Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Dan Mountain, Dan the Mountain, Dan the Mountain Man, Dan Deacon and Dan Auerbach

Posted on January 9, 2019 by markweiss86

Dan Mountain is an advertising writer who won the Howard Gossage Award the year I wanted to be a copywriter; I met him 30 years later and we watched Clay Kershaw pitch; Dan is also a mountain, somewhere pictuaresque. Seeking … Continue reading →

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Dodgers, now on the internet

Posted on December 29, 2018 by markweiss86

Hb  I am reading trout fishing in America a book by Richard brought again that was published in 1967. I actually was familiar with the folk music group Ezra using that name who I saw in Kerrville before I had … Continue reading →

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Top of the world, ma

Posted on December 27, 2018 by markweiss86

Aleta Hayes said I’m a “flaneur”. Happy holidays to Aleta (the dancer and actor and leader, of Stanford). Today I happen to be in San Francisco for a minute, at the Potrero Hills library, built in 2010.  I returned three … Continue reading →

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Shaka brah in San Carlos

Posted on December 18, 2018 by markweiss86

I was actually on my way to hear jazz, Joey Fabian and Terry Hiatt, Tuesday’s at Savannah650, But arrived too early and ducked into the Looking Glass also known as Noelani’s Island Grill, 1037 Laurel Street, San Carlos, CA 94070 … Continue reading →

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LAMI at 58: Alden Van Buskirk revisited

Posted on December 13, 2018 by markweiss86

We should do another staged readings, this time A-to-Z of LAMI cast or celebrity readers! As I was trying to explain: Alden  Van Buskirk Was a student of Jack Hirschman at Dartmouth or a friend of his – before Hirschman … Continue reading →

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They’ve got the beat, but backwards and in heels

Posted on December 13, 2018 by markweiss86

I go in and out of obsession with The Beats. One, I read “Kaddish” (AG) with Tom Sleigh, at Dartmouth, in the 1980s, but didn’t really feel it. Two, in San Francisco, in late 1980s, I lived across the street … Continue reading →

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Twenty-four Weiss dispatches for Palo Alto Patch, circa 2011 (or pre-‘Plastic Alto’), and 2 other notes on our rights

Posted on December 4, 2018 by markweiss86

  I said to someone apropos of my meeting Palo Alto Patch’s Aaron Selverston at the unveiling of the James Moore Bill Bliss bike monument at Baylands, that I subsequently filed a dozen articles there. It’s actually 24. Also a … Continue reading →

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Remembering Moritz y Felipe

Posted on December 3, 2018 by markweiss86

      Eduador, Stanford (Estanfor/is down for) dartmouth pep bats consular blue booby? cf Juana Alicia codex edit to add, January 16, ie a month later: check back to see something quasi-intelligent that shows that I actually read the … Continue reading →

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Memoir from the bygone five minutes

Posted on December 3, 2018 by markweiss86

I went to the basement of a building built in 1988, the west lobby, Littlefield, to register for a Stanford extension course. I was pleased I have chosen to come here in person ; The course is limited to 21. … Continue reading →

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I misheard Strutz Levett as ‘Stressful Death’, no reason to denny

Posted on December 2, 2018 by markweiss86
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