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Lions With Wings presents Dayna Stephens ‘The Hero’s Prelude’

Posted on February 13, 2021 by markweiss86

bw The Artist Si Grazie

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Is the difference between Brandenburg and what I’m watching on TV today that 140 police were injured hours after the allegedly inciting words?

Posted on February 12, 2021 by markweiss86

Edit Add shortly there after I am multitasking between watching my fellow Dartmouth 11 is Jake Tapper on CNN and some correspondence and watching the impeachment trial and I realize I might be confusing Bruce cast door who I mentioned … Continue reading →

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Schoen argues let sleeping dogs lie

Posted on February 9, 2021 by markweiss86
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Ethan Iverson with Alex Ross: In music, there were no victories

Posted on January 26, 2021 by markweiss86

A piece from NYT in summer 1995, that presages Ross becoming a genius of writing about classical music, the rest is noise etc: bw TEN MINUTES DRIVING AROUND PALO ALTO IN MY DAD’S OLD LEXUS LISTENING AS IF FOR THE … Continue reading →

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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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