Monthly Archives: October 2014

More yack from ‘Mrak’

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Posted by Mrak Weiss a resident of College Terrace 0 minutes ago I asked three candidates early on, allies more or less, to join me in pushing for a voluntary $10,000 spending cap and struck out. (To my nine hundred … Continue reading →

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Weldon Kees page 115 of Reclaiming Sf and Palo Alto

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Neophyte readers will, like Victoria Thorpe, call this irrelevant or incoherent, but I rebooted the lap dancer to post this purloined image of Weldon Kees, apropos of 280 or Caltrain and although there is no index to “Reclaiming San Francisco: … Continue reading →

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Makeda Best in Palo Alto test, November 6

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Makeda Best will lecture in Palo Alto on November 6. Although I am having a hard time thinking beyond November 4, 2014, when Palo Altans take back our republic from the evil hands of the special interests and dollar-mongers, this … Continue reading →

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Weiss platform in 54 words by Terry and Mark

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

one person one vote not one dollar one vote enforce comp plan don’t gut it will rent control save even one family already here interrobang Continue reading →

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Personal to EG or BG of Portola by way of Chi-town

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Senator Gillibrand a Dartmouth ’88 is Tina Rutnik not Tina Tunik; I did not know her, I don’t think. The “inter-loper, but not ‘agitator’” is a Polly Noonan. Skimming for a more accurate word. Player, perhaps. Albany, NY kind of … Continue reading →

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Stack and pack v. rent control

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

But concert promoter Mark Weiss dismissed the question as “biased” and said the city would be better off exploring rent control. “How many houses would we have to build before the prices would become affordable?” Weiss asked. “No one has … Continue reading →

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Gunn falls to Homestead 42-7 yet flyers flawless

Posted on October 26, 2014 by markweiss86

I spent much of the first half of Gunn at Homestead talking to a white ex-pat Jamaican named Linval DePass whose daughter is a “flyer” for the GHS (formerly GSH or HMG) spirit squad (what we called Cheer Leaders). You … Continue reading →

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Artium Baccalaureus

Posted on October 24, 2014 by markweiss86

I went to a liberal arts college, Dartmouth in the 1980s, and we did not have modern pre-professional degrees like journalism or bean-bag-horse-shoe-pitching. But like Stanford in many many ways, now since and forever. Wah hoo wah. We got next.

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Weiss campaign lands three endorsements

Posted on October 24, 2014 by markweiss86

Mark Weiss for Palo Alto City Council, if you, dear reader, of Plastic Alto, permit me the indulgence of speaking of self in third person, although usually I claim this is sign of subject “jumbling the shark” or the presentation … Continue reading →

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What did you do with the real Alexis Harte?

Posted on October 23, 2014 by markweiss86

I had a friend or at least business associate named Alexis Harte, a man a few years my junior who was husband and father and bandleader and played a couple shows for me, as Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto. BUT … Continue reading →

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