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Clap your hands for Cross Your Fingers

Posted on February 21, 2012 by markweiss86

  oops that is the old band, Souldiers. The new band or at least new name same personel is Cross Your Fingers, featuring my cousin Isaac Blumfield on guitar and vocals. This post, which is four months old, features one … Continue reading →

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Harbaugh comedy monologue at Rockage

Posted on February 20, 2012 by markweiss86

Abstract: Doctor Popular Rockage Jim Harbaugh Jim Blake Tom Blake Rockage Eric Fanali The Harbaugina Monologue Norman Mailer (cameo) Herbie Herbert (cameo) Sy Klopps Dan Olmstead (cameo) Stew (cameo) Cake This is like four or five posts, but work with … Continue reading →

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William B. Gould IV to throw out first pitch Friday at Stanford-Vandy baseball game

Posted on February 16, 2012 by markweiss86

take me out to the ballgame in a red camero z-24 with BOSOX98 plates and get there in time for the ceremonial first pitch, bring a cap not a wig Continue reading →

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dozens: your momma’s so fat she sat on a quarter and pushed a booger out of George Washington’s nose

Posted on February 16, 2012 by markweiss86
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Asian Women Designers Rule at Fashionweek

Posted on February 16, 2012 by markweiss86

Suzy Menkes, of IHT, on Charlie Rose, claims that young Asian women designers, from New York City and West Coast, are breaking out at Fashionweek this year. Sounds good to me. Anna Sui? I have been wearing a lot of … Continue reading →

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Pay No Attention to the Woman Behind the Walls Curtain Glass Castle

Posted on February 15, 2012 by markweiss86

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE The So-Called “Innocent Expression” of Jeannette Walls Family History as Memoir of Classroom Text I am pretty much done with Jeannette Walls “The Glass Castle”. I’ve read the lion’s share,  and have a sense of it – stylistically, factually, aesthetically … Continue reading →

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What Can Brown Do For Yu?

Posted on February 15, 2012 by markweiss86

I ran into Steven Brown who was Jeremy Lin’s teammate and main man at Paly. Steven said that they played on Mr. Jim Brown’s AAU team for years, then played separately at JLS vs. Jordan, then reunited at Paly. My … Continue reading →

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7th Grade Bitch

Posted on February 14, 2012 by markweiss86

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO5h6cLwlt8&feature=related I called Mia Levin (Mudwimin, Frightwig) about Etta James who died recently. I am trying to piece together that Etta James recorded an album in Nashville called “Seven Year Bitch”, in 1989. Then, in early 1990s Selene Vigil starts … Continue reading →

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Grafton versus Selmer

Posted on February 14, 2012 by markweiss86

For a guy who names his blog “Plastic Alto” it is amazing how long it has taken me to get the name straight, Grafton as in “skin graft”. Ornette switched to Selmer after that, which has white enamel. Dig?

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Lin “gunning it out” with Kobe Bryant

Posted on February 10, 2012 by markweiss86

this is my dream being lived out, by jeremy lin. hoop dreams two. the humble hero from harvard leads knicks over lakers 92-85 primetime on ESPN from Madison Square garden. the kid from gunn i mean paly high — that was Joshua Lin at Gunn. Jeremy and Joseph somehow ended up at Paly — state champs. Continue reading →

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