that’s not cubberley or music but I was recently talking about Lefty O’Douls the defunct nightclub — I guess that’s the hook, the defunctness. I checked out recently a book about the baseball player and namesake. joc pederson of paly and dodgers was compared to Lefty O’Doul.
I produced 150 rock and jazz concerts at Cubberley in the 1990s, and I’m working on another one, after 15 year hiatus, for this fall.
I also am the exact age where a lot of my friends attended Cubberley the school and Gunn the school.
I am picturing anything from re-opening a high school as is, to razing the entire place for 1,000 dense packed homes.
I like 32 acres of earth art ala Michael Heizer or Robert Smithson or Andy Goldsworthy.
Isn’t it pretty to think so (that’s a literary reference)?
Still not sure why we are spending $800,000 for these meetingns? wil there be snacks?
edit to add: if i was a little bit better at what I do best, i would post a photo i took in 2009 of the ernie banks monument at Wrigley field, playing on the word “cub”
Because my now-wife, Terry Acebo Davis, {aka TMW]}was an arts commissioner here, we got to know him well, and, subsequent to that, added nuance to our knowledge of his many murals here. For instance, in 2014, when I ran for City Council, Eric Hager, who I have known since 10th grade — he was an advertising director when I was editor in chief of the Gunn Oracle — and I posed trompe loyal-ish, as if he and I were in that garden with her (the subject, not my wife). I actually wrote to Alo, an ad rep for this paper, about creating some kind of genre-bending advertorial that would run on page 11 or cover three and be both a campaign ad and reader contest. I most certainly would have in the archive of this magic box both the photo I am recalling and the correspondence). So yes naturally I would know that the picture in today’s Post is a Greg Brown mural on Waverley Street in downtown Palo Alto,
on the north wall of the former Palo Alto Sport and Toy building (where Eric was manager for roughly 20 years). Greg, who endorsed my campaign in 2014 shortly before his death*, told me that the painting is based on a true event, or a story his aunt told of an encounter with nature in her garden.
Actually, it’s a detail of such. I don’t believe it has a title. Or I could put you in touch with Julie to confirm that point.
Mark Weiss
Palo Alto
650.305.XXXX
*Peter Drekmeier, who I met at Bay Area Action in 1992, suggested to me that fall that people might doubt my story of an endorsement of a recently deceased public figure, so I brought that claim to his widow who suggested I list the endorsement of “Greg and Julie Brown”.
Hey, I would pay you $100 to run this copy with the photo of Eric, me and Greg’s late aunt.
a test for cognitive impairment might be the loss of the ability to distinguish Lady Brett Ashley from Daisy Buchanan (one: isnt’ it pretty, the other: green light; well, hemingway v. fitzgerald)
cory endorsed by grateful dead member, singer for the donnas, owner of guitar store: cory the former trombone player of the illustrious Gunn jazz orchestra. I saw him play. He’s Got The Beats
blue trees v. white stripes
nerdic: Finnish computer workers who are not scandinavians: Joni Koukku, Janne Tamminen and Hanno Hanno (not to be confused with Honus Honus of Man Man, although they both have facial hair; Honus resembles Joni more, or their mustaches do). Finnish fetish
outcue:
animal liberation orchestra featuring dan lebovitz of saratoga
Tom Dubois kickoff of re-election campaign Palo Alto City Council, Hoover Park, introduced by colleague Karen Holman.
From The Merc Kelley just last month:
A subcommittee made up of Councilwoman Karen Holman and Councilmen Tom DuBois, Adrian Fine and Cory Wolbach in December said the ordinance should function primarily as an educational tool, but recommended on a 3-1 vote, with Wolbach opposed, that first-time violators receive a written warning, second-time violators receive a $100 fine and third-time violators receive a $150 fine — a rule that the council ultimately didn’t adopt. Those exempted from the new ordinance include include emergency and law enforcement vehicles, refrigeration trucks, cement mixers and armored vehicles.
Edit to add: Dubois moving forward on 147 point plan, yet not necessarily a progressive:
And: actually his platform reminds me of something I had posted about Harvey Milk:
Taylor,28, is a blond American Christian born in Reading, PA and said to shake it off. Farah, 24, sued for bias in Sweden after refusing to shake hands with a male Christian at a job interview in May 2016 near Uppsala.
Tell me more, tell me more, like did he have a Volvo?
Tell me more, tell me more, did she listen to Polvo?
Edit to add: in a completely unrelated matter, someone at the Palo Alto Farmers Market was telling me the one about the Swede with a 20-foot pole.
Look-see:
And and but not Anand: the New York Times who can fake a newsgasm like nobody’s business, just four pages later — and this the edition that features the phrase “sock it to me “ in the lead of the lead – Hannah Cheeb from Bangkok reporting claims that Muslim men in Malaysia can marry four wives, as young as 11. (Nickname Ayu).
New York Times mentions crazy Rich Asians but does not mention Jon Chu until deep into the story, whereas Palo Alto Weekly gives it two- an-a-half stars but does not have a byline. *i think that word, rhymes with Madge the dish soap spokeswoman, is fair game given the role (French word with little thingy over Sarah vowel) Awkwafina plays in this movie. The wedding costs $40m.
Rolling Stone praises Nora Lim pka Awkwafina. (I admit, as I wrote about earlier, that a main reason I saw Ocean movie was curiousity about Lum, whose other claim to fame was a quasi-dirty rap spoof about female anatomy. That, plus I’m always talking where appropriate about Mindy Kaling my fellow Dartmuthian)
A.O. Scott excerpt:
The venue is fabulous — if there is any part of Singapore that is less than dazzlingly picturesque, we don’t see it here — the music is great, and the food includes homemade dumplings, street-stall delicacies and lavish banquet dishes. But the key to this party is surely the guest list. It has been noted that this is the first Hollywood movie in a long time with a mostly Asian and Asian-American cast, and if anything this observation understates the diversity of the performers onscreen, in terms of both their origins and their pop-cultural affiliations. They include Michelle Yeoh, one of the great international movie stars of the past quarter-century; Ken Jeong, a staple of naughty American comedy for almost as long; and Awkwafina, a hip-hop artist, actress and web celebrity of more recent vintage.
I did listen to a wee dram of San Francisco singer-songwriter maybe bandleader and supervisor candidate Tom Valtin and I would say it has a quality, but I would say also that it could use a little more foghorn. Foghorn Leghorn. The Mel Blanc voiced (as compared to blank verse, or Les Blank) cartoon character who is Southern. I mean vernacular. Of course my starting point is that I found this guy because he is married to the daughter of a favorite professor of mine named James Melville Cox, from Virginia. You don’t know about him less you have read about Huck Finn. Et cetera. Was anybody hurt? No’m but a cartoon dog was assaulted by a big chicken. N-word Jim loved Huck, idiots. Elif Batuman. Bat Makumba ay, ay. Bat Makumba, oh oh. I’m here all week. Try the grits. Pass the port. And….out.
I listened to part of his political speech and would report that I ran for Palo Alto City council on a similar platform. Go, middle class!
and one:
First Edition Adventures of Huck Finn illustration by E. W. Kremble. And Oregon ally this was about the first pages of Tom Sawyer “Old Scratch” and War and Piece “the anti-christ” written within 10 years of each other, snatched by magic hand held box at Bell’s Books of Palo Alto. But there’s a guy named Adam Weinberger in New York wants to sell me such onesy, not the Weinberger with bereaved at Beth Ahmed who went to Gunn and helped the Cubberley Sessions on advice of John Taylor not the right-winger the right-fielder exactly oncely. And gracious flash to Ms. Lessa encouraging me to try Ginsberg “Kaddish” for Naomi with Larry Ochs. Not Phil Oaks. Nor Quaker Ochs.
Tom Valtin seems to have good musicianship throughout. B (as Christgau helpseff might say) Not turkey, big chicken. No pocky for kitty. Arf (gail collins)
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 