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”.

Serendipity farmers

Posted on November 7, 2013 by markweiss86

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. Ralph Waldo Emerson Precisely 5:25 Wednesday evening I spied a cluster of flyers on the kiosk near the north corner of Stanford’s Tresidder … Continue reading →

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Jazz time travels or jazzscribe contrafacts: from full faith and credit to fregulia and back

Posted on September 27, 2013 by markweiss86

The Geography of Hep, Palo Alto’s influence on Jazz, via music education, guest concerts(Monk, Steve Lacy) and our all too rare gifts to jazz world in terms of artists like Stanley Jordan and executives like Danny Scher, Jason Olaine, plus Herb Wong, James Benham, Ted Gioia, plus Akira Tana, venues like The Bandbox and The Varsity, and all that jazz Continue reading →

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Yellowman “Zungguzeng” for blogger A.B.

Posted on May 11, 2013 by markweiss86

I’ve been researching various “world music” threads and found myself in Jamaica, although I thought I was in Brazil or Tanzania — the internet can be dizzying, like a caravan. Or a night in tunisia. Seh if yuh have a … Continue reading →

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Alden Van Buskirk news flash

Posted on April 30, 2013 by markweiss86

BEYOND THE NEWS In-depth coverage and analysis of recent significant items in the news, produced by our news department. 8:00 THE POEMS OF RATTRAY AND VAN BUSKIRK Poet David Rattray reads from his own work, and that of Alden van … Continue reading →

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Martin Sexton at City Winery Palo Alto

Posted on April 3, 2013 by markweiss86

I took note of a Martin Sexton concert in New York last week, from a blurb in The New Yorker. He played three nights at City Winery, at 155 Varick. The preview said that Sexton is promoting a new ep … Continue reading →

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Yardley’s ‘Brave Dragons’ hits the mark

Posted on March 21, 2013 by markweiss86

CHINA CAGERS BOOK A ‘SWISH’ BUT NOT ‘SWISHY’ From Carolina Blue to ‘His ass is blue’ in reporter’s hoops odyssey Jim Yardley’s “Brave Dragons” can be read two ways, at least; one, as a basketball book that takes place in … Continue reading →

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From VTA to Vatican for former Gunn High journalist

Posted on March 14, 2013 by markweiss86

Jim Yardley reports in The New York Times today from Vatican City on the surprise choice of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis. In 1981 I edited his first byline, an article about Gunn High students who took what is now … Continue reading →

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Aloha Hawaii our 50th State, specifically Big Island, Kailua-Kona, Holualoa, Keahou, Honokaa and HUG

Posted on March 9, 2013 by markweiss86

We had a pleasant lunch at Jolene’s in Honokaa, on an attempt to visit Hilo (which we were told was being deluged), via Waipio Valley lockout and the excellent gift shop gallery. At Hapuna Beach, on the Kohala Coast, north … Continue reading →

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The Pueblo Girls and Edward S. Curtis follies

Posted on December 7, 2012 by markweiss86

Reading Anne Makepeace book on Edward S. Curtis, I was surprised to learn that Curtis produced a live music event in New York to pay for his photography book series. I am folding that into the clay that is to … Continue reading →

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Danse Macabre with my former classmate

Posted on December 5, 2012 by markweiss86

Somehow I found myself searching for Martin Kryska, my Dartmouth classmate who died in a car accident in 1992. I didn’t remember that he was at Anderson Ranch arts center near Vail, CO in residency at the time of the … Continue reading →

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