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Meta alters Facebook app to act more like Apple than TikTok does

Posted on July 22, 2022 by markweiss86

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d1-iqfSOaMQ

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Penny BAKER, get it?

Posted on July 13, 2022 by markweiss86
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Open letter to Karen Kienzle

Posted on July 10, 2022 by markweiss86

  In sympathy to your situation and in memory of our mutual friend Joe Zirker whose art is pictured above with musician Larry Ochs and myself December 12, 2019 I will produce a series of awkwardly timed 3:30 PM events … Continue reading →

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Not sure why Kamasi Washington charges $142 per ticket for a club show in Menlo Park except possibly, as the New York Times reports, he is seen in society pages wearing a dashiki spun with real gold

Posted on June 19, 2022 by markweiss86

  bw   note: Kamasi Washington is booked by Mitch Blackman of ICM, who also books Robert Glasper and Macy Gray — both of whom played the new venue, The Guild. Kamasi has 187K social media followers, god bless. note2: … Continue reading →

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Jimmy Wilsey VS Dede Wilsey

Posted on June 18, 2022 by markweiss86

    There’s an article in today’s Chronicle that Michael Goldberg has a biography of Jimmy Calvin Wilsey the Chris Isaak founding guitarist and former member of the punk band the avengers, Who died three years ago. I never met … Continue reading →

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No balls and two strikes

Posted on June 7, 2022 by markweiss86

I spoke with our mayor Pat Burt today and he told me that although he initially thought he could raise $40m (towards our roughly $200m budget) via a business tax, he has lowered his expectations to $10m. At a recent … Continue reading →

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June swoon >>> just added

Posted on June 6, 2022 by markweiss86

I’m cutting and pasting this from last week’s post plus a few other just added: TAMMY HALL, solo piano at Johnson Park, downtown north Palo Alto, 2 p.m. Saturday, September 10, 2022 – (note: Stanford plays USC later that afternoon, … Continue reading →

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There’s a person out here turning Chevy into jazz

Posted on May 24, 2022 by markweiss86

(for Ted Gioia, apologies to John Stewart; shout out to Jamie Stewart) In Palo Alto there is a homeless woman camped out in the gap between the CVS – which uses only one entrance since Covid and has the other … Continue reading →

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Earthwise vs The Pink

Posted on May 15, 2022 by markweiss86
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Earthwise ads in Chronicle Datebook and Sunday Pink for the first time since 1990s

Posted on May 10, 2022 by markweiss86
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