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Kona is still da bomb

Posted on February 17, 2015 by markweiss86

Terry and I went to Hawaii for a week in winter, 2013 about two years ago. Here is my late-breaking photo essay on such: This is us watching a sunset at a public beach in Kona, near a government energy … Continue reading →

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60 Days ’til the Luke

Posted on February 17, 2015 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Terry Acebo Davis :
Author at work with Darby! Darby and Tory Burches So I’m back in the studio again after a “visual block”. ? ? Entangled Sister Sangre ? ? My schiz world which is that  of…

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Sam Yates COPA the gift that keeps giving

Posted on February 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Breena your story on Sam Yates is pretty disappointing. The central point is that Palo Alto unwisely withheld payment and closure for two years because someone put the idea out there that the artwork should include a data base useful … Continue reading →

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Library pottery as focal point

Posted on February 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Palo Alto’s renovated Rinconada Library, formerly known as Main Library, has on display a white Raku-style pottery pod or jar maybe not an olla by a local artist named Stephen A. Stephens (1943-1983). The staff, especially “Karen” are quite fond … Continue reading →

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Pubic defender

Posted on February 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Broke Ass Stuart has a website, and Alex Mak of the BAS confederacy profiled Matt Gonzalez, the public defender, former SF Supe and artist. I thought it neat, and commented to such, that next to the article there was an … Continue reading →

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More Doug Moran with finish fetish fundament

Posted on February 12, 2015 by markweiss86

and my response: Greg Brown at his address to PAHA, for the publication of Matt Bowlng’s book –Greg is on the cover — noted that when he visited Linkoping and brought up the fate of “Foreign Friends” they all started … Continue reading →

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No waffling on Brown Sugar Kitchen

Posted on February 8, 2015 by markweiss86

Terry, Maggie and I did not mind waiting 90 minutes to be seated Saturday at West Oakland’s famous Brown Sugar Kitchen especially since a, owner and hubby of the chef Tanya Holland Phil Surkis schmoozed us a bit during the … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto’s democracy sabbath

Posted on January 31, 2015 by markweiss86

I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. Just as Shani Kleinhaus the bird advocate spoke, and I tried to mentally … Continue reading →

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Face time

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86
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Franco to play Sherman in Hollywood biopic

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86

James Franco, the polyglot Paly grad, will play Richard Sherman, the Compton thug turned Stanford pedant turned Seahawk Icarus-by-way-of-Butkus in a deal announced simultaneous via Skype in Phoenix and Park City. Sherman himself will play all the other characters, ala … Continue reading →

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