Kudos to Stanford grad Erin Woo for injecting a bit of hard truth into her obit of John Arrillaga. Like, as I noticed, he is not listed on the NBA all time roster He lived in Portola Valley not Palo Alto; he was known for two big fails in recent years. It was reported that his 2006 cash out was a sovereign wealth fund — she says Deutschebank Great man, flaws like San Andreas.
Ring of bone v hall of fame
I was at the Paly gym last night and I took another look at the set of oil paintings, on board, by Mr Kerr. Actually there are now a couple murals by his daughter, maybe frescoes.
There were three or four of track and field, men and women. Spanning several generations.
I am interested in seeing either at that wall or by the same artist or by a similar technique and production value Lew Welch. He was a track champion but better known as a Beat poet. He was the step father of the famous musician Huey Lewis. That’s a stage name and references Lew Welch of Palo Alto and Marin.
Ring of bone might be his most famous work. The sound of a bone. When you strike it. Or it is struck.
Speaking of span, I met TJ Martin, Cubberley ’80 but also Paly ’80. He played for Paly, and we were watching his son Jackson Martin #3 play. I think Jackson took the long miss to end the third quarter, where B_ and I left. Paly was up 40-20 and finished up 22. 53-21 or so. Jackson’s grandfather I believe was assistant superintendent of schools here at PAUSD – -I am the beneficiary of his hard work. Martin was mentioned previous but by last name only – he is an honorable mention in the Cubberley Hoops hall of fame. He played with Lockhart and Tim Ruff. Plus my teammate John Ehrlich and Jerry Chang. Paly was 1-3 vs Gunn in Martin’s time there in Gunn’s 22-5 season, Paly beat Gunn at Paly — the old gym, the pit — a buzzer beater by Marc Ford, Henry Ford, Henry and Rochelle’s son. So the father never played on the new gym but the son never played in the classic pit. I wonder how many father-son combos have played hoops for Paly , or any Palo Alto double like that? (Matt Passell and Josh Passell). In the essay or oral history by David Meltzer Welch says that his mother was the last of a tremendous issue. I will edita his exact wording. Issue meaning how many brothers and sisters.
He says he was good at a game of tag. That’s how he busted his novice, socially. He said there was a teacher named Robert Rideout in seventh grade that also suggested that if he likes one book to try another book by the same author. So he played football and track. Good at tag meaning no one could catch him.
It was his seventh grade teacher, Robert Rideout, who stimulated his interest in reading. Attended junior high school and high school in Palo Alto, …
he ran the 400 in 49.7. What was Bill Green’s time? Class of 1944. He died in 1970 or so. In his forties. It says Green ran the 100 yards in 9.56 still a CCS record – -they switched to meters. He switched to middle distance. He also died young.
I buy three newspapers most mornings at Mac’s for seven bucks and leave a buck in sales tax. When we built the new Mitchell Park library we spent $250,000 of the $25m budget on art: the Beasley arch, a laser cut tree, the owl bollards. The library that is open only slightly more than our system wide rate of 27 percent of the time 97 of 350 possible hours
So if we are going to discuss a business tax, why not go where the money is: venture capital.
Why not tax a tenth of a percent $1 per thousand?
There’s $300b nationwide up from $160 the previous year. One billion of that lands in Palo Alto. Another billion starts here. The trades track this stuff. Subscribe to SV Business Journal.
It says $8m is for ArmorCode security software. They’d probably enjoy knowing thar due to their ingenuity we kept The Mitch open a couple extra hours per week.
We could have an extra $100m per year for we the people hosting the trillions of wealth ”created” here.
2100 Geng Road in the Baylands
ArmorCode was founded in July 2020 by CEO Nikhil Gupta — the former VMware and Cisco executive most known for founding Avid Secure, an AI-powered enterprise cloud security posture management company acquired by Sophos — and seasoned CTO Anant Misra to help companies take charge of increasingly-complicated application security environments. According to Gartner, application security is one of the top three fastest-growing segments within cybersecurity.
Did he already build this gym, the “well-ness center” two-levels — maybe figurative and literal levels.
Is the gym actually his famous residence, his fortress in the hills, next to Foothill Park?
His Xanadu, him Kubla Khan, his “pleasure dome decree” — its a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, that is also quoted in “Citizen Kane” — by the way, has anyone checked for a clue somewhere on Palo Alto’s Coleridge: “YES”.
Maybe this is John Arrillaga’s visionary way of announcing that he is gifting us little people his house!
There is precedent in the whole Grand Jury Report, 7.7 acres of hidden parkland revealed to us. It wasn’t his and then he gave it to us; it was ours, we didn’t know about it, and he was being very sneaky about finally, six years and two renewal terms after normal people would have cleared this up, he tried to secretly buy it from us at a discount — in a exchange for “giving us” — if us, We the People, and Stanford, a $35b endowment with another $18b in groundleases is us — an office tower. An office tower with a theatre. Literally, “a” theatre. For Theatreworks. (Although few people know this but the day it hit the papers I left John Arrillaga a voice mail suggesting that if that didn’t work out he could from Chop Keenen buy The Varsity for Theatreworks and other uses – -like live music. Little did I know that he was way ahead of me, because Amy French of City staff, a former backup singer for Fee Waybill, had suggested Arrillaga add the theatre to the office tower because of my advocacy for enforcing the reversion clause in Borders’ controversial lease, according to a paper by a budding developer at GSB.
So maybe John Arrillaga is not a hardass, he’s a trickster with literary allusion and sense of panache. And really bad PR people.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
On other hand, some reports say Arrillaga does not live in Palo Alto, he lives in Portola Valley. Also, to Ed Shikada: Cubberley has three gyms. Not “two small gyms and a pavillion”. I had suggested earlier in this saga that rather than spending $20m of our money we just change the name of the Cubberley main gym – -where Peterson with Chuckie Wright Mel Cosby and Ben Bennett nipped Cubberley with Lockhart, Violante, Rosenberg, Ruff and Snyder 66-65 in triple OT in the last game ever played there*—Presley Pavillion in honor of basketball coaching legend Bud Presley and Elvis Presley — there’s a whole lot of shaking going on. (They have dances there, sometimes to Elvis oldies. I think…close enough for Plastic Alto…I’d support the gym if it was to be named for William Fenwick).
Lets rename our town Crooked Tree, in honor of Molly Tuttle — “El Palo Alto” was cut down in 1771 two years after it was identified. Changing the name of our town would be a nod towards the beauty, ethics and kindness that this daughter of ours exemplifies.
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