Monthly Archives: April 2015

American Splendor

Posted on April 14, 2015 by markweiss86

regarding Harvey Pekar, 1939-2010, whose book I saw in the window (I provided a link because I am going to rush back and procure from Mr. F tomorrow, to cheer me up for how I feel today, about BV. But … Continue reading →

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Will of the People for Buena Vista Park, public hearing, 250 Hamilton, April 13, 2015

Posted on April 13, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add, the next day: I sat through the four hour public hearing on the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park possible closure or opportunity to convert to homeowners association, which featured about 70 brief speeches, the bulk of which … Continue reading →

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‘all the patient dignity of a human form’ by hummingfish channelled kinda sort on a Sunday and Monday

Posted on April 13, 2015 by markweiss86

“Herons” is a song by Hummingfish an indie band out of Portland, out of the 1990s. Thoughts of which folded into this: Hi, Bill. I am the one that bought your BEML cd based on the fact that the first … Continue reading →

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Kim Gordon LOL twice in ten minutes

Posted on April 13, 2015 by markweiss86

Kim Gordon “Girl in a Band” I procured this a.m. around 9:30 good start to the week, b/w the Brian Grazer book that Charlie Rose plugged the other night, and I used my buy 10 get the 11th kinda free, … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto hat trick

Posted on April 13, 2015 by markweiss86

In Palo Alto we’re talking a “Downtown Cap” although some describe it more like a halo, a scarf (scharff?) or hint, but a short stroll to Town & Country yields actual, practical wearable and stylish millinery objects, like at Malia … Continue reading →

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‘Stan Chu Boy Shot From Car April 2015’ by Mark Weiss15 after McClung, after Hockney after Lorrain

Posted on April 12, 2015 by markweiss86
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Only that Patricia McClung ‘Stanford Arches’ calls to mind Claude Lorrain’s ‘The Sermon on the Mount’ (1656) as refracted by David Hockney as ‘A Bigger Message’, I saw in 2014

Posted on April 11, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add, four years later: I stumbled, lost, starving hysterical and naked into the offices of Kleiner Perkins and saw this Patricia McClung work, but couldn’t recall her name.

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Former Gunn footballer Rich Freed stands and delivers for kids v. technology, or sits at his desk for a very, very long while, rather

Posted on April 11, 2015 by markweiss86

Kudos to my Gunn classmate Richard Freed, Phd for his book “Wired Child: Debunking Popular Technology Myths” which attempt to counter the billion dollar behemoth of hype for computer proliferation and gadgets and information as consumer electronics. In the vein … Continue reading →

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Sufjan Stevens “Cali and Howl”

Posted on April 11, 2015 by markweiss86

Sufjan Stevens has resumed his much-anticipated “Fifty States” project, adding The Golden State to his paens for Illinois and Michigan. It is called “Cali and Howl” and beyond being about California it focuses on Beat poet Allen Ginsberg as a … Continue reading →

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I’d rather tax the realtors

Posted on April 10, 2015 by markweiss86

I’d rather tax the realtors. That’s my post under Steve Levy column in the Palo Alto Weekly. Steve usually deletes my posts, in whole or in part. Sometimes he neuters them and then goes “sissy!”. The topic is Measure A … Continue reading →

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