“He put together a really epic performance,” Stanford coach Troy Taylor said of Elic as in “epic” Ayomanor.
Prime time gives press late night after big Stanford comeback and Buff collapse
The Post — Braden Cartwright — says a Stanford instructor named Ameer Hasan Loggins is the one I read about previously, who singled out Jews in his class and tried to create animosity, in his support of the murderers from Gaza who killed 200 or more music lovers at a festival called Nova in southern Israel.
I heard about this first from the thread by A3M, activists from the 1970s who opposed Stanford’s involvement in Vietnam conflict, led by Lenny Siegel – their group includes pro-Palestinian commenters. Also, there is an op-ed in the Times on this subject. The Arab lobby at US universities is powerful.
I started to write earlier this season about the new shopping center, a city block of Menlo Park, groundleased from Stanford to a Sovereign Wealth Fund – and the fact I was 86’d from a music event there. Three times. I only half-joked that I risked being cut up in little pieces.
I had a special but brief security meeting before my concert Tuesday at Johnson Park with Rachel Baiman and Roberta Lea. I checked in with the artists, the City, my small staff (at $20 per hour) and the sound vendor, The basic plan was to point out our proximity to City Hall, Police, Fire Station and the creek. (In the event of a shooter event, or shooters on motorbike, like in Israel — not likely but worth thinking about for a minute rather than be caught completely 100 percent unawares. My Sunday 10/8 with Dan Bern, Mads Tolling, Charity and Jerry Hannan it hadn’t crossed by mind – -I was not aware of the music festival attack, beyond the overall unrest.
I texted Mads yesterday that I might mention something about this on Sunday, 2 pm at Mitch Bowl. I referenced an Arab medic killed at the festival. Awad — I had a Dartmouth classmate named Jane Awad.
2) Moimoi On the Loose
Tevita Moimoi had has best day for Dartmouth in a loss to Yale, 31-24. He had 81 yards on 9 carries including a 40 yard romp early that nearly went all the way. I met Vita about 40 feet from where I sit right now, at Coupa. I had met his sister Mele here months prior, wearing a D hat. Moimoi led Sacred Heart in rushing during his time.
3) I texted John Paye about the fact that Steve Young bought 8 copies of The New York Times last week – it talked about the two of them coaching girls football at Menlo. Young leads a $8.6B AUM fund and has a daughter who high jumps 5 feet already. His son Braeden who was classmates with my friend Michael Rothstein at Escondido is now a graduate of Manhattan School of Music. I’ve met or stood near Steve Young three times. I mis-took him for Kenny Switzer the former Gunn baseball star, waiting in line for sandwiches at Mollie Stone. I hope to interview Paye for this blog. Paye was the best athlete of my generation — better than Jim Harbaugh and a nicer guy. I wrote about the possibility of Paye not Marc Berman in state government. Now I think Paye should lead Stanford.
4) Elic like Eric with an L not R, or epic. Two-hundred-ninety-three yards against Colorado, best receiving day in Stanford history, and their biggest comeback ever. Deion Sanders looked stupid trying to wrap his brain around what just happened. “My son should have held the ball not thrown an interception. We should have tackled Elic not let him romp 97 yards. Seventeen penalties is too many”.
36 panels on Keck star catcher
5) I sort of produced a show with a group of teens from Lynbrook, Saratoga High and Bellarmine, and their moms. They have a 501c.3 called Let Nature Sing but it was very perfunctory. They set up by 4;30 and broke down by 5 pm but given the fact that I had to cover an event at Bells and then prep my dinner, I wish they had gone over a minute or two. I missed the entire set. All I heard in terms of music was the piano player verifying that the power was on, a few notes or sounds. I got a posed photo — one of the moms said to pull the instruments from the cases for effect — thanks for that. I stopped for about 3 minutes talking to a man in a Keck shirt – -I want to count the number of mirrors or panels – -and he said he liked the group but paradoxically that report probably kept me from hearing even a bit of the last song. Augie the artist from Providence for Code Art give it a soft “yes” — they could have played until they were asked to stop, or until their promoter or sponsor got back. I sent a note to one of the three moms I dealt with to say that the kids would be better off waiting until age 16 and self-organizing. do they like music or they are merely trying to please their parents? (Maybe I am wrong and it’s a secret revolt from the housewives posing as tiger moms, hoping to meet middle aged concert promoters? Or it’s not too late to suggest such – -which is weird but less so than LNS which is like the Raymond Chandler line about advertising and how many lies can you squeeze into so few words….) But good luck . Better luck tomorrow.
They were supposed to learn five Beatles songs. Rather than Disney.
6) Todd Sickafoose is in WSJ preview of his album BEARPROOF which plays live here at Palo Alto Art Center next weekend. It’s actually a dual review of he and Allison Miller — she plays with Todd here – and played duo here with Carmen Staaf in August, the night of the Willie Nelson show at Frost. I made a comp that says ALLIE FOR PRESIDENT. The Sick played a key role in “Hadestown” — longer story.
7) JoVia Armstrong is coming November 3. It looks like the two previously announced (?) openers are gone and I am hoping to lure Aleta Hayes duo – -voice and piano for 3 or 4 songs. I told Aleta about Cricket Tiger who is the daughter of Diego Romero. His other child Santiago Romero — Cricket’s half-brother — went to Dartmouth and is now selling his art in earnest to collectors and collections.
8) Coupa is playing Make me an Angel by Prine. John Prine lives on via my Apple iPhone Shazam music recognition feature. Like a poster of an old rodeo Kind of sorta.
9) I saw Mads Tolling at SF Opera of Steve Jobs. I hated it – I am a luddite. I think the 9 Billon in stock he left Laurene Powell Jobs is enough of a legacy. Laurene whose office is above Keen’s boots, on my block. Actually the building, at Bryant and Uni was The Nevada Building and my wife Terry Acebo Davis had a studio there as did poet laureate Al Young (Michael Young’s dad).
10) Big ups to Margo Davis for her display of author photos in the windows at Bell’s Books. I lured a guy named Richard Jenkins not the actor to go shoot the soiree there. Richard is from Fairfield near Travis AFB, which somehow had me sussing Dartmouth alum Ted Bamberger z’l which had me writing Bar Scott. Bar’s father knew Ted at Dartmouth, whereas her cousin Teddy Conway was my roommate. Photos of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Maxine Hong Kingston, Saul Bellow, Carl Djerassi — all of whom spoke at Stanford. I told Margo of my ex, D_, who said she almost cried one night at a benefit for Philadelphia Opera, Margaret Garner, and how Toni Morrison was so not friendly. And D- is a trauma surgeon, used to plucking bullets from the chests of gang-bangers.
Ok, I’ve insulted enough of you hockey pucks, shabbat shalom, bitches. Shabby slalom — not to be confused with my Dartmouth school mate Tiger Shaw.
Shout out to former hockey goalie Katie Brown who is second in command behind her father Mike Brown and I hope to do a brief meet up on 10/29 at The Stick or The Thing. The big corporate box int he middle of a bunch of corporate boxes. I sometimes take the light rail past 10 stops I’ve never heard of — and I’ve lived here since 1968.
coda— Strawberry Fields by the Beatles — I call it noise concrete but search injun says no go. Wiki says “reverse recorded instrumentation, Mellotron flute sounds, an Indian swarmandal, and a fade-out-fade-in coda. So we have a coda in a coda, within you without you, And shout out to T_ who bakes savory snacks a fusion of Europe continental tastes and memories of her family history in India’s 79th largest municipality.
Also: a neighbor is from Catalan and tried to explain Bourbon — which had me pouring such last night for my guests even if I confuse 1704 and 1917 or whatever. I know the Pale was from 1791 to 1917 simple enough.
But Michael Lewis is wrong to use “going infinite” about Sam Bankman-Fried. Especially since the Bankmans and Frieds live across from the former home of Fields Medal Winner Paul J. Cohen z’l who refined our modern notion of infinity. Although the Cantor that Syntax wrote about was not the math guy. who invented birth control? Carl Derjerassi (October 29, 1923-January 30, 2015). Syntex not syntax you AI idiots. How about sin tax?
There is also a solar eclipse today that goes about another hour.
edit to ad: Elic Ayomanor is from Medicine Hat Alberta Canada but prepped at Deerfield in Massachusetts. Reminds me of the great Dartmouth receiver also from Deerfield Jack Daly, right? Oy, I left a vm for mama of the new star — suggesting that Elic can help SY manage some oft those $6.8M AuM. Amen. Ashe. Salam aleicham. One love. One really really bad pass. Oops. GOAT before it meant the greatest of all time meant the one you blame. Scape. No escape. I said to the rock please hide me.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 