Category Archives: ethniceities

when i say ethniceities i mean “jewish”

Dan Adler for Congress catnip for anti-semites

Posted on March 13, 2015 by markweiss86

Let’s get this straight: I am a small time operative in the music biz, as Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto, since 1994 and I am about 300 miles from LA, 35 miles from SF even, and about $500 from New … Continue reading →

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Hanna Cohan, 97

Posted on March 12, 2015 by markweiss86

I noticed in the rag that Hanna Cohan had passed away, March 9, at age 97. Oddly, I was just thinking about her, this morning, between when Terry got up to go to the hospital and when I got up, … Continue reading →

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Things I Don’t Understand: The Graduate as Comedy

Posted on March 11, 2015 by markweiss86

Originally posted on The Waiting:
Back when Wee Cee was just a glimmer in her daddy’s eye, I had the idea to start a blog about all the things I, as an adult, did not understand or was incapable of…

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CBGB w. CDBG

Posted on March 11, 2015 by markweiss86

This ain’t no HUD club, or CDBG Help me write a parody of “Life During Wartime” by Talking Heads about the gentrification of Stevenson House in Palo Alto, founded by the Unitarians in 1968 but taken over by billionaire real … Continue reading →

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Simi w. Tsimmes

Posted on March 9, 2015 by markweiss86

Simi is a new nickname for Joe Simitian, a leading local politician. Tsimmes is a Jewish soul food, a sweet stew made from carrots. edit: No, “simi” is Joe, “tsimmes” is Simitian/Hughes.

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Rachel Garlin ‘Wink at July’

Posted on March 8, 2015 by markweiss86

I texted Rachel Garlin to tell her that Paul Freeman in the Merc and affiliates reviews favorably her new release “Wink at July” and says it’s “warm and wonderful..” which for a text message is an adequate review of a … Continue reading →

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Waxwings at 250

Posted on March 5, 2015 by markweiss86

Laura Jacobson and I crossed path at Peet’s, she on her way to nearby studio me to this virtual world of 1’s and 0’s and signifying monk keys. Sundry topics flew by, as the lines shrank. One, the line for … Continue reading →

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Kickin’ it with Jamie Cullum

Posted on March 3, 2015 by markweiss86

Dear Jamie Cullum, when you play Hollywood Bowl on August 5, 2015, please swing by Palo Alto and do a free show at Lytton Plaza to raise awareness of “the Great Unwashed”. Thanks, Mark Weiss This is the quinetessentional plastic … Continue reading →

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Audaud.com: Akoka: Reframing Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time – Review

Posted on March 3, 2015 by markweiss86

I interviewed, lunched and even jammed with David “Kracky” Krakauer and Josh “Socalled” Dolgin at KZSU Stanford the day this premiered live at Mem Aud…

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Who kill Sy Abelmon?

Posted on March 3, 2015 by markweiss86

A serious mon. edit to add: I loves ABHO7K the way Sy loves Larry: and1: I think it would be funny for Marlon James, a Jamaican English professor and novelist (“A Brief History of Seven Killings”) at Macalester College in … Continue reading →

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