Category Archives: ethniceities

when i say ethniceities i mean “jewish”

Interview with Dan Kaufman from BARBEZ

Posted on May 5, 2014 by markweiss86

Not sure what to say yet, but couldn’t help but hit “reblog” function…I heard Seymour Hersh give a long lecture re-telling the story of My Lai massacre at a student investigative journalism conference in New Haven in 1985 or 1986 … Continue reading →

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New Celan notebook

Posted on May 5, 2014 by markweiss86

Paul Celan was born in 1920 and died shortly before his 50th birthday, in 1970. I’m not sure what I knew or had heard of his work, before a somewhat random communication with a musician and writer very into him, … Continue reading →

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Major Taylor monument in Worcester

Posted on May 5, 2014 by markweiss86

My friend Lynne Tolman was instrumental in bringing to fruition a monument to honor Major Taylor, a famous bike race from the early 20th century. I met Lynne when I was summer reporter for the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, in … Continue reading →

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Stanford Humanities Central featuring Ivan Brunetti et al

Posted on April 30, 2014 by markweiss86

1. On my walk yesterday, I spied a flyer regarding an appearance today of cartoonist Ivan Brunetti at Stanford’s Levinthal Humanities Center; looks interesting; it says he’s born in Italy, based in Chicago, has six or seven covers for The … Continue reading →

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Mandelbrot v. Cohen, Fractals v. Forcing, Morris v. Steve and Eric, ‘Errol Morris Dancing’

Posted on April 26, 2014 by markweiss86

  “Errol Morris Dancing” >> play both of these short films simultaneously, and vary the effect by muting one or the other for sound   Cohen is noted for developing a mathematical technique called forcing, which he used to prove that … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Baker on Donald Judd on perception

Posted on April 25, 2014 by markweiss86

The precision of Judd’s sculpture has led people to see an idealizing impulse behind it. But Judd saw himself as empiricist and his work as sharpening the perceptions of a public addled by encountering falseness daily on every front, from … Continue reading →

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I am not working on my blog because there are this many things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be

Posted on April 23, 2014 by markweiss86

I am not working on my blog because there are this many — 12 — things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be. At Printer’s Inc, Cafe, Palo Alto, with about 90 minutes to be “productive”. … Continue reading →

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Hurray For the Riff Raff at Independent in SF on April 22 Earthday

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

I only heard of this band via The New Yorker, but they are on ATO and apparently have sold out The Independent for a show on April 22 which is also, for some people, Earth Day. Hurray for Hurray For … Continue reading →

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23 small New Yorker Caroliner Plastic alters

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

1. Abe Rosenthal has a book on the murder of Kitty Genovese, three letters to the editor, regarding something published March 10, 2014; 2. Alynda Lee Segarra, 27, Hurray for the Riff Raff, of New Orleans, part of the American … Continue reading →

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A dose of kudos for Dan Fagin

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

Kudos to Dan Fagin ’85, Pulitzer-Prize-winning former Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth. What I remember most about his directorate was them sitting around the lounge in Robinson Hall watching “The McLaughlin Group”and their banter and discussion would soon escalate to drown … Continue reading →

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