There was also the potential to explore the addition of a major public benefit through a regional community theater
In section 5a of the official response — required by state law — to the Santa Clara County Grand Jury Report of June 16, 2014, we fail to connect the dots, to say the least:
What is the relationship between Arrillaga trying to buy the property he has been leasing from us and his desire to build an office tower on parkland and a community center (also known as MacArthur Park Restaurant and or El Camino Park, or 27 Uni)?
Why did City Staff and Council try to mis-lead the public, with full cooperation from the Press (Weekly, Daily News and Post) about “the theatre” or “Theatreworks” as opposed to “Office towers” per se?
(It is a secondary matter as to why Theatreworks, a private non-governmental organization, would so willingly play the dupe here, beyond just their private gain: why not just start their own campaign to move downtown?)
The backstory, and I may be the only person with significant background here, and or an incentive to be heard or have closure, is that the Arrillaga project and staff’s spin on it, or shaping of it, overlapped with the public interest and outcry and petitions about some type of public-private partnership to bring live arts to nearby 456 University (aka The Varsity Theatre). My understanding is: Amy French of City Staff heard the arguments about the desire to get something going at 456 and used that sense to help Arrillaga proceed with his otherwise ridiculous project. The implication is that beyond ramming down our throat an unpopular idea, or tricking us, we also despite a public “lets look into it” front deliberately scuttled the idea of finding a cultural tenant for 456.
I think Pat Burt and Greg Schmid should go back to drawing board and make our official response take into better account the assertions I make here. And I think Jim Keene the City Manager should have more of a fear of God or Democracy and be less like some kind of scion. How many more will he add to his team?
I don’t think the rest of us not in leadership, and there may be 50,000 of us to their 50 or 75, think we have considered fully the significance of the GJR.
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I still wonder what is the connection between the 7.7 deal and 27 Uni?
Also, I may be alone but I think we need to discuss how or why staff and council took the interest in 456 Uni, The Varsity and used that to push thru or push for 27 Uni: we added the Theatreworks element, after hearing people like me lobby for a public-private partnership for a cultural use of The Varsity. The initiatives overlapped, which is not obvious given the long dark period to start 27.
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I thought Burt and Schmid officially wrote the response: why aren’t their names on it? At the time I argued privately that Burt should not be allowed to work on this, but agreed to hold my tongue in deference to the Holman campaign for re-election.
This is really a job for the Feds as much as GJ. Its a RICO case (I’m not a Federal investigator but have a few friends who are. Actually Dennis Burns our chief went to high school with a famous federal watchdog and whistleblower named Kevin Ryan– we may need a guy of that stature to get this sorted).
1.
“I have no sour grapes and I don’t feel like I’ve been wronged,” Lavorato said. “But, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed. We would have liked to have kept playing.”
“It’s bittersweet, I suppose,” said Lavorato. “It was a great year. How could you be upset after going 13-0? We won the Open. I think we are the best team in the CCS. I can’t say enough good things about our coaching staff and our kids and how wonderful they were and are.
“This was a special year. This might not happen again.”
(from Palo Alto Weekly coverage of Sacred Heart championship season, but not playing for the State Championships) And my comment on their board: I also referenced this topic in recent address to Open Forum PAUSD board
For the record, you give more coverage to how the coach of a private school in Menlo Park feels about not being invited to play in the post season than you give the entire 12 game season of Gunn of Palo Alto football. There are ten times more Palo Altans who follow Gunn football even in a losing season than live in Palo Alto and root for Sacred Heart.
This is a good story, but it should not displace Gunn.
The fact that there are no comments five days after publishing reinforces my point.
Congrats to Sacred Heart on your championship season.
2. And why does Bill Johnson seem to view development projects thru a rosy screen?
Another local paper reported that the bankruptcy documents showed that Miki was not actually McNellis’ tenant as much as McNellis fronted Miki $500,000 to run the grocery, making them more like partners.
Jim Baer, a consultant to Alma Village, told me this was not true, but I think since the Weekly continues to cover this story, or these stories, they might want to check on it, review the same document.
Is that sausage on the grill or another Grand Jury report I smell?
And I agree with the poster above who thinks also of the stinky History Museum story — we are allowing a particular developer an additional $10 M in TDR somehow related to deal per se — in the same breath here. WTF?
I got the news, from City of Palo Alto that Peter Kageyama is booked to either speak, read from his book or maybe it’s a clinic, soon, this winter. Sounds pretty good, but I wonder the backstory. And dear me I hope they pay him less than the $160,000 they are paying the two flunkies who are birds learning to prey I mean tweet. (That’s a Sondheim reference for the occasional Philistine and hater making his way to Plasty).
I never heard of Peter until 12 minutes ago. He is a protegee it seems of Richard Florida “Creative Capital” or “Creative Class” I read the title into the record once, apropos of the failure of leadership to work to get 456 University the historic and beloved Varsity Theatre onto the cultural inventory.
He is from Akron, Ohio so I rang him and am suggesting he kick back a wee amount to get Ralph Carney to tweet some excellent clarinet sounds in between interstices of the program. I don’t speak for Ralph, I just play hunches.
God does not play dice with the universe but Weiss sticks his little plastic…
I would have preferred producing a lecture by George Packer, on “The Unwinding…”
I wrote yesterday cautioning about the public sector, especially our suspiciously unrepresentative and unresponsive one, the subject of a Grand Jury report, producing content. For instance, we spend $2 Million plus to revise (I say “gut” and “flush”) our Comprehensive Plan, part of the Our Palo Alto campaign, an all-time great euphemism.
We also have a $200K spin meisteress Claudia Keith, a mesmer.
I thought it downright bizarre that in order to develop the former Roth Building at the former Palo Alto Clinic we have to, if you believe Pat Burt, let the Thoits descendants add another $10 M of value to the fully-leased buildings (including Bryn Walker, House of Bagels) they are tearing down and re-building. The default should have been: Arts and Culture Division buys or condemns the building and we the people run it.
I think it equally bizarre that Palo Alto Little League is run by people who want to make them selves useful to a huge corporation and that trumps baseball per se. Why not ask Alex Blandino, who told me he played four seasons there, to set aside part of his $1.7 million Cincinnati Reds contract to subsidize the league, if regular Palo Altans truly cannot afford it anymore. Or Joc Pedersen. There is no center field foul pole in baseball, peeps.
If Kageyama is merely another toy of the build-build-build Billionaries I will be pretty disappointed. Begs the question: who booked him?
edit to add, already:
Packer has 513 reviews, while Kageyama has only 15 total. Richard Florida, for “Rise of the Creative Class” has only 80. This does not look good.
Let’s see if he returns my call. PK
and1: here is a clue: Jim Keene tweeted this in April:
Peter Kageyama ends #TLG2014 on the highest note. For the Love of Cities!!!
To what extent is Palo Alto even a city?
We have a billion-dollar-per-year-each-year commercial real estate industry drooling in our soup, sure, but there is probably a remote patch of desert in Saudi Arabia with a billion dollars worth of pumps but that does not make it Savannah, GA either.
And2: Kageyama tweets of this, and it has interesting set of sources. Times article recently about where college grads want to live and why. (And I had proposed to Michigan gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer that I write a white-paper about the feasibility of artists moving to Detroit based on meeting one graduating Stanford student, a singer, who thought about moving there. I lost $600 on the proposition in that Southwest Air will not let me re-use the funds of my missed or cancelled or “no show” flight, not to mix causes).
edit to add two months later: one, I did get a return call from peter kageyama and chatted him up for a few minutes. Two, I will try to take in his talk tomorrow, Friday Feb. 20, 2015 at Mitchell Center but three I also wrote to the Mayor suggesting his purported $5,000 fee is too much, and better spent on the arts.
The City Council has approved a $160,000 contract with Ash Ahmad and Kate Stoodley, flunkies from what I would call old school Fourth Estate and pr, dba Comment Ground, to help Jim Keene, our city manager, Claudia Keith, our media guru or something — spin doctress — and Lt. Zach Perron learn to tweet more efwectively.
What, Daffy Duck not afwailable? Suffering sucker-stash!
This is actual content generated by our public servants:
Ducks (they like the storm):
Deer (they like the storm, too):
I want transparency in city leadership, not layers of spin and consultants.
The public sector should not be generating content. Leave that to us wags. Ok-way?
(Or call me and let me hire $160,000 worth of better musicians to play our Twilight and Brown Bag series — for those numbers we could get Matt Nathanson, and maybe Elvin Bishop. For the social media lessons, I would rather hire a Jordan or Terman kid for $16/hr…and there’s more: the electronic version of the staff report does not even let us open on to “Exhibit C” where the slickees/flunkees from SF supposedly reveal their hourly rates…Blame Khash Alaee or Chris Anastole of Staff and your favorite “New Residentialist” council-member)
BLUF, and I got this from Michael McFaul my long-ago Deadhead buddy although he is not in McNally but George McGovern is, BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT, as I was packing up to zip off to the movies — either “Gone Girl” for the Reese, or “Dumb and Dumbererer Too” for the HBO “The News Room” comparison — I chatted up Stanford sophomore Conor Schram a 135-lb wrestler from Pittsburgh, who is taking a course on the media and I suggested he see “The Foxcatcher” and interview Chris Horpel about it: life is a movable feast if you keep your eyes and ears set to vibrate.
This song started playing just then. A “red dog” is football for “everybody go” or as Adam Duritz the huge Cal Football fan say: “everybody freak”. And who does not believe me that I jump up from my table at Ada’s Cafe in Palo Alto and turn 360 degrees towards North, East, South and the West and flap my arms and snap?
Also: Ted Gioia, now absconded to Texas and thusly not avails for my January 25 PAHA History of Jazz Shindig, did write for PTT about Mingus at Keystone June, 7, 1979.
Ry Cooder’s String Cheese incident
Ry and Pasatono Orquestra de Oaxaca, he suggested, according to Andrew Gilbert, that they add trumpet to their Mexican folk music ensemble, which also includes clowning and circus music.
did a show with Golem, i’ve seen.
did they play SXSW?
How did Andrew get the tip?
Hi, Andy, or Andrew. Palo Alto not Berkley is Sister City of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, assuming and big if that Pasatono Orq migrated from rural to their urban whereas Berkeley Sister Cities has or had a Borneo long-house community, so I feel left out and empty that I have to drive to hear this, and am tempted to raise some pronto dough and try to lure them thru Palo Alto for a nooner on their way to F&S. Is there an agent or promoter beyond Ruben? Probably too late but tempting.
How did Andrew get the tip? He’ll never tell. But he lets on thusly to wit:
Arcos has arranged numerous concerts for Pasatono in recent years, including events connecting the band with Oaxacan communities in Southern California. But it was a very different kind of concert at the Getty Center in Los Angeles two years ago to which he invited Ry Cooder. At that point, Pasatono had just one circus tune in the mix.
“When I called Ry to ask him what he thought a few weeks later he said I really think they ought to concentrate on the circus stuff,” Arcos recalls. “He also said they should include a trumpet. That’s Fellini. The horn is very visual and playful, with a great tragic quality. I translated the comments to Rubén and he laughed, saying I can’t believe we’re on the same page. He said the only reason we didn’t include trumpet is because of the budget, but I’ve seen photos of Oaxacan circus band where there’s trumpet. Everything came together.”
Bette Arcos I think is KPFA regular.
And I told the Freight Box person, Elaine?, that there was in my dreams a F&S2, in Palo Alto, at the old New Varsity — Steve Baker was set to tour it, but his son broke an ankle and a soccer game and we’re still healing, waiting, Buddy Hollying. I think I mean Crying Waiting Hoping
they are playing skirball.
do they have an agent?
Oaxaca Oaxaca?
Musical ambassadors for the state if not the capital…
Oaxaca string cheese is there a better name for it?
Quesilla, en Espanol quesa que dehebrar, hebra means strand or string:
Oaxaca, also known as Queso Oaxaca, Asadero or Quesillo is a Mexican name for a semi-soft, white, string-type, Hispanic-style cheese made from cow’s milk. Belonging to the pasta filata family, similar to a Mozzarella, Oaxaca is a stretched curd cheese, kneaded and sold in long ropes gently wound in balls.
(but it is proprietary to Plasty that someone would link String Cheese Incident the musical group to this Oaxacan circus orchestra, no)
2.
effigy versus billboard liberation vs. ready-made
hate crime racial incident
does it matter the category of the creator or author?
cf Gunn High graffitti hate crime
I like Dinkelspiel and Berkeleyside — want to reach out, i may have already
more of my observations about Shelby Sinclair
Don Cherry playing flute outside the cell of Angela Davis, circa 1968
3.
South Park Redskin mash up: because the Redskins copyright is cancelled, they could use the logo in their tv show, about a start-up stealing that name, for borrowed interest. And drew a penis and breasts on to it, for good measure. (then had two of such creatures engaging in arguably non-consensual intercourse)
a little misconstruable
Andre Cramblit
cf. palo alto bad billboard art
cf cristina valezguez in a closet at cubberley “training cetner’
4. Cal Hi Sports
montage of 60 images from the season
Sacred Heart, if your kid does not go there, why root for them?
compare to De La Salle??? Notre Dame
Josh Stern of Paly
Lance Armstrong?
5. missed Jeff Parker
Charlie Hunter
Jeff Charlie Hunter Parker
ois 303 779 6032
insert photo here, it is an old number for blues guy Otis Taylor or his former number, I’ve tried various versions of it.
6. PAHA jazz
mohini rustagi
esther berndt (performing Tuesday 12/16 at CoHo after Warriors game, with Bill Young)
joey oliveira
the dr who booked miles davis
talk to danny in person if he cannot attend..see his clips or flyers.
george winston
will ackerman
dan adams
jason olaine
charles mingus in palo alto tribute
dick fregulia
fair fair and credit
full faith and credit big band
more gioia
dude from nearby, wrote about linus and lucy, wizard of menlo park,
list of venues
akira tana
7. rebotted at STanfrod Tressider CoHo Starbucks
A Long Strange Trip by Dennis McNally, 2002, paper, $20
today’s Merc, for “Finished: 49ers postseason hopes vanish in Seattle as attention turns to future of Harbaugh: by Cam Inman
Chron, “Down and out: Dreamy 1st half turned gloomy and removed any Harbaugh mystery” by Scott Ostler
a disc of photos by Norman Pearl of Burlingame, although my computer has no disc drive
“nice day for a stroll” chapbook by Matt Bowling, PaHA, $10
Chron sports section from 12/2/14 about “Coach evasive on his future” by Eric Branch, the one about the recessive gene for worry
stuffed into a notebook that has exactly six entries, from recent weeks
a totally full notebook my day book, Aug. 6, 2014 thru Oct 25 of this year, seems like a whiles ago
“A brief history of time” borrowed from PA Library my next stop
j. LaDoris Cordell lead of Chron, by Melody Gutierrez, “Secrecy of grand juries blasted: Calls grow for openness in handling police killings
k. full page ad, center for the art of translation CATranslation.org
l. Irene Dalis 1925-2014 Opera San Jose did not know her
m. i am late to notice 12/13/14, had to check my watch, re parking restrictions, that today is 12/15/14, but in Europe it is 15/12/14 right?
n. am i the only person trying to think of MO as class not race?
o. IPO valuations are out of control, by Brian Hamilton, of Sageworks?
p. kudos to Frances Dinkelspiel of Berkeleyside, best news source in the Bay area?
q. Sen ElizabethWarren at op ed opposed to the bill?
r. accoridng to Matier and Ross, EA of Redwood City is hosting a private meeting about Olympics ’24
s. next to “Beatboxking cellist keeps them coming for more” by Mike Kepka, cf Garchik, with big photo of Joey Chang of Mountain View, who appeared in the Palo Alto street fair several times, 2009 to 2013, 50 Mason Social House in the Tenderloin; Joey Chang, 34, of El Cerrito; Cello Madness Congress;
t. off line, off this line, Hershel Yatovitz texts me from Chicago.
u. “Saving mY Tomorrow” HBO earth-day-lean-in, with Willie Nelson, TMBG, Ziggy Marley
v. Soundbox at Symphony space venue
w. Gone Girl at 12:20 at Redwood 20
v. Garchik on Larry Baer 18 to life? and this is my 20th post in this list?
y. gave up Ms. Moskovitz story to Leah Garchik….I’m a bad, bad man.
i would only go to Gone Girl because Reese is producing; has a different vibe than Strayed
z. book at Keplers about 33 artists in 3 acts or something, I want to compare to Tom Robbins art writer anecdotes; I also wanted to compare how many sports writers former editor s of best sports writers vs. editors of best essays; I counted 14 of 24 of the sports guys and all guys pretty sure.
a.a. was gonna list the 14 classmates of Mrs. Creighton, 1976, courtesy of SB
a.b. I called Garchik because she started and ended her column with weed stories; Bizarro meanwhile had an eskimo getting a chocolate kiss shaped like a human nose;
a.c. wariors at 16 in a row, 21-2 overall, Tuesday in Memphis. dont I have a buddy who works for the Grizzliers”
a.d. Scott Osler is the fifth horseman of the Apacoloyse: “The end is going to be ugly and painful and unpleasant for all concerned No way around it; It all unraveled for good on a cool, clear afternoon in the city the 49ers love to hate; come to think of it, I better find an open mic this week to do the last installment of Harbaugina Monolgoue? Freight? (who is having Oaxacan Circus Music Wednesday?)
a.e. speaking, as I did to Garchik, about Peninsula roots of Chang, Tom Stienstra “Barbarians Snobs Imitators” 30th anniversary edition has a nice ring to it. And he was busted for growing dope, Steve Staiger flashed to, the other day at PaHA.
a.f. Mike Riley, OSU coach in Jake Curtis: did he get fired or promoted or moved on?
a.g.how many college teams can I name of top ten NBa scorers — Moses malone -none; Jabbar, UClA, Malone, Utah State, played against my teammate Lockhart of UTEP; Kobe none; Jordan UNC and Jim Yardley told me about him; Wilt, Kansas?; Shaquille LSU and they gave his dad a job; Elvin Hayes, Houston, played against UCLA Walton, but now I forget where he played pro, also Houston? Dirk,Germany? Hakeem, obviously I am confusing Hakeem, who I saw posed he other day with Dartmouth grid legend Murray Bowden(owns half of Houston) with Elvin. Elvin played Baltimore Bullets?
a.h. the other cool thing about South Park Redskins is their grid of NFL owners, inc Mike Brown of the Bengals , now 9-4-1 and shut out Browns, new Browns anyhow 30-0 I should text congrats to my classmate Katie Brown Something. first Bengal shutout since 2008.
a.i. Dez Bryant caught 3 TDs which is a good omen for Stanford’s Devon Cajuste since that’s his favorite player, he told me, once, at Sam’s on Uni, the night he scored 3 TDs himself v. Army; Stanford favored by 14 v. Maryland, (48); my dream is to sit in box with Mayor of Palo Alto or press box, thanks to Plastic Alto coverage of Gunn football; and Cajuste and Williamson;
a.j. article on list of Bowl Games and history;
a.k. Delasalle plays Friday 12/19 against Centennial Corona of Riverside County.
a.l. Jeremy Lin, pride of South Palo Alto, got 8 points and 6 assists in 20 min for laker win v Minnesota; I found a clip unfiled and unfurled at Earthwise Ifnormation Repository with a picture of Brian Baskauskas as player of the week and Jeremy as honorable mention;
a.m. Cindy Lee Garcia wants Youtube to take down video of her which upsets militants?
p.1 lead of Merc, by Howard Mintz;
a.n. Affordable Care Act year 2 starts enrolling Nov. 15 thru FEb. 15, by Tracy Seipel
a.o. Edit: County must see housing as its mission: pro-developer tripe? Tuesday’s board meeting, cf Cindy Chavez.
a.p. Big Tobbaco at Stanford, op ed by Donald Bentley, m.s. 1982
a.q. SJSU basektball team played without five suspensions, reminds of V-12 players at Dartmouth 1944, in odd ways;
a.r. the Merc reports there are 21 comparable or better streaks that Warriors at 16, topped by Lakers, 1971 33 in a row. Eleven of the 21 won titles those years. Ok, if we get to 20 odds go to three-fourths.
a.s. Fuzzy Thurston who was not actually a classmate of PAUSD prexy Glenn Bill Max McGee at Dartmouth, died at 80; I showed Max our Max a photo of SI cover of his namesake, from above urinal at Old Pro, when Juliana Lee donated $50,000 (of her purported $3 mill in commissions) to PIE.
a.t. I started to say: Andrew Luck led team to 2nd division title as Ryan Fitzpatrick of Los Gatos and Harvard broke his left leg, dumb luck.
which reminds: am I seeing Gone Girl or Dumb and Dumber too?
u. HBO’s News Room kinda jumped shark with Jeff Daniels and friends playing acoustic jam when I get to Memphis. (but Nina Simone comes on radio 12:18 at Starbucks with Dylan’s Tom Thumb Blue
that’s my transit
edits and adds:
i. searching-injuns:
When 1972 presidential candidate George McGovern asked the Dead to play the White House if he were to win, the Dead responded, “We won’t play until you legalize marijuana.”
Richard Simon on MTV site, at the time
ii. I also apropos of above, texted a photo of M. Ward of She and Him on Tonight to Hershel based on the killer guitar solos on that old school guitar
iii. I did write to Andrew Gilbert and then Betto Arco probably to no avail.
iv. Mike Riley will coach for Nebraska, I added already elsewhere in Plasty. Congrats. 61
v. Norman Bridwell creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog died today at 86 but I am sussing the term “red dog” meaning all defenders attack at once, the football jargon (and I do have a brief item about Greg Brown Julie Brown, a Oaxacan carving I saw and Mark DiSuvero, recentemente)
vi. in this brief history of my blog I am forgetting why exactly I changed from Ry Cooder meets String Cheese Incident meets Oaxaca cheese reference to Red Dog a term for blitz a term for in my mind abundance, but there is also a Bud “Red Dog” Ettinger who apparently invented the linebacker blitz and had red hair and there is the “South Park” parody of Dan Snyder and the Washington football team whose offensive mascot lost its copyright protection so that even Comedy Central can either parody or pirate it, a Moser of the Post comments:
And then it gets real bad when, before a game against the Dallas Cowboys, Snyder gives a pep talk to his discouraged team.
“We cannot give up,” he says. “We have been through too much together. We have fought Eagle and Bear. And the Eagles only beat us by 3 points! … Don’t let them break you — don’t let them win!”
Spoiler alert: The Dallas Cowboys then play “a lone Redskin” — Snyder in an Indian headband. Alone on the field, he is repeatedly crushed by Dallas squad.
additional note number roman numeral vii: the subtle Counting Crows lyric allusion is botched above: “well, everybody trip” is the line from “Hanginaround” a top 5 hit from 2002 or so; I dig the song because my cousin Craig “Bip” Ruda sings background and claps on recording and my then client Stew does so on the tour; and when the man goes “everybody trip” the musicians ad lib some dance moves, fast cheap and out of control. This is about the fifth Crow reference out of 1,000 plus posts. And I read but did not paste in two passages, one about his anxiety in recent years, or admission of such and I forget the other. About the making of the album, with all the guests spot. More than any other pop figure, Adam Duritz is my guy, my generation. It’s good he went to UC Davis not Brandeis or something, which would have pickled his herring. The one Feldman went to. The Jumbos or what not. Warriors, come out to play.
I wrote this, Palo Alto Mayor and Gunn grad Yiaway Yeh approved it, yet it somehow never found its way from electronic media to official parchment and presentation. (And thanks to Emmie and Julie for their comments and commitments: their kids! Wow! Mazel!)
And thanks to current Mayor Nancy Shepherd — mother of four who went to PAUSD schools but not Titanicly — for her recent pep talk for Chris Horpel’s current grapplers. It was fun watching 50 kids fall to the matt on cue and then pop up ready to roar.
Whereas, The Gunn High School wrestling team on February 11, 2012 grappled with, captured, pinned down and achieved, the team championship at the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League meet, a contest comprising 15 schools, including Gunn and Palo Alto.
Whereas, Coach Chris Horpel’s grapplers that day notched one individual first, one second, six thirds, three fourths and one sixth-place finishes, enough to earn the overall win in a true Titan team effort, with 195.50 points.
In the regular dual meet season, Gunn tied for first with a 5-1 mark, its only loss to rival Palo Alto (who placed fourth overall at the finals meet), and finished 8-1 overall.
Standouts wrestlers for Gunn included Cadence Lee, Daniel Papp, Ian Cramer, his brother Eric Cramer, Julian Calderon, Casey Jackson, Marco Lopez-Mendoza, James Foy, Chris Jin, Sean Lydster, JJ Strnad, Harsha Mokkarala, — the League meet point winners — and Lucas Munro and Miko Mallari, and Stephen Martin, Aaron Davis, Tavor Baharav, James Perng, Michael Abramovitch, Derek Lai, Tommy Farley and Jessica Sun;
Whereas, the results all together constituted perhaps the greatest season in Gunn’s illustrious history, and the first league title since 1976, when under coach Bill Sperry Gunn won five consecutive titles in the SPAL.
The individual girls CCS championship also won by Cadence Lee, daughter of Gunn grad Dr. Emmie Fa, her second in two seasons, also put her in an elite class of Gunn CCS champion and State meet wrestlers, including Dwight Miller 1973 and 1974, and State placer Floyd Williams in 1976, CCS champs Dan Gebben in 1979, Zach Blumenfeld in 2009 and
Stefan Weidemann in 2011.
Chris Jin, senior wrestler and MVP at 145 pounds won the Titans only individual league championship while amassing a glorious streak of 29 wins to 4 defeats.
And whereas, for coach Chris Horpel, in his tenth Gunn season, after a previous stellar collegiate coaching tenure at Stanford University and UCLA, the championship is testimony to his vision, persistence, meticulousness and inspirational qualities,
and his leadership and mentoring of assistant coaches and alumni Kiyoshi Kawano, Jonas Haro, Tom Glenn and Derek Austin; and in consort with colleagues Sarah Stapp, athletic director, Tom Jacoubowsky, assistant principal and Katya Villalobos, Gunn Principal;
I (Yiaway Yeh), the first Titan graduate to issue such, do hereby declare this Mayoral Proclamation in honor of the Gunn wrestling championships of 2012.
Here is link to Butch Garcia photo of Nancy and I with Chris and principal Denise Herrman and the team.
Three-seventeenths into my Guinness, Niners down by 3 their third possession, bookbag dangling, girlfriend independent, still Harbaugh-hating, 30 plus years, I am of mixed demeanor at The Old Pro, pressed between two parties of strangers, missing a quansutts gritty familiar stance and Ramona as a pizza parlor. But I do root, quietly for Sherman and Wilson, you would already know, if you read me.
I am reading about the Koch bros during bad very bad commercial interstices and making as Scoop Nisker suggested my own news or noise or symbols 2 easily manipulated.
this work references a brittish diver and heartthrob
I own a Matt Gonzales collage referencing Buster Posey from a few years back, from Krevsky Baseball themed art show, so I texted Matt, then Helge Ternsten associate Paul Williams told me that Helge collects Matt, so it goes full circle.
I think of the internet as a business tool, not personal, yet cannot help this frivolous and esoteric post. The people who signed my Tiger Tracks:
1. Anna Lee
2. Andy Zenoff
3. Brad Chinn, or maybe Brad Scott, but not Brad Elman
4. Andres Fajardo
5. Chris Strausser
6. Brian Evans
7. Mark Leland
8. Marianne Chowning
I was fit enough to win a trophy and you were fit enough to break one. But it’s ok. 9. Brad Elman
10. Amy Christianson
11. Dana Boyd or possibly Dana Henderson
12. Erik Lindgren (r.i.p.)
13. Florence Reinisch
14. Dave Perry
15. Diane Collman, now known as Diane Skinner of Saratoga
16. Tom Mell: Mark I hope this summer you get a good girl thats very horny have a great summer
(and my mom asked about this one and I said I did not know, in this case, what exactly he meant, partially true, still somewhat true)
17. Peter March
18. Dan Creek: don’t have anything to say! (with a loop on the bang)
19. Natalie (not sure which Natalie, probably not McClure since she was mean to me)
20. Rob Waller
21. Peter Lyon
22. Dave Almond (brother of author Steve Almond)
23. Wendy Hines — I have to admit I do not remember her, she may be an 8th grader
24. Paul Moraga
25. Justin Clayton
26. Katy Jacobs
27. Anita Hochscheid, called me “Whiskey” not in reference to Lynyrd Skynyrd
28. Kristin Horn, whose father played punter for the Colts and played with her baby
years later on my parents rug, with my brother’s wife, Nancy the gyn nurse: did Isabelle Beddows deliver her baby?
29. Karen Grove, admitting unrequited 5th grade “fun”
30. Anne Lindee, who saw me get my first Senior Little League hit, mid-season, a 13 in a 13-15 league, inside out swing on a hanging curveball from Paul Hopper off right field fence, hesitated at second and got thrown out by a mile and a half at third, my teammates laughing at me, and I worried if that was therefore not my first hit. Anne, a golfer I think, weeks later: You are a really great guy and a super baseball player!
31. Darla Cowden, kid sister of high school All America in tennis Rick Cowden but an 8 to my 7, but wow, she wrote 80 words, maybe I should call her!!
32. Holly Wilson
33. holy cow, there is a photo of Tony Mouton on the 8th grade or Varsity wrestling team, pinning an opponent with just his legs and I was just describing this to people last week when current mayor of Palo Alto Nancy Shepherd and I called on Gunn coach Chris Horpel, and Hal Daner was there, then-coach of the Terman wrestlers, but all these years I do not know if I saw the famous pin or just remembered the photo. I last saw Tony Mouton, who later broke Joe Charboneau’s SCVAL home run record in 2008 at memorial for Dan McCalister.
34. Beth, either Davis or Arons, I am guessing Arons. No, Davis
35. Susan Herrington, daughter of Stanford police chief Marv
36. Ted Corbin
37. Eric Cohen, drew a hammer head shark, presaging his art degree with Lobdell and Oliveira at Stanford, and his MFA with Paul McCarthy at UCLA.
38. the other Beth, Arons.
39. Sally Mueller “keep on singing,it’s so cute when ya sing!”
40. anonymous:
Mr. Murray was tight
and so was Miss White
But never fear
see you next year
41. Sunny Geers
42. Ellen Liband
43. Cary Milia
44. another Susan
45. Greg Zlotnick
46. Alisa Patnuade
47. Putt, aka Cheryl Preising
48. Brad Scott
49. Nina Goldberger
50. Maria Gonzalez
51. Marcy Spalletta
52. Mary Laub, born on the same day as I
53. Nancy Parker
54. Mike Cohen
55. Tony Madayag
56. Nancy Sarpa
57. Chris Kelley
58. Kathy Schindler
59. Nick Sturiale
Norman Pearl photo of Ronald Reagan in San Mateo, 1966, courtesy of San Mateo Historical and Pearl
1. I spent two minutes trying to hear a recording made at a show I produced in 1999 at the Cub, over the ambient music and noise in 2014 a Sunday at Coupa in Palo Alto, and I caught a bit of the lyric “I have been floated to this thought this hour”.
2. I am schlepping “Tiger Tracks 77” my 7th grade yearbook and exchanged 12 hours ago six texts with one of my classmates, who I said looks like Lauren Bacall (I was standing in lobby of Stanford Theatre at the time)
3. Sally Hemmings, by Annette Gordon Reed which I am suggesting will be an oratorio featuring Jeff Parker music.
4. A funky looking something something –even if one-third of her story checks out — a guitar player for Aaron Neville and Bear clan, in front of Ah-Cah-Sigh or whatnot, I was gonna try the oat mush again but could not wait out the cold.
4.a sweded in 52 minutes later: the Mayor-elect of Palo Alto should be at the Stanford Bowl game, in the suites, in Santa Clara, on Dec. 30, y’all. (her story does not check)
5. Lady at Coupa says I got a free drink after spending $150 with them — new definition of free.
6. Harry Hillman file, I am guessing 200 items will update to add literally.
7. Parker from 3 above played with Joey DeFrancesco at Yoshi’s or SF Jazz and I think cafe Stritch in San Jo either tonight — i will def go — or last night, typical. That i miss it.
8. Mayor Nancy put me on your list to buy tickets to Stanford Bowl game and I will donate a matching amount to PIE or Rec Found.
9. Mayor Elect Karen am I still on your call list or meet list?
10. PAW I am reacting: “The Industry Tripes Back” or more plainly “Palo Alto For War” in that the pro-growth group is in essence an attack on the middle class and poor and on Democratic values.
11. Rolling Stone Magazine, I bought, and should be the basis of a brief item or post: Stevie Nicks? Leonard Cohen? Inside the Koch Brothers toxic empire?
12. Koch’s float my mind to Dupont, and two threads: one, and this may be unfair and unwise: The Jah-Catcher. Two, that Chris Horpel the Gunn uber-coach also trained with DuPont and the Schultzes at FoxCatcher.
13. At Norman Pearl event at San Mateo History Museum the former courthouse, I saw Dartmouthian Ted Everett there and want to invite him to the PAHA jazz soiree I am producing and moderating lwatcdr Sunday, January 25 at Lucie Stern. Also I noted new plaques for Jim Harbaugh and Jim Loscutoff but there say “Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame”? Huh, they are Paly guys, not San Mateo! We need to start an ad hoc North Santa Clara County Sports Hall of Fame to ad hoc their ad hoc block. Palo Club, hellooo?
14. I am repeating the line that my Dartmouth chum the former NSA lawyer Jack Martin chuckled that I said I have posted 500,000 words to a blog with no readers!
15. Nia Taylor a commish here, and not co-opted by industry as far as I can tell, I mentioned to wanting to form a Palo Alto Black History Museum.
16. Like Charlie Rose, I should mean the whole week: I like the scoop about Pete Broberg the Rangers pitcher also held Dr. J to 11 points in hoops. Broberg, if I review my notes, also mentioned Ed Lucas and Karl Hendrikcs I think — with the cubs, speaking of Cub Sessions — former Dartmouth hurler. I want to rig an ad hoc list to rank the Brobergs father and son as top 6 in their respective sports and a rare double: I asked Pete if he is in Top 6 all time Dartmouth hurlers (with Mike Remlinger, Jim Beattie and those two) and then is your dad in top 6 for hoops: well, he was All America three straight years, so yes!!!
17. mine the week not mean the week, freakin auto-spell trolls!
18. I am finally wearing my Keith Haring red tee shirt from DeYoung.
19. Coupa meanwhile is regulating access to internet to manipulate people into leaving faster, not sure what to think. Back up data.
20. Eighteen hundred photos in my phone i could upload to this coo-hickey and edit.
21. Jonesing for high school hoops, and how is Gunn doing? Not averaging 70.
22. Are the warriors still on a run?
23. I missed Spoon last night at Not So Silent Night.
24. Will Svoboda of Stnaford sports info guest me to Bowl if Nancy does not help?
25. Will Steve Almond read my blog, for money?
26. What else to say about Cheryl Strayed?
27. Not one of my seed will sit on the sidewalk and beg your bread….
28. What about rent control?
29. I met two Paly kids who rocked my world, Darren Cook an sculptor and artist potentially bound for Santa Fe — I promised to hook him up with Bruce Beasley here and Mateo Romero in Santa Fe — his dad is in Lyin’ Eyes cover band, and Ms. Price tutoring him on art history despite being a class below. Then I met the Roskophs on the next table, and we schemed of development for Avenidas, he is on board, new my parents, plus Ben Junta!
30. R_ B_ guitar player, for Aaron Neville. (null set)
31. Don’t stand pat, but don’t burr as in too cold, on a sunny day. Going forward, but not for war.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 
Ducks and deer cheer $160K additional coverage via Comment Ground of SF
The City Council has approved a $160,000 contract with Ash Ahmad and Kate Stoodley, flunkies from what I would call old school Fourth Estate and pr, dba Comment Ground, to help Jim Keene, our city manager, Claudia Keith, our media guru or something — spin doctress — and Lt. Zach Perron learn to tweet more efwectively.
What, Daffy Duck not afwailable? Suffering sucker-stash!
This is actual content generated by our public servants:
Ducks (they like the storm):
Deer (they like the storm, too):
I want transparency in city leadership, not layers of spin and consultants.
The public sector should not be generating content. Leave that to us wags. Ok-way?
(Or call me and let me hire $160,000 worth of better musicians to play our Twilight and Brown Bag series — for those numbers we could get Matt Nathanson, and maybe Elvin Bishop. For the social media lessons, I would rather hire a Jordan or Terman kid for $16/hr…and there’s more: the electronic version of the staff report does not even let us open on to “Exhibit C” where the slickees/flunkees from SF supposedly reveal their hourly rates…Blame Khash Alaee or Chris Anastole of Staff and your favorite “New Residentialist” council-member)