Dan Mountain is an advertising writer who won the Howard Gossage Award the year I wanted to be a copywriter; I met him 30 years later and we watched Clay Kershaw pitch;
Dan is also a mountain, somewhere pictuaresque.
Seeking info on advertising guy, I find a portrait from 1988 — same year! – by James Bama of the Arts Students League (I visited for the first time three months ago).
Dan Deacon the musican has a song called The Mountain
Dan Auerbach, the member of Black Keys not related to the late great Sf music legend Ralph Carney, has a song about mountains.
Mayor Eric Filseth, my Downtown North neighbor; Tom Dubois, my fellow hoops fan and player; Alison Cormack, newly elected to Council, library advocate and macher, friend of four- legged furry friends, singer in a choir, and possessor of the good sense to hire as campaign manager a Gunn basketball mom, Russell) That’s the tea, sis’s and bro’s.
It says here, sports illustrated January 1956 that Bob Cousy invented the behind the back dribble in a particular game in 1949 so we’re celebrating 70 years of behind the back. If you were accused let me draw you a diagram.
I think I mean “confused” not “accused”. Forgive me I was prepping for a coffee klatch with a famous defense attorney.
I saw something in the paper about a new documentary about the former Raiders receiver Warren Wells, a hardluck case. I never saw him play but I saw Fred Biletnikoff and cliff branch catching balls thrown by Ken Stabler. Here is the detail of a 1979 promotional poster touting 20 years of raiderism ( it was before “raider nation”).
Also I found in my attic a book by Baron Wolman from 1975 Oakland Raiders: the good guys and I had about 20 autographs. In those days you could stand in the parking lot and catch the guys on their way home. Many of them had cars that advertised who they were: I remember Alonzo skip Thomas had a Firebird with a cool paint job. I was just talking about this going to my first Raiders game in many years Christmas Eve raiders versus Broncos. Here is a detail of a page that has side-by-side Jack Tatum Fred Biletnikoff and art shell.
I also remember writing a poem about the Raiders in fifth or sixth grade. It goes like this: the Oakland Raiders team is fine, their halfbacks and fullbacks burst through the line; the receivers have zing, they’ll catch anything; touchdowns they’ll make, on passes from snake; but the line is the key to the fame and galore; they’ll hit you and knock you and hit you some more; Just so the team can score, and score more. I’m reciting that from memory. could be my high point is a writer. certainly as a poet
and: Bruce Jenkins has a B1 article “tragic story of Ex-raider.” It says that there is a funeral for Wells Saturday in Beaumont, Texas and that someone made a documentary about his life. “Split end” by Ken Griggs a Hayward native who moved to New York to work for the networks .
I bought the Sonny Smith box set from Gallery 16 a couple years ago, but have not given it much of a sit and spin. (Speaking of which, and as I mentioned earlier, I’m at the laudromat waiting for the spinning to banish the evil wetness from our sheets); it features a variety of styles, a bunch of fake band names and art or mock cover art by numerous artists, including the very over-qualified Ed Ruscha. His is for a piece called Half Boy Half Girl by the Wayward Youth (or by The Spectones — confusing — alternate title thing).
I’d been hearing about Sonny Smith for a while. I had not been hearing or seeing him. I met him the other night at MakeOut Room season party — all the bands picked by Parker Gibbs, his favs — but didn’t realize who I was speaking with, at first. I was on my way out — to get back to Palo Alto at a reasonable time — and left the building, waiting for my ride-share-thingy and just blurted out to the people leaning on a car right in front of me that this is like a high school reunion, in that a lot of these bands got going in the 1990s, when we were all lean and less gray. He said who he was — apparently he had been on stage during a period I was back by the bar and only part listening — and then I said, mock-imitating him or what he might be thinking “Nineties bands? Fuck that! I’m in a current band!”
Here’s the Ruscha cover: ( the youtube has only 250 views, so this is pretty obscure stuff — reminds me of the Chris Johanson exhibit at Altman Siegel in which I was not sure if the backroom had actual flyers or fake flyers.).
almost a reggae vibe here. he has a jonathann richman vibe. His real name I think is Sonny Smith Shorenstein but he is not related to Walter Shorenstein who brought Sammy Davis to the Fairmont, in the way that Bobby Lurie of Billy Nayer Show is not likely related to Bob Lurie former Giants owner (nor John Lurie, who I watched 20 min of today — pre laundry — from 1984 and Hungary — the girl said she was not hungry — ) and I recall that Etienne DeRocher who purportedly turned down a major label deal because they were going to force him on Glen Ballard, or in, who someone quipped — and this is all apocryphal or fake news – is actually named Ted From Richmond. I bought the Sonny Smith breakout album just last week from Down Home of Not Richmond but El Serio. En serio!
Matt and I have an ongoing conversation, mostly by text, on sundry topics. I was both concerned and happy for him that he and Jeff Adachi were assigned, or chose, this very difficult case. I remember being pleased that Zoe Lofgren spoke indirectly on this topic on CSPAN and to Congress: she supports Gun Control more than the Immigration Wall. Matt and Jeff helped Garcia Zarate avoid the most serious and undue punishment yet he is being tried again at the Federal level; seems like political football to me. And not that I am unsympathetic to the family and friends of the woman who was killed, Kate Steinle.
It says here that Tony Serra is now representing Garcia Zarate. Tony Serra is also the brother of Richard Serra (this is an arts blog)
Photograph of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate on San Francisco’s Pier 14 taken by Jay Martin on May 23, 2015.
Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Did Not Receive a Fair Trial: 10 Examples
By Matt Gonzalez
“When the court changes it’s ruling on a whim, it disrupts the trial that the parties can expect to have. Last minute changes in rulings without any substantive reason only serves to undermine the confidence attorneys have in the judge’s role in the proceedings.” — Defense counsel Matt Gonzalez via email to Judge Samuel Feng, October 27, 2017.
Introduction
When Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was acquitted by a California jury of murder charges brought against him for the death of Kate Steinle, less attention was paid to Garcia Zarate’s conviction on the lesser charge of gun possession. But Garcia Zarate was innocent of that charge as well. It may seem like a small…
My fantasy football team this year was renamed The Duffy Daughertys after the former Michigan State coach, although I pronounced it with the word “dog” and abbreviated for clarity to The DuffyDogs. The real Duffy won two national championships in the middle 1960s and featured the famous player Bubba Smith, maybe the original “Bubba”.
Before that my team was As The Backs Go Tearing By which references an old Dartmouth football cheer or song. It was written by their coach, circa 1910. Who has a songwriter- coach these days?
Before that my team was Beneath the Underdog, referencing Charles Mingus, and his self-titled pseudo-autobiography and memoir.
Before that it was The Chip Hoopers in honor of the sport of basketball, the sport of tennis, a former music industry legend who doubled as a nature photographer, and a former Gunn and pro tennis star (whose nephews played Stanford football –two of them did).
In high school I was the Blue Oyster Colts, after a rock band.
I am doing laundry and trying to learn about rights of the accused. And momentary possession.
I think I mean “confused” not “accused”. Forgive me I was prepping for a coffee klatch with a famous defense attorney.
I saw something in the paper about a new documentary about the former Raiders receiver Warren Wells, a hardluck case. I never saw him play but I saw Fred Biletnikoff and cliff branch catching balls thrown by Ken Stabler. Here is the detail of a 1979 promotional poster touting 20 years of raiderism ( it was before “raider nation”).
Photograph of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate on San Francisco’s Pier 14 taken by Jay Martin on May 23, 2015.
My fantasy football team this year was renamed The Duffy Daughertys after the former Michigan State coach, although I pronounced it with the word “dog” and abbreviated for clarity to The DuffyDogs. The real Duffy won two national championships in the middle 1960s and featured the famous player Bubba Smith, maybe the original “Bubba”.
more to come +TK
Edit to add: but can she do the hora?
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 