Category Archives: words

language or etymology

A November to remember

Posted on October 29, 2023 by markweiss86

Four final shows for Earthwise Earthwise culminates its year with four final productions in November. On Friday , November 3, at the Palo Alto Art Center, Jovia Armstrong Eunoia Society presents a cd release show. On Saturday November 11, at … Continue reading →

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Magoos Heroes featuring Magos Herrera

Posted on August 22, 2023 by markweiss86

  Lately I seem to walk as though I have wings Bump into things like someone in love Each time I look at you I’m light as a cloud And feeling like someone in love

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Overcoming attraction

Posted on August 18, 2023 by markweiss86

I do not know or have not met to my recollection, the singer Fay Victor, but for the fact that I sponsored during the Covid shutdown a recording by Dave Douglas called “over come”. We are discussing bringing her to … Continue reading →

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I’m here to take the country back

Posted on August 15, 2023 by markweiss86

  OR: CRAB RANGOON TO GO AVAINSANAT: Kulttuurinen musiikintutkimus, sadomasokismi, musiikki, elokuva-   musiikki, musiikkivideo, ooppera, queer-musiikintutkimus, feministinen tutkimus,   queer-tutkimus, populaarikulttuuri, Secretary, Duke of Burgundy, Leonard Cohen, Elvis Costello, Rihanna, Mozart, Don Giovanni, esitystutkimus, seksuaalisuus   In this dissertation … Continue reading →

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Glad I’m McGurl

Posted on July 3, 2023 by markweiss86

OPEN LETTER TO McGURL: I hope this is not seen as a rant or gripe, but more like what Wendell Berry would call “another turn of the crank”. Please take it on faith or prima facie that I have some … Continue reading →

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Hanif had a sneaking suspicion that Chewbacca might have been Black

Posted on May 28, 2023 by markweiss86

II. Haniger as an honorary Mulcahy Mitch Haniger is related to the Mulcahy’s because a Haniger married a Mulcahy. That makes the Giants slugger an honorary Mulcahy in there for an honorary Palo Altan. The Mulcahy brothers played for Cubberley … Continue reading →

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I hear dead horses

Posted on May 22, 2023 by markweiss86

  Dead Horses by Golden Sky or vice versa: This song plays ten spins per day at a cafe in Palo Alto but so low that I heard it 100 times before I caught “golden sky” and could find it … Continue reading →

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Fever dream of 3 min duration

Posted on November 7, 2022 by markweiss86

Thought it interesting to be reading about Dylan while listening to Beck

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Open letter to Robert Christgau my fellow Dartmouthian on behalf of Steve Poltz my fellow baseballian

Posted on September 28, 2022 by markweiss86

(Not sure based on his gate with one of those word puzzle clues whether this went through to the man himself, but I’ll throw it out there like a message in a bottle, or like when an old guy is … Continue reading →

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New pole at Lytton Plaza

Posted on September 19, 2022 by markweiss86

I’ve done more than a dozen concert events at Lytton Plaza, and pass by the plaza several times a week scouting street musicians and other happenings. So for Plastic Alto the blog construction at the Plaza resulting in the removal … Continue reading →

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