Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Honk if You’re Horny

Posted on May 11, 2020 by markweiss86

Ed Solomon was in my Hebrew school car pool in 1973 when I was 8 and he was 11. There were a total of six of us in the car pool. Our mother’s drove. Ed made a sign that he … Continue reading →

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Is social media making what I say meaning less?

Posted on May 7, 2020 by markweiss86
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Protected: Revenge of the frog

Posted on May 4, 2020 by markweiss86

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Walk LIne an Egyptian

Posted on May 2, 2020 by markweiss86

Not long after the people on TV announced that Trump had won Pennsylvania, Jared Kushner grabbed Christie anxiously and said: “We have to have a transition meeting tomorrow morning!” Even before that meeting, Christie had made sure that Trump knew … Continue reading →

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Flashback to May 2, two years ago, with Lars and Mark

Posted on April 18, 2020 by markweiss86

MC Lars was in England explaining the relationship between hip-hop Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe to a group of students, on May 2, 2018. He had them hitting the trochee hard. Upon the trochee hard they hit; something something think … Continue reading →

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Earthwise Siphonophore Chorus tribute to Laura Veirs

Posted on April 16, 2020 by markweiss86

April has been the cruelest month to Laura Veirs and her fans down here in the Six-Five-Oh. Instead of both a workshop at Stanford and a show at The Mitch, we have various examples of woodshedding. Using my magic box, … Continue reading →

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Contemplating a site specific event at Palo Alto Winter Lodge with Russian cover band in honor of the 15th anniversary of the Petersburg Ice House

Posted on April 15, 2020 by markweiss86

I saw Leonid and Friends live at an industry showcase last fall in Nashville and thought of them while reading Elif Batuman’s essay about the Ice House in Russia, based on something that some weird powerful actual Russians did a … Continue reading →

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Man Man ‘Cloud Nein’ VS Jukebox Ghost ‘Schizophrenia’ VS freeze frame of Wolf Blitzer Situation Room right this one minute before 3 on a Monday

Posted on April 13, 2020 by markweiss86

I recommend playing both videos simultaneously but only for the first minute…. b/w a parody of an old Elvis Costello song which summarizes sort of the plot of an old Wallace Stegner story, I’ll call “Thomas and Tenney” A man … Continue reading →

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Kicking it with Eugene and Elif

Posted on April 9, 2020 by markweiss86

This is just a picture of a kick boxer from an article in The New Yorker by Elif Batuman and a picture of Eugene Robinson (Of Oxbow) posing with a famous or successful mixed martial arts dude, from Eugene’s book … Continue reading →

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Kenny Rogers, 1976 VS Covid-19

Posted on April 4, 2020 by markweiss86

But in his final words, I found an ace that I could keep Hi, Doug. I want to, first, commend you on the the meticulous and persevering nature of your blog. That enabled me to discover that at minute 36 … Continue reading →

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