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

Are there any other celebrities on this blog?

Posted on May 30, 2012 by markweiss86

Dear Moe and All: Setting here listening to your Stella Brooks album sounds tough and good. Old timey sound of the backs her up “Little Piece of Leather” is onery, delightful and rough. “Gin’s gonna kill but they don’t say … Continue reading →

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The skinny on Mexico 132 movement

Posted on May 26, 2012 by markweiss86

#TodosSomos132: Solidarity With the Mexican Spring Posted 1 day ago on May 25, 2012, 10:50 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt On May 11, a group of students at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City booed Enrique Peña Nieto at one of his … Continue reading →

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Risky Business y Yo Soy 132

Posted on May 26, 2012 by markweiss86

I was watching television, lazing away my Saturday morning, dog by my side — Tom Cruise in “Risky Business” 1983 — when I got a text from a friend who lives in Mexico asking me if I had heard about … Continue reading →

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Willie Mays or unsubscribe

Posted on May 21, 2012 by markweiss86

This is my favorite “semi-span” that I sent to a list on my emails, and I just realized that it started with Leah Garchik; also, Maroon 5 was actually in town recently, at a promo at Stanford Shopping that I … Continue reading →

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Garchik chic

Posted on May 21, 2012 by markweiss86

— Mark Weiss saw a Palo Alto motorcycle cop with a framed license plate: “I know I know the light was yellow.” Garchik is now two for seventy-six or so in terms of printing things I suggest to her, a much … Continue reading →

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Clear story, obscured

Posted on May 19, 2012 by markweiss86

I ran into our former mayor Sid Espinosa and shot this picture of him doing a video pr segment for Palo Alto Art Center Foundation. The mayor and I actually discussed via text messages whether this shot is appropriate for … Continue reading →

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Thomson and Brownrigg for JCC benefit in Mountain View shoreline

Posted on May 12, 2012 by markweiss86

I am reading “Kepler’s Dream” by Juliet Bell, a name used by Sylvia Brownrigg, who I’ve known since the fifth grade, at Fremont Hills. Coincidentally, the story is told from the perspective of an 11-year old. Here is Syliva or … Continue reading →

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Chip Hoopers top 100

Posted on May 4, 2012 by markweiss86

I only recently checked out the Billboard Power 100 top people in the music biz and found that I think I have heard of 29 of them. Cannot say I have relationship with any of them but I want to … Continue reading →

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My sloppy Cake transcript sans typos

Posted on April 30, 2012 by markweiss86

i was high but cake was the sky, or at least on terrestrial radio, which travels literally thru the airwaves, all the way from KQED to our Palo Alto kitchen while Frida caked her chin with salmon-mush and I walked around in circles moving my arms but not my hips Continue reading →

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My sloppy notes on Cake on KQED, verbatim and unedited

Posted on April 26, 2012 by markweiss86

We don’t have in our music the equilvalent of deforesatatoin. Turn the amp to 11 is not subversive, its what Exxon is doing. I grew up in bekrely and had to move to sac as a tennagaer and hated it … Continue reading →

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