Category Archives: film

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A touch of grey goo (weird review of ‘Welcome to Dopeland’)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by markweiss86

Note: This is a verbatim re-post of the world’s weirdest review of a 2011 Cake cd which I now claim is the world’s weirdest review of “Welcome to Dopeland” a film by Len Dell’Amico, I caught recently in Menlo Park … Continue reading →

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More bike, less blog

Posted on May 22, 2012 by markweiss86

Thank you, Rudy of Palo Alto Bikes, for aiding my sagging tubes and planting the seed of an idea that perhaps we’d all be better off if during the warm weather I did slightly more bike and slightly less blog. … Continue reading →

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Announcing Earthwise Productions Institute and news-reading service, not necessarily in that order

Posted on April 23, 2012 by markweiss86

WE RECOMMEND YOU BUY THIS BOOK: Niners Stadium price shows how stakes are rising, by Gwen Knapp, who the very busy doctor, dad and blogger from the midwest Dr. Brian Moore, a transplanted New Englander helpfully or perhaps wishfully remembers … Continue reading →

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Thirty-three things I (might) write about on “Plastic Alto”

Posted on April 8, 2012 by markweiss86

1. Laurel Nakadate ‘The Wolf Knife”, free in Believer; 2. Andrew Bogut, and Kent Lockhart: Kent told me he once coached Bogut, who worked out with Dandenong, Kent’s old team, in 1997 as a teenager and guard; 3. A Passover … Continue reading →

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Happy Dao, and how!

Posted on April 3, 2012 by markweiss86

“Happy birthday, Dao. From Mark” that was a text I sent to my former client, the singer-songwriter, novelist and mom Dao Strom, who lives in Portland now, at about 9:45 last night, as Terry and I were both falling asleep … Continue reading →

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Hold the date for Reading Rainbow May 12

Posted on March 8, 2012 by markweiss86

Hold the date, for Reading Rainbow in the Park. I just came back from a meeting for the second Reading Rainbow in the Park, a book fair for kids and K-12, scheduled Saturday, May 12, 2012, 10 to 3 p.m. … Continue reading →

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Laurel Nakadate James Franco

Posted on February 22, 2012 by markweiss86

Am I in a coma? How could it have taken me three months too late to imagine a collaboration between James Franco and Laurel Nakadate? Can they “bring it” to Palo Alto? http://11.performa-arts.org/event/laurel-nakadate-and-james-franco One of my nightmares is that, like … Continue reading →

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Daniel Breaker breakout

Posted on February 21, 2012 by markweiss86

If it is not enough in one life for 32-year-old actor Daniel Breaker to shine on Broadway as both Youth in “Passing Strange” and Donkey in “Shrek” now he is starring in two commercials I saw back to back during … Continue reading →

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Wishing a full Ricoh to TPH

Posted on February 7, 2012 by markweiss86

A dozen videos, 359 words, a bonus video or two hidden and a hidden document for an old friend. Continue reading →

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Fueled by Dohatsuten

Posted on January 30, 2012 by markweiss86

cut is what i aim for, sic. Continue reading →

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