Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Fever dream of 3 min duration

Posted on November 7, 2022 by markweiss86

Thought it interesting to be reading about Dylan while listening to Beck

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Open letter to Robert Christgau my fellow Dartmouthian on behalf of Steve Poltz my fellow baseballian

Posted on September 28, 2022 by markweiss86

(Not sure based on his gate with one of those word puzzle clues whether this went through to the man himself, but I’ll throw it out there like a message in a bottle, or like when an old guy is … Continue reading →

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New pole at Lytton Plaza

Posted on September 19, 2022 by markweiss86

I’ve done more than a dozen concert events at Lytton Plaza, and pass by the plaza several times a week scouting street musicians and other happenings. So for Plastic Alto the blog construction at the Plaza resulting in the removal … Continue reading →

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San Jose Mercury lauds Pablo Cruise as an all time great, in advance of their Palo Alto free show Saturday

Posted on September 1, 2022 by markweiss86

Pablo Cruise doesn’t often get its due. Yet, spend some hours grooving on those cool pop-rock albums from the ’70s and early ’80s — especially the platinum-plus-selling “A Place in the Sun” and follow-up “Worlds Away” — and it should … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto rock and roll landmark(s)

Posted on August 17, 2022 by markweiss86

  In this alley, roughly 60 years ago, Jerry Garcia, playing a banjo, first met Bobby Weir, to form the Grateful Dead:   And here, on Bryant Street in Palo Alto, California, USA, someone painted part of a bike bridge … Continue reading →

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Meta alters Facebook app to act more like Apple than TikTok does

Posted on July 22, 2022 by markweiss86

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d1-iqfSOaMQ

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Heavy petting

Posted on July 11, 2022 by markweiss86

Palo Alto booked a Tom Petty cover band at Mitchell Park the day my mother died. I took a video walking from the parking lot to within three feet of the singer, and him staring down at me, almost forgetting … Continue reading →

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Dave Price is a big fat idiot

Posted on June 27, 2022 by markweiss86

Dave Price is a big fat idiot     Dave Price in today’s Post has a column about the upcoming elections. Dave Price who has banned me from his pages and refused to run my mother’s death notice (Barbara Hayms … Continue reading →

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All that jazz

Posted on June 22, 2022 by markweiss86

I don’t mean to sound snitty or disrespectful and in fact I am a donor for the first time in 50 years, and I bought three or four sets of tickets but as a former journalist—who in fact wrote about … Continue reading →

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Credits to their genders

Posted on June 10, 2022 by markweiss86
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