Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Maybe the ‘60s ended about the time it was no longer possible to be the only student in the dorm with the first album by Van Morrison and ‘Them;’ to be the only freak in your small town; to have been one of the 400,000 at Woodstock. Even by that time, everyone had been to at least one Woodstock, everyone owned a pair of hiking boots (albeit not Austrian-made), and almost everyone had climbed Everest

Posted on July 6, 2020 by markweiss86

Again, not sure where I am or how I got here. Return of the naked guy   Something about Hunter S Thompson transcript l Did I miss last call? By about 8 years? I have no idea what I’m doing … Continue reading →

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Petra Haden tribute to Morricone VS Stew apropos of Lincoln Memorial

Posted on July 6, 2020 by markweiss86

The news feed mentions that the composer Ennio Morricone died and naturally I go to look for famous covers of “Fistful of Dollars” and I land on Petra Haden, from “Petra Goes To The Movies”.Which sends me back, second post … Continue reading →

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Something deeper than these changes, that frightened me (James Baldwin, 1962, Mark Stewart, 2005)

Posted on July 5, 2020 by markweiss86

This gallery contains 22 photos.

cue the Stew aka the booya BASS:

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Godspeed you black empress

Posted on July 5, 2020 by markweiss86
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Cornel’s love supreme for Glaude on Baldwin

Posted on July 1, 2020 by markweiss86

  bw Horace Porter v Howard Porter

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‘Plastic Alto’ will refer to ‘Black’ rather than ‘black’ as an editorial style to convey power to those that the term describes

Posted on June 28, 2020 by markweiss86

I read John Eligon article in the New York Times from yesterday Saturday, June 27, 2020, And most specifically the ideas attributed to Professor Whitney Pirtle of University California at Merced. So going forward I will speak of Black people … Continue reading →

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b 2 B VS Liverpool champs oh sit down

Posted on June 28, 2020 by markweiss86

i start my morning by walking the dog then sitting to read The New York Times. I had two tear sheets from yesterday’s news. Actually I carried a bit of it in my bath robe because I could not find … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto wokely

Posted on June 20, 2020 by markweiss86
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Lions with Wings, Lvvvv, June 19, 2020 thru June 19, 2021 via WordPress and Bandcamp

Posted on June 17, 2020 by markweiss86

BLUF — BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: I am starting a record label of sorts, due to Covid, starting with performers who had been booked into my concert series; the name references a landmark on the Stanford campus and or the … Continue reading →

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My rap on Cari Templeton campaign that the Weekly hides or deletes

Posted on June 9, 2020 by markweiss86

Of the twenty comments so far, mine are the only ones that come from someone who signs their name. Of my three comments, two are behind a fire wall — I don’t even remember what I wrote and cannot access … Continue reading →

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