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Our Palo Alto discussion featuring Sid Espinosa et al at Downtown Library Wednesday April 23, 2014

Posted on April 24, 2014 by markweiss86

I am carrying the business card of David Evan Harris, one of the panelists (along with Sid Espinosa, Steven Levy and Ann Dunkin): Research Director, Institute for the Future, 124 University Avenue, Palo Alto. Harris said, and my own eyes … Continue reading →

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I am not working on my blog because there are this many things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be

Posted on April 23, 2014 by markweiss86

I am not working on my blog because there are this many — 12 — things more interesting than my new computer, tempting though it may be. At Printer’s Inc, Cafe, Palo Alto, with about 90 minutes to be “productive”. … Continue reading →

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Does the Vivian Maier movie “dargerize” the nanny?

Posted on April 21, 2014 by markweiss86

(originally a draft of something I was to post on another wordpress site) I thought of Darger in relation to Maier, and found your blog. (Part Time Lion Timer by Gretchen Jacobsen aka Wilhemina Frame, on wordpress) A difference between Jessica … Continue reading →

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How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand? (Rubin Carter 1937-2014)

Posted on April 21, 2014 by markweiss86
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Giant Steps from Stanley to Ted to Plastic Alto

Posted on April 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Stanley Jordan’s “Friends” cd, from 2011 on Grosse-Point-based Mack Avenue features he and Mike Stern (with Kenwood Dennard restricting himself to the pacing) working thru a unique arrangement of “Giant Steps”, the prodigious contribution to the canon by John Coltrane. … Continue reading →

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Hurray For the Riff Raff at Independent in SF on April 22 Earthday

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

I only heard of this band via The New Yorker, but they are on ATO and apparently have sold out The Independent for a show on April 22 which is also, for some people, Earth Day. Hurray for Hurray For … Continue reading →

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23 small New Yorker Caroliner Plastic alters

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

1. Abe Rosenthal has a book on the murder of Kitty Genovese, three letters to the editor, regarding something published March 10, 2014; 2. Alynda Lee Segarra, 27, Hurray for the Riff Raff, of New Orleans, part of the American … Continue reading →

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A dose of kudos for Dan Fagin

Posted on April 16, 2014 by markweiss86

Kudos to Dan Fagin ’85, Pulitzer-Prize-winning former Editor-in-Chief of The Dartmouth. What I remember most about his directorate was them sitting around the lounge in Robinson Hall watching “The McLaughlin Group”and their banter and discussion would soon escalate to drown … Continue reading →

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Future history of modern cities slash Palo Alto

Posted on April 14, 2014 by markweiss86

If I run for Palo Alto City Council in fall, 2014 I will likely either read above or at least read Jonathan Yardley’s review of such, and drop the name of the book during any public fora about development here. … Continue reading →

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Too longish lift of Yardley on Gioia: Or, The History of Jazz/Palo Alto ctnd.

Posted on April 14, 2014 by markweiss86

“Jazz has always been a music of fusion. ‘Nothing from New Orleans is ever pure’ — so goes an old throwaway phrase. But even by Crescent City standards, early jazz was an especially complex melange. The Southern mentality that obsessively … Continue reading →

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