In 1981, or 1982, at Gunn high school in Palo Alto, I took an elective course on film as literature with Frank Ratliff. He showed closed Mondays the 1974 film by will Vinton which won the Academy award. Years later I bounced around the San Francisco ad agencies including showing my book at Foote Cone & Belding who made the famous dancing raisins
What time is had his obit yesterday or today which is a Wednesday although he died Thursday oh clay?
Lives on in cyberspace and in plastic alto
Edit to ad: I came to this in reaction to Carla Befera excellent op ed re Casti man spreading crisis. If you literally have nothing to do for 45 minutes(and I can suggest 1,900 better uses) here is Dearborn
A premise of this blog, and most of my last 30 years is that the proliferation of computers and digital is an aggressive Virus and plague in on and around our house and a grey goo.
Beth Lisick Of Saratoga and San Francisco opened for Ozomatli featuring rapper Chali 2na in Earthwise Productions at Cubberely in 1998 like this:
And I just got word, by an email blast from City Of Palo Alto that in conjunction with a great art show at Art Center, the former Palo Alto Cultural Center, which before that was Council Chambers Beth is co- hosting as part of her Porchlight work, a night of storytelling about parenthood. And if it’s in chambers not gallery per se I hope people notice the semipermanent Joe Zirker prints.
Beth meanwhile also has a couple more books and a kid or two, no kidding (but with Mallet Boy?)
Edit to add: there’s a whisper buzzing in my ear and a little monkey Kong tells me that Beth actually has five kids and lives in Brooklyn and is out here for zlutquake and the kids checking out Stanford and there’s a cool event at Dunord that I shan’t describe further becuz it competes with my Allison Miller show but makes me ponder a coled project Alli and Lisick Monkey Boom? Also there’s a lady who lives in the public housing next to the besieged Mortuary cum Hot Spot who told me she has seven kids but is not invited to the Famous Aadison Street Halloween Spooktaculars so someone could reach out to her and get her a sitter so she can check out Beth at Public Facility.
Edit add later that night Two thoughts one is that watching that video it wasn’t familiar to the last 10 seconds shift reverse crank repeat etc. and then secondly I wonder what happened to the guy who placed the personal ad saying he was looking for a Beth lives it type??
Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom featuring Allison Miller, drums; Ben Goldberg, clarinet; Kirk Knuffke, trumpet swings the new Mitchell Park El Palo Alto room, Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. Info: (650) 305-0701. Tickets $18 at door, all ages
People can email me at earwopa@yahoo.com or if you can figure out how to post a comment below to RSVP or COD cash on delivery but otherwise it’s cash at door. The room is pretty big we should be fine. This will be a great show and a bargain compared to either Berkeley or Santa Cruz. And it will be nice to work with Alli again having befriended her in fall, 2000 when she was part of the Rachel Z Trio or did I already say that? Plus the fact that Ben and Kirk have an album together separate from supporting Alli. This show, of the whole run, might be the place that showcases their interplay. Personally, I am excited about producing an event of this calibre, harking back to the days when Earthwise was more consistently in the mix of new artists and tours. I would say Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom in 2018 is a higher profile show than Rachel Z Trio in 2000.
Here is a link to Allison Miller’s site.
All Music site credits her with 67 performances and five cds as a leader (plus there are co-led projects). This tour is promoting Otis Was A Polar Bear but there is also in the pipeline, as the graphic above indicates a new cd called
Glitter Wolf.
Karla Kane, of the band Corner Laughers and arts editor of the Palo Alto Weekly, wrote back to ask if this is the same Allison Miller that performs with Erin McKeown. Yes’m. Wasn’t that project also known as EMMA and co-led. Allison is known for her work in New York/Brooklyn, DC her hometown and maybe Bay Area is her third-best market (Kitty Margolis, Montclair Big Band and more).
The first rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club
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Wikipedia account of Colin McGregor post-loss melee from October 6, 2018 i.e. 48 hours ago:
Following the fight at UFC 229 on 6 October 2018, Khabib Nurmagomedov jumped the cage and charged toward McGregor’s training partner Dillon Danis. Soon after, McGregor and Abubakar Nurmagomedov (cousin of Khabib Nurmagomedov) also attempted to exit the octagon, but a scuffle broke out between them after McGregor punched Abubakar, who then punched him back.[245] McGregor was then attacked by two of Nurmagomedov’s cornermen, Zubaira Tukhugov and Islam Makhachev.[246] Zubaira Tukhugov, a Chechen fighter, who is currently scheduled to fight on October 27, 2018 at UFC Fight Night: Volkan vs. Smith against Artem Lobov, the McGregor team member who was confronted by Nurmagomedov in April 2018. Nurmagomedov’s payment for the fight was withheld by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) as a result, pending an investigation into his actions. Nurmagomedov appeared at the post fight interview and apologized to the NSAC,, and said “You cannot talk about religion. You cannot talk about nation. Guys, you can not talk about these things. This is very important to me.”[247]
Her name is Victoria Garrick, likes volleyball and TedX and is fourth in pac 12 at 4.65 digs, dig?
It was in the daily news by Vytis Musika
It was in the daily news by Vytis Musika Vytas mazeika
Brief phone encounter between bites of “Bonfire Delight” with Emily Fromm of 45th and Sloat fame
My high school teammate Kent Lockhart was a 4th round draft pick out of Don Haskins’ UTEP for the New York Knicks but broke his arm and was cut. In 1988 he was MVP of the San Francisco Summer Pro Am league and I suggested, since he was an arts major, he send a self-promotion to all the NBA teams with a picture of a chicken and the line “Do You Need a 2-guard Who Can Draw Fowls?”. He ignored my advice and instead became a high school art teacher in Melbourne after two seasons of being All Australia. I’m saying: his white board would belong in the Whitney!! (And he is semi-famous not for poultry but for lizard sculptures; maybe he could customize a few for Toronto)
nunawading basketball website:
Kent Lockhart, a 6’4” Guard from the University of Texas El Paso was selected (Round 6, Pick 3) by the New York Knicks in the 1985 NBA Draft – the same year the Knicks selected future Dream Teamer, Patrick Ewing.
Lockhart arrived in the National Basketball League with the Eastside Spectres in 1989 – impacting immediately, averaging 28.8 points and 6.6 rebounds to earn All NBL First Team and NBL All Star selections. The Spectres failed to make the Finals that year, but Lockhart helped catapult Eastside into contention the following year, eventually dropping the Semi Finals to the Brisbane Bullets.
In 1991, Lockhart helped guide the Spectres into the NBL Grand Final Series against the Perth Wildcats, where Eastside lost the series 2-1.
Following the 1992 mergers between the Spectres and Saints to form the South East Melbourne Magic, Lockhart found himself out of the NBL and into an incredibly strong CBA, as well as moving into the education system as a teacher and coaching junior basketball.
Lockhart averaged 24.8 points and 6.6 rebounds across a 75 game National League career, making him a big fan favourite in what proved to be a boom time for Australian Basketball.
woulda coulda shoulda
not by kent lockhart
the opening paragraph was posted in yahoo comments about an article about NBA free agency signings.
and1: in a related matter former Cubberley football and basketball stalwart Tim Ruff, who overlapped with Kent for one varsity season in 1979, circulated a call to provide moral support for our coach Hans Delannoy who is facing some health challenges. I spoke to Tim (for the first time in my life) and then Hans and can report that Hans is approaching this like the old Bud Presley “take the charge” drill.
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