Category Archives: words

language or etymology

San Jose Mercury lauds Pablo Cruise as an all time great, in advance of their Palo Alto free show Saturday

Posted on September 1, 2022 by markweiss86

Pablo Cruise doesn’t often get its due. Yet, spend some hours grooving on those cool pop-rock albums from the ’70s and early ’80s — especially the platinum-plus-selling “A Place in the Sun” and follow-up “Worlds Away” — and it should … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto rock and roll landmark(s)

Posted on August 17, 2022 by markweiss86

  In this alley, roughly 60 years ago, Jerry Garcia, playing a banjo, first met Bobby Weir, to form the Grateful Dead:   And here, on Bryant Street in Palo Alto, California, USA, someone painted part of a bike bridge … Continue reading →

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Meta alters Facebook app to act more like Apple than TikTok does

Posted on July 22, 2022 by markweiss86

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d1-iqfSOaMQ

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Heavy petting

Posted on July 11, 2022 by markweiss86

Palo Alto booked a Tom Petty cover band at Mitchell Park the day my mother died. I took a video walking from the parking lot to within three feet of the singer, and him staring down at me, almost forgetting … Continue reading →

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Dave Price is a big fat idiot

Posted on June 27, 2022 by markweiss86

Dave Price is a big fat idiot     Dave Price in today’s Post has a column about the upcoming elections. Dave Price who has banned me from his pages and refused to run my mother’s death notice (Barbara Hayms … Continue reading →

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All that jazz

Posted on June 22, 2022 by markweiss86

I don’t mean to sound snitty or disrespectful and in fact I am a donor for the first time in 50 years, and I bought three or four sets of tickets but as a former journalist—who in fact wrote about … Continue reading →

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Credits to their genders

Posted on June 10, 2022 by markweiss86
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We are the world

Posted on June 1, 2022 by markweiss86

Gertrude Stein said I write for myself and strangers. As I sit the world around me is increasing, approaching 9 billion souls and bodies. I am actually South County today, so we are more like 2 million not the 60,000 … Continue reading →

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There’s a person out here turning Chevy into jazz

Posted on May 24, 2022 by markweiss86

(for Ted Gioia, apologies to John Stewart; shout out to Jamie Stewart) In Palo Alto there is a homeless woman camped out in the gap between the CVS – which uses only one entrance since Covid and has the other … Continue reading →

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Anna for Congress: Or, what is the sound of half a brain clapping?

Posted on May 5, 2022 by markweiss86
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