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DATELINE September 12, 2016
NO ON MEASURE D (widening Highway 1). A member of Widening Won’t Work attended a “GET SANTA CRUZ MOVING” presentation. And sent this… The Get Santa Cruz Moving campaign has paid staff and has raised $450,000. RTC has 17 staff and a budget of ???.” So, the little guy is up against a $450,000 ad campaign. The WWW budget is 1% of theirs so far…. Where is the $450,000 coming from? And that’s a lot of money to make sure this passes..are they frightened their product has holes and need to push a lot of propaganda down our throats? Kinda like the overblown ad budgets for smoking cigarettes… Let’s not forget that The Santa Cruz Land Trust endorses Measure D and that the Land Trust gave $10, 000 to support the measure.
http://www.landtrustsantacruz.org/land-trust-endorses-transportation-measure/
In expectation of the passing of Measure D, The Land Trust recently sent an email advertising a 10hr/wk 10 month job to coordinate projects. Hey, not so fast, right?
The Get Santa Cruz Moving campaign now has paid staff and has raised $450,000. RTC has 17 staff and a budget of ???.” So, the little guy is up against a $450,000 ad campaign. The Widening Won’t Work budget is 1% of theirs so far…. Where is their $450,000 coming from? And that’s a lot of money to make sure this passes..are they frightened thier product has holes and need to push a lot of propaganda down our throats? Kinda like the overblown ad budgets for smoking cigarettes…Has anyone (like the public) seen any disclosures filed with the FPPC for the Yes on D folks ? How can they have $450,000 without disclosing any information? A primarily formed ballot measure committee must report receipt of each contribution totaling $1,000 or more within 24 hours during the 90 days before the election, including the date of the election. Time for another FPPC inquiry?
Last word in about the forces pushing Measure D is… Student interns up at USCS and Cabrillo are being advertised and sought to canvas for Yes on Measure D. We’re getting set for a blitz with that $450,000 war chest proponents of Measure D have to spend! It’s truly David vs. Goliath.
COTONI NOT COTATI… I had a lot of stuff about the proposed Cotoni Coast Dairies National Monumental Disaster in last week’s column. But in my haste to go to Sacramento for a few days, I had a bunch of mistakes . Ever vigiliant Ted Benhari of the Rural Bonny Doon Association and Friends of the North Coast wrote…” would be possible to insert that that was a post on the Friends of the North Coast Facebook page? We’ve also learned that Sempervirens has alerted its members that soon there will be a public meeting organized by Boxer and Eshoo with the Interior Dept. to talk about the monument.
Don’t yet know where or when, but on 9/16 there is a similar meeting in Cambria to talk about the Piedras Blancas site that is one of the other 3 properties in the addition to the California Coastal National Monument bill with Coast Dairies. By the way, the property is Coast Dairies & Land, not the reverse, and if it becomes a monument it will be called Cotoni Coast Dairies (not Cotati). And it doesn’t include any former Cemex or Davenport land”. Here’s another post from Ted on the Friends Facebook page… “Here’s the key point of difference between us and Sempervirens Fund regarding monument status for Coast Dairies. It’s an excerpt from the email Sempervirens sent yesterday about the upcoming public meeting with the Dept. of the Interior. It’s why we fear the impact of heavy public visitation on Coast Dairies’ fauna and flora, our infrastructure and public services, North Coast beaches, farms and the town of Davenport. “The 5,800-acre Cotoni-Coast Dairies property, located just east of the town of Davenport, is a prime example of the region’s riches. Plus it connects to 15,000 acres of protected lands, forming a 21,000-acre area of wild lands just an hour from the Bay Area’s 7 million people.”
Many of you probably saw the recent video of people toppling the striking and beloved Duckbill sandstone spire on the coast of Oregon, and have been angered and saddened by the increasing proliferation of graffiti on Panther and other Santa Cruz North Coast beaches. Is there any justification for making Coast Dairies any more attractive to visit, when it’s already fully protected and there is so little additional money that will be available to BLM to manage and monitor it? Would be great to write some letters to the Sentinel ASAP about the unfairness of holding the only meeting on monument status for Coast Dairies with national leaders in Cambria, 3 hours away, on a work day, with only a week’s notice. Clearly a transparent effort to stifle dissent while pretending you (Sen. Boxer and Rep. Eshoo) actually care about public opinion. Go to santacruzsentinel.com, click on Opinion in the menu bar, and click on Submit Letters”.
ALERT!! Just got the letter below from Rep. Eshoo. Next Friday (Sept. 16) at 2 p.m. the only (as far as we know) public meeting with Dept. of Interior officials, who will be recommending to Pres. Obama whether to declare Coast Dairies a national monument, will take place in CAMBRIA! This is obviously a deliberate move to try to keep opposition voices from being heard. We hope as many of you as possible will attend. Let us know and we can carpool or even rent a van or bus”. All that’s from the Friends FB page.
KROHN’S KICKOFF PARTY. A hugely energetic and eager crowd of over 100 folks gathered together to help send Chris Krohn to the Santa Cruz City Council last Saturday (9/10) afternoon. Long time supporters and former councilpersons such as Sally DiGirolamo, Carole DePalma and Ed Porter were having a great time and Sally reminded me that she was the only Democrat on the council at the time!!! Proving again that electing a “Brand New Council” can be done. Shelley Hatch, Ed Porter, Nancy Abbey, Ralph Metberg, Nora Hochman, Sandy Brown and Steve Schnaar all listened as Chris Krohn gave us his ideas. He talked about his 12 years working at UCSC and learning how the Campus works, he spoke about how our present City Council allowed The Beach Flats Community Garden to be cut in half, and how the developers along with the Corridor plan are all set to ruin the Branciforte neighborhood. It was a fine and encouraging great time.
| SAND ART. I haven’t watched one for years but these are still amazing. |
CABRILLO FESTIVAL’S NEW MALE CONDUCTOR!! The news is out that The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music hired a man to replace Marin Alsop as conductor and music director. His name is Cristian Macelaru and If you go to Cristian Macelaru’s personal website you’ll see he’s very happy to get the job. http://macelaru.com . He’s a violinist. And if you’re wondering what kind of music he’ll bring to the Festival we can see he likes to conduct relatively recently dead and also some long passed composers such as Dvorak, Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, as well as Copland, Bartok, Faure, Bruchner, Enescu and Orff. No mention of any Leonard Bernstein material. The New York Times (Sept. 4) ran a full page on the glass ceiling that still exists and is even rampant in the major orchestra conducting profession. The article stated that Marin Alsop is still the “only woman leading one of America’s two dozen big-budget orchestras.That works out to a little over 4.1 percent”. Marin is still conducting the Baltimore Symphony. ‘Twas an unusual remark Marin said to the packed Civic auditorium on her closing night after 25 years at the Cabrillo podium “I don’t know where you were when we started”. But it was true, it took years before Santa Cruzans began appreciating Marin and her choice of music and musicians. As far as popularity, Marin and the Cabrillo Festival had bigger Santa Cruz audiences than political critic and filmaker Michael Moore !!
MORE ABOUT MARIN. I found this news someplace…” In what might be taken as one more sign that the United States and Cuba are getting friendlier, an American conductor will lead a Cuban orchestra in a concert celebrating the 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana.Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director Marin Alsop will conduct the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Cuba in an outdoor performance Oct. 9 in the Plaza de la Catedral of Old Havana. Joining Alsop and the orchestra will be two celebrated pianists — one from the classical arena, Lang Lang; the other a major figure in Afro-Cuban jazz, Chucho Valdés. The concert is a co-production of CAMI Music and ELCCNY, in cooperation with the Cuban Institute of Music in Havana and the Ministry of Culture of Cuba”.
TEXTING AND DRIVING. We keep reading those truly horrible statistics about the dangers of texting and driving….and of course it’s against the law. But most folks keep doing it anyways. Along with that though, why aren’t there laws against drive in restaurants serving burgers to drivers? Or the ticketing of drivers who are eating while driving?? A burger is much trickier to eat and drive than texting.
QUICK POLITICAL QUESTION. Right now, without looking, and without asking anybody…what’s the first and last name of Hillary’s vice president candidate?
RALPH ABRAHAM’S BOOK SIGNING. It’s only an hour long, including T. Michael Walker and psychedelic stuff.
First a clarification regarding my comment in last week’s piece regarding the greenbelt, infilling and ever-increasing housing costs. As written it implied that the greenbelt was the cause. While this has some validity, it is more accurate to say that the greenbelt has been exploited as justification for the current frenzy to build, build, build as high as possible and as dense as possible and re-zone to exceed all prior limits. It is fair to say that most who worked to secure the greenbelt lands were motivated by a love of open space and a desire to protect it. Most did not have plans for high density housing in their back pockets. But most did not continue to be involved as the years of General Plan meetings dragged on and those who did favor density and growth got to define the narrative: that by adopting a greenbelt around our town we accepted high density growth and infilling as the trade-off. Planning Commissioners remind us of this quid pro quo at every meeting and you can read it on some of the council candidate’s campaign literature.
It’s not too late for an alternative narrative: we saved our greenbelt and we will fight to save our town from high-density growth. No trade-offs! We can demonstrate that building more and more housing units has not and will not lower the cost of housing. All new housing stock is expensive even the so-called “inclusionary” units. In fact, bulldozing an existing cottage and replacing it with dense apartments can be shown to increase the cost of housing. We can challenge the claim that new housing is “work-force” housing unless that term really refers to highly paid tech workers. We can counter argue that building dense housing for students downtown and elsewhere will not relieve the pressure on single family houses currently occupied by students if UCSC continues to grow at the current rate. And if more students are lured off-campus into dense student housing, that shift will trigger a crisis of lowered on-campus occupancy rate, raising rents big-time on campus leading to increased rents off-campus. We can point out the illogic in the pro-density arguments such as the oft quoted “we need to accommodate the growth that has already occurred.” If they are here they have been accommodated. Most of the real estate sales are for second-homes or investment properties. What the pro growth interests really mean is “we need to accommodate future growth because there is money to be made in the process.” There is a difference between accepting that some growth will occur and promoting that growth, the latter being the agenda both at UCSC and among the developer class.
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~ Gillian Greensite is a long time local activist, a member of Save Our Big Trees and the Santa Cruz chapter of IDA, International Dark Sky Association http://darksky.org Plus she’s an avid ocean swimmer, hiker and lover of all things wild).
ELERICK’S INPUT. Mr. Paul Elerick of Aptos writes…that he’s on his way back home from vacation…we’ll just have to assume he’ll be writing next week.
(Paul Elerick is a member of, and former co-chair of the Campaign for Sensible Transportation, http://sensibletransportation.org . He’s a current member of Nisene to Sea, a group of mid-county citizens committed to maintaining an open hiking trail from Cabrillo College to Nisene Marks State Park.
#252 “WILL SCIENCE SAVE US ?”
Human activity, ignoring the rules, laws, and principles that govern the World of Nature, has now created a situation in which our human civilization is being placed at extreme risk. All forms of life, in fact, not just human life, are being threatened, and a massive extinction event is under way. The name of the activity causing our current crop of problems goes, mostly, under the title, “Global Warming,” though with temperatures having reached 129 degrees in the Middle East, rather recently, and apparently likely to head even higher, the word “warming” is a little bit less than fully descriptive.
As we all know (I hope we all know this), human activities that result in the release of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, are the cause of the global warming that is putting human civilization, and all life, both human and non-human, in peril. The combustion of hydrocarbon fuels is the main culprit, as (again, I hope) we all know.
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~ Gary is a former Santa Cruz County Supervisor (20 years) and an attorney who represents indivuduals and community groups on land use and environmental issues. The opinions expressed are Mr. Patton’s. Gary has his own website, Two Worlds at www.gapatton.net
| HOPALONG CASSIDY & THE LONE RANGER. They both loved filming in Lone Pine, California. (out there between Fresno and Death Valley) Watch this charming clip. |
CLASSICAL DeCINZO. DeCinzo puts it all in a bag for us…check below…
EAGAN’S DEEP COVER. Trump driving? Eagan has that covered…plus… There are two new cartoons posted at TimEagan.com Subconscious Comics
And the latest EaganBlog, Dumb Luck and Wonder
See it all down a few pages…
CREATING A CULTURE OF PEACE WORKSHOP. There’s a workshop with Scott Brown, the author of a new book: “Active Peace: A Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World”. It’ll happen Sunday, September 18, 2:00 – 5:00PM at the Resource Center for Nonviolence , 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz. Scott Brown’s workshops are experiential and touch on the cornerstones of peace, health, and resilience: Moving toward a more restorative approach to activism (more priority to relationships and nonviolence, and using the principles and practices of restorative justice to leverage systems change); Healing the relationship to self through mindfulness practices; Deepening the connection to nature through nature-based practices; Transforming interpersonal relationships through interpersonal skills and tools; Scott Brown is an associate with Pace e Bene/ Campaign Nonviolence and brings a deep background in activism and nonviolence. $10-30 Sliding scale donation; no one turned away for lack of funds. More info, call 831-423-1626.
MUNCHING WITH MOZART CONCERT. Every third Thursday Carol Panofsky presents the free classical music concert. This one has Aude Castagna, on cello and Ben Dorfan, on piano. They’ll play Barber and Prokofiev. More specifically Samuel Barber, Op. 6 (1936)
Sonata in c minor and Sergei Prokofiev, Op 119 (1949) Sonata in C Major. That’s Thursday, September 15th.(12:10 – 12:50pm.) Santa Cruz Public Library, Downtown Branch, upstairs Meeting Room. Get there early, the seats go fast.
TWO MILLION YEARS OF HISTORY. Pat Matecjek knew we’d all love to read about this unique history exhibit. She sent this link to “A National Museum of Australia exhibition which tells the history of the world in 100 objects mostly sourced from the British Museum, ranging from a counterfeit Chelsea shirt to a stone tool that reaches back to the dawn of humanity” • Ritual sacrifice, ancient insults and sacred fire: 2 million years of history – in pictures
Curated history, how to tell a 2 million year old story with one exhibition
LISA JENSEN LINKS. Lisa writes: “Come along to a fabulous art environment I visited on my recent voyage to Sweden, this week at Lisa Jensen Online Express (ljo-express.blogspot.com). Also, hop aboard A Streetcar Named Desire in Jewel Theatre Company’s adroit new production.” Lisa has been writing film reviews and columns for Good Times since 1975.
SULLY. Tom Hanks, Laura Linney and Aaron Eckhardt do their dependable, professional jobs in this formulac Hollywood treu life drama. Plenty of tension, a great true story that we knew most of already. It’s how airplane Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger landed that passenger plane in the Hudson river and saved everybody’s lives. Speaking of airplanes, you might think about right wing director of the film Clint Eastwood and that the executive producer of Suicide Squad and Sully is Steven Mnuchin who is Donald Trump’s finance director, if it matters who you give money to!
COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Just 44 on Rotten Tomatoes !! Rachel Weisz and Michael Shannon take the leads in this complex puzzle of a film. Rachel Weisz plays a woman who has chenged her identity and continues to do so much to the deep anguish it has caused Shannon her former lover. Exactly why she keeps changing identities and moving around the world is weird, unexplained and psychotic. Danny Glover and Kathy Bates almost sneak into bit parts. The movie is missing something but it’s slow moving and I fell asleep a few times. If you do go send me your explanation…please??
THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS. Critics and most folks are calling this a romantic melodrama, I say that’s cheapening it. And gives it the wrong image I call it a contemporary Greek Tradegy. Those classic tradegies were meant to stir your emotions, cause you to think about your deepest values, to help us learn about love, sacrifice, and morals. Wikipedia says, “Tragedy (from the Greek: tragoidia[a]) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences”. This film does all of that and more. We aren’t used to “deep” films like this anymore so we dilute them and call them weepers or melodramas. Stunning actors like Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, and Rachel Weisz bring this highly emotional film into near legendary status. It’s from a book about a lighthouse keeper and his wife who can’t have children and find a baby. Please see it, if you like serious films.
LO AND BEHOLD, REVERIES OF THE CONNECTED WORLD. First of all it gets a 93 on Rotten Tomatoes. Another excellent film from one of the very few living directors who know how to make a statement and still make good films, Werner Herzog. Herzog guides us through the new world of the internet in this documentary and gives us enormous topics and information re internet stuff to make you really wonder about our future and how the internet has and will continue to change our world. I guarantee that there’s at least a dozen ideas, and pieces of news you’ve never drempt of…and that will change how you look at your iPhone and keyboard from now on. Only go if you like thinking about big things. Its last day is Thursday (9/13).
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC. Viggo Mortensen, the lead in this family saga, has never been better, and he’s almost always excellent. The older you are the more you’ll appreciate this extension of our 1950 & 60’s belief system. A film that has Noam Chomsky’s philosophy as a driver, Jesse Jackson, Joy of Sex book, Lolita, Glen Gould’s Bach Variations and some non-christian beliefs added, has to take you back just a bit. And in a good way. Viggo raises his family in the total wilds and later they have to face modern life and society. It’s as much fun as it is moving, sensitive , and well made. Frank Langella and Steve Zahn add to this hit film. Go for/to it!!
HELL OR HIGH WATER. Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster and Chris Pine make this one wonderful, exciting, involving, and well acted film. Go see it ASAP. Cops and bank robbers in Texas, internal conflicts, evil bank laws and practices, and ethics and morals are all integrated. It’s hard t o believe that “Hollywood” could still make a film this good after all these years of junk.
WAR DOGS. Jonah Hill and Miles Teller do some fine acting in this only half-serious drama about how much money shysters in the United States make when we are at war. You’ll wonder if the USA could even stay alive financially if we weren’t always at war or “Peace Keeping” as it’s called. Not a great film but it does get the message across. Last day is Thursday (9/13)
CAFÉ SOCIETY.Woody Allen’s newest starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Parker Posey and Steve Carell. Woody narates the film and he’s older and his voice has lost that whiney, confused, contradictory warble that we’ve grown to love so much. This film doesn’t rank in his top 4 or 5 films. The story is original, the acting is perfunctory, Kristen Stewart is above reproach, but it’s no Midnight in Paris, Annie Hall, Blue Jasmine, Hannah and Her Sisters or Purple Rose of Cairo.
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS. The ever-popular, award winning Meryl Streep mugs , struts and acts her way through this odd portrait of an eccentric totally tone deaf New York socialite in the early 1940’s, Florence Foster Jenkins caught syphilis from her first husband, divorced him, kept his name and married another rich fellow socialite. She loved music, was friends with Arturo Toscanni but because of the tertiary stages of the disease, was unable to accurately hear her own singing voice. She gave concerts and recorded records and made millions laugh at her bizzarre off key voice. It’s a cute, somewhat serious comedy…and again Meryl Srreep has the lead with Hugh Grant playing a good older version of Hugh Grant, and you know what that means.
MORGAN. Ridley Scott’s son directed this Sci-Fi thriller about creating near-humans. Kate Mara, Michelle Yeoh, and Toby Jones make this movie work fairly well. “Ex Machina” and Scarlett Johansson in “Lucy” sort of fit into the same “good but not great” bag.
DON’T BREATHE. This film has all the makings of a very scary horror flick. Timing, characters, kids locked in a house with a blind army veteran who wants to kill them because they tried to rob him. Yet, it lacks something and I’ve been thinking about it for three days and I still can’t figure why it doesn’t work. Great tension, fine acting, plenty of surprises, and yet it doesn’t add up. Maybe it’s because the blind veteran is also evil, and focused on killing. Maybe it’s because the kids were wrong in the first place in trying to rob him. But if you’ve seen everything else in town…this one won’t bore you, I promise.
SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU. This is worse than a Hallmark greeting card! Cloying, genuflecting, dull, and an unjustified view of how Barack wooed Michelle back in their Chicago days. Aside from the apparent facts that Obama smokes a lot and doesn’t like ice cream and that Michelle doesn’t like pie, there’s nothing to gain from seeing this trite mess. It’s genuinely boring too. You’ll keep waiting for something of substance, or conflict, or some kind of problem might be dealt with…nope, all sugar and spice. Well, not even spice actually.
JASON BOURNE. The minute you leave the theatre this movie will seem like a dream you had. It’s fuzzy, unclear, random scenes in random order, no real meaning…just like a dream. The director tried to make some new kind of spy killing, car chase, fie, explosion movie. Edits, cuts, dialogue are all mixed up and mixed together…it makes little or no sense at all. Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, Vincent Cassell, Alicia Vikander, and Riz Ahmed from “The Night Of” all do their best, but it’s all the director’s fault. Well, Matt Damon just phoned in his part and he’s terrible. And it’s still better than Mechanic: Resurrection
STAR TREK BEYOND. The third in the new Trek movie series this is a waste of eveyone’s time and money. They cop out and show a photo of Leonard Nimoy about half way through and show a snapshot of the entire Enterprise original 1966 crew. Mostly it’s just another throw bombs and shoot around corners (or curves on spaceships). Nothing near the humanity, intelligence, or real wit the original had, which made all of us such lifelong fans. The acting is terrible, the plot is meaningless. Go only if you need your periodic Star Trek Fix, and don’t care how “authentic” it is. ( I didn’t know Capt. James Kirk’s middle name was Tiberius and that Shatner is 85 years old and was born in Montreal).
DON’T THINK TWICE. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 99 % I give it about 4!!! I’ve always hated Improv Comedy, that’s why. This movie is totally about Improv Comedy and the internal combustion within a group calling them selves the Commune. I can’t tell you how many times I watched San Francisco’s The Committee throughout most of the 1960’s. A lot of the Nickelodeon audience laughed a lot when I watched it…go warned.
SUICIDE SQUAD. Will Smith, Jared Leto, and Viola Davis could never be accused of acting in this horrible Gotham City disaster. Yep, Gotham City and yes Batman is in it for a few seconds but he doesn’t save this Super Hero flick from being one of the very worst ever made. (read any other review!!!). I could try to tell you about the plot, but there really isn’t one…it’s all violence, weird effects, killing, and to save production money most of it is filmed extra dark so you can’t see what might be around the corner. Don’t let anybody go, except your worst enemy. 26 on Rotten Tomatoes!! The executive producer of Suicide Squad and Sully is Steven Munchin who is Donald Trump’s finance director, like I said above, if it matters who you give money to!
UNIVERSAL GRAPEVINE. Each and every Tuesday from 7:00-8:00 p.m. I host Universal Grapevine on KZSC 88.1 fm. or on your computer, (live only or archived for two weeks… (See next paragraph) and go to WWW.KZSC.ORG. Julie James and Susan Maier Silton talk about the Jewel Theatre’s new season and “Streetcar Named Desire” on September 13, after which Bruce Daniels Pres. Bd. of Dir. Soquel Water District talks about climate change and water.. Christina Morgan Cree unveils the latest crazes and styles in the Fashion Art Show on Sept.20, then UCSC professor Jonathan Kahana talks about Film Criticism and documentaries. Michel Singher previews The Espressivo Orchestra’s next concert on September 27. Joan Van Antwerp talks about The Sidereal Theatre on Oct. 18. Then October 25 has Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Paul Burdick talking about our court system. Do remember, any and all suggestions for future programs are more than welcome, so tune in, and keep listening. Email me always (and only) at bratton@cruzio.com
NEW UNIVERSAL GRAPEVINE ARCHIVE FEATURE. Stuff changes at KZSC a lot. If you missed either of the last two weeks of Universal Grapevine broadcasts go here… http://www.radiofreeamerica.com/dj/bruce-bratton You have to listen to about 4 minutes of that week’s KPFA news first, then Grapevine happens.
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This is Toni Basil. You may know her from “Hey Mickey” (sorry, not sorry for putting that in your ear) from 1982 – huge hit. Before and after that she was a choreographer, and obviously she is still dancing. SHE IS 72 YEARS OLD.
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UNIVERSAL GRAPEVINE ARCHIVES. In case you missed some of the great people I’ve interviewed in the last 9 years here’s a chronological list of some past broadcasts. Such a wide range of folks such as Nikki Silva, Michael Warren, Tom Noddy, UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal, Anita Monga, Mark Wainer, Judy Johnson, Wendy Mayer-Lochtefeld, Rachel Goodman, George Newell, Tubten Pende, Gina Marie Hayes, Rebecca Ronay-Hazleton, Miriam Ellis, Deb Mc Arthur, The Great Morgani on Street performing, and Paul Whitworth on Krapps Last Tape. Jodi McGraw on Sandhills, Bruce Daniels on area water problems. Mike Pappas on the Olive Connection, Sandy Lydon on County History. Paul Johnston on political organizing, Rick Longinotti on De-Sal. Dan Haifley on Monterey Bay Sanctuary, Dan Harder on Santa Cruz City Museum. Sara Wilbourne on Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre. Brian Spencer on SEE Theatre Co. Paula Kenyon and Karen Massaro on MAH and Big Creek Pottery. Carolyn Burke on Edith Piaf. Peggy Dolgenos on Cruzio. Julie James on Jewel Theatre Company. Then there’s Pat Matejcek on environment, Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack on the Universe plus Nina Simon from MAH, Rob Slawinski, Gary Bascou, Judge Paul Burdick, John Brown Childs, Ellen Kimmel, Don Williams, Kinan Valdez, Ellen Murtha, John Leopold, Karen Kefauver, Chip Lord, Judy Bouley, Rob Sean Wilson, Ann Simonton, Lori Rivera, Sayaka Yabuki, Chris Kinney, Celia and Peter Scott, Chris Krohn, David Swanger, Chelsea Juarez…and that’s just since January 2011.
QUOTES. “SAND”
“Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually”, Jimi Hendrix
“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe”, Robert Service
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it”, Niccolo Machiavelli
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand”, Milton Friedman
“They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon”. Edward Lear
QUEST QUOTE. You must like quotes as much as I do, so send me your favorite!! Joyce Malone sent this one…”There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another”, Emma Goldman, social activist (1869-1940).
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