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

Notes on public safety, during three minute address to Council tonight

Posted on August 18, 2014 by markweiss86

>>Seemless transition from neighborhood preparedness to public safety Gunn, Paly and Castilleja –aspire to community service We can self-govern and self-police. No outsourcing. No privatizing. Background: 1. 2011 ballot Measure D affecting collective bargaining agreement (CBA) and binding arbitration A … Continue reading →

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Rue-DOOR-en felt the most real so we GOOG-led it and found a section of an island in Finland that we someday hope to claim as ancestral homeland

Posted on August 16, 2014 by markweiss86

(TRIBUTE TO BIG DAYS OF JOSEPH ZIRKER, SARAH CAMERON SUNDE, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, AUGUST 14-15, 2014 PALO ALTO AND SAN FRANCISCO) I do not know Jodi Wilgoren also known as Jodi Rudoren. Her sister Debbi Wilgoren was three years … Continue reading →

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National cream sickle day and my corn beef hash

Posted on August 15, 2014 by markweiss86

1. Yesterday was National Creamsickle day*, although I missed the opportunity to drag my Oldenburg to the Oak Creek clubhouse to contextualize the event — a couple other opportunities popped up and one can only be so many places at … Continue reading →

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Weiss to appear at Elks Club Palo Alto September 22 at 1:11 p.m.

Posted on August 15, 2014 by markweiss86

Palo Alto City Council candidate Mark Weiss, the minimalist who mixes Ralph Nader with Donald Judd*, will appear at the Elks Club on Monday, September 22, 2014 for exactly one minute, at 1:11 p.m. Twelve candidates will appear at a … Continue reading →

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Endorsements, encounters, engagement

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

This is a 40-picture set of images I took with my new Motorola droid, most of which pertains to my Palo Alto City Council candidacy. Check back if this looks like less than 40. It actually is Weird Beers of … Continue reading →

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Our Mayor Nancy Scombridae

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

I spoke at Council twice yesterday, once on our “parks deficit” and once on the dubious public benefit at the former JJ&F site, and both times Nancy Shepherd botched my name. (She called me “weese” once and “mike”). Reminds me … Continue reading →

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Joe 90 v. Joe 90

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

I never heard of Joe 90 until my cousin Craig told me that his band had changed it’s name to it, to wit:

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Meet Mike Cassidy and eat Chinese Tuesday

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

TASC event — news to me Mike Cassidy August 12th Women and Computing: The Promise Denied Mike Cassidy, former Silicon Valley Dispatches columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, and currently the storyteller at BloomReach, a big data marketing application … Continue reading →

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Shazbot

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86
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The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten songs, by Greil Marcus and Mark Weiss, or Grweisl Markus

Posted on August 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Call me pathetic call me what you will just don’t call me late to Cibo: “America has become amnesiac,” says Henry Giroux, “a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.” … Continue reading →

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