Monthly Archives: December 2018

I might like you better if you weren’t blocking my view of Romeo Void reunion with your stupid smart phone

Posted on December 10, 2018 by markweiss86

No, it’s cool; I do it too. But when I first started producing concerts in 1994, which was before we had cell phones, with video, I banned recording devices from the shows on the grounds that a, I wanted people … Continue reading →

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RedVette Band, 1981

Posted on December 10, 2018 by markweiss86

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20D21-4W6CY This will take a bit more sussin’. I post this here because Mesha Spivey, a former CCS high jump champ from Woodside, who grew up 12 years younger and across the street from CCS champ (and NBA Champ) Charles … Continue reading →

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A classmate’s tribute to one of this area’s all-time greats: Charles ‘C.J.’ Johnson, of Sequoia High, Cal and the world champion Golden State Warriors

Posted on December 10, 2018 by markweiss86

By Mark Meltzer: I was a classmate of CJ’s from elementary school (Washington School) all the way through UC Berkeley. In elementary school he was just known as Charley, CJ was to come later. We weren’t close friends but I … Continue reading →

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I saw a werewolf drinking a latte at the DeYoung museum, salivating over his next big plunder

Posted on December 10, 2018 by markweiss86

The De Young Museum has a great little show about Gauguin that includes Oceania, Europeania, paintings, prints, ceramics and wood carvings. People who’ve been around long enough might notice that the museum’s Maori figure from 1890 is likely the source … Continue reading →

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Bullets ahead: Rage Against The Machine at Pitzer College, 1992

Posted on December 10, 2018 by markweiss86
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Leave your ‘r’ at the do’oh

Posted on December 8, 2018 by markweiss86
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This is Oakland, almost

Posted on December 8, 2018 by markweiss86

  bw This is a weird Segue but  I was at Gunn for a jazz concert and I picked up the Oracle a paper I edit it for two years in a row And clipped a tearsheet about a collaborative … Continue reading →

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Mark B Weisses, 650 w 312

Posted on December 7, 2018 by markweiss86

If you don’t like me you can find another Mark B Weiss in Chicago where I was born.Edit to add Chicago is sometimes called city of big shoulders perhaps because of this poem by Carl Sandburg Actually this is spurred … Continue reading →

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One hundred thousand decisions, by Wegner, slated for new police station

Posted on December 6, 2018 by markweiss86

Peter Wegner,  of San Francisco by way of South Dakota. whose work adds color to the new Stanford GSB, presents a preview of his coming Palo Alto Commission. 2. There’s also a colorful LED element that, like his more mechanical … Continue reading →

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Hey blue Kerouacs, why so jaded?

Posted on December 6, 2018 by markweiss86

There’s something in today’s Palo Alto Post about a comedian being pulled off the stage at Columbia University of New York for saying no one looks in the mirror, who is black, and says ‘I’d like to be gay too … Continue reading →

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