Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

pertaining to government, the public sector, governance, democracy, politics, issues pertaining to such, like “freedom of speech” concepts

The Great Disrupter Of Foamy, Delicious cafes

Posted on November 11, 2018 by markweiss86

This is an inside joke especially following my post about foothillspark in that in 2014 the hollow out the weekly called me the great agitator

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Windshields at ‘Lee Flats’ (7.7 baby!!!)

Posted on November 11, 2018 by markweiss86

  I love that old Mary Chapin Carpenter song (tho written by someone earlier) about sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. Yesterday, at a beautiful though slightly (appropriately?) smoky late morning early aft at Foothills Park, about 40 … Continue reading →

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Beasley ‘Stone Arpeggio’ (2007) w Beasley ‘Arpeggio V’ (2011)

Posted on November 10, 2018 by markweiss86

BLUF: was this truly a commission or merely a placement of an existing work? The dialogue with Paula K did start in 2006 or 2007 — I met Bruce at Cali Ave site a year or so before my house … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Johnny Mac’s / Ugly’s / Bert’s Alibi bars, hello four story mixed use undergrounded parking

Posted on November 9, 2018 by markweiss86

At 1313 El Camino, between El Monte and Shoreline, Mountain View  That is between Swetka‘s tennis shop and Alison is garden fresh vegan Chinese restaurant Actually this is news to me until 10 minutes ago in between my tennis racket … Continue reading →

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One long tollway just heading north, and one even longer heading south

Posted on November 6, 2018 by markweiss86

  I remember Illinois Governor-elect J.B. Pritzker at a Hebrew School talent show, in 1976 singing “If I Were A Rich Man” from “Fiddler on the Roof”. Everyone knew that his family were the founders of Hyatt Hotels. I’m not … Continue reading →

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Maybe my coffee is too strong but I see the face of a billy goat or Gandalf the White in this Trevor Paglen found photo at Altman-Siegel

Posted on October 31, 2018 by markweiss86
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3 Teens kill 4 no motive w 4 pols run with mo money

Posted on October 31, 2018 by markweiss86

3 Teens Kill 4 is a band from the 1980s that sound like Talking Heads meet Negativland. No Motive was their first album, both names ripped from the tabloids. Here is my comment in the PAW board — I habitually … Continue reading →

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Abstract and stylized in two colors of cement, the head of an indigenous person, in front of former bowling alley targeting students, first pointed out to me by the historic resources commissioner Beth Bunnenburg

Posted on October 30, 2018 by markweiss86
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The Red Sox, a ‘patriot’

Posted on October 29, 2018 by markweiss86

On the night that the Boston Red Sox won the World Series in Los Angeles, Anna Eshoo Member of Congress in Los Altos Hills called my mother Barbara H. Weiss “a patriot”. On October 26, in Washington Anna had also … Continue reading →

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When I roll the dice, it will come up non-Weiss

Posted on October 27, 2018 by markweiss86

    I’ve now endorsed four candidates for next months Palo Alto council election. Plus, I qualified my name for the ballot by petition of 35 residents, but withdrew for the race when my mother Barbara Weiss died. First I … Continue reading →

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