Jets having internal debate on how to handle Sam Darnold

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The Boob Tube: 1) what is ‘Maniac’? 2) what is ‘Netflicks’? & 3) whose ‘Dick’ did Georgetown prep?

I’ve never even seen Gsme of Thornes but tore a clip from the times about the real life town in Croatia being over run by tourists ( see also Mark Twain, Yankee in King Artur Ct). — also Hawking disproof of time travel “we’d be overrun by tourists from the future”. Truth stranger than fiction.

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Edita: Georgetown Perp
And:
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Andand:
in other words or as my Dartmouth classmate (brilliant Pakistani writer and landed class farmer I never met Daniyal Muuedineen says in other boob rooms other hung worlds:
22795867-9040-424E-BD09-4B122991B5E4.jpegedit to add a couple days later and after Kavs was approved 50-48: There is not likely a tv show called “Dick” I think I was thinking –but not too hard — of “Hung”

and1: the Times had something about divisiveness at Facebook because one of their honchos appeared at the hearings, sitting behind Kavs, and inspired by that I sussed out that former Dartmouth and SI football hero Colin Stretch has given notice (while his fighter jock bro in the nicest sense of the word Tim Stretch is now a Lt Commander or something of the European Theatre, while BJ my actual classmate is in the private sector for the first time in 30 years likely due to the winds of change that dredged up Kavs. Brian Stretch at Dartmouth was a member of a hard-drinking fraternity (comprisng his offensive line) but you could poll 1,000 of our Dartmouth classmates and get unanimity that he otherwise did nothing to disqualify him from even higher profile public service.

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Terry My Wife in silhouette w print ‘Elegant Shadow’ by an alumnus of, who was seated next to us, an artist and critic who I misheard as saying, ‘Amorous’

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Lunacy as white privileged and ‘Columbus’: Neil Degrasse Tyson w Mark Twain

We believe, because historians tell us, that Christopher Columbus tricked to indigenous islanders into giving him food by causing a lunar eclipse in 1503.

I was just reading about this I wonder if that’s why my smart phone suggested I watch this clip

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David Hogg is not a ‘crisis actor’ But he is booked for speaking engagements by a former William Morris Hollywood agent

76846CE9-BAD3-4906-887A-9F5AF0ED11F4.pngAnd In a completely unrelated matter, except buy plastic alto logic, I’m producing a jazz concert October 18 at Mitchell Park Center, El Palo Alto room,  and I’m planning planting considering moling over rhapsodizing inviting the five candidates for city Council here to compete as kind of an opening act and how they can interpret imitate groove to lip-synch or mouth trumpet the Bar Kays “soul finger” vrumph!! Vrumph!!

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Kavanaugh confirmation process: ‘no’ means yes,‘yes’ means anal

“The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female guests, we did” (wink) Ramis wrote, in 1976, while Kavanaugh was in the sixth grade, although calendars presented by his spin doctors show that he did not see the movie, “Rohypnol Houzz”

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People who say “leave it” twhen my dog barks at theirs are assholes.

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Tantalizing blues double header two hours from my home today: Corey ‘Roar He’ w ‘Ruthie Truth She’

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plays today in Rancho Nicasio

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Plays tonite West Marin Coast

 

Corey Harris (and Guy Davis) are playing the Sebastopol community center tonite.

Thirty miles south east, but same neck of the woods, three hours earlier, at 4, Ruthie Foster stirs it up at Rancho Nicasio.

Although I have been thinking alot about these two relatively new breed, emerging blues geniuses, I cannot travel the distance today to see one or the other or both.

I did recently load to a new electronic device Corey’s 2007 cd, Zion Crossing. (That was the year he won the MacFound genius grant, whatever the connection). And I heard a new (to me) Ruthie Foster song “I’ve Got a Blues” from a Mitch Woods recent session — Mitch having played Palo Alto’s Lytton Plaza this summer, and I bought his CD.

Weirdly, I thought of Corey while watching an English Premiership game, Wolfhampton v. Arsenal: a player named Traore entered and made a good run. Corey used to tell — at least to Frank-John Hadley — about traveling to West Africa as an undegrad pre-education student and bringing a travel guitar and it “clicking” when hearing the music of Boubecar Car Car Traore — called “Car-Car” for his soccer prowess. Weirdly. Old Weird Africa.

Just like Peter Paid for Paul and Paul paid for all, what you gonna do when your back against the wall? (Plantation Town)

It would be cool if Corey on his way to his night gig dropped in on Ruthie’s afternoon hit and mixed it up a bit.

Isn’t it pretty to think so?

all jah children like to sing the blues — keep your culture — thanks for sharing

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Rating 10 possible Palo Alto city council results (or slates?)

BLUF:: I am predicting TEA although ATE I thought a better acronym, so I’m saying two of three incumbents will hold and Alison will displace Cory based on more life experience. You cannot have STEAM without TEA at least in this game; in real life it’s the other way around. All three are musical enough: Alison wrote me to say that she sings in a choir.
Prediction:
1) TOM DUBOIS 12,000 votes
2) ERIC FILSETH, 11,456
3) ALISON CORMACK, 11,102
4) CORY WOLBACH, 11011 (which to millennials is also slang for “maybe”)
5) PAT BOONE, 2,345 which is pretty fly for a new guy in town running under a pseudonym

Are you PAT, ACT, ACE, ECT or IzWhat?

And that’s the TEA (my neighbor’s teen told me to say it like that)

 

 

Pat Boone = P

Alison Cormack = A

Eric Filseth = E

Cory Wolbach = C

Tom Dubois = T

Incumbents hold: ETC (“et cetera” but not “ecstasy”)

Sea Change: PAT, APE or CAP (both newbies win)

Pro Housing: (levitsky has one like this)
CAT or ACE

Girlie but Establishment: (baten-caswells have this) ACE

I’ll finish this later. (I have photos of Levitsky and Caswell homes)

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I’m the only one, as I mentioned to Anna Eshoo, at the Jessica Morse thingy, that has a Dauber and an Eshoo sign (because Eshoo opposed the recall headed by “Mrs Dauber” ie Michelle Landis Dauber)*.

Also, and this hardly fits here, –well, check that, everything under the son and across the universe fits here, in Plastic Alto –but Joe Simitian mentioned in passing (at Palo Alto Farmers Market, or just past) that Jeremy Lin was once briefly on his staff, but in Palo Alto not Sacramento office (and its in his NBA bio). And I countered (being both an ass and a Gunn alumni zealot) that his Harvard bio claimed he was Editor of the Campy and I claim, because I read the paper that year, that he was a sometimes sport columnist, talking about himself, or saying trying to be convincing that he and Steve Brown had played together for 6 years (on club not middle school, he forgot to mention), and maybe page editor, but probably not even sports editor. I did mention that I am endorsing and gave to Alison because Mrs. Russell’s son played for Gunn, hoops. Also, and I am a bit of an eavesdropper, Simmsy was suggesting that Commission Monk call on Micki Schneider (ex-Council, Spiral’d downward) in San Diego? I didn’t know her and was not political at the time but she let me put Earthwise Productions Cubberley Sessions posters in the window of her store, space permitting.

There’s a music cluster: CET or P in that Cory played trombone at Gunn, Tom raised money for Gunn band, Eric poses with a guitar above and Pat Boone shares the name of a white guy with blue suede shoes, a singer. Or ECT, for “ecstatic” works for the music as much as the sort of housing.(So edit to add, weeks later, and after the Weekly and the Post both picked my slate, all five are arguably musical and its arbitrary to claim that Tom Dubois, Eric Filseth and Alison Cormack are more musical than Cory, who played trombone at Gunn. Or is it racist to say that I think Pat Boone is musical just because he is black? I also previously and several times in fact asked him if he’d like to shoot hoops with me and or Tom at Johnson Park, n.b.)

I was just writing about Corey Harris not Cory Wolbach (who told me the Brett Anderson who signed his petition was probably not the singer for The Donnas), and also I wrote about Cory McCullogh of Xiu-Xiu. Here’s a picture of local not-Rasta Cory:

Fifty days out or so, and not withstanding if “build baby build” has more Big Mo than “New Rez / Senzible Zoomba”, probably the incumbents will carry:

by James keene on jan 5, 2015 at their swearing in and his Tweeter:

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it was 3.5 years ago today, rich prioste told the band to play

and one (although I owe about five or 15 more combinations):

I woke this a.m

I’ll Splain later. Calling Aleta Hayes. (I was fantasizing about a candidates forum wherein the one task would be to interpret a Bar-Kays ditty)

i think so far I’m ATE or EAT.

PET is Pat, Eric and Tom which is misleading since Alison advertises a that people can walk with she and her dog.
Edit to add a week later
1)?PEA like Mendelian sense fits better
2) actually I don’t think it amounts to a hill of beans the difference all the ideas overlap. Mixed use hill of beans new currency.
3) yet there is no way to get a candidates forum as the opening act of a jazz concert.
Edit to add the next month October my favorite month per day baseball which is why I missed the candidates form last night but I’ll try to make up today and I just decided am endorsing Karen Holman for the open space board despite the fact I cannot vote for her and I have a funny joke about her competition. I think my wife Terry Acebo Davis Will add her name invoice to the cause but I cannot speak for her Duffy is undecided at this point but is sniffing the air.
And:
our article on the candidates on the other hand was freaking boring as is the race parentheses so I guess your article is fitting parentheses you could liven up future articles by noting that there was a sixth candidate Who withdrew when his mother died and who consistently agitates and advocates based on the writings of Robert Reich for example saving capitalism 2015 who like Weiss went to Dartmouth and of George packer for example the unwinding who like Weiss went to Gunn The basic argument being democracy unraveling or winding down based on the lack of citizens engagement, Evident even supratentorial to the race weiss’s appeal to the press table
Monday when apropos of 980 Middlefield the mayor arbitrarily cut off the hearing leaving three citizens without a voice on top of cutting the previous 30 to 2 minutes not the policy published traditional three minutes parentheses sometimes one minute right? Parentheses
By the way my freshman roommate at Dartmouth was at Gonzaga while Kavanaugh was at Georgetown prep and nobody of my generation believes His story. My friend, BG, of counsel to Verizon ironically enough parentheses because I denounced Verizon here grew up 2.5 miles from the judge to be said he recognizes him although doesn’t actually know him
Lastly hey Beth Minor is kind of on my sheep list because the public announcements should be in the weekly Better reach.
Mbw

10.12.18:
This was also my personal ranking of the 10 possible outcomes. Interestingly virtually all possible outcomes form an acronym you listed as the ETA whereas I have it as TEA. Predicting that order of finish.
My reverse rationalizing slogan was then “you cannot have STEAM without TEA” connoting their respective involvements in the arts and music: Eric plays a guitar (at least he poses with one) and claims to listen to hip bands like War On Drugs; Tom was a chief fundraiser for the Gunn (Jazz) band, Plus he once quoted Journey titles in an essay on parking; Alison sings with a choir, (or so she told me, in reaction to an earlier edit of this, and I believe her — I believe everything she says, in the George Washington sense).
Let’s get Greg Rolie to play outdoors at Mitchell Park in celebration .

Second helping: I beg to differ with my esteemed (steamed?) colleagues and co-congregants Eric(Rosenbloom) and Steve (Levy), and my fellow former Gunn weight-lifter Nancy (Krop). Alison has more life experience as both a Mom and a corporate exec— when Cory said “the industry” he was apparently referencing his stint as a security guard.
Also let us recall that previously in these pages Greg Scharff was called a “country lawyer” when he was actually a landlord and real estate specialist; Cory was called “The Diplomat” when he was unknown, eleventh-hour and an epitome of the Hamilton “Aaron Burr” false wisdom “Talk less, smile more”. And the music stopped.

*sometime after I wrote this I learned that Anna Eshoo and Michele Landis Dauber (wife of school prexy Ken) had a coming-together in that Anna supports and appeared at an event for the Michele campaign against sexual predators. I made my little joke about the Anna-Ken rare double when I met her (for the first time, as I can recall) at a congress fundraiser and she gave me a big hug, because she had heard my mother had died (my mother, like my father, were in Camp Anna since doorbell one, — personal to AE – thanks, that was nice of you.)

There is still 25 days of this so hold your horses and ring them bells.

This has 5 million views so maybe I’m helping Cory:

and and: a neighbor, hosting a candidates forum in her yard, suggested i was smoking the tea.

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Dartmouth, 34 Holy Cross, 14

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Drew Hunnicutt of Dartmouth and Josh Hicks of Holy Cross, article by Jennifer Toland of Worcester Telegram

 

I. photos of Dartmouth from Worcester Telegram (I worked there one summer, 1985)

II. Article in Telegram about Worcester arts scene>>

III. setlist of Elvis Costello, Aug. 21, 1984 Worcester Centrum (now DGA), 35 songs>>

IV. list of bands from Worcester, according to All Music

V. Bane, on Equal Vision

VI. Hail The Sun, on Equal Vision, but not from Worcester, and singer Donovan Melero talking about sobriety

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Donovan Melero Hail the Sun Equal Vision Records will play at Slims SF in October

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Two chords and the truth

 

Beto O’Rouke clip from 1994 — that’s the year I started producing concerts, with Mudwimin and Oxbow — and the year Nirvana broke — with a future member of At The Drive In and Mars Volta — supposedly pissing all over their opportunity in protest of the right wing antics of their local TV show host.

To me this is not just Senatorial but Presidential.

Bob Lefsetz indirectly hipped me to this – or inspired me to search for it — in that he praises Beto but calls him wimpy and nerdy. Dude, what band were you in, in 1994. Weren’t you sucking major label dick?

Also, I wanted to send him Rachel Garlin and Julie Wolfe, with an original bluesy ditty (think “Blue State” i.e. liberal) about wishing they could vote for Beto because they relate to him because he’s a musician.

I said to Lefsetz: He was At The Drive In while you were souled out (nicer way of saying “SELL OUT”).

I said to youtube: Three chords and the truth. Well, ok, two chords. (In actuality, I don’t know if any of those sounds are chords; but to me it is currency of the land for 1994 indie rock; and I don’t know if Beto is the guy in the suit or the skinny guy. Someone said: bass

But yeah I’ve been saying locally for 10 years that policy needs at least an artist if not an indie rocker.

Do you punk?

(Also, Mac MacCaughan of Superchunk and Merge Records went to Columbia, as did Beto O’Rourke. To what extent did their worlds overlap? I presume Mac is Blue not Red but I’d like to know what he thinks, even in retrospect of Foss or what they actually sound like. This tape is like that of the Beatles playing “Little Piece of Leather” at a soundcheck. Little piece of leather not quite written by SF’s Stella Brooks –or Peetie Wheatshaw.)

and:

IAN McKAYE NAMED SECRETARY OF STATE IN BETO’S CABINET

O’Rourke, who used to quiz his sister about the Beatles as a child, fell in love with punk in eighth grade when he listened to the Clash’s London Calling for the first time. The record, he said, was “a revelation.” He would go on to become a devoted fan, in high school, of Dischord Records — the D.C.-based indie labeled founded by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson.

“I was into Minor Threat, I was into the Rites of Spring,” O’Rourke recalls. But more than just the bands, it was Dischord’s whole ethos that appealed to him, an angsty teen. “They started their own label, they pressed their own records, they wrote their own songs, they booked their own tours and they set conditions, like: you’re not gonna pay more than five bucks to come into this show. You’re not gonna pay more than 10 bucks for this record. Our shows are gonna be all ages, everybody can come in.”

By that time, O’Rourke had secured a scholarship to an elite boarding school in Virginia, where he would hole up in his room with the latest issue of the punk zine Maximum Rock & Roll and the latest Dischord release. “The record would come in the mail and there would be a nice note from someone at Dischord Records, like Hope you enjoy it!,” O’Rourke remembers.

 

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