suzanne deal booth the wife of billionaire investor Dale Booth now owns 32.6 acres of Rutherford grapes. They are from Houston, Kansas, New York, Chicago and LA. Esther Mobley the wine critic of the Chron reports. She worked with Menil in Houston. Three of my last seven posts are reactive to the Chron.
The chronicle claims that Jerry Garcia despite being dead 26 years is an investor and advocate of Blockchain, cryptocurrency and non-fungible art investment NFT. We may be going to hell in a bucket but at least his beneficiaries are enjoying the ride.
$1 million if you’re already speculating in cryptocurrency can buy you this:
Compared to doing a screen capture or cutting phase
for comparison sake and because it’s ironic here is my version of how the band got its name for what the name means: story goes that a man arrives in a village and meets an undertaker who is in a cup quandary or is upset because there is a body of an indigent person or an unknown person and they’re not sure what funeral rights: the traveler not necessarily being wealthy but being compassionate encourages the undertaker to do the right thing and perhaps pays for part of the funeral expense. Peter he buys a mule or a donkey or a horse or some type of companion. Soon after that good things start happening to this person maybe he invest in cryptocurrency or finds a bag of gold or gets laid. Turns out that the Spirit of the departed indigent person had returned to this plane in the body of the mule and helped all these great things start happening; grateful dead. (If there are any obvious intact errors in my version of the grateful dead man I’m going to leave them symbolically or consistent with the idea that the proliferation of computers and social media and iPhones is indeed influencing our understanding of our place in the world and what is happening
I just got an announcement about a flaming lips show May 7 at the Warfield May 7, 2022 Someone texted me offering me the Giants tickets versus Texas Rangers Monday night. I said I prefer Tuesday afternoon. I wonder who the Giants are playing May 7, 2022? to one year from tomorrow. I have no idea where I will be one year from tomorrow.
Someone texted me offering me the Giants tickets versus Texas Rangers Monday night. I said I prefer Tuesday afternoon. I wonder who the Giants are playing May 7, 2022?
today is Willie Mays his 90th birthday. I have tickets to a zoom event sometime this afternoon celebrating the fact. I wonder what will the maze thinks of zoom. I think of Willie Mays either going backwards to catch off the bat a Vic words or just generally running such that his cap would fall off or fly off. I also think of May 24 is a holiday.
Malcolm Gladwell in conversation with Walter Isaacson on Amanapouor show, regarding his book on the technology of bombers in World War II and the burning of Tokyo and other cities he says 10 years ago we thought Twitter would help democracy but now that is obviously absurd. No shit, Sherlock.
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Journalist from India who writes columns for Washington post Rana Ayyub: Fairplay to freedom of the press in India.
I sent this image to a NYT freelancer then realized it documents the fact that about a week after I got the Johnson vaccination I took 2 pictures of my thighs because I was worried that I had blood clots but no platelets and a rash. I should title this “The Johnson & Johnson no- Johnson Shot” — kind of a tribute to Ray Johnson.
Maybell Street Palo Alto and new homes being staged
Lauren Hepler of The Chron has a Page 1 story about Palo Alto and housing equity, pegged to the new homes hitting the market at the controversial Maybell site in South Palo Alto.
Check back as I update about the fact that “The Residentialists” were Emily Renzel, Enid Pearson and Tom Jordan and opposed the trends inherent in the removal of 100 homes from Oregon Street to create Oregon Expressway, for the benefit of Hewlett Packard.
Forty-five years later, Tim Gray and I ran for City Council under the banner of “The New Residentialists” and got 6,000 or more votes each, as also-rans (voters chose: Marc Berman, Liz Kniss and Pat Burt in greater numbers, but to minimal effect or progress). My use was in tribute to Enid et al; she showed me clippings and pamphlets from her fight, in her foyer; Jordan had me to his home and suggested my “New Residentialist Platform” include a critique of “Planned Community Zoning”, a nexus of abuse; he later mentored Tom Dubois, who is now our mayor, and a source for Hepler’s procrustean and convoluted version of our housing woes.
Integral to the term “Residentialist” in 1964 and 2012 was opposition to corporate hegemony, or corporate creep. What are HP’s needs relative to those of We The People?
Maybell does not mean that Palo Alto prefers $5m homes to housing for seniors, the poor or Blacks. Maybell means that We The People are outflanked and outgunned by the industry, in this case the housing industry.
There is $50b (BILLION) on the tax rolls in Palo Alto. You can fairly state that real estate is a billion dollar per year industry here and multi-million dollar real estate lobby.
Meanwhile we don’t even tax corporations like Tesla, Google, Amazon, Facebook or Palantir.
San Jose makes $70M per year in business taxes, twice what it makes in TOT — hotel taxes– according to a recent report in the SV Business Journal.
Palo Alto likely could make $50m in taxes, but chooses not to. Why? Who knows. I’m guessing its because the landlords tell leadership not to.
In some ways, we could celebrate having 20 new houses in Palo Alto, even at market rate.
(Although initially I agreed with Mrs. Davis, the mother of Julian Davis, that there was merit in preserving Palo Alto’s last stone fruit orchard).
Also, why did we not consider Buena Vista and Maybell in the same breath?
Maybe we should use Buena Vista as precedent and buy the entire inventory at “Orchard Park”, even at market rate, and then lease it to artists or musicians at a subsidy, using taxes on Tesla and Palantir to make up the delta?
I also think we can tie Orchard Park to the skatepark initiative and build an amenity at Juana Briones Park, which actually already has some grassy dips and hills.
Apropos of reporting by Hepler, I never thought of Palo Alto Forward as progressive – -they seemed to be doing the bidding of developers.
Read George Packer, “The Unwinding”. Government fails, at local and national levels, because people do not put energy into the system. Special interests prosper in the vacuum.
The rich get richer. The richer get richerer using computers. Doh!
Hepler’s reporting reminds us that The San Francisco Chronicle is a Hearst paper, the people who invented “yellow journalism”. She implied that a racist act in 1946 in Redwood City happened in Palo Alto. Better would be to substantiate or refute my claim that real estate developers interfere with the ideal that local leadership like Dubois, Burt, Tanaka and Kou are responsive to or representative of their constituents A related question is whether regional papers like The Merc or The Chron are independent of business interests (see Noam Chomsky “Manufacturing Consent” and Ben Bagdikian “The Media Monopoly” beyond George Packer’s more recent book, which borrows from Dos Passos; which reminds me: Palo Alto has a cluster of banks —plus town houses — where the Times Tribune and its press were situated; Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson project occupies a new building on University that was The Nevada Building that had office space for poet laureate Al Young: we are better at turning block chain into billions but worse at describing squirrels on our rooftops or divining meaning from such). Hepler’s fresh eyes on the issues could improve on the seriously flawed coverage by local rags like The Weekly and The Post.
David Mills, a QB with 18 career touchdowns, Walker Little an ironically named lineman and cornerback Paulson Adebo were taken by Houston Jacksonville and New Orleans all clustered geographically in the south. I think I posted earlier about meeting David Mills and not having any idea who he was besides the fact he was wearing a Stanford T-shirt and I missed took him for a lineman or I was surprised when he said he was the starting quarterback. I actually had just mentioned that I once noticed Andrew Luck and likewise thought I saw an interior player coming at me and Mills said “yeah he’s big.
I ran into Hilary Whiting, my Gunn schoolmate, who teamed with Stacy Savides Sullivan to win the 1977 CCS doubles championship. I saw her checking the site of the former family home, corner of Churchill and Cowper, near the Lawn Bowling Center and Gamble Gardens.
Hilary stayed in LA after graduating from UCLA. She liked the fact I was wearing a t-shirt from Canter’s Deli. I said I was a better eater than serve-and-volley guy, even then especially now.
Joan Didion says that the Getty’s collection of antiquities says more about the 18th and 19th century craze for antiquities than it does about the periods from which the pieces emanate. (Didion, 1979/2009 p. 75). Reminds me that I once saw Bethany and Rufus in Boulder Creek, followed them to LA, and ended up having dinner at The Daily Grill with 10 people most of whom met while working for Eugene McCarthy in 1968. Eugene was the Bernie Sanders of his day. Peter Yarrow – Peter Paul and Mary – sang at a rally and that’s how Bethany’s parents, Mary Beth McCarthy and Peter Yarrow met. A guy there said he was dating Mary Beth – the senator’s niece – but knew he had lost her to the singer. I recall visiting the old Getty with Brian Moore; and I gifted my Red Sox cap to a visitor from Italy — maybe that’s part of the exchange. Maybe I still have the snap shot, beyond the mind’s eye. I had seen the new Getty when it opened. And then that concert, Bethany and Rufus. They were on the same label as then-recent former client John Ellis (whose brother is the visual artist Dave Ellis, sometimes also known as SQWRM).
Candice explained that the design on her arm referenced a song by AFI from their album “Sing the Sorrow.” The lyric mentions soft creatures draped in white and chrysanthemums. The design features a rabbit. She said she is originally from Western Carolina in fact the town that hosts the famous Merlefest.
She came out here to work for one of the leading social media companies . My dog had been wanting to meet her dog for several months. She said that it occurred to her that she was moving to a geographic region that she associated with Davey Havok and the band. (Although they are actually from Ukiah which is 130 miles north east of Palo Alto*)
AFI played my concert series almost 25 years ago.
About a year ago I met a young man in Target of Alameda and I asked him about his AFI shirt.
The manager of the Cubberley Center seemed concerned by the press photo and Davey Havok with his black fingernail paint job. A couple years later I remember a DJ at Live 105 back-announcing his set and then saying a Palo Alto mom had called in to win tickets for her daughter to go to the big AFI show at Shoreline.
Keep on rockin’ in the free world Candice, Davey, Hugo, Ryland and y’all .
Maybe Molly Tuttle can cover this song.
* I don’t know if people would agree that Ukiah is north-east of here, north of here or north-west of here. I was thinking that if you go up the coast you have to cut inland in Mendocino although more people would not hug the coast North Bay if they knew they were going to Ukiah. I don’t know the region very well although we did go to Sea Ranch recently and once specifically to hear Kronos Quartet; by the way I wonder how they would sound working with Davey Havok — OK, that would be kind of a dream gig commissioning Kronos and Davey Havok to work together, like Metallica and SF Symphony. Also regarding the geography I am recalling that my professor James Melville Cox pointed out that Detroit despite being in the Midwest is east of Atlanta.
And1: My dear friend T—who used to hand stamp all the young kids and punks as they were coming to the Cub— although I specifically remember that Adam Mets did the box office that fateful night with AFI – – said that his daughter will attend Warren Wilson College in western Carolina although not the creative writing program. And he said they were going to stop off in Vermont on the way there.
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 