sleepiness, by their very aversion to 
everything about us except our garbage. 
Where big tracts of forest remain, black 
bears still do fairly well. They have a sim- 
ple vegetarian diet, supplemented by in- 
sects, fish and carrion, and the grizzly’s 
prickly ego is absent in them; they are 
secretive woodland animals that stay un- 
der cover and do not expect to have ev- 
erything go their way. 

maybe to be continued, bear with us.

andand: since I quote her, twice now, I should call her by her name : Fatimah Nyeema Warner. So I guess "Nyeema" i.e. Naima, is no-name.

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EMANTIC F. BRADFORD, JR., 21

Posted on February 6, 2019 by markweiss86

Fuck is you saying

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2019 in Palo Alto: jet boy, jet girl

Posted on February 2, 2019 by markweiss86

unknown, unknown, unknown, Beth Minor, Jeff Hoel, Alison Cormack, unknown, unknown, unknown, unknown, Arthur Keller, Gennady Sheyner, Liz Kniss, Eric Filseth –speaking as a write — Adrian Fine, unknown, unknown, Greg Schmid, Lydia Kuo, Greg Tanaka, Bob Moss (not pictured) city manager Ed Shikada

I’m reporting from the lobby of 250 Hamilton on a rainy Saturday, a policy Shabbat so to speak. Reading the 189 responses on an electronic message board, in anticipation of this meeting, “City Council Retreat”, it seems that what is on the minds of a lot of citizens is Gender Equity. I also noticed a fair sampling of people concerned about Sky Posse and airplane noise.

So as a former ad guy and 25 years in the music biz, my mind naturally flashed to “Jet Boy, Jet Girl” which has a homophone in French or Belgian with the weird title “something something plane something” which translates, if you believe the internet as “it’s going well for me” or more literally “things are gliding along for me”. One of the composers and or performers is Plastic Bertrand of Belgium.

There’s more on the musicology of these songs.

Someone, in a similar vein, lauded Human Relations Commissoner Steve Lee for organizing a screening of “On The Basis of Sex” the biopic of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, SCOTUS. (He never answered my query of whether he did a buyout or got the room and screeing donated; he also listed his identification as Palo Alto Human Relations Commission but was careful to note that he was doing this as an individual). When I saw the new Spiderman Spiderverse movie, at the new Icon Theatres at San Antonio Shopping center ghost-site, I had the urge to do a buyout of the room and invite art and physiscs students from Gunn High, my alma mater. I think its cool that Spider man is a mixed race boy, whose father is black and mother is Latina. His name is Miles Morales. There’s also some high school physics or pop physics or or new physics about the parallel universe theory: in this movie there are five Spidermans from 5 different dimensions including a female, and a non-homosapien.

If I’ve learned anything in 10 years of civic engagement (not to mention 33 years in culture mongering) is, as I’m sure Peter Porker aka Spider Ham would concur, don’t bring a gavel to a mallet fight.

Yeah, the lyrics for several of the “Jet Boy, Jet Girl” songs are obscene. Ooh, ooh, ooh.

Democracy is like sausage party, peoples.

I counted 50 people here, including staff.

edit to add: I might be confusing a City Survey which is comprehensive and maybe we’ve been talking about for the last (at least) 40 minutes and the thing I sussed thru to, the 189 responses on a Town Hall ap.

10:40 am, update: Now I have the meeting agenda so I can better orientate myself and contextualize these missives. Although I was up and about walking the dog early today, and pressed our noses to the locked glass doors of City Hall around 7:30 a.m. I got here late because “9:30” rather than 9 stuck in my head, and made my handheld electronic calendar. (If you were here at 8;30 you had your pick of free bagels; I was at that very hour at Jim’s New York Deli having mine made to order.

Also, above I was confusing the actual topic, National Citizens Survey with Open City Hall 189 responses. Here is one or two of the 189 responses. (And my headline is misleading in that I claim Gender Equity and Airplane Noise are 2 of the 3 priorities; they are yet to be determined; If you are reading this in real time — God forbid — Shabbat Shalom — check back around 2 p.m. If I am here at 12:15 ie. two more hours, there is a 1/3 sandwich for me, from Edgewood Market, according to assistant city clerk David Carnahan; I also greeted Doria Summa, Mark Michael, Liz Kniss, Lydia Kuo, Mila Zelka nee Currier, Jennifer Landsman, Rebecca Sanders, Valerie Stringer, and Alison Cormack. Actually, reading the pink sheet slightly more carefully I glean that 2018 priorities were Transportation, Housing, Budget and Finance and Grade Separation — which reads more like four than 3, new math.

These posts feature my friend Star Teachout and Stacey Ashlund, who I don’t think I’ve met but she ran for school board and got 11,000 votes.

Ca Plane pour moi.

Plastic_Bertrand_-_Ça_plane_pour_moi

Former not-actually-the-Mayor Greg Schmid gave his trademark factual and effective speech about jobs versus housing and income inequality; perhaps I should revise this post since I believe that “income inequality” dwarfs “gender equity” in significance (oops, is “dwarfs” as a verb tense not-politically-correct?)

schmid

There’s also a fair amount of talk, especially among the 15 speakers during 10:15-12:15 block 2018 Priorities Oral Communications is climate, or what I called in 1993 being “earthwise”.

At 11:11 exactly (ok, that’s fake news, it’s still 11:09 a.m.) Bob Moss suggests getting Palo Alto to ask Stanford to expand Marguerite buses on more of our streets. (Or even large corporations, which I am less high on).

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Dartmouth Green Empire State Building hoax v University of Farmington fake University sting

Posted on February 1, 2019 by markweiss86

On January 12 the Empire State building was lit up green in honor of Dartmouth 250th anniversary, although a kid from my dorm asked whether it was just a photo shopped fake image

I read in today’s New York Times on Page A19 “ICE created fake school to uncover visa fraud“ That our federal government created a fake university to entrap in and then arrest and then export people from India who were here with the wrong visa and knowingly enrolled in a school with no classes just a website or photograph of these three crisis actors.

was this perpretated by the same people from Gonzaga Prep of D.C. who in 1969 turned Washington Monument purple?

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Gretchen Menn v Greta Van Fleet

Posted on January 31, 2019 by markweiss86

gretchenmenn

Gretchen Menn is a guitar player in a Led Zep cover band, who I met once at Peet’s in Palo Alto and she went to Smith.

Greta Van Fleet is a new band of 3 brothers from Michigan who play originals but people complain they sound too much like Led Zep. (and to make matters worse, I watched two songs of theirs on SNL recently and thought the singer was a woman).

gretavanfleet

Menn is a woman but “Greta” is a man, got it. The Kizska travel by van or fleet of such, while Gretchen has a pilot’s license, check.

and55: This is my 55th post to Plastic Alto in January which is weird because yesterday I turned 55 or completed 55 years on planet Earth. Thank you my wife Terry, Terry Acebo Davis the artist and arts commissioner and blogger and curator, for giving me a “30” jersey which I guess I can end with, old journalism joke:

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