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We The People perks: or, can you open up the doors for me?

Posted on November 7, 2023 by markweiss86

My coffee today is courtesy of We the People. I greeted two City of Palo Alto leaders* and in our conversation, the senior of the two offered me a cup of coffee— my normal cappuccino even — and I accepted. … Continue reading →

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Fuck the Astros and their oil company uniform ad

Posted on October 18, 2023 by markweiss86
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Tale of two Cubberleys

Posted on October 17, 2023 by markweiss86

The Palo Alto Weekly ran a picture of two geezers with medicine balls in an otherwise empty Cubberley hallway, to signify or suborn apathy about that important public asset. I think they’re thinking by publishing these weak messages that if … Continue reading →

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Black Virgins are Not For Hipsters by Earthwise

Posted on October 16, 2023 by markweiss86

I’m risking $3,600 in seed money for a work derivative of Echo Brown’s one woman show, “Black Virgins Are Not For Hipsters” which debuted at The Marsh in San Francisco eight years ago. It would be a postmodern work — … Continue reading →

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Pictorial notes for a short story or song about ‘A Lexus’

Posted on September 27, 2023 by markweiss86

Same as it ever was Continue reading →

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Renee Rapp ready for her close up

Posted on September 12, 2023 by markweiss86

Featured in The Dartmouth by Elle Muller ‘24 I bought a pair for her upcoming Oaktown / APE / Fox hit. ”Too Well” is on Apple and other plats, got one minute after Karol G on MTV awards. bw Muller … Continue reading →

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SAVE THE CANNERY

Posted on September 5, 2023 by markweiss86

Karen Holman  

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knee jerk reactions to Tom Kemp ‘big tech’ book

Posted on September 5, 2023 by markweiss86

While waiting for a latte at Peet’s: come as you are are you an ally of Josh Becker? are you an asset of Josh Becker? did you work full-time in tech before becoming an author about tech? have you read … Continue reading →

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Magoos Heroes featuring Magos Herrera

Posted on August 22, 2023 by markweiss86

  Lately I seem to walk as though I have wings Bump into things like someone in love Each time I look at you I’m light as a cloud And feeling like someone in love

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24 noms for next president of Stanford (not in any particular order, nor with any methodology beyond having lived hereabouts 47 years minus four years at Dartmouth, four years in the city, a month in Brooklyn and a month in Austin)

Posted on July 26, 2023 by markweiss86

Or I nominate, Michael McFaul, former Obama security chief, an ambassador to Russia, who dated a friend of mine, his freshman and sophomore years. He took us to the Grateful Dead once although I would deny the rumor about how … Continue reading →

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