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If not now, Venn

Posted on January 25, 2021 by markweiss86

Few people realize that John Venn Neumann, the inventor of the Venn diagram, lived here in Palo Alto. He used to play poker with other notable geniuses like Dr Richter, the inventor of the Richter scale, Nathan Oliveira, who invented … Continue reading →

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Take a walk at night. Walk so silently that the bottoms of your feet become ears

Posted on January 25, 2021 by markweiss86
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My dream deferred

Posted on January 24, 2021 by markweiss86

In 1993, because my parents were supporters of Anna Eshoo, I was able to use a ticket to go to DC and watch Clinton being sworn in. I went with a college roommate, whose father worked in the Kennedy administration, … Continue reading →

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Detail of Mark Weiss painting

Posted on January 24, 2021 by markweiss86

From April, 2013 — he is Mark S. Weiss to my Mark B. Weiss and thanks to Erik Lawrence for mensch-chinning this…

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Forty years of fear and loathing

Posted on January 24, 2021 by markweiss86

Somehow I am watching NFL football and listening to Dick Gregory in January 1972 at UCLA, but was dictating to my handheld Hunter S. Thompson about the Washington football team and Richard Nixon, Edward Muskie, Edward Bennett Williams, Dave Gurgin, … Continue reading →

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Joy Hackett (Spalding)>>>Ben Davis(Brubeck)

Posted on January 24, 2021 by markweiss86

Bw one more for the road This was a reiteration of a previous post that was about Keith Jarrett but digressed to a query about an unknown artist out of San Jose, Joy Dawn Hackett, who is doing a livestream … Continue reading →

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Player or poseur?

Posted on January 22, 2021 by markweiss86

During the time that Elon Musk either worked  or lived in Palo Alto, I have lived and worked here, too. Though my father and grandfather both worked in the auto industry, I’ve spent 26 years in the music business, after … Continue reading →

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‘What a marvelous moment for baseball…What a marvelous moment for Atlanta and the state of Georgia…What a marvelous moment for the country and the world…A Black man is getting a standing ovation in the Deep South for breaking a record of an all-time baseball idol’

Posted on January 22, 2021 by markweiss86

backed with Line drawings by Tara Donovan for Pace Gallery outro: “Serene” by Eric Dolphy, arranged for reeds and electronica/loopy, by huge baseball fan and scholar Erik Lawrence, who also has, as a bonus, a brand new version of “Take … Continue reading →

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Rupert Pupkin VS Artie Fufkin

Posted on January 21, 2021 by markweiss86
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I personally miss sitting in a room with a bunch of other people and feeling the energy when we’re all hearing and seeing the same thing and loving the same music—to me, that’s just the best feeling

Posted on January 18, 2021 by markweiss86
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