Category Archives: sex

gender, has to do with females of the species, generally but not pruriently except in rare cases; feminism sometimes.

Party time with Marcia Ball y’all

Posted on May 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Marcia Ball sat for me three times Sunday. The first time, ok, she was sitting at her piano, cross-legged in a skirt, flapping her flip-flop sandal to the beat, her fingers flying across the board, like two acoma hawks herding … Continue reading →

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Catching up with Rupa

Posted on April 29, 2014 by markweiss86

I have not seen or heard in a while Rupa & The April Fishes, yet am thinking about her and them, this 29th day of April, 2014. I rescued if that’s the word, these 900 words that I had posted … 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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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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Don’t let Hollywood wreck your West Marin weekend (Jerry Hannan at Rancho Nicasio)

Posted on April 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Sixty-nine miles to West Marin to see NorCal legend Jerry Hannan paid off for us thanks to the music, the food, the weather, a judicious serving of Sierra Nevada and our lucky stars. It was my first visit to Rancho … 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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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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It will be interesting to see if these four Palo Altans can indeed carve a livelihood out of these events, and do so without losing their dignity

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Let’s rab. Continue reading →

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Bumping into Doorframe, a music biz memoir by Mark Weiss

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

To the extent that  “Plastic Alto” is a memoir of the concert series I produced in Palo Alto, 1994-2001, I am influenced by Danny Goldberg’s “Bumping into Geniuses”. He says he’s kinda smart but had a talent for surrounding himself … Continue reading →

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