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

I am running, if you define running as walking around, shooting photos and then writing about that or those

Posted on July 23, 2014 by markweiss86

Within an hour of visiting Donna Grider, the Palo Alto City Clerk, to “pull papers”, two reporters called to confirm if I was indeed running. I called back Breena Kerr of the Post and asked if I could add another … Continue reading →

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I wanna get I Wanna Get Better but not for $1.29

Posted on July 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Bleachers released his her or its debut cd on Tuesday, but I just heard about it yesterday or today due to a Kimmel re-run (I was actually taping to capta St. Paul and the Broken Bones or something — I … Continue reading →

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GD concert film Thursday in Mountain View

Posted on July 16, 2014 by markweiss86

Click here to get your miracle ticket for a Grateful Dead meet-up at Mountain View Century theaters, 7:30 show, a 1972 Germany concert film. This is probably more fun that the typical Palo Alto Planning and Transportation Commission meeting, which … Continue reading →

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How deep is your rot?

Posted on July 16, 2014 by markweiss86

The building industry term “net zero” is a green-wash term designed to confuse the issue about growth per se. Here is a good article on it, about San Francisco’s first “net zero” building. Web Link To me the context of … Continue reading →

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Belgium: Field trials planned of GM poplar trees for ethanol

Posted on July 16, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on chrislang.org:
Why are scientists researching this dangerous, untested false solution to climate change, when other real solutions already exist? By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 127, February 2008. Late last year, the Flanders Institute for…

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Jack O The Clock live in Palo Alto

Posted on July 16, 2014 by markweiss86

I don’t think Jack O The Clock, the improv music group, have played Palo Alto. Jumping the eye across a scrolling screen of 0’s and 1’s disguised as A, B, C, &’s & #’s, it seems they like Starry Plough … Continue reading →

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Registry of historic rock venues, Portola Valley

Posted on July 15, 2014 by markweiss86

Twenty nineteen, five years from now, brings an anniversary of Portola discovering, so to speak, Palo Alto, on behalf of the King of Spain, , in 1769 and I have been thinking that it sounds like a good concept for … Continue reading →

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I and Thou, 1 Borges y Yo, 0

Posted on July 15, 2014 by markweiss86

    (I read “Borges Y Yo” in Spanish 3 at Dartmouth, in its original Argentine; was my professor named Russell? And I found it recently, in English, at a good used book store near the Plaza in Santa Fe, … Continue reading →

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Me-too ‘Happy’ about smart

Posted on July 14, 2014 by markweiss86

At 9:10 on Monday, I am reading the Times in the common room of my apartment complex. I notice the chart on Downloads. Katy Perry number one, Pharrell Williams “Happy” number two. I suddenly am reminded that as of a … Continue reading →

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May I pay my Palo Alto library fine with Bitcoin?

Posted on July 14, 2014 by markweiss86

I owe the library about $5. I have three books out, on J.D. Salinger, on “Dollarocracy”, something else, and an Ornette Coleman cd called “Space”. I think there are about 100 titles in the library database that I have paid … Continue reading →

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