Category Archives: media

when i sneak my cell into stanford theatre and the lady, who is cool with almost falling off a ladder for minimum wage when she changes the names on the marquee, asks me not to use my cell, marshall mcluhan, noam chomsky and more

Clockers (3)

Posted on February 2, 2015 by markweiss86

Clockers: 1) book by Richard Price, I got 5 pages in to learn that drug dealers such as “shanelle or shanette, with baby fat” have a 2 minute attention span, or hear and now mentality; 2) http://www.amazon.com/Collection-Clockers-Jungle-Better-Crooklyn/dp/B000E40QC4 dvd of film, … Continue reading →

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Leadership, 10 snapshots

Posted on January 31, 2015 by markweiss86

2 3 4 5 6 …10, a wild card

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Maybe it’s

Posted on January 27, 2015 by markweiss86

Cheryl Wheeler, 1997 about Jonesboro, Arkansas, Garth Brooks pka Chris Gaines, 2000 and me, at PAUSD meeting, apropos indirectly about Gunn student stress (which I am hesitant to call a “suicide cluster”) — and Cheryl did play this at Cubberley … Continue reading →

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Jim Newton pen James Newton flute

Posted on January 23, 2015 by markweiss86

Wah hoo wah not wah-who-cares? to Jim Newton the former Paly Campanile Editor, The Dartmouth publisher, James Reston intern and LA Times editorialist and his new job teaching or reaching at UCLA, our tax dollars at work (although I still … Continue reading →

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Tana, Franks and McCain confirmed for Palo Alto jazz panel

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86

And then, neutralizing gravity with love and pure will, they remained suspended in air inches below the ceiling and they kissed each other for a long, long timeK.V. Three jazz musicians with local ties headline a panel discussion for the … Continue reading →

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Jack Del Rio and Lisa M. Snyder

Posted on January 22, 2015 by markweiss86

Vic Tafur page 1 the Chron has a puff piece on former Hayward High great Jack Del Rio, 51, the new Raiders head coach. I distinctly recall asking my former The Dartmouth colleague Lisa M. Sndyer, a Hayward ’83 about … Continue reading →

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‘Close Gitmo’

Posted on January 21, 2015 by markweiss86
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Palo Alto Forward

Posted on January 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I said, promptly deleted by Censor In Charged at Palo Alto Weekly: Palo Alto Forward members are the policy equivalent to Ring Girls at a boxing match: they look good, their message is oversimplified, they take their orders from somebody … Continue reading →

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Je suis Jim Yardley

Posted on January 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I doubt we ran Jim Yardley’s first byline above the fold page one of the Oracle, at Henry M. Gunn High of Palo Alto — something about middle class students using public transportation to school, spring 1981 — but his … Continue reading →

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Gunn-Paly shootout set for Feb. 7 at The Titensity Taj Maha, or The Paly Pit rather

Posted on January 16, 2015 by markweiss86

John Reid, who Hans outs as a former Awalt coach, lauds Kevin Mullin of the Vikes. Should be an interesting match up Feb. 7 Saturday at Gunn’s new gym (new to me). That’s in three weeks.check that, the game is … Continue reading →

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