Driving home from City tonight I was flipping between KFOG and KCSM and I thought these two songs might sound better together, and performed by a Jacui Nayl
Let’s Play Two with Chez Franc ‘Chez-cago’ dogs
(Note: I took about 26 photos at Mitchell Center and a few more at Farmers Market but will have to suffice with just two: 1, Jacquetta the Chez Franc Queen; 2, Weiss driving to the hoop past the shocked and awed group of 8 year olds, me later feeling more George Costanza than George McGinness or George Mikan…)
Jacquetta Lannan, Chez Franc mobile, at Mitchell Center grand opening, December, 2014
Part 1:
Jacquetta said she could not break my twenty, so I said “let’s play two” and I bought two “Chez-cago” dogs, with bacon peppers and an edible and remarkable bun. Jacquetta (jack-wet-uh, although I botched it the first time, even though I was coach by one of her husband’s co-workers I had met on Uni Ave) was a little taken aback at how much more I knew: that she went to Smith, that she was woman of the year by the Chamber that her honey is “Eliot Sprinker” of “Asset Management” — they are taking over my old yoga studio, while she is taking over the old book store.
I had posted earlier suggesting “A Confederacy of Dunces”, it’s about a famous hot dog vendor in New Orleans.
Terry, my Terry and I met at Bruce Beasely’s studio in 2009 so I have to sign off, posting here from Mitchell-Morgan Library in Palo Alto at their opening gala. To hear Elise DeMarzo ring him in.
I will update with more impressions of this event and facility beyond the food trucks.
I was a South Sider before I was All Palo Alto or hence the Chicagoisms. I gave the second dog to Marie Ridgley, who said she would bring Jacquetta to the May Fete. Terry my Terry hit me up for another sawbuck, distracted by other commish-types Jim Midgal, Ally and Mr. Richter.
Maybe I will bug the hot dog queen for a better snapshot.
Prt 2:
Lannan. Jacquetta Lannan. Comped me a coke, after I comped Marie Ridgely a $10 Chicago Dawg. Ok, full disclosure.
The rest of the fete included sightems of: Ken Dauber, Bruce Beasley, Stoller the PV artist and wife Naomi; Elize DeMarzo of Palo Alto Staff the former commish who Bruce called the best administrator he had met in over 40 public art placings; Mary Vincent; Seth Birnbaum, Laurie Birnbaun, 2 kids in tow, or they towing Pops, bits of chase and pursuit, 9 year old Brinna and 3 year old I will call him Zack, Audrey Daniel the filmmaker and photographer who I last saw about 40 years ago; Greg Betts, Ryhenna Halpern of Staff; Alison Williams freelance staff; Lacey who manages the room but I’m on her slag list; (also Greg kinda froze me, even though he kissed Terry, same topic: Jeremy); a former Paly soccer goalie who marked Albertin Montoya circa 1992, Drew Harrell, Drew Harvey; and his son; I missed seeing Nancy and Karen but Terry did (Nancy sent me a text noting the “funn band” and then “Gunn not funn”); Mrs. Dauber Michelle I think who once said I was funny and liked my line about Ken being “the new Sheriff”; another filmmaker with a wide-brimmed hat who I presume is not Betsy Franco; some Asian dancers; some kids from Rock School; Sheena Chin a library commissoner; two ladies from Rec Foundation who heard me out re the 7-acre park coming to the Fry’s spot; (one was head of foundation, so I will have to update her name: ); Ally Richter I think I had already; a little boy not just face-painted as a tiger, he really was a tiger.
I also met Mrs. Moskovitz the Munchie Monger who said her son (The EBAY Wiz and Tastemaker) said to go for med-marijuana license; Lighthouse String Band who I gave a new tagline: Keepin’ it Reel.
That’s all I got. Thank you Seth for shooting my wake up the echoes moment: I am the slow moving guy in orange not very far off the ground; we checked and I can touch the net but not the rim.
weiss drives for bucket
minutes I am still writing, if you call this writing, but rather than another part, in keeping with my baseball doubleheader Ernie Banks motif I am going
EXRA INNINGS
Jacquetta Lannan
Athena Young Professional Award
WHEREAS, Jacquetta Lannan has been selected by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce as the Recipient of the Athena Young Professional Leadership Award, which underscores the positive impact she made in the local community; and
WHEREAS, Jacquetta Lannan began her professional life as an employment attorney before following her dream of owning a restaurant and holds a Grand Diploma in French Cuisine from theInternational Culinary Center; and
WHEREAS, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce honors Jacquetta Lannan as founder of Chez Franc LLC and as the recipient of the first Athena Young Professional Leadership Award; she isrecognized for her community service and mentorship of other women, which began when sheestablished California Workplace Investigations to fairly investigate workplace violence,discrimination, and harassment complaints; and
WHEREAS, Jacquetta Lannan, through her work with the Junior League of Palo Alto-Mid- Peninsula, led a class of 80 women on civic leadership, led a committee to provide health and nutritioninformation to over 100 local families, and a myriad of other community service projects; Ms. Lannan serves on the Junior League Board Directors and continually demonstrates her deep belief incommunity service to help other women. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Nancy Shepherd, Mayor of the City of Palo Alto, on behalf of the YADDA YADDA YADDA
edit to addle, later that night: all this is making me hungry again. Hungry for baseball, here in Football and basketball season. I clicked on this photo of the Ernie Banks statue at Wrigley, from my 2009 sojourn with Dao Strom and her band. The statue says “let’s play two” on a different face of the pedestal. Apparently “Ernie Banks” is a pet name Jacquetta has for Eliot, coincidental or they are pulling my…leg. You thought I would say “hot dog”. Which actually does remind me of Mr. Parker, on my first day of baseball practice in Los Altos League when we moved here in 1974, having me throw with his son, Billy Parker, a 6th grader to my being a 5, quite an honor, and he said “Why don’t you play with this hot dog” he actually called his own son “hot dog”. I think I reminded Mr. Parker of my memory of that story — and that his wife, who had just passed away, gave my mother a recipe for a delicious spinach salad — when I visited him, roughly midpoint between Joan’s passing and his own. The “sprinkle” part, maybe I was channeling Annie Sprinkle somehow. Close enough for cyberspace, and Plastic Alto. If I change the actual first reference, it nullifies the comment and I want to keep the comment; maybe I can put Sprinkle in “quotes”. Someone said recently that the English language is broken now that “literally” means both “literally, as in not figuratively” and “not literally, as in figuratively”.
and on Monday I posted on PAW:
Wasn’t this a $25 M project?
Now, it’s $46M.
I say we are done with bond measures for awhile.
(Although so far I am liking the Mitchell Center; I like it a lot better at $25 M however)
And we are drafting a petition to move the Jeremy Lin sign to JLS where it is at least historically accurate.
edit to add, a week later: Jacquetta Lannan says she will open for lunch on Cali Ave, the former Know Knew Books, on Monday, January 12 and I may be the first in line.
ok, that above is previously unpublished I think picture of Steve and Eric Cohen as Hunter S. Thompson Twins but what I was fishing for was a more natural picture of half of the above duo (or one-third, as the case may be, how many rooms at the inn, who shaves the barber) and me and Terry, my Terry, the artist Terry Acebo Davis, outside DeYoung, but inside Steve Turrell or is it James Turrell and I am confusing it with Steve Carrell?
this is life this is art
now we don’t want to piss off Leah Garchik but is it funny to quote from a private correspond saying she likes the idea but won’t right about it:
14.
Meanwhile if I haven’t or have or something in between talked about Steve and Eric Cohen as Hunter S. Thompson Twins; Leah Garchik of the SF Chron Brand Chron says “Sounds like a great act (but I won’t write about it)”.
actual:
Garchik, Leah Nov 26
To
me
Thank you, Mark….. Sounds like a great act…but not sure it’s right for me. Best, and have a lovely Thanksgiving.
Leah Garchik
San Francisco Chronicle
From: mark weiss [mailto:earwopa@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 10:27 AM
To: Garchik, Leah
Subject: Fw: On the red carpet with specialheadPOTENTIAL NON ITME THOMPSON TWINS
—– Forwarded Message —–
From: Eric Cohen
To: Charles Cohen ; earwopa@yahoo.com; Steve ; L_ Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 8:44 AM
Subject: On the red carpet with specialhead
Hi, Leah. Happy holiday. Here is another potential non-item. There is now, debuting last night in LA-LA (a second California city south of here, and not the state that gave us Henry Butler and Jason Marsalis), a dance comedy act Thompson Twins that combines nostalgia for SF Journalist Hunter S. Thompson with the music of 1980s pop act Thompson Twins. The instigators are Steve and Eric Cohen of Palo Alto, Stanford and LA — although Steve ran for Mayor of San Francisco in 1991 and lost to Frank Jordan by only 500,000 (1) votes — who are best known as “Ally McBeals” “Dancing Twins” (not the baby, don’t f the baby). Herb Caen himself, maybe his actual last item, mentioned Steve’s quixotic campaign.
I can put you with them if you want detes.
see enclosed
mark weiss
wrote his application for dartmouth essay about HST
Sent from my iPhone
(1) I proofed it later to learn that we were within 190,000 votes of Frank
prologue, from February 10, 2012:
Lin had the most astounding performance of his remarkable week, scoring a career-high 38 points and outdueling Bryant as the New York Knicks held off the Los Angeles Lakers 92-85.
Later I will read this more carefully, about Mark Wahlberg and Simon Cho, and compare and contrast to Jeremy Lin. I am not saying or meaning to imply that Jeremy assaulted anyone or directly sabotaged the opposition. But there are elements in his past that are teaching moments, to say the least.
Somewhere back there I was comparing him, albeit an obscure reference, to Jerry West (the Lakers’ great, and the guy in the NBA logo). I called him Jerry East. This morning I woke up thinking: Jerry Yeast. What makes it grow?
Part 2:
I just read an account by Mitch Stephens about 2004 and Wendell McKines’ freshman season at Richmond (and I got there based on a recent story about a point guard shot and Steve Kerr of the Warriors trying to address that and support the nearby prep program). McKines as a freshman was touted as top new player since Jason Kidd and Darnell Robinson. My McKiness memory is watching him get tossed from a North Coast sectional championship, in Oakland Arena, in 2006 for swearing then sitting thru the Paly -Richmond game in NorCal playoffs. Paly routed Richmond but I kept thinking: Richmond’s best player has to sit it out because of swearing, while Paly’s best player (Jeremy Lin) lied to get into the school and on the team (He transferred from Gunn to Paly by saying he had an academic motivation for the move). I watched the student rooters section in a frenzy and remember thinking: something’s gonna happen when these kids realize the limits to their privilege or how much of their privilege is actually due to graft or corruption?
The Lin thing in short:
1) lied to get into Paly
2) probably lied or exaggerated his resume when he said he was “editor” of the Campy
3) makes me want to believe Floyd Mayweather Jr that JL also uses steroids or HGH.
4) on the other hand, I did root for him during Linsanity.
5) it’s a great story but lets not walk him on water. As Mel Froli of all people has suggested, put the sign at JLS not Mitchell Park
6) snarkily I suggested the guy from Palo Alto (or Dubai) recently indicted for stock fraud “he should run for council”.
7) I have promised people not to pamphlet the Mitchell Center opening tomorrow.
Part III:
As with the previous, I am outro-ing with a group of photos:
a) Matt Passell, Gunn 1980 star, Nathan Habib, a recent player, brother of a math teacher and stand-up comedian coming soon to Sunnyvale, and Mark Weiss, member of 1980-1981 team, as distinct from “star” or “player”, at Alumni Game, Thanksgiving, 2014;
Hanns Gregory Scharff looking confident Election Day, 2014, and what does he know about Jeremy Lin but is not telling?
b) Hanns Gregory Scharf, mayor of Palo Alto emeritus and two-time Council member, on Election Day 2014 and come to think of it he looked pretty unfazed covering Jeremy Lin in a photo op during construction of The Mitchell Center which has a single hoop and now or for now JEREMY LIN PLAYED HERE monument which another Greg, Betts says is just a sign;
let’s buy this from the shop in salinas and then make an ad hoc blue ribbon committee to decide how big to make the real one to honor John Arrillaga and therefore distill from 27 Uni how much ego versus need
c) when I first heard about 27 Uni I wanted to suggest as taupe of defensive tactic that we build a John Arrillaga monument somewhere between Cristo Redempter and my trophy for Sunnyvale Tournament 1980; this prototype I saw in window of awards shop downtown Salinas.
Palo Alto Chief Dennis Burns and Mark “Huggy Bear” Weiss, fall 2014
d) Weiss and PAPD Chief Dennis Burns, a track athlete at St. Ignatius, fall 2014
e) council-member elect Tom Dubois and Weiss, two hoopsters slightly past their playing prime.
This is actually belongs in the Gunn-Summit post but I ran into Steve Brown at Chinese food during campaign; second time he sat for me, thanks
I did offer to shoot around with Tom “Dub” Dubois early in the campaign and am waiting for it to happen; he did a good job coaching youth hoops here, my sources indicate
what happens in new york stays in new york or in the known universe
David James, guitar, Beth Custer, composer and clarinet, Dina McAbee, violin in front of Sol Lewitt installation at New York MoMA, fall 2014
backed with (edit to add, a few days later)
do as I do and take 30 seconds to hear either Ramon and Jessica “In the beginning” or something and or this Nick Drake cover, just 30 seconds you get the idea and not to upstage Beth who is still kind of her the boss here:
This being “Silicon Valley”, well, I tend to call it “Santa Clara Valley” and in, “I played for the 1980-81 Titans, champions of the SANTA CLARA VALLEY Athletic League”, I did a very modern, even pomo thing, I posted to the internet a partial score, five minutes into the Gunn Titans basketball season, Gunn lead by 25, literally, 25-0 at the quarter; you might think or guess I was writing about a team that won its first 13 games. But these are the Titans not the Warriors (who have won 11 straight and stand 16-2).
I shot about 27 photos at the game and will update more here.
I think the coach is Travis Williamson. (I mean, Brandynn Williams — there was a Travis Williamson on the vintage Packers teams however, no relation, although Brandynn has coached current Packer star DaVante Adams) One thing I noted is that he looked very happy to see the Summit coaches, Kheaton Scott, head coach, and Steve Brown, assistant. Gave them soul-hugs. Kheaton is a coaching protégée of Peter Diepenbrock; he was, in my opinion, the best athlete by far on the 2006 Paly state champions. Brown meanwhile was Jeremy Lin’s best friend from 5th grade to a few months ago. They have drawn a tough assignment, although I have been hearing good to great things about the Redwood City based charter school. I didn’t know charter schools had athletics.
One of my highlights was second half a number 32 took a rebound and dribbled it up floor, went behind his back to get a better view of the lane, passed it up to a team mate who got an easy layup. Towards the end of the game, I climbed to top of the new gym — this was my first game there, although it is the Titan’s second season there — to take a long shot, and I met one of the dads. Mr. Dorward, and he said it was his boy, 6’2″ “Luke” I think, who made that play, and one similar, a leading pass. “I was thinking ‘That kid is the point guard'” I said to him. Not sure if two plays make a point guard, and in truth the Titans may need him more on the boards, but that is what pre-season or non-league or December high school hoops is all about.
The actual point guard is named Sun. His mother is named Winnie (but maybe not Sun?). She was taking tickets at door and I chatted her up a spell. Her boy is #12 a sophomore on varsity. When he came out the first thing I said to her was “he went thru his legs”. In warm-ups. She asked “that’s not hard, don’t they all do it?’. He was announcing himself. There was also a #13 the lone black on the team, smallish, and obviously another point guard. Nifty, but fallible. Like I said, it’s December.
The kid who did the inbound one foot from me at the Alumni Game I posted about earlier, is named Russell I learned. He has a nice touch. He hit a three at the half. He might have reached 20 last night, maybe the high scorer.
Matt Passell, a co-captain or at least a starter for the 22-5 Champions of 1979-1980, send to look out for Gil. Gil did put on quite a fake to go baseline early in game and score. Kind of a crazy-legs Hirsh vibe. Matt didn’t realize, and I only knew because I was chatting up the brother Jesue Gil a recent stalwart, from bench of the previous game or exhibit, that both boys are nephews of Gunn 1980 Javier Gil a football standout.
There are a set of under-nourished but promising and exciting brothers on this team, a sophomore and senior, one has knee troubles to boot, something hyphenated, Cruising-Leeper or such.
I saw a fair amount of talent out there. This is not a doormat. They do remind me of the scrappy football Titans I caught all 10 tilts of. In fact I think that #45 who came in as a sub was Noah Riley the Titans QB. His brother David Riley was all-league 2-guard or wing for the 2006 Titans, and then starred at little Whitworth up in Washington. I saw the dad there at least – -although I went to all 10 football matches, I do not recognize the players with their helmets off and without numbers.
I met a kid named Donat who graduated recently and said his dad is Peter Donat the former Dartmouth lacrosse player, Psi U and First Data honcho, although they split before I could trade Dartmouthisms dollars for donats.
Principal Denise Herrmann was i.d.h. and shot a group of 6th men/women. I saw, Radin maybe, wearing a Class of 2015 Seniors t-shirt with a clever play on Shepherd Fairy: D15obey. (disobey)
Later I will check on wrestling and soccer, if only to get updates on the footballers I have been tracking, especially Maltz and Kasznik. (Rothstein?)
I think Gunn is in Los Gatos tourney next, unless I am reading that off an old ghost web page. I also owe a football wrap-up. I think I have 200 photos of football. I have 40 total hoops shots, 27 last night and probably 13 from alumni game. I rang Tom Dubois a Gunn parent and Council-elect, and Camille Townsend, PAUSD trustee to urge their support for the team.
Part 3 my five photos and 9 corrections/notes
i. post-modern screen capture of how this looked for the previous 12 hours until 10 minutes ago, a lay-in by one of the starters, not the first but fifth of the season. The first may have been by Steinberg, one of their biggest players, strongly built.
ii. gunn Principal Denise Herrman shooting the spirit section 6th Man/Girl
iii. I had never seen a shut-out in a quarter or first quarter especially of high school hoops, Gunn 25, Summit (ironic name) nadir
that’s funny that with all the action here i title it “boxing out” for 30 doing what I did best — the ball probably went in clean from wing
iv. 22 one of the brothers shooting from the wing — oh, yeah, either I said to myself or Matt “Naps” Passell commented post-game ”they passed well” — 30 and one other boxing out, 21 I think Gil looking for a piece and the other brother at top, might have initiated it — they all look kind of alike I have to say.
v. Sun the point guard got into foul trouble but otherwise the officials let the lads run, and no disrespect that I was fitting the reserve forward as a 6′ 2″ guard based on two good plays. I like the moxie of 12. Did I mention that the black reserve point I called “nifty” wore my old number #13? I was not nifty, I tried hard in practice.
edit to add, 18 days later: prophetically, Gunn is off to a 6-1 start and won the Prospect Tournament title, with Gil as MVP, and avenging the footballers losses to Prospect and Branham.
The Gunn boys wrapped up the Panther Invitational by capturing the tournament title on Friday night with a 65-53 victory over the host team in Saratoga. The Titans improved to 6-1 heading into the holiday break. Gunn junior Alex Gil, who scored 14 points, was named tournament Most Valuable Player after scoring 62 points in three victories. Teammates Chris Russell and David Lee-Heidenreich finished with 16 and 14 points, respectively.
posted by Ravi Shah, manager on Dec 19, 2014 at 10:24 pm
I think the coach is a former Paly player better known as Brandynn Williams. Reid of the News:
(Chris) Russell, whose range is around 28 feet from the basket, hit his final 3-pointer of the night. Two free throws by David Lee with 1:05 to play put the Titans up 11 points and into the tourney final. Russell finished with nine boards and three blocks, while Gil-Fernandez had four rebounds, two blocks and a pair of steals.
Later that day, the day I met the coach at Peets: Gunn coach is Brandyn Williams; there is or was a Travis Williams who was a kick return sensation for Vince Lombardi’s NFL football Packers, in 1967, I would doubt there is a relation.
edit to add, or ask: now why would the robot brain ai in WordPress suggest these three “Plastic Alto” titles or posts as follow up to this little ditty: a) “Happy Travels Patience Young” about a woman who retired recently from Cantor Museum and I met her and Jeannette Smith Laws at Windhoever and I tried not too hard to book either a Motown cover band or Big Bang Beat or Keta Bill solo for her going away party, and she’s a friend of Aleta Hayes, months ago i.e. during my campaign for council when I was like that Jim Carey movie and would say “yes” to everything, for karmic and kismetic purposes; b) Pass the Crisco which is about Stew my former client creator of “Passing Strange” but in this case I think I am previewing his newest cd, “Making it” I think it was called, about 2 years ago, a document that I lent to Beth Custer and it then disappeared into the aether, the title is an inside joke, a line cut from the workshop version of “Strange” and having something to do with stereotypes about men and anatomy, more than food; c) Remi Benson Serving Our Country is about a young woman I met in Birmingham, AL while on tour with Henry Butler in 2003 or so, and she has been in the military this whole time. At one time I thought Beth’s song “Home” should be re-title “Saving Remi Benson” and would become an anti-war anthem.
Dohatsuten might be the best restaurant in Palo Alto, dollar for dollar, noodle by noodle.
(Note: I wrote this exactly one month ago but re-reading it, it eludes even me. The basic story is that a barista at Peet’s in South Palo Alto who did not look particularly interested in Torah had four Hebrew characters tattooed on her arm and when I asked her about it she said it meant “Belonging to God” but when I checked her story, after the caffeine hit, against my cosmology or what I could find online I felt compelled to comment. Maybe I felt bad about invading her privacy or pissing on her view so I redacted the actual story and left this cryptic meandering. I had also a whiles back, before Plasty certainly, read about a guy trying to sue his tattooista because he asked for a certain phrase translated into Chinese characters and someone else told him it said a very weak paraphrase of such. Lamed {Adonai} might be “to God” the way “L-chaim” means “to life” but I am questioning why you would sound it out as “lamed yud yud” or “lamed yah weh” — and then the spell check or higher power suggest “yah web” for “yah weh” but that would make me like cutting edge or a prophet. Anyways, happy new year and infinity to the barista. There’s also a back story about the name Yahweh and Jehovah and the fact that my Hebrew school teacher said we do not say “G-d” and I think or always have that the “yud yud” is like making air quotes or the ” ” practice. And I apologize for fist time readers for the shaggy God style of all this; that’s so Popul Vuh)
Lah Med Yah Way means belonging to G
Or “Yud” “hey” “vav” “hey”
Gunn hoops tonite
2.bad plus at yoshis
Ok, I could conceivably pump myself so much up with coffee from Peet’s and five other places (!) such that driving to Oakland in time for the last of 4 sets by TBP would almost work. That would mean leaving Gunn hoops strictly at 9, after 7:30 start, even with score tied. Call back Box Office at (510) 238-9200 to make sure 500 people, plus my 35 WordPress followers, are not way ahead of me. I could sit in the lounge, eat sushi and watch on closed circuits. And then harass my dear old DTM friend EI disposes.
Not sure if I will go to hoops like I did for gridiron, but I will make it a point to learn the name of this #20
3.BSR comped me Jason Marsalis and i know he is at SF jazz
and Andrew Gilbert did have something in today’s daily but I will probably hold off on my normal Thursday practice of picking up both papers, and merely skim and and cp-this:
“Musicians today are not going to be comfortable with trad, but these guys had a certain respect for that style,” he says. “When I would call a trad tune like ‘Hindustan,'” a piece first recorded in 1918, “they enjoyed playing it. They don’t look down on it as an old style that doesn’t pertain to them.”
gilbert’s article fails to state that Jason Marsalis played drums in the John Ellis band, I managed
4. but saving energy for Rachel Garlin at Z Space Saturday
5.
Kris Kristofferson sings a song on John Mellancamp Stephen King “so many days” Ghost something, which is playing two shows only Friday and Saturday SHN in SF but I will miss; I did just walk past Kris Kristofferson’s grandson (and g-daughter, and d-in-law) five minutes ago
at Mitchell Library,6 which is having a fete Saturday 11 to 4 and we hope to see bruce beasley there
Terry and I met at Bruce Beasley studio winter 2009; I met Bruce in 2007 or 2008 on Cali Ave, with Paula Kirkeby; I perhaps foolishly suggested that Dartmouth alumni might subsidize a Beasley here and that Leon Black has a billion dollar art collection, which charmed Bruce enough to send me his catalog, which catalyzed, one could argue, my seven, yes seven (7) or (7!) campaigns for council or commissioner, and indirectly more than 300 articles on police
(and another 50 or more on sculpture or public art per se) here at Plasty
7.
There is a draft of something in my head only “Building a better Dart-mousetrap” about the old saw about catching mice and about Dartmouth trying to hard to be like Stanford or MIT.
Last night’s Dartmouth shindig, at The Palace, was the first time, in 30 years where the song the Alma Mater was canned and not performed by we Green. I suggest: going back to the old lyrics, the original lyrics, by Richard Hovey, but adding a fourth or fifth verse about co-education. Fifteen years into co-education at least women saw no real problem that “Men” in “Men of Dartmouth” was defined as either or. Heck, add a sixth or seventh verse about LGBTQ of Dartmouth, more the merrier; but let MIT be MIT and hours safely away.
8
Ben Riley SF lawyer, Dartmouth ’79 and singer-songwriter is he the same Dartmouth singer-songwriter, writing about miners or workers and or West Virginia that I DAM-well read about and shouted out to, already, at Plasty, and then met last night? I am guessing: yes. But will edita
9 Brazilian teacher and musica I met just then: http://faculty.ithaca.edu/jvgrossmann/ brazilian classical jorge
in a in a in a zajman paves zajdman paves, plus 10
13.
Tjhere is also a back0forth with a guy cooper who wrote about Paul J. Cohen I could paste in here. Where was I? Where is my mind?
(and not sure how I jumped from 10 to 13, no 11 or 12?
14.
Meanwhile if I haven’t or have or something in between talked about Steve and Eric Cohen as Hunter S. Thompson Twins; Leah Garchik of the SF Chron Brand Chron says “Sounds like a great act (but I won’t write about it)”.
(actually Andrew Gilbert wrote about Bad Plus in May of this year, here ok I think I found a 12 or 11 in that Laurie Albert the architect and Paula’s former assistant said that I missed something in the Times about Anderson at Stanford, this, and then I’m done, outa here and on my way to the gym, to watch, not play although I did walk thru and not work out at Palo Alto Ross Road YMCA today and made an appointment for a consult with Juana Navarro, whose been there 17 years)
Phil Hellmuth is not my fan, our relationship is imbalanced; he agrees that poker logic would help Palo Alto policy miasma (for instance, say “check” or “pass” rather than parroting back what the other three, four, or five others just said), but probably did not vote for me, he admitted privately. We coo. Congrats on Pittsburgh. (which reminds me of my friend who sent his daughter to Carnegie Mellon and I asked “did you see the Warhol museum” and he said yes he had seen the Museum of Military History”. I should fold.
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15. He’s not actually “lin-sane” but he may be a pathological liar”
Jeremy Lin Played Here sign controversy: just left a voice mail to powers-that be: If Jeremy Lin comes here and at a press conference explains how he got from Gunn to Paly and atones for it, or acknowledges it, that might work, or if he does something like that and gives, say, $100,000 to the Mitchell Center, that might work, but as it stands he is still divisive and controversial, especially in South Palo Alto. In the wake of the Grand Jury report which says we are corrupt, and our mumbled barely audible response, I don’t think we should tolerate little lies and half-truths. Little kids, especially little Asian kids who want to grow up to be just like Line should be fore-warned. A little like Lin is fine enough; and we already are.
If you’re friends of G, your friends if or of me.
edit to add, or 17:
Is she confusing this with Lamed Vav which is 36 or perhaps from Genesis about Sodom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzadikim_Nistarim
Gotta dig a wee bit deeper:
meanwhile, picked up or pulled a further list:
18.notes on one chapter of Ann Hagedorn’s “Invisible Soldiers” which I also discussed with Ms. Hastings, Lori of Palo Alto libraries:
condottieiri, Martin Van Creveld, PMSC, Swiss Initiative / Montreaux Document, Pentagon FMS Foreign Military Sales, Allison Stanger, War on Want, Campaign Against Artrade ? slash Amnesty International, “self”-“regulate” emphasis on self; Spicer, Aegis.
19.
Three Colors White Krzysztof Kieslowski dvd 1993
20.
Yiyun Li Kinder Than Solitude (I read as “kindred” and then I flashed to a guy next to me this morning at Peets reading Drier Hands Book or Driving Handbook and I also had something above about Kasznik and paydirt split as pay dirt), 2014 her fourth
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Spade and Archer by Joe Gore mainly for the list of other titles: (1993 — ok, that’s actually in front of Menaced Assassin, 1994, which I read as geography like Merced, I will still say “men ah said” three syllables just for effect, novels 7, DKA file novels 4, collection 1, anthologies 2, non-fiction Marine Salvage, screenplays 9, teleplays 3, 13 episodic tv including Kojack, actually I grabbed Spade And Archer I already own for the new reading of the prologue aphorism, attributed to Fitzgerald: The victor belongs to the spoils. That should be a header.
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The Hemingses of Montecello: An American Family by Annette Gordon -Reed,teaches law at NYU and history at Rutgers. From Dartmouth, formerly or is a trustee, to our credit. 2008
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Village: A History of Greenwich John Strausbaugh 2013 Dave Von Ronk, six cites
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The Gateway Arch, Tracy Campbell because of my Cody Sanderson shout above and my unfinished Stanford BSU w. Ferguson, 2013
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Britannica American Indians of California, The Great Basin and The Southwest, 2012 130 p.p no mention of Curtis or Nampeyo
Now back to number all of above; if it reaches 36 I will be chauked
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Sopranos riff:
only 15 seconds why not
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not to be confused nor played simultaneously with from Dreamworks Egypt film, “Ashiri L’Adonai” which to me is a closer translation to what she was trying to say, in ink, on her arm:
Otto & Lucy Slater were my neighbors more than 20 years, on Byrd Lane where the Weisses arrived in 1974 but the Slaters had pioneered circa 1960.
I snapped and then had printed this scene of Lucy with either Jed or Sam around 1988. Pucci the one staring directly out into the future cyber space was not long for this planet: she fell into the pool later that summer. I miss them all.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 