Category Archives: this blue marble

means either geography as in something far away, as the blue marble is like a globe; or means environmental per se like recycling, pollution, green — ok, maybe should be a subcategory of “green marble”? formerly I wrote “this round marble” by mistake and then covered by linking posts to “geometry”. An oblique Jimmy Dale Gilmore Jesse Winchester reference through “Big blue Ball”.

Talking of Kiri te Kanawa

Posted on January 3, 2015 by markweiss86

1. I went into Starbucks not Peets because Terry’s brother Gary gave me a gift card of $10 for Channukah. There was $2 left on it, the coffee was $1.80 and I asked the young clerk if I could donate … Continue reading →

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Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry….and Dartmouth?

Posted on January 2, 2015 by markweiss86

and prologue talk about karma I did reach Chris Cortez just now or an hour after posting the first draft of this in the booth of KCSM and he agreed that my Pharaoh take is pretty esoteric and funky like … Continue reading →

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Street parade, in Pasadena, NoLa and in my lap

Posted on January 1, 2015 by markweiss86

I am writing about three different topics, watching two or three different games, getting ready for a movie and contemplating two unread newspapers, but took nearly 3 minutes to check out Earl King “Street Parade” plus Eric is texting me … Continue reading →

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We say war

Posted on December 25, 2014 by markweiss86

My nephew Ben the scientist and musician gave me War on Drugs “Lost in the Dream” for Xmas. The card referenced “the eighties”. The original war of drugs was a Reagan-era effort to social engineer but backfired and enabled the … Continue reading →

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Fake interview with the black eyed beauty of France

Posted on December 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Or, Do you have freckle like a turkey egg? hello, bonjour, black eyed beauty of France, please excuse sil vous plais, that I am writing you via Plastic Alto the obscure blog rather than more directly thru your email account. … Continue reading →

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Gunn falls to Homestead 42-7 yet flyers flawless

Posted on October 26, 2014 by markweiss86

I spent much of the first half of Gunn at Homestead talking to a white ex-pat Jamaican named Linval DePass whose daughter is a “flyer” for the GHS (formerly GSH or HMG) spirit squad (what we called Cheer Leaders). You … Continue reading →

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Little big band

Posted on October 20, 2014 by markweiss86

I met David Larson of Royal Concept, his brother and his father, who were bird-watching, literally, winged friends, not cute girls at least in this instant, somewhere undisclosed on the Central Coast, halfway between LA-LA and Frisco. He told me … Continue reading →

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Living in reverse, August 29 thru 21

Posted on August 29, 2014 by markweiss86

I met Winnie Lewis while standing outside Peet’s on Uni, because power had gone out, and walked with her to Peet’s near Whole Foods — she manages that building. Today, Breena of the Post takes up Lewis’ case about Downtown … Continue reading →

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Schauer / Brown for Michigan 2014

Posted on August 28, 2014 by markweiss86

as fate would have it, I wandered into a Old Palo Alto fundraiser for Democrat Mark Schauer, who is leading according to polls in his effort to become the next governor of Michigan, and the tie-in here is that he … Continue reading →

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!TAYLOR HO! Jazz and Bike event, free at Lytton Plaza Saturday, September 20

Posted on August 27, 2014 by markweiss86

!TAYLOR HO! is my working title for an on-the-fly event I am adding to my and Earthwise’s busy fall schedule. Taylor Ho Bynum is a jazz musician based in the East Coast who plays cornet –a small trumpet — and … Continue reading →

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