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I am mining Dylan for insights into Palo Alto parking debates

Posted on May 1, 2012 by markweiss86

Tonight there is a meeting about parking issues in downtown north. I just pasted this classic Bob Dylan track into the debate, on another site. “Don’t follow leaders, watch the pawking metaws” to me means both get involved and stay … Continue reading →

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Plastic Alto welcomes “Palo Alto” and “The Set of All Blind Piano Players”

Posted on April 29, 2012 by markweiss86

1. A whiles back I ran into Jim Keene, the City Manager for City of Palo Alto, at a chain coffee house on El Camino, near Stanford Avenue, the place that us old timers think of as the former Mountain … Continue reading →

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My sloppy notes on Cake on KQED, verbatim and unedited

Posted on April 26, 2012 by markweiss86

We don’t have in our music the equilvalent of deforesatatoin. Turn the amp to 11 is not subversive, its what Exxon is doing. I grew up in bekrely and had to move to sac as a tennagaer and hated it … Continue reading →

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Motherhips in early May in Big Sur Folk Yeah!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by markweiss86

Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono, and various other Mother Hipsters have played sundry shows for Earthwise Productions in Palo Alto, mostly in the 1990s. They also played The Edge numerous times, produced by other peoples. I last saw Tim and … Continue reading →

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Rigo 12

Posted on April 12, 2012 by markweiss86

Rigo 23: Autonomous InterGalactic Space Program Rigo 23, “Autonomous InterGalactic Space Program – Corncob (Mazorca) Spaceship,” 2011-12. Photo: Santiago Marcial. Rigo 23, “Itacuruça,” 2010. Installation view, Berardo Foundation Museum, Lisbon, Portugal. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco. … Continue reading →

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Three chords and the truth

Posted on April 9, 2012 by markweiss86

I am admittedly biased about Robert Glasper.  He is my best friend and my life partner.  He is also a brilliant musician… disclosure and disclaimers aside. –Angelika Beener, jazz writer and in Glasper’s circle. This made me laugh out loud and … Continue reading →

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laura gibson took these photos from her van, and emailed them to her list

Posted on April 3, 2012 by markweiss86

          

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Walrath and Amitai

Posted on March 30, 2012 by markweiss86

It was about a year ago that Jack Walrath and other members of the Charles Mingus Workshop jammed with student musicians at Stanford including a promising trumpet player I befriended named Amitai. edit to add, April 2: I spoke to … Continue reading →

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Mrs. Peck and her magic mirror

Posted on March 29, 2012 by markweiss86

I rang the doorbell and said I was your student in 1968 and she let me in. Before leaving she took me to the magic mirror again, like she did forty years prior. Did all this really happen or did … Continue reading →

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Dar plan for Palo Alto Commissioners

Posted on March 22, 2012 by markweiss86

Tip of the hat — or should I say hermetically sealed on helmet — to former mayor Pat Burt for saying at the meeting tonight that there is an overlap between the arts commission and the human relations especially in … Continue reading →

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