Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

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

David Shields Nine Twenty-four

Posted on September 23, 2014 by markweiss86

David Shields is in San Jose Wednesday evening and Thursday nooner. The Palo Alto Weekly ran an add Friday. From Reality Hunger, 9: One author pilfers the best of another and calls it reality hunger From Reality Hunger, 24: In … Continue reading →

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World’s most sly reference to ‘1984’

Posted on September 21, 2014 by markweiss86

For the record, I like John Fredrich and look forward to whatever else he will say or do in the campaign. He taught at Gunn for a number of years, starting just after I left. He ran for council several … Continue reading →

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Tom Dubois is a genuine brown man

Posted on September 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Ran into Beau today, who I had to cover in the first ever game — despite what John Paye been saying — at the new Menlo Gym, in 1980. I think of Beau as a conservative, but I also think … Continue reading →

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Chez Franc queen garners laurels

Posted on September 20, 2014 by markweiss86

To be frank, this is not something I would relish.

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From Taylor Ho Bynum ‘Technology Austerity Manifesto’

Posted on September 20, 2014 by markweiss86

Art is contemporary if it is fluid with its environment.” —John Cage, courtesy of a David Shields tweet; check back or “search” for photos of the actual event, “!Taylor Ho!” Recently my wife and I decided to try something new … Continue reading →

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A little chin music for the corporate behemoth

Posted on September 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Tom Hanks, or a character he played, said “there’s no crying in baseball”. Surely, you know there is no “center field foul pole / corporate communications behemoth 65 foot pole antenna” in baseball. At the risk of going full Juan … Continue reading →

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Eastern Michigan and points over the Spartans, and Schauer over Snyder

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

i am kinda souring on the MS thing in that I’ve gotten about a dozen emails about money and none that acknowledge that I thought i connected to the candidate on a unique level, in palo alto. mark weiss 650.305.XXXX … Continue reading →

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Plastic Peters

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

I wrote earlier today about Steve Coleman, jazz musician and MacArthur Genius laureate. Earlier today, however, apropos of nothing, and he of infinite jest, I made a post-modern pseudo-writing job by cutting and pasting bits of nine previous works in … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Coleman, MacFoundDaddy

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

Steve Coleman won a MacArthur Genius grant. He joins Steve Lacy, Corey Harris and many others. M-Base, his thing. Not sure how it works. It says in his bio he was part of the Stanford Jazz Workshop, mid-1990s. Went to … Continue reading →

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Great football writing, part II

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

hut 1: Devon Cajuste told me,the night of his 3-td performance against we the people’s black nights — compared to the private cardinal robber barons — that he had never heard of Dwight Clark and the Catch but is a … Continue reading →

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