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”.

<3 <3 <3 Like Me of San Jose

Posted on February 23, 2012 by markweiss86

I had a Vietnamese client, Dao Strom, who is still my partner in our Wallace Stegner Tribute, a Taiwanese American client named Annie Lin who I believe is a 8th cousin of Jeremy Lin, a Pinay girlfriend, Terry Acebo Davis … Continue reading →

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Finding Memo

Posted on February 1, 2012 by markweiss86

Guillermo “Memo” Gomez Abascal had not changed one bit over the 30 years since we were exchange brothers for Neighbors Abroad’s Palo Alto Oaxaca Sister Cities. Continue reading →

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My left foot or fist

Posted on January 31, 2012 by markweiss86

French footballer Gael Clichy, from Martiniquis heritage and playing for Manchester City in the Premier League, developed his left foot on the advice of his father, I am reading. Truth be told, I captured this shot merely because I liked … Continue reading →

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Nahuatl songs, pictures and translations

Posted on December 11, 2011 by markweiss86

My new friend the poet and scholar John Paige of Oakland gifted me a copy of his book of translations from Nahuatl to English, what most people think of as Aztec. I met John because of my efforts to promote … Continue reading →

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Miles Davis in plastic salad heaven huis clos

Posted on December 11, 2011 by markweiss86

miles davis perhaps as deep background for bill murray in lost in translation trades a ink drawing for a plate of plastic salad, and never addresses directly or by second person his japanese host, on tv in 1985, but i think they are in heaven perhaps, or another world Continue reading →

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Postcard from Santa Fe

Posted on December 9, 2011 by markweiss86

I spoke to Mateo Romero, mostly about the recent Native-themed show in Hanover, New Hampshire at Dartmouth’s Hood Museum, which featured the unveiling of a series of paintings he did of Dartmouth Pow-Wow. Had the pleasure of mentioning to him … Continue reading →

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New Careful videos including Elliott Smith cover

Posted on November 1, 2011 by markweiss86

i have green blood Continue reading →

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Remi Benson serving our country

Posted on October 31, 2011 by markweiss86

God bless Remi Benson for serving our country this past nine years. Continue reading →

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Ear elephant earwopa whatever

Posted on October 24, 2011 by markweiss86

in 1991 i saw alabama play in birmingham but longed for some private time in Tuscaloosa. Continue reading →

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Coupa, Beisbol and The World Serious

Posted on October 19, 2011 by markweiss86

I slud into Coupa and was spiked by thoughts of if not Willie, Mickey and Duke then Omar, Luis Aparicio, Danilo Perez and Jessica Johnson. And Zizek. Continue reading →

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