Category Archives: ethniceities

when i say ethniceities i mean “jewish”

Schauer defeats Sndyer

Posted on November 6, 2014 by markweiss86

Mark Schauer is a guy I met on the campaign trail here in Palo Alto, on Santa Rita Street to be precise, so I was excited to punch his name into the search-injun to learn that he got 47 points … Continue reading →

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Two minute warning or warming to or of Steve Almond Against Football

Posted on November 3, 2014 by markweiss86

This has 45 reviews on major web portal compared to 3 for the compilation I bought and mentioned above, with Namath and Red Smith and Dwight Clark the catch on cover, but 500 for Nate Jackson: Steve Almond who lives … Continue reading →

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Nina n me

Posted on November 2, 2014 by markweiss86

I said to the rock, please hide me. Lord. I’ve been listening to Nina Simone, a cd I bought at of all places S_(national chain, coffee, and music, — Don MacKinnon — Plastic Alto don’t play brand name), called “How … Continue reading →

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I say “Boom, Boom” Pat Travers say “out go lights”

Posted on November 1, 2014 by markweiss86

Pat Travers is or was a Canadian blues rocker who released a live album in 1979, my freshman year at Gunn, that included a cover of the Little Walter song “Boom Boom”. Did this become a Gunn football or basketball … Continue reading →

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Do Spoon your water

Posted on October 28, 2014 by markweiss86

Two threads merge here: I was psyched to hear Spoon, the Austin band that debuted in the Bay Area at Palo Alto Cubberley Center Theatre in 1997, get another song on the commercial radio, here KFOG for something called “Do … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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