Category Archives: ethniceities

when i say ethniceities i mean “jewish”

Bad Jewish joke, or ‘Zorn dole’ as in Tzadik records tour support

Posted on August 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Paul brody bay area klezmer trumpet in poland or germany? Paul what are you up to? We met years ago when you were on tour and played santa cruz. my friend esther berndt but not her saxophone or clarinet said … Continue reading →

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Zasu Pitts at the New Varsity, circa 1988

Posted on August 20, 2014 by markweiss86

Randy Lutge is the Les Blank of Palo Alto, and his New Orleans is the New Varsity. He has about 500 films of acts and artists performing live music there, 456 University, in the late 1980s and early 1990s when … Continue reading →

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Are you ready for some Edelman, er, exercise, er, lunch?

Posted on August 19, 2014 by markweiss86

reprinted from three years ago, with addendum: This run by Julian Edelman, of the New England Patriots, a former Woodside High and CSM football hero, makes me wish I had done my recent smog check at Frank Edelman’s A-1 AutoTech … Continue reading →

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Tygress, Tygress (Mia Levin, Sunday, August 17, 2014)

Posted on August 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Mia Levin and I met in 1977 when we were both Terman Tigers and I presume virgins. Now she is Mama Mia to Lalique, 28, and Leon, 9. Wow! She also has “put out” 10 cd’s, albums and tapes as: … Continue reading →

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There’s a little piece of Maria in every song he sings

Posted on August 18, 2014 by markweiss86

When I worked, as a freelancer or go-fer, at Goodby Berlin and Silverstein, 921 Front Street in San Francisco in the late 1980s there was an interesting looking lady there about my age named Maria. I seem to recall that … Continue reading →

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Rue-DOOR-en felt the most real so we GOOG-led it and found a section of an island in Finland that we someday hope to claim as ancestral homeland

Posted on August 16, 2014 by markweiss86

(TRIBUTE TO BIG DAYS OF JOSEPH ZIRKER, SARAH CAMERON SUNDE, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, AUGUST 14-15, 2014 PALO ALTO AND SAN FRANCISCO) I do not know Jodi Wilgoren also known as Jodi Rudoren. Her sister Debbi Wilgoren was three years … Continue reading →

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Joe Zirker show at Art Center

Posted on August 15, 2014 by markweiss86

Joe Zirker actually asked me to shoot his show, both the art and the people, and I complied with about 34 shots before it got dark enough that my camera starts to automatically use a flash, and I stopped. That … Continue reading →

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Art imitating artist

Posted on August 14, 2014 by markweiss86

OR, ALO STATUE? I’m editing about 1,000 photographs and short films on my new Motorola smart-phone droid. I’m posting photo-essays on about a subset of 80 of those. I hope to delete another 500 or so, if I get a … Continue reading →

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Stanford garners Fields Prize

Posted on August 14, 2014 by markweiss86

Paul J. Cohen won the Fields Prize in 1966 for work he did on the continuum hypothesis in 1963 while living in Palo Alto, on Princeton Street in College Terrace (actually quite close to where Zuckerberg founded Facebook years later). … Continue reading →

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Endorsements, encounters, engagement

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

This is a 40-picture set of images I took with my new Motorola droid, most of which pertains to my Palo Alto City Council candidacy. Check back if this looks like less than 40. It actually is Weird Beers of … Continue reading →

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