Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss

Edit Add shortly there after I am multitasking between watching my fellow Dartmouth 11 is Jake Tapper on CNN and some correspondence and watching the impeachment trial and I realize I might be confusing Bruce cast door who I mentioned above and another attorney named insertVan der Veen’s —-Sean example or what was he doing touching his head as he drink water that’s not really part of my heritage anyways I meant to say that if I am confusing to Philadelphia guys who look alike in a Not necessarily bright enough to have gotten an a in professor star zingers course of Dartmouth and I admit I barely passed it if I am confusing Vanderveen in cast door it is like picking up your shoe and sniffing it to see if you stepped in dog shit or just something hard to scrape off like gum

A piece from NYT in summer 1995, that presages Ross becoming a genius of writing about classical music, the rest is noise etc:

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TEN MINUTES DRIVING AROUND PALO ALTO IN MY DAD’S OLD LEXUS LISTENING AS IF FOR THE FIRST TIME TO THE BAD PLUS ONE

1. 1. Prehensile Dream or “Girl in jeans at Uni Ave Aporoaching High”
   

2. Or “Woman with Dog Wearing Backpack near Stanford Gate” (Anthem for the earnest)

3.Let our Garden Grow or “white knuckles green light”

4. The Empire Strikes Backward or i hope the truck does not hit the pedestrian

5. backhanded compliment >> chariots of fire

Few people realize that John Venn Neumann, the inventor of the Venn diagram, lived here in Palo Alto. He used to play poker with other notable geniuses like Dr Richter, the inventor of the Richter scale, Nathan Oliveira, who invented the nude or if not the nude the idea of Xeroxing your a** on a copy machine, and Hewlett and Packard, in fact they used to play strip poker and do a life drawing session — or was it a collage bee? – -in that famous garage on Addison Street (which is now the world’s most expensive piece of property, or after the Japanese Imperial Palace, if you excuse the digression).

Anyhow, as part of our heritage, staff is required to use a Venn diagram in every report.

For example, here is one from tonite.

Although to the average reader, or citizen, this looks like 4 ideas and a bunch of overlapping ovals, it is actually 10 or 11 separate ideas. That’s the geniousof of it.Tune back in later as I break down ideas, 4 thru 11.

(Note: people think Plastic Alto is about music, but before that I was an English major at Dartmouth; but before that I was the highest scoring student in the honors math lane at Terman Junior High, which was named for the guy who invented the Theremin. Before he left to join the Beech Boys.

Backed with so to speak: Ed “Sharkey” Shikado announced to mixed reaction that we are disbanding the Public Art commission but hiring conceptual artist and my Gunn classmate John Beech to succeed Pasco Sam as head of Utilities: