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A picture is worth one thousand emails and one (Meredith Valiando commercial)

Posted on March 23, 2012 by markweiss86

I captured Meridith Valiando, a publishing executive with Universal, about an hour ago, while watching Letterman, then cracked upon the laptop for some random post, meanwhile vaguely monitoring now, 45 minutes later, Charlie Rose about “Ad Men” a show I … Continue reading →

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Thrilling Kansas victory bodes well for teen music and art initiative

Posted on March 18, 2012 by markweiss86

With Kansas trailing Purdue early in the second half, and the dog curiously obsessed with the taste of her own front paws, our neighbor Marjorie Ford, wearing a furry cap she bought recently in Budapest came by to ask us … Continue reading →

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Torry Castellano aka Donna C on the Farm

Posted on March 17, 2012 by markweiss86

from the Stanford Magazine March 2011: WHEN THE DAY ARRIVED last summer for new transfer students to visit Stanford, the sense of anticipation grew. “I am looking forward to meeting the former rock star,” an admissions staffer told Sally Mentzer, who coordinates … Continue reading →

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Jenny Scheinman loves Drew Carey!!

Posted on March 12, 2012 by markweiss86

I got sucked into this whole thread apparently by wacky Drew Carey faking his own artistic death with help from National Enquirer, Robbie Fulks and The Palo Alto Daily Compost (“the poop, the whole poop, and nothing but the poop”), … Continue reading →

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New Yoshi’s boogie

Posted on February 21, 2012 by markweiss86

i’ve spent a little time on the mountains, where the air is thin so i started trippin’ long strange that Continue reading →

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Lin “gunning it out” with Kobe Bryant

Posted on February 10, 2012 by markweiss86

this is my dream being lived out, by jeremy lin. hoop dreams two. the humble hero from harvard leads knicks over lakers 92-85 primetime on ESPN from Madison Square garden. the kid from gunn i mean paly high — that was Joshua Lin at Gunn. Jeremy and Joseph somehow ended up at Paly — state champs. 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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3 Short Posts about Jason Mraz, SF Public Press and Dr. Dawn Norfleet jazz

Posted on January 20, 2012 by markweiss86

Rushing back to my secret (wired) hideout to prepare for a presentation Monday on Steinbeck’s “Tortilla Flat”, I wrote in my head two short posts for “Plastic Alto.” But then, and only because I have known Matt Nathanson since he … Continue reading →

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warm weather warning; or war mw e ther ; or wah hoo wah

Posted on January 3, 2012 by markweiss86

i saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by dartmouth. starving, seussical, naked sink date wrestling, power booting — who could forget these crisp hanover january mornings? roaming the negro streets at dawn looking for c and a pizza. preppy duck-booted hipsters — or were they Hopsters — riding the if not hydrogen juke box then cold weather research station kiewit buzz moloch moloch mousilauke. I am with you in Rutland, Alden Van Buskirk! Or at Cafe Du Nord on 1/26/12 Continue reading →

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420 Cambridge

Posted on December 27, 2011 by markweiss86

let’s get to the point, and smoke another joint, cause you don’t know what it means to be reality stoner real estate television satire and then i bumped again i bumped again Continue reading →

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