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25 years of Cake

Posted on May 7, 2018 by markweiss86

ffA peek moment of my concert series was the opening notes of cake live at Cubberly Auditorium the cafeteria in fall of 1995 and although the gear was falling apart the band was playing the songs I was starting to … Continue reading →

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Words on the street

Posted on May 1, 2018 by markweiss86

 I stopped Stephanie and Steve and their dog as they were leaving the Cobblery and ask them if they missed Go Mama Or were upset that the piece was removed from kitty corner to their CalibAvenue establishment.  She said that … Continue reading →

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Turkish breakfast, two states

Posted on May 1, 2018 by markweiss86

skillet state 1, 9:30 Skillet state II, 10:05 (Expresso, two states, not shown. Next: menemen v shoshaka)      

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Why Marcel Marceau is a bad political role model.

Posted on May 1, 2018 by markweiss86

Or, getting to “———-“. What is obviously and painfully missing from Gen’s story is the context, The Downtown Cap, or THE DOWNTOWN CAP, Program L-8 on Page L-8 of the Comp Plan: Limit new non-residential development in the Downtown area … Continue reading →

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‘Keys’ w. Keats

Posted on April 29, 2018 by markweiss86

At minute 56 of “Passing Strange” at the musical crescendo and climax of “Keys” — this is a solo by Stew (Narrator) after Youth and cast sing “Amsterdam” — and this is the Spike Lee version concert movie meaning a … Continue reading →

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Sunset clause or best of plastic alto from six years three months ago

Posted on April 29, 2018 by markweiss86

Ok, to sum it up, as Aleph approaches the Zeta landscape, there is making it, and making it up, there is truth and fiction, there is reality hunger, there is 23 and Me and 40 Acres and a Mule, there … Continue reading →

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Corned beef, laundry, Koopee

Posted on April 29, 2018 by markweiss86

A message from a Santa Fe gallery this a.m. has me thinking about Jacob Koopee and Marti Struever. The parallel forms of these three images stored on my handheld device barely merit a discrete post. No disrespect for Jabob. I … Continue reading →

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Vida Blue w. Pumpsie Green bands

Posted on April 27, 2018 by markweiss86

The news of Yawkey Way being renamed because of Tom Yawkey’s racism reminds me of the time I asked Pumpsie Green if he would let me use his name as namesake for a proposed rock/funk band that would feature Henry … Continue reading →

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That was me wearing Kent Lockhart’s 1981 Gunn basketball jersey on the treadmill at Palo Alto Y, in January, 2016, for about 15 minutes

Posted on August 15, 2016 by markweiss86

Hans Delannoy, approaching 500 career wins, coaching boys and girls in Palo Alto and San Ramon / Danville / Dublin, called and asked me to research the exact number of those came in 1973, at Cubberley. I went to Steve … Continue reading →

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‘Red Poet’ doc about SF’s Jack Hirschman, who briefly taught at Dartmouth in 1961-1962

Posted on February 29, 2016 by markweiss86
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