Category Archives: words

language or etymology

V.Vale v Eve Valois

Posted on September 12, 2019 by markweiss86

If it is not obvious on first instance, one might recognize a pattern wherein a common trope at Plastic Alto is to compare two dissimilar items with similar names. Wasn’t there a guy on Saturday Night Live who would have … Continue reading →

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Earthwise welcomes September 13 John Santos 6

Posted on August 27, 2019 by markweiss86

b/w This is just to say I have eaten the plums that were in the refrigerator that you were probably saving for breakfast, so sweet and so cold forgive me

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‘You’re One’, Imperial Teen (song) VS ‘You’re’ Sylvia Plath (poem)

Posted on August 23, 2019 by markweiss86

Clownlike, sleeping with the enemy. Nuf sed.

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Fake news I’m seeing little green men watching CNN

Posted on August 13, 2019 by markweiss86

Above, the world as it actually is, somewhere in Russia, a monument; below, similar info but in my limitless cave. I wrote “little” but changed to “limitlessly “. link to the actual, If fake, story or transcript Bw google doodle … Continue reading →

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Jen Dziura’s upgrade from hamburgers to bull-sliders

Posted on August 13, 2019 by markweiss86

 In my 25 years in the arts a sub-project has been to cultivate a network of Dartmouth alums in those fields.  As distinct from the previous efforts to do so in journalism parentheses Paul Gigot, Budd Schulberg  or advertising – … Continue reading →

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Franklin Bruno VS Billy Gibbons (on the whole cost efficiencies of anti-pgmeneria thing)

Posted on August 2, 2019 by markweiss86

Franklin Bruno formerly of nothing planted blue now has a band called the human hearts and a song about cheap sunglasses; which speaks to me as a post baby boomer Gen X indie guy who likes math, more than the … Continue reading →

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Laura Snapes is an iota

Posted on August 1, 2019 by markweiss86

…And I’m certain that by the time anybody reads this, I’ll forget what I was thinking. B/w I told somebody the story recently my version of what I remember reading about a brown woman from the Middle East who worked … Continue reading →

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Cheyanne Woodward’s use of type as

Posted on July 25, 2019 by markweiss86

…compared to a long block of copy observable on a bathing woman’s right thigh….

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Piziali mural VS Piziali poster

Posted on July 5, 2019 by markweiss86

I am sort of an expert on the triptych on the Bishop Building in Palo Alto, although I do sometimes namecheck it in terms of the chain coffee house it faces. The third part is by former Paly footballer Joey … Continue reading →

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‘Jolene’ VS ‘Jungle Boogie’

Posted on July 3, 2019 by markweiss86

Get downs; For Cake, in this signature and seminary track from 1994’s “Motorcade of Generosity” John McCrea auspiciously leads the band in a plausibly live sounding workout at the resolution of the jam, signaling doomed sideman Greg Brown to fire … Continue reading →

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