Monthly Archives: February 2012

Altoon Sultan farm house and Walker Evans Poloroid SX-70

Posted on February 6, 2012 by markweiss86

My mom and I did the 25 cent tour of the Walker Evans show at Stanford before moving on to bigger and better things: a brownie and dirty chips at the Cantor snack bar, plus a Blueberry Odwalla. I ran … Continue reading →

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This is for Hope and Betsy Hall

Posted on February 5, 2012 by markweiss86

Taking Jordanna Finnegan’s course at Foothill College and reading “The Glass Castle” memoir by Jennette Walls had me thinking of Hope Hall who I met a few times at my concert series when she was in the Stanford Film program. … Continue reading →

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OKGO sell me a Chevy

Posted on February 5, 2012 by markweiss86

As the son of a son of a Chicago-based Chevy dealers, I am pre-disposed and perhaps pre-destined to watch this video, and then go trade in my ailing Toyota for a brand new Chevy Sonic, like the one in the … Continue reading →

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Lera babble coinky synchronicity

Posted on February 3, 2012 by markweiss86

By LERA BORODITSKY The Gallery Collection/Corbis ‘The Tower of Babel’ by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. (Please see Corrections & Amplifications below.) Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the … Continue reading →

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Dressed to the nines

Posted on February 3, 2012 by markweiss86

That’s a mixed metaphor –“Dressed to the Nines” — to the extent I am talking poker. This is a tribute to local hero Phil Hellmuth and his winning the 1989 World Series of Poker against Chan using a relatively weak … Continue reading →

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Daydreaming of Andre Dubus in a baseball boxscore

Posted on February 3, 2012 by markweiss86

Beth Custer and I rolled thru Noe Valley and stopped, momentarily — not sure stopped is the word, since we swarmed the bookstore more likes bees than not — and I walked away with two books, Octavio Paz poetry (but … Continue reading →

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My only advice to Narissa Padua — who totally rocks and is adorable — is that she can find her own phrasing, like check out Patti Barber

Posted on February 1, 2012 by markweiss86

use me or use patricia barber to go from 600 views on internet to intl stardom ms. narissa padua you can do it Continue reading →

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Brittnee Purtee is a huge rock star in Palo Alto, California, 30 miles south of San Francisco, thanks to the internet

Posted on February 1, 2012 by markweiss86

She also does passable jobs with Taylor Swift and Paramore. Hey, Britnee, let us know when you are on tour and we will line you up here in Palo Alto, in the 650. Your friends at Plastic Alto.

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Stole a Features flyer from the Cafe DuNord tee tee

Posted on February 1, 2012 by markweiss86

I posted this on their blog or try to: A little TN in CA I caught The Features at SXSW in Austin in 2009. Someone I met at random sent me that way because it was one of his favorite … Continue reading →

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Finding Memo

Posted on February 1, 2012 by markweiss86

Guillermo “Memo” Gomez Abascal had not changed one bit over the 30 years since we were exchange brothers for Neighbors Abroad’s Palo Alto Oaxaca Sister Cities. Continue reading →

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