C 2014 thunder bay press but “not endorsed by, or affiliated with, The Beatles, or Ringo Starr. This is not an official publication” nor is this . get well Ringo. Go Gregg Rolie
Whoa, that’s actually a house on Cowper just east or south of Oregon somewhat notorious for building too close to a heritage oak, and now they are flipping it. My Motorola is wigging out a bit. Here is the bootleg but beateus Beatle:
The wee stone, in the nook, placed by whom?
I noticed that there is a meeting tonight at Belle Haven center in nearby Menlo Park, an outreach to an effort to update the Menlo Park Comp Plan or General Plan, called ConnectMenlo, and posted to inMenlo the question on whether it is a coincidence that both neighboring cities are updating their plans or could it be a push by industry to intensify the already intense rapid changes, regionally?
My headline is obscure, referencing a dystopian Sci-fi film of the 1970s and shows by fairly obvious cynicism about local leadership, or the power of the special interest multi-billion dollar local building industry to dictate local self-quasi-governance. (“Soylent Green”).
I was also thinking recently about Judy Kleinberg, a former mayor, now head of Palo Alto Chamber I caught, as did 200 or more others saying, I guess apropos of SAP Labs, the $10 B German software company with offices on Deer Creek AND NOW at The Varsity “corporations are people, too!” and the Albert Finney I think book that became a movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” which I and my former Dartmouth film professor Al LaValley read as allegory about group-think and McCarthyism and “don’t let the pods get you.”
Corporate voice Judy Kleinberg
Don’t let the pods get you, Judy Kleinberg. People are people, corporations are devices controlled by the ultra-rich to increase their power over the rest of us, and manipulate actual people, or people like me, not part of the Point Point One Percent.
ConnectMenlo (General Plan Update) Open House #3 set for March 19
For my stalkers, or the pods, I will be at Rania Matar lecture of Muslim Feminist Art at Stanford and then maybe the Palo Alto Public Art commission (which has two intriguing new commissioner applicants, Lenore Gordon and Mila Zelkha) but I’d also like to catch a wee bit of March Madness hoops, even at the indignity of a $7.75 Guinness pint at the Old Pro, and also “Leviathon” for what it might say or cause in Putin Russia and also I liking the true story of the Japanese lady who dies looking for Fargo buried treasure.
Judy Kleinberg here looks like “final girl“. She’s actually undressing a group of tech wannabes and coffee drinkers at 456 University soft opening.
and1: and this is a thread too far: but “final girl” is a concept developed by a feminist author who noted a sexism in horror movies. In the 1990s in Berkeley a group of feminist activists and folk singers, Andrea Pritchett, Eve Decker and TK, started a band under that name but were asked by the author of the book on the subject to not muddy the waters so they changed to Rebecca Riots. But now there is a film called “Final Girl” referencing the same material, so who knows. Coincidentally, Greg Kalin, whose search-thread led me to the starting point of this post, and inMenlo, has a business that references women’s fashion. Coincidence, or conspiracy? (it is true that I inquired about that pod of chairs at 456, with Sinjay Sirole, before he sat down across from where I did, although I spoke to him first).
andand: I first met Judy Kleinberg here, when as Safer Summer she was booking high school bands onto Bryant Street, the former Just Desserts.
It’s a New Zoo Review in Palo Alto, coming right at you.
For only X million dollar, we can replace a yucky old building with a new spiffy one!
Mr. Dingle, the friendly elderly postman, had no comment.
The big baboon by the light of the moon was combing his auburn hair.
The blogosphere had a range of reactions, from freeing the animals to eating them in a dignified ceremony.
Disclosure: at the first Palo Palooza, I claimed that Rufus the Bobcat would be a guest artist, but was just kidding. I thought I was doing a service by even mentioning Rufus the Bobcat. I later approached Rufus to see if there were any hard feeling, and he merely glared, resignedly.
Rufus lives, in our hearts and flat files
A dude named John Adams of all things is the only opposition speaker. He suggested the building proposed is “a monster”.
and1: Gooyer says he took his daughter there, back in the day.
outro:
Ted Nugent, “Cat Scratch Fever” which took me there back in 1977, when I was 14:
didn’t we just, in 2010, spend $450,000 to renovate, especially the cathouse? Yep. Are we so ahistorical that 2010 is not even mentioned here? This is exactly like the staff report on Stevenson House that I felt was fishy that said “this was built in 1964 and now deeds to be rebuilt” rather than the nine or so appropriations for maintenance in recent years.
MIndy Kaliing, my fellow Dartmouthian, in a Mara Hoffman
I am actually sitting thru an ARB meeting, about signage at Stanford Shopping Center, and there is also an item about rebuilding our aging Palo Alto Zoo, but I am digressing, and really backsliding to post a picture of Mindy Kaling in a rather loud swimsuit.
I am also thinning of Ned Kahn a Genius Grant sculptor and artist, whose “Confluence” bride design was deemed not bird friendly the other night — he stormed out of the meeting when he read the writing on the wall, the sea change — in that they claimed that little cd discs would warn away the birds — I am saying I’m not sure if Mindy’s loud suit has a similar ingenuity: does it flatter her or merely make us squint?
edit:
Mara Hoffman, speaking of ARB, is normally on 6th Avenue, with their press office at West 21st.
(and I’ve fulfilled my bucket list item, I too have Prince Albert in a can)
Superhero summit at palo alto city hall featuring Jordan cowman of staff as superflush and mark Weiss as Pe Good it actually says Ape do good
This plastic alto piece I mean post is bright to you by a leading breakfast good:
Gotta go
edit to add: My shit actually says “APE DO GOOD” for a printing company in a hip part of SF; Jordan from The City of Palo Alto wants me to link to his advice on water page; his colleague wants to do a water audit of Gary Kremen, or and Eric Filseth, as a fun pr thing. Both the New York Times and the Merc had stories about California water issues and the current scarcity. Shirt. Jason Green’s version of this has Jordan holding a water nozzle as if it is a firearm, which I think unfortunate in that it was published the same day as a double-homicide here. Here is a link to the PA Utilities social media page.
edit to add, three weeks later: This post was done via handheld and in real time as I watched via that magic box the former boob tube the Golden State Warriors impressively 114-95 to be exact defeat the East’s winningest team, the Atlanta Hawks. Box score
Varsity theater occupied by SAP HanaHaus, soft VIP opening food by palace of Sunnyvale, also a former theater, Murphy street
My gunn, Terman and Fremont Hills classmate. The record setting holding track and field athlete mother of two, of Garden Court Jill Crisler Weyers:
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Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 