Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Sun Kil Moon, Friday, Sept. 27 now on-sale for Palo Alto concert

Posted on July 2, 2019 by markweiss86

Sun Kil Moon, the legendary and pervasive indie rock folk jazz band featuring Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters fame, crashes the Mitchell Park El Palo Alto Room, also known as The Mitch, Friday, September 27, 2019, for a concert … Continue reading →

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Steve Almond William Stoner VS Frank Portman Holden Caufield

Posted on July 1, 2019 by markweiss86

Categories: Ethnicities (“Jewish”), Filthy Lucre (“money”), Words (“literature”) and Sex (this being the day after Pride, I would say that part of his appeal as an author is that men and women might buy the book for the back cover) … Continue reading →

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New website launch for Earthwise

Posted on June 17, 2019 by markweiss86

My wife, the artist and former arts commissioner Terry Acebo Davis aka TMW, made a tribute page or fan page for Earthwise Productions, my concert company. I started in 1994, which predates the modern internet, and have had varying degrees … Continue reading →

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Ragady Anne, ‘Valley Girl’ VS Sun Kil Moon ‘Duk Koo Kim’

Posted on June 10, 2019 by markweiss86

I don’t know where this came from other than YouTube and its smarty pants algo-rhythm thought that I or you would like this or thought it could convince me to post this here, talk about Auto Co Wrecked. One is … Continue reading →

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T is for Tah (Palo Alto Rock a A to Z): Tommy Jordan, Paly ’81

Posted on June 10, 2019 by markweiss86

I just left Tommy Jordan a long voice mail, to inform him he is Mr. T, in the context of Palo Alto rock history. (Actually, although I probably said forty things and made five jokes, before the machine cut me … Continue reading →

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Mr. Duffy v William Russel Dudley

Posted on June 4, 2019 by markweiss86

This is very esoteric and then it got deleted but someone next to me at Coupa mentioned a James Joyce line about Mr. Duffy a short distance from his body from Dubliners 1914 and I thought of and sussed out … Continue reading →

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Krasny’s lit bus

Posted on May 3, 2019 by markweiss86

Terry, TMW, tagged along Thursday night to hear Michael Krasny’s literature “bus tour” at Stanford Continuing Studies. There were six texts on the syllabus, by four authors: Flannery O’Conner (1925-1964), Eudora Welty (1909-2001), Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. I read … Continue reading →

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I laughed, I cried I kissed $20 trillion goodbye

Posted on April 22, 2019 by markweiss86
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FUCT is fucked in trademark hunt

Posted on April 16, 2019 by markweiss86

Esther de jong is a muse for the fake clothing line created by conceptual artist Erik Brunetti that pranked SCROTM recently according to  Adam Liktits of the Times. Somehow here in plastic alto I’m reminded of a fellow traveler and … Continue reading →

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Mttt Porteus, ‘hackeando’ sickle cell anemia VS ‘After Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison by Jeff Wall, 2000’

Posted on April 14, 2019 by markweiss86

Somehow reminds me of this photograph depicting an early scene from Ralph Ellison’s the invisible man. I’m taking Michael Krasny’s coursing literature thing at Stanford extension and happened to see the Jordan Peele movie “Us”as I was reading TS Eliot … Continue reading →

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