I’ll trade you two Mike Mills and five Bob Lawtons for one Jimmy Carter ‘Crisis of Confidence’

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Joseph Zirker at Palo Alto Art Center, the former Council Chamber

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Zirker actually has two of these in the room, so this is a detail of an installation. But I took Terry’s advice and got the full body including the shoes of the Vanna White archetype.

Amanda Salisbury, a recent hire in the front office of Palo Alto Art Center, Embarcadero at Newell, did not see the Joseph Zirker show in the small conference room a few years ago, but showed me to Zirker’s work, part of our public art collection, hung in the former council chamber and one time library room.

On the way out, I saw a new Patrick Daughtery installation, and our Nathan Oliveira bronze and then, across the street, at Guinda and Embarcadero, a “Pollinator” installation of native flowering plants including “Purple Haze”, by Juanita Salisbury (no relation, or none known, not truly checking their pistels and stamens, or 23Me’s), and then, next day, I saw a nice house in that neighborhood with three signs: Anna Eshoo, Mark Berman, and John Hirokawa.

Or as Chief Seattle once said: all things connected.

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Hey, girl, I guess I’m a housewife

At 3:26:

this pertains to a private or business correspondence between myself and certain industry professionals.

also, at Earth day 1993 by bay Area Action, and produced by Jason Coltun before he joing Red Light, Michelle Shocked played this song at Stanford, Frost Amphitheatre. I don’t know Michelle Shocked nor would I have guessed that I would soon thereafter start producing concerts. Dar Williams, around that time, was just Julie Williams’ kid sister, and a friend of a friend of my Dartmouth classmate Charlotte Gerstein. (Whose partner then, Rob Lederer pka Rob Craig founded a band Number Nine or Numba Nine but also knew members of Counting Crows when most of them were still Naked Barbies.

 

yadda. yadda. yadda.

Hey, Girls, or girls, or women, or guys: keep on rockin’

And, yeah, I’m a housewife.

edita to add: the video, of someone in 2009 Bernadette Mary or something playing “Anchored Down in Alaska” sometimes doesn’t play thru on the wordpress or youtube format so here is a screen capture. I was remembering the “keep on rockin'” part. Here, at 3:26.

shout out to my wife the lovely and talented Terry Acebo Davis and our friend Joe Zirker the visual artist whose work is at Far out Gallery (Fog) on Taraval in SF.

rockingirl.pngand1: Leroy says, send this picture, and while we are at it, the keyboard also a shout to, not Dar but Dao, Dao Strom who, maybe more than Michelle Shocked even, knows how Alaska feels relative to Texas. Dao the Michener Fellow and singer songwriter Mom, to Lincoln. This is Anita Zik:

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Keep on rockin’

also: Keep ears peeled for Palo Alto World Music Day on Father’s Day, from 5 to 7:30 or something, Downtown, Palo Alto, and maybe on Solstice later that week, same spots, different casts, perhaps the fourth or so attempt at ICOBOPA International Congress of Buskers, from 7 to 9 to take advantage of our nearness to Sunny Boy Williamson, the third rocker.

andand Leroy says keep rockin

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Hey you 50 plastic alto readers here’s your chance to be among the first 500 in the world to watch the tape of my former concert going buddy Michael McFaul describe his new book and new audiobook last month on “the farm”

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Big day coming (ramen mix)

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I’m at the ramen place. I’m at the library I’m at the Yo la Tengo show. I’m at the combination ramen place library Yo La Tengo showthey should play over serving::

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1V0gxdQ-Ep8

add: weirdly I did run into Barry Eisler the spy novelist whose books have a hapa spy named John Rain and often take place in Japan, like Ian Fleming “You Only Live Twice” once when you are born and once when you look death in the face, the next day one block away and told him about Ramen Nagi coming. Weird proof of Sapir Whorf. Sords whape reality.

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Wages of fur

Luigi and I delivering nitroglycerin to fire on the mountain

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In between seeing two screenings at Stanford Theatre of 1952 The Wages of Fear le Salaire de la Peur Wed and Thursday I took good hairy friend to new dog park at Peers near Cali Ave Palo Altoand uncharacteristic like carried cup of Joe trying not to spill

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Kudos, Earning’ Chip Fleischer, my freshman dormmate, 25 years of small press publishing: or, getting to ‘forth’

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If it’s 7 o’clock that must be Panda Sandoval throwing out a runner from first base foul territory, but if it’s 10:30 that’s Calexico sitting in with Yo La Tengo at The Fillmore, got it?

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Blue roses benefit with mother hips Jackie Greene and live reading of Tennessee Williams ‘glass menagerie’ to benefit the Stella Brooks

Degree from Dartmouth finally pays off

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Supergravity w. Supertramp ‘Just Another Nervous Wreck’

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