Marty Ivener the founder of Marty’s Restaurant in San Jose and Annette Ivener’s ex-husband — Annette Sunshine? — not bad for AARP-age speaking of delicacies and sweets — said that at his house they eat desert first. This makes me recall. She was living at Santana Row and Palm Desert or Dessert as the cake may be. Here is link to LadyM.
They are on East 78th in New York or West 3rd Street in L.A. although I don’t know what that means. If they actually have a Thiebaud on the wall or poster even, the way MacArthur Park had some real David Gilhooly’s I will eat a $75 cake to celebrate order in. Maybe I can send The Flying Cohen Brothers also known as Steve and Eric Cohen or Steve Cohen and Eric Cohen to investigate. Belated 50th birthday present me to them: all you can eat at Lady M in L.A. but they have to read this and inquire first. Offer expires 3/16/16
I am such a nostalgic little momma’s boy but when I was 5 or 6 the phone rang and it was Annette for my mother and I left a note: Anet. Mom thought it was good try!
2. Carrying on, to make this more like a post and less of a joke, Terry and I saw a Wayne Thiebaud show at San Jose Museum in 2010.
thiebaud baker case shown in san jose in 2010 but whipped up in 1996
Seventy years of anything is both not enough and too much.It is of Ian.
Kudos to the young filmmakers who parodied the Pharell monster hit “Happy” as a type of ex parte Dartmouth recruiting film. I am actually trying to suss out the film they showed in 2011 at my 25 that featured a diverse group of students talking about THEIR Dartmouth and about six minutes in they all, in a succession of quick cuts add “and I sing”, “and I sing” “and I sing” and it is revealed that the link to them all, beyond their and my Alma Mater is that they are members of various singing and a cappella groups, Aires et al. (I am guessing their are five or six).
How about an all-Israeli a cappella group at Dartmouth? Or one comprised strictly of people who touched pay dirt on the gridiron either there or during their prep years? (Stanford has for instance an All-Indian meaning Hindu a capella group).
We’ve come a long way from this circa 1984 Hums Kappa Sig chestnut, a Sting parody:
There’s a little white spot on my sheets today/
It’s a different spot from yesterday.
To be honest, I was thinking about doing a parody of Taylor Swift “Shake it Off” to deal with my not being seated either to Palo Alto City Council or ARB, and all the grief I took, the flak. (Haters gonna hate hate hate but I will shake it off, etc.)
Maybe I can hire these guys to do it. (Also: Ed Lee “Too Legit” especially the Marissa Mayer booty-shake, not bad; she, of all people, does not have to work that hard).
caveat or disclaimer: I have not actually seen the actual video but know the song; actually Terry, my Terry, Terry Acebo Davis the artist and arts commissioner emeritus, and I first “got” the song driving home from LA-LA near her July 9 birthday fest and adventure.
I got the Orozco Murals part. That’s 1.
And there are less than 109, surely.
But for yucks, and without going to the directors themselves, I’d like to identify 50 or so scenes. Some of them are new since 1986 or I cannot get.
X-Delta by Mark Disuvero. North-east corner of Green, near English department library.
(Experts of course, would name the kids. I would say this guy is in league to be next — what’s the Broadway guy from my class, David Foster?)
Gordie Quist
Austin Keith Willacy
Michael O from Sing Off
edot to off: ok, I am both way ahead of this and hopelessly and cluelessly lagging, but the Dartmouth Happy video is indeed a shot by shot derivative of the video per se and not an interpretation of the song, but in today’s age that might be just as valid. Personally and again I knew (and managed) Stew before “Passing Strange” and booked Pat Monahan of Train at 50,000 not 50 million units sold, so I am picky, I would cover the song not just lip-synch and would loosely reference the variety of people places and situations but not ape it, so to speak. Not sure who are the collary of the Magic Johnson and Steve Carrell cameos. Or what else did I miss? If it was an official video I guess we could get Jay Fiedler or Brad Ausmus and Mindy Kaling? Hey, Mindy should do her own version and be Pharell, not that she needs me for ideas. And yeah I am the only person who saw Nathan Ford throw a pick off attempt into center field and saw Matt and Ben off Broadway.
But this is great. Top Marks. Samsom Occum drinks to you,lads!
Like any honest fellow, I like my whiskey clear….
edit:
who knows ten? I know ten: shot ten is the new library the narrator guy is doing a Pharell move while walking thru the library, the LEDs spell out “earth science”, at :42.
I argued in my application for the ARB that architects per se were over-represented on the board and engage in a lot of log-rolling. I guess they listened to me and appointed someone is who is studying to be an architect, Kyu -Young Kim, Paly class of 2003.
Young Master Kim also apparently, and this is news to me as of 2 minutes ago, applied for PATC in 2012, the seat Carl King took. Sayeth he:
If appointed, I would specifically like to see the commission change and evolve for the better of the city’s future in a way that is actively productive. While Palo Alto is a historic city and the past and present civil servants have done their best to bring us where we are, I believe the city needs to continue to adopt ways of setting itself up to prosper and succeed in being a place our residents are proud to call home, as the birthplace of the Silicon Valley.
Though some might wish for Palo Alto to stay only as populated as it is (or even was), it is inevitable that our City will continue to grow. We must make the best recommendations to the Council to not only prosper in growth, but so that even as we’re growing, we’re always staying one step ahead.
edit to add: For comparison sake, Robert Gooyer was a San Mateo planning commissioner and licensed since 1980 in California as an AIA architect (i.e. for 30 + years) at the time of his appoint to the same board; Kyu-Young also applied for that seat; this appointment is his third attempt. 3rd time da charm, bras!
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Currently serving as a kindergarten teacher at New Community Baptist Church in addition to being a small group leader and facilities rental coordinator.
(I guess age is relative; actually this is making me flash to the Adam Johnson story about precocious Palo Altans).
outro, Palo Alto’s teenage sensation Ragady Anne, en route to becoming The Donnas:
coda: more from the file:
What is it about the Architectural Review Board that interests you? What qualities, experience and expertise would you bring to the Architectural Review Board?
I am a young and competent Architectural professional with a high level of enthusiasm for my city and Architecture.
I’ve traveled around the world and will lower the average age of the board members. I am also a long-time resident of Palo Alto and have grown up here. (He says above this that after graduating with a b.a. from SLO and being “en route” to becoming an actual architect he had visited Paris, Seoul and New York).
Yikes: As I continue to work thru the Kyu-Young Kim file and update this post, my anticipation that attempt #4 for board or commission would be a break thru falls flat, like a house of cards, in that for attempt 4, his third waving of the bat I have to say more like Tim Lincecum at plate than Tony Gwynn, he turns in barely 10 lines and 200 words, to my 2,000 or so. Check it.
I’m confused: was their a secret bathing suit segment of the competition only open to the Millenials in this packet — YaKaterina “Kate” Vershov-Downing, Adrian Fine, and Kyu-Young Kim – that I was not privy to? Also, I do feel it is odd that so many of the ballots came back identical, in groups of 3, 4 and 5. Looks like a possible Brown Act violation to me, I wrote to Clerks office and City Attorney today, especially in the wake of the Grand Jury saying we did this – serial meetings — before.
Bottom line: short honeymoon for The Residentialists.
outro2 and really these guys and gals look more like someone at SXSW for the first time than helping We The People vet the billion dollar real estate industry here. Stinky puffs
And more:
After we got married, my wife was offered an internship at the United Nations office for UNICEF and I successfully found an internship opportunity working on a Park Avenue penthouse apartment for a big name New Yorker.
Q (this segment brought by the letter ‘q’):
How big, your big name New Yorker? Big enough to influence us little farm kids?
And: Here he says “I followed my wife to New York” and “My wife got a job in Paris so I followed her there” — sounds like we should have seated the wife!
It is a mere surmise, sir, that this guy is not remotely qualified for Leadership in Palo Alto
Do note that the person that Gennady Sheyner copiously 10 times refers to as “Kate Downing” or “Downing” is also and perhaps more commonly known as either Yekaterina S Vershov (at the State of California Bar for instance) or Yekaterina Vershov Downing in her application and by the Clerk of Palo Alto yesterday.
She was also, research shows, a summer associate for Fenwick and West a prestigious law firm, for two months in 2009, here before landing at VMWare I mean ServiceNow.
Not to be snide but I am saying that Vershov Downing the lawyer PATC and Kyu Young Kim the architect in training at ARB are not Mark Michael and Robert Gooyer; being unqualified is not diversity, please.
ok, ok, an encore (but this does need a wee bit of editing, especially if I sent it on to Council per se): Ms. Ballentyne or Ballentine the seated ARB person, I crossed off, in my head, for two reasons: 1) despite the diversity of her skill-sets and I think I can recall finding her somewhat pleasing to listen to, that she is a Realtor is for me a strike against; 2) further in her packet she offers 385 Sherman as an exemplary project. Huh? This is creating havoc in the neighborhood; myself, in sympathy and numerous others panned it; you have a fully leased building and you want to knock it down and replace it with a bigger building, just to make bank, damn the torpedoes and neighbors? And she calls that “harmony”? To wit:
As an advocate for contextual harmony, I cannot help but be attracted to the project at 385 Sherman Ave. near Sarah Wallis Park that came before the board in August.
It illustrates well how perceptions regarding development trends coupled with ARB design review effectiveness have polarized the community. One only has to look to a few of the online comments to get a sense of the passion ignited by the complicated issue of context. That the ARB voted 3/2 to approve it, is further evidence that even given a couple design cycles, ARB architects still wrestled with it’s scale/ramifications/contextual harmony.
May we live in interesting times.
Makes me want to finally read Oakley Hall “Warlock”. Cue Oakley Hall, the Merge band
and as i read this to a trusted friend and advisor the next a.m, i am adding a Oakley hall track as third musical needle drop:
I had Manila and she had Lanzhou. Dad was having C3-C6 surgery from a “Dr. M” just “Dr. M” at UCSF and we walked down the street to have some noodles in a big abundant bowl, at Pomelo, which I found initially when Tim and Lydia lived nearby, before Sydney and Jake, and the East Bay. It was very sunny, an auspice.
I think of the internet and by extension Plastic Alto as a business tool, rather strictly, but could not help but shout to Moms in this visual format. (following from plug to Avenidas capital campaign post, perhaps)
I will tag this “SF MOMA” rather than “uncategorized”.
I look very tired. We stayed at The Saint Francis. Mom got lost trying to find her way from her room to mine, and ended up knocking on my door, one of the earliest examples of her dementia. This is nearly six years ago.
Hi Ron Greene: I follow your blog because you once wrote about Downtown Streets team of San Rafael and I was tracking that here in Palo Alto; oddly I stole a page from your play book in that I have covered nine straight Gunn of Palo Alto football games, as a writer and bad cellphone photog, for my wordpress blog Plastic Alto; I am also influenced by “When The Game Stood Tall” book by Neal Hayes movie by Laura Dern et al. And I use “took a knee like Chris Ryan” as a metaphor even though he does not exist; he is Hollywood’s white saintly version of Maurice Jones-Drew if you excuse the plot-spoiler. Drew meanwhile has a cameo as the Ghost of Touchdowns Past.
My jazz treatise stands at 24,776 words.
I bought the book on Thelonious Monk by Robin D.G. Kelley because it mentions Danny Scher and the concert he presented on October 27, 1968; she has his yearbook, the Madrono as a cite.
I mean to ring Danny on this account.
I think and this is the next day — god love it, thank you, for the extra two days and counting of this — music being a sophisticated form of counting — that I did actually just push thru the 25,000 word count for my epic, what’s it called again “Jazzscribe contrafacts” — interro, interro — my leaving this or approximately this on Danny’s pseudo-office voice mail:
Hi, Dan. Danny. It’s Mark Weiss. From Earth-wise Productions and Artist Management, in Palo Alto and this is just to say that I just yesterday or Monday procured a copy of Robin D. G. Kelley’s book on Thelonious (although I pronounced it “thelonius”) Monk, very specifically because you are mentioned in the index, and four citations, one, for your yearbook, one the flyer and two for an interview I guess she — I presume it’s a she, Robin could be a “he” — did with you. You had told me the anecdote, about Monk playing at Paly and in fact I had seen the link on line but now I own the book. It sold another copy. But bottom line is
(then I jumped up, bought a chocolate milk Horizon Organic, here at Peets, paid cash, dude named Brendan with “juanita” on his neck, which made me suss a minute of Lowell George Little Feat Fat Man in the Bathtub, with the blues, you moan, all dat and back to)
I wrote twenty five thousand words about the history of jazz in Palo Alto. I have this construct I refer to WOGS it stands for Wong, Olaine Gioia and Scher. I want to produce a panel discussion for Palo Alto History Association and I would have — I wrote this in residence, like an intern, at PAHA, going thru their files — you, Herb Wong, Jason Olaine and Ted Gioia come speak — of course Herb Wong has moved on to further-fetched venues, uh, he passed away, I wrote this about a year ago. Anyways i know you are a very busy man but if you get a chance to ring me back six five oh three of five et cetera.
so that’s exactly 400 words putting the whole thing to like 25,000 and two hundred. Yesterday and apropos of Monk Scher Kelley I fact-checked or was really just searching for place and realized I had written thelonius and went back in there to fix that and worried that it would oddly re-format, it does that. Not sure why. Of course the 25,000 words includes entire sections that repeat, like in a jazz score, maybe or so sez me; it’s probably closer to 10,000 and that doesn’t even include any actual research, besides the clips and my own memories. Also, I am trying to identify 500 Palo Alto jazz memes, people, places venues, things, events, and so far I have I think about 250. Somewhere I say “Helen Sung is a Palo Altan by marriage although it’s actually her cousin Juliet Lee sister of Yu-Jean Lee the artist that is married to Andres Fajardo of Palo Alto they live in Philly now with two kids, they call chi-lombicans”. Makes me want to go back and check.
I wrote song for sung and fixed that. Weird stuff this.sun ra at 100. sun ra C?
I noticed that the New York Times, on my stupid smart phone none the less, made mention of Taylor Swift “1989” selling 1.3 M in the first week, and then stopping at the Starbucks on Alameda de Las Pulgas in Menlo Park to check my email on my laptop — after sneaking away to see the Bill Murray as saintly Viet Nam Vet but not quite a Jonathan Lethem story Melfi movie “St. Vincent” not the singer who hangs with David Byrne and not the scene from “Inside Llewyn Davis” but not far from it, especially the closing credits coda synch license of Bob Dylan “Shelter from the Storm” — and bought the cd, for $12.95, tax deductible, especially if this Curtis McMurtry Rachel Garlin at Stern Ballroom actually happens.
This debate has taken center stage in the industry thanks to the decision by Taylor Swift to remove her entire catalog from Spotify. Calling streaming outlets like it “a grand experiment,” Ms. Swift told Yahoo in an interview last week: “I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists and creators of this music.”
“Shake it Off” track number six is closing on 300 million youtube plays:
Two hundred ninety Amazon reviews
2.
A hard copy of the Chron meanwhile left at Peet’s has an Amoeba ad featuring Primus new studio cd, first in “nearly 20 years” “Primus & The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble”
even in that context when they say “Charlie” song title I think Charlie Hunter not Charlie and The Chocolate Factory Willie Wonka and I know I’m not alone.
Reminds that Ann Hagedorn — and by the way I read four whole pages today of her “Savage Years” about 1919 with Woodrow Wilson on the cover the part about Einstein and Eddelman I think the Brit looking at the Solar Eclipse — says that in writing books the chapter titles become key; I took a picture of her digits the old school kind pointing at her title page in the Iraq contractors book. Worst or most subtle preview here, third attempt.
(see also: Jessica Hagedorn the Asian culture critic “Charlie Chan is Dead” and Fred Hargadon the former dean of admissions at Stanford; see also Dao Strom versus Elizabeth Strout is it? Shelfmates for life).
edit to add or subtract: fact-checking yields the sad fact that Fred Hargadon who was dean of admissions for Stanford and then Princeton for 15 years EACH passed away early this year, at age 80 leaving two sons, Steve and Andy — the center on our 25-3 1981 Gunn Titans hoopsters and something not sure what of a Dartmouth guy — and five grandkids. I profiled him for the Gunn Oracle in 1981. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S38/99/07K19/index.xml?section=topstories
I gotta be the only person who knows now both Ann Hagedorn (it means “Hawthorne” like in the scarlet letter and yes she was wearing red when we met) and Andy Hargadon; Terry my Terry the artist and arts commissioner Terry Acebo Davis knows the Japanese American Jessica Hagedorn by marriage. This drifted from somewhere previous, none too swiftly. So Charlie Chan is dead and so is Dean Fred. When he passed thru the pearly gates a chant went up: we got in!
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Rowing Coach, Dartmouth College (1986-87)
Freshman coach of Dartmouth College Rowing Team—placed 3rd in Nationals. that’s Andy Hargadon not Taylor swift-boating, of course or off course as the case may be
Eoanthrophus will triumph finally over Homo sapiens
Mencken, 1926
Horse-man
Weiss, 1984 & 2014
According to a notebook I dug out of storage yesterday which would be also known as November 10, 2014, these are the classes I took towards fulfillment of my English major at Dartmouth:
English 5
English 9
English 23
English 52
English 40
English 42
English 41
English 15
English 54
English 66
English 75
English 18
I think the first six are more accurate than the second six. Partly this was a long of my record, and partly advance planning.
English 5: Professor Loomis, introductory, about half the freshman took this; if you got below 550 on SAT you took English 3 Remedial; we read “Paradise Lost”; in Animal House Don Sutherland teaches this and writes SAT and AN. Then bites an apple.
English 9 – must be Freshman seminar, with David Shapiro, on Marlowe. Mary Morgan (Finegan) I ran into in the lobby of freshman office and her comment about Marlowe convinced me to switch from my intended — about Untouchables of India, which I now think of as dalit – to this. I did exceptionally well; my professor presented one of my ideas at a conference. I don’t think I kept to that standard as I continued reading, sadly.
English 23 Sophomore fall no clue.
English 52 sophomore spring no clue.
Summer of 1984, sophomore summer, my sixth quarter and fifth and sixth courses I took interweaved American poetry and American prose, with Horace Porter, James Melville Cox and drama. Eng 40 and Engl 42
Junior Fall, 84F, it says English 41.
Junior winter I worked on the Dartmouth full-time, as Literary Director. Our Editor in Chief, Karen Jay Garnett took a leave term to work on Governor Clinton’s staff so I did most of the reporter training and assignment, very nearly like Editor and Chief yet not. I remember assigning Rob Fields ’85 to go out to Cornish and interview Louise Erdrich, unless that was the previous summer.
English 66
English 75
one of these might be Chauncey Loomis, senior fall seminar on Faulkner, I did quite poorly. The other might be Tom Sleigh on poetry reading, I did so-so.
I think English 18 was one of those quasi-mandatory course on the history of the language per se. the teacher, a female, rara avis that, made a little joke about lexicon and semantics: the lexicons sat near the back, the semantics up front.
Other teachers not quite matching to my grid: Donald Pease, Lou Renza. Saccio — Shakespeare. I don’t think I took Noel Perrin but was riffing on something he wrote “Giving up the Gun” not sure what my parody — this is just last week — was to be. Obscure reference either way.
Barbara Dimmick was not my teacher but I briefly befriended on a campus visit and escorted her, courtesy of Athletic Director Josie Harper to a hockey game in which #10 Dartmouth upset #1 Boston College, 4-3 as we gabbed about books. Something about horses, and wood-working.
I spoke to Eugene F. “Buddy” Teevans this morning and got quite a kick out of it. Five pound weight in the jock, inside joke inside joke. I said the shibboleth greeting from our generation — his ’77 to my ’86 and he had a sister Moira I studied with, ’87 — and he said “Love it!” but did not repeat the offending chant.
When I met the author, investigative reporter and former San Jose Mercury police reporter Ann Hagedorn yesterday at Coupa Cafe on Ramona she asked me why I was toting a pocket version of H.L. Mencken “Prejudices” the one with the Paul Rand cover and I showed her some markings from that era. Oh that I had time to actually re-read all this; David Shields said that the act of remembering is a type of composition and as such, a fiction.
I ran into the developer John McNellis at Peets then walked him back to his office and thereby was afraid to drink my coffee for fear that someone had tampered with it, talk about paranoid. Well Andy Grove said you have to be a little paranoid to survive here.
Notes:
1. I miss-spelled Dimmick earlier but so did ABE books. Her book gave birth to the horsey theme here.
2. Ann Hagadorn signed my copy of “the Invisible Soliders”: To Mark, The or True cafe genius! Great to meet you! Ann Hagedorn 11/10/14; I also bought her 1919 book;
3. Titi Rosenbloom wife of my neighbor the commissioner and MIT Harvard double Eric Rosenbloom in walk in to Oren’s at 11:11 on 11/11. Daughter in tow. Veteran’s Day school holiday perhaps. I said “hag sameah” or “hag sameach” and she replied, tho jewish or jewess “Happy Veterans Day”. But not for Buddy.
4. about 100 words ago, around 650 to the current 750, i thought about not writing more but adding more links as a composition. I thought about sending the link to the wordpress blog Plastic Alto to both Hagedorn and Dimmick. adding links is a type of composing.
5. This is out of bounds slightly but somewhere in my archives I have a file on rock band Third Eye Blind or 3EB and when they played the Cub in Feb 1995 they left behind in the green room a set list that include “semi-charmed” but what makes it nearly relevant is that the verso had an ink drawing of a horse. By Steven? By Kevin? By Ariel? I wonder.
6. Yesterday at Coupa before I met Ann I was chatting with an Argentinian who said he is a Columbia ’90 or so and has an uncle who is a 10-rated Polo player. In Polo, or so I recently caught whiff of, most players are ranked between minus-2 and 0 and world class players can go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and sometimes 10.
7. For the record, if that’s what you call this, I am eating a chicken schnitzel at Oren’s and using their wireless, pass word abuhassan or I am using the wireless and eating schnitzel.
8. Beyond the two Hagadorn, I also from FOL bought for $2 The Irony Tower by Andrew Solomon about Soviet artists in time of glasnost as compared to McPhee from a decade or so earlier. I left two stacks of other titles I wanted but had to show even the smallest amount of discipline. I took photos. I also bought the Robin Kelley book on Monk which I had only sussed online because it mentions Danny Scher, excuse to ring him.
9. Not sure I can finish both schnitzel-pieces but don’t want to schlep it around all day either. Hard to people-watch over the cheaters; digging the soundtrack, jazzy lounge or loungy jazz;
10. should I mention here Curtis McMurtry may do a show in Palo Alto via Earthwise 11/21/14 maybe at Stern Ballroom Palo Alto. A Texan at least, if that connotes horses. Murray Bowden. Gordie Quist.
11. Not sure where this fits, here or above, but of course in the Shakespeare class with Saccio and TK, we would have glossed the famous “My kingdom of a horse”, a history. Richard?
12. Not sure if Greg Brown drew horses — Lockhart drew fowls — as did, famously Oliveira — but he had a lot of critters; this fits here only with the Weissian scrawl
Ann Hagadorn, shown here at Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto, in red, she and the room, has written an important book about privatization of the military in U.S.
1. the first part; Or, The Pledge
THE director of the Secret Service has resigned after, among other problems, the revelation that, in a visit to Atlanta on Sept. 16, President Obama rode in an elevator with a private security contractor who was carrying a gun and had an arrest record. The episode raises a crucial question: How thoroughly does the government vet the private security contractors that an increasing number of agencies employ?
That is Ann Hagedorn’s lead in a recent NYT op-ed.
She has a book out about the topic, outsourcing or privatizing our military.
She was once a police reporter for the San Jose Mercury, when it was Knight Ridder and respectable, and covered the East Bay. (She says, in an exclusive Plastic Alto interview conducted today at Coupa that she recalls Randy the Japanese cop reporter for PTT when I was an intern there, in 1984, Higara? Higashi? Anyhoo, he said he hated journalism and I should try to do something else, over beer).
She is speaking tonight in ten minutes for an hour at Books Inc.
This could change your life, our country, nothing else ever does.
2. the second part; Or, The Turn
When I met the author, investigative reporter and former San Jose Mercury police reporter Ann Hagedorn yesterday at Coupa Cafe on Ramona she asked me why I was toting a pocket version of H.L. Mencken “Prejudices” the one with the Paul Rand cover and I showed her some markings from that era. Oh that I had time to actually re-read all this; David Shields said that the act of remembering is a type of composition and as such, a fiction.
I ran into the developer John McNellis at Peets then walked him back to his office and thereby was afraid to drink my coffee for fear that someone had tampered with it, talk about paranoid. Well Andy Grove said you have to be a little paranoid to survive here.
Notes:
1. I miss-spelled Dimmick earlier but so did ABE books. Her book gave birth to the horsey theme here.
2. Ann Hagadorn signed my copy of “the Invisible Soliders”: To Mark, The or True cafe genius! Great to meet you! Ann Hagedorn 11/10/14; I also bought her 1919 book;
3. Titi Rosenblum wife of my neighbor the commissioner and MIT Harvard double Eric Rosenblum in walk in to Oren’s at 11:11 on 11/11. Daughter in tow. Veteran’s Day school holiday perhaps. I said “hag sameah” or “hag sameach” and she replied, tho jewish or jewess “Happy Veterans Day”. But not for Buddy.
4. about 100 words ago, around 650 to the current 750, i thought about not writing more but adding more links as a composition. I thought about sending the link to the wordpress blog Plastic Alto to both Hagedorn and Dimmick. adding links is a type of composing.
5. This is out of bounds slightly but somewhere in my archives I have a file on rock band Third Eye Blind or 3EB and when they played the Cub in Feb 1995 they left behind in the green room a set list that include “semi-charmed” but what makes it nearly relevant is that the verso had an ink drawing of a horse. By Steven? By Kevin? By Ariel? I wonder.
6. Yesterday at Coupa before I met Ann I was chatting with an Argentinian who said he is a Columbia ’90 or so and has an uncle who is a 10-rated Polo player. In Polo, or so I recently caught whiff of, most players are ranked between minus-2 and 0 and world class players can go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and sometimes 10.
7. For the record, if that’s what you call this, I am eating a chicken schnitzel at Oren’s and using their wireless, pass word abuhassan or I am using the wireless and eating schnitzel.
8. Beyond the two Hagadorn, I also from FOL bought for $2 The Irony Tower by Andrew Solomon about Soviet artists in time of glasnost as compared to McPhee from a decade or so earlier. I left two stacks of other titles I wanted but had to show even the smallest amount of discipline. I took photos. I also bought the Robin D.G. Kelley book on Monk which I had only sussed online because it mentions Danny Scher, excuse to ring him.
3. the third part, or The Prestige
Voila; Or, Here I am Read Me; Ann, 2014:08
Reminds that Ann Hagedorn — and by the way I read four whole pages today of her “Savage Years” about 1919 with Woodrow Wilson on the cover the part about Einstein and Eddelman I think the Brit looking at the Solar Eclipse — says that in writing books the chapter titles become key; I took a picture of her digits the old school kind pointing at her title page in the Iraq contractors book. Worst or most subtle preview here, third attempt.
(see also: Jessica Hagedorn the Asian culture critic “Charlie Chan is Dead” and Fred Hargadon the former dean of admissions at Stanford; see also Dao Strom versus Elizabeth Strout is it? Shelfmates for life).
4. the fourth part or tail coda
There is a subtle horse theme trotting across these 888 words, in Ann Hagedorn works pages and projected subset or pseudo reality. Worked for me. Works. Collected. Or scattered. For kicks. Why I cry?
Tail tolled by an idot signifying not thing. Oxbow, Oxford, Ox tail.
Is it a little ironic if you hire a sub-contractor to re-read your collected works and propose a new package?
As a final warning, as Tony Perry of the Los Angeles Times in his review recently in August notes, Hagedorn delves into the evolving relationship between the private firms and the drones that are a favorite way of waging war for the U.S. administration. “Once again,” she/he writes, “the private military and security contractors were entering and locking into markets faster than safeguards and oversight could be established.” Or as Eugene says: I’m not the only crook in the crowd, or I said. Tricky.
Bruce Lee say if you concentrate on finger you miss heavenly glory; Ann say in a book format chapter heads are key, tricks of the dig it all age
I will redact this if needs be,
but my friend and sister in hoops Rachel Garlin reports that the Keith Haring show “The Political Line” at the DeYoung, Saturday thru February 16, 2015 rocks.
She should know because she is a rocker, or at least a new folk, hard folk not quite a folk-punk but rather spunky. In fact Rachel Garlin the former Berkeley High and Harvard ladies basketballstalwart, has a new song about Keith Haring –although to me it sounds maybe a wee bit to much like Natalie Merchant “Hey Jack Kerouac”.
Rachel went to the opening gala and met Julian Cox (he insists he does not follow soccer but played rugby and or has probably never met or read Alan Black, alack) and then Rennee in outreach (Rennee B, as compared to KFOG’s Renee R). Rachel wants to play her new song about Haring at “the Political Line” and maybe some of the publishing to the museum and or the Estate.
Good on Rachel.
Baker of BrandChron cooks up a tale of Haring as not a post-Pop graffito gone mainstream but “as a sort of editorial cartoonist of American culture as he encountered it” which is, come to think of it, or think to come of it, what I am trying to do here at Plastic altlandia.
weird possible seque to When the Game Stands Tall: they made Maurice Jones Drew in the book and real life into a white guy named Chris Ryan.
weirder folk from previous post: I actually did throw out my back
schlepping the up to 99 things I meant to write about or at least count – I am so Jewish — Saturday. Today more sensibly and humbled and brought down a rung or two I carry more like five: Neil Hayes, Shields and Salerno on Salinger, which I’ve already plugged to a Columbia ’93 who works at Microsoft in joint ventures or something and is nephew to a Handicap 10 i.e. world class Argentinian polo player I believe him — I said my three favorite Columbians are Ginsberg, Bill Campbell and Matt Gonzalez;
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 