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

Carlos Gonzalez v. Speedy Gonzalez

Posted on April 11, 2014 by markweiss86

          Actually as I posted this Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner hit a grand slam to put the Giants over the Rockies 6-3.   In a related matter, I found this photo I snapped of Colin Dieden … Continue reading →

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God and yam at Yale

Posted on April 10, 2014 by markweiss86

I’m glad that William F. Buckley was not around to hear about this.

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Swift Swede at Dartmouth

Posted on April 8, 2014 by markweiss86

My little set of jokes about Mindy Kaling and the potentially raunchy meaning of “wah-hoo-wah” also had me thinking about a conjoined set of threads of Dartmouth stories regarding the history of track and field, Harry Hillman, Don Burnham, Gunder … Continue reading →

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UNDER-GUNDER I AMERIKA – Henry Eidmark

Posted on April 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on badgear:
Henry Eidmark – UNDER-GUNDER I AMERIKA, Häggturnéns ocensurerade loggbok. Åhlén och Åkerlunds Förlag 1943. A4 format. Kartonnage 4:50 kr + oms. 63 sidor. Bildredaktör C.A. Nycop. Det här är en reportagebok om Gunder Häggs turné i…

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The Ace of Blogs meets Wayne

Posted on April 4, 2014 by markweiss86

Wayne asked this morning at breakfast for us to explain what a “blog” is. A minute earlier I asked Scott, his neighbor, to explain for me what “IOS” means. Scott had saved about twenty percent on his breakfast at the … Continue reading →

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Wah-hoo-wah to Mindy and her wah-hoo-wah

Posted on April 2, 2014 by markweiss86

The inside joke about the Sploderzz execs and one of the docs all being Dartmouth grads is that Mindy Kaling herself is an alumna. Nobody from Dartmouth would, as the characters do, refer to each other as “fellow D-bags”, however. … Continue reading →

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Wangechi Mutu visual artist

Posted on April 1, 2014 by markweiss86

This looks interesting. There are several other longer videos in the cloud, plus a review by Holland Cotter of the Times (getting my 50 cents a day worth). I found this because Anne Makepeace did a short film on her. … Continue reading →

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My precious Stargell and frank funk

Posted on March 27, 2014 by markweiss86

We used to ride our bicycles the mile or so from our neighborhood to the five and dime in Saratoga Village, to pay 10 cents for Topps 1972 baseball cards — ten cards and a stick of not very tasty … Continue reading →

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Music is data (work in progress – notepad)

Posted on March 25, 2014 by markweiss86

I’m still the dissident claiming music is the thing coming out of your amp or mouth and not recorded data, but for some reason I am reading up on some of the leading terms and players in that admittedly large … Continue reading →

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Tale of Two Gits: Mia and Ren

Posted on March 25, 2014 by markweiss86

I noticed a week-old New York Times magazine, in my dad’s to-recycle basket, and rifled thru it: the cover story was about Silicon Valley, from the perspective of a grad student working a summer job at a hot new generation … Continue reading →

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