Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Revised version of Adrian fine Adrian Figg riff for readers of the Palo Alto Weekly

Posted on June 8, 2020 by markweiss86

(Eleven hours later, kind of reminds me of the joke when I was a kid about Gilligan and Ginger and Gilligan asks if he can stick his finger in her belly button and she says “If Black Lives Matter”..)I saw … Continue reading →

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Pitter Pat pear

Posted on June 6, 2020 by markweiss86

Pat you were in leadership here for 16 years, 2000 thru 2016. Two companies, now worth a combined $1.6 trillion market cap were either founded here or based her during that time (FB, 2004; Google, 1999-2003). Why did we fail … Continue reading →

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Drop the fucking mic, mayor of Palo Alto

Posted on June 6, 2020 by markweiss86

    I saw the mayor of Palo Alto speak today. Not really, I got there too late to see the podium. I could barely hear the speakers. There were 10,000 people at Hamilton and Ramona, 250 Hamilton. I taped … Continue reading →

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I am George Floyd

Posted on June 4, 2020 by markweiss86

Are you? edit to add, the next day: the Rev. Kaloma Smith has an op-ed in today’s Weekly that has some sugestions to improve public safety here, apropos of race or bias. I posted this set of commments: Ventura is … Continue reading →

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Thank you, James Mattis, of Stanford

Posted on June 3, 2020 by markweiss86

  “I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” former Trump administation Secretary of Defense, and Hoover fellow James Mattis writes, for The Atlantic. “The words ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United … Continue reading →

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And God said

Posted on May 29, 2020 by markweiss86

I like it when gentiles get Hebrew characters tattooed on their wrists and they think it’s Genesis 3:16 but it’s really a recipe for matzo balls. REFRIGERATE THREE HOURS. FOR FLUFFY, bw Kudos Bells Books for best use of 25 … Continue reading →

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Smoke signals, I and II

Posted on May 25, 2020 by markweiss86

Twice in the last 24 hours I have posted at PAW about the government decree to ban vaping and cherry-tobacco from Palo Alto and its likely negative impact on Mac’s Smoke Shop, which I frequent for newspapers and magazines.I think … Continue reading →

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:30 of Nicole Mitchell 2017/2020 ‘earthSeed: phallus and chalice’ with Lisa Harris of Houston based on Octavia Butler VS 3 random screen captures of ‘Waiting For Godot’ with Burgess Meredith and Zero Mostel

Posted on May 22, 2020 by markweiss86

Lisa E. Harris vocals theremin electronics composer Nicole M Mitchell flute electronics composer Julian Otis vocals ZARA ZAHARIEVA Violin Ben lumbar gay trumpet electronics Tomeka Reid cello Avreeayl Ra percussion Krista Franklin Art Wheatgodess creations publishing administration studio enertia media … Continue reading →

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FB Pr and Real Estate Team ‘Man-splaining’ Corporate Creep to Menlo Park neighbors, June 21, 2018

Posted on May 14, 2020 by markweiss86

BLUF: Facebook exacts threaten to pull out of silicon Valley unless they get their way which means quit it with all this democracy self governance stuff I’m going to update this with a transcript.My recollection and paraphrase is they are … Continue reading →

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Great Article in the Merc about Harvard bound student athlete poet, Eleanor Wikstrom

Posted on May 13, 2020 by markweiss86

I said on this social media page that she is sort of a cross between Rupa Marya the singing physician who lives in Oakland, Joshua Shedroff Redman the Berkeley high and Harvard grad who turn down Yale Law, and Helen … Continue reading →

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