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”.

If you’ve ever had the shrimp and grits from Crooks Corner, you may also put Clyde Jones in your pantheon, and this film with that one of Picasso

Posted on December 2, 2012 by markweiss86

Well, piss on a stick. If it’s just a link, and not an M bed, I ain’t gonna waste a whole post on it. Ok. now it works (excuse the foul language. I don’t recall ever saying “piss on a … Continue reading →

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51 Plastic Alto posts that mention ‘Chicago’

Posted on November 30, 2012 by markweiss86

The search functions would like us to believe that all 51 of these posts mention Chicago, my kind of town, where I did burst forth two score and eight years ago, into this great nation: Birds of Chicago is: JT … Continue reading →

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‘Your music can change the world’: Rosemond Jolissaint pka T-Rosemond

Posted on June 22, 2012 by markweiss86

I met Rosemond Jolissaint the performer known as T-Rosemond at Fete De La Musique in Palo Alto last Sunday. He happened to be scheduled at 456 University, in front of the historic and beloved former Varsity Theatre, a site upon … Continue reading →

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Song of the day: Kimchi Line by Bho Bhoman

Posted on June 8, 2012 by markweiss86

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The skinny on Mexico 132 movement

Posted on May 26, 2012 by markweiss86

#TodosSomos132: Solidarity With the Mexican Spring Posted 1 day ago on May 25, 2012, 10:50 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt On May 11, a group of students at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City booed Enrique Peña Nieto at one of his … Continue reading →

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The sound of saran

Posted on May 26, 2012 by markweiss86

At the after-party for Beth Custer’s show Friday at Montalvo, I spent some quality time with Mamoru, a Japanese artist-in-residence there. Mamoru — no last name needed; like Madonna or Beyonce — is a minimalist artist, who works with sound. … Continue reading →

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Risky Business y Yo Soy 132

Posted on May 26, 2012 by markweiss86

I was watching television, lazing away my Saturday morning, dog by my side — Tom Cruise in “Risky Business” 1983 — when I got a text from a friend who lives in Mexico asking me if I had heard about … Continue reading →

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Steps in stone(d)

Posted on May 15, 2012 by markweiss86

Steps in stoned That’s David Middlebrook, 2000, “Steps in Stone” in front of the Westin, Palo Alto, says Mark Weiss, who admits to being Windows-aided, although he also saw two Middlebrookses just yesterdaze at Montalvo. Speaking of Montalvo, Beth Custer … Continue reading →

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News! News! News! News! Reykjavik?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by markweiss86

Yale-educated, Pulitzer-winning author Richard Rhodes of Half Moon Bay has written four books on the science of the history of “The Bomb” — that’s, by my simple math, about 2,000 pages and a half-million words — but by my reckoning, … Continue reading →

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Sharon Jones please help Sharon Jones

Posted on May 2, 2012 by markweiss86

I am writing the artist manager Alex Kadvan to suggest that his client Sharon Jones (of The Dap Kings) appear or speak out on behalf of Sharon Jones of Arkansas who apparently is being swindled out of her lottery winnings … Continue reading →

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