Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Santa Clara county poem or not

Posted on September 21, 2014 by markweiss86

This is kind of a longshot, but I am wondering if you as an individual might endorse me I am running for Palo Alto City Council. I am not a poet per se but I have promoted poetry events and … Continue reading →

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Good on Gunn’s Riley, Sweat and Miller

Posted on September 20, 2014 by markweiss86

“Noah Riley, our senior quarterback, played a fairly good game today, despite the miscues and error and the loss, by a final score of 42 to 6, to Branham of San Jose. He is our leader. He does a lot … Continue reading →

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A little chin music for the corporate behemoth

Posted on September 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Tom Hanks, or a character he played, said “there’s no crying in baseball”. Surely, you know there is no “center field foul pole / corporate communications behemoth 65 foot pole antenna” in baseball. At the risk of going full Juan … Continue reading →

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Plastic Peters

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

I wrote earlier today about Steve Coleman, jazz musician and MacArthur Genius laureate. Earlier today, however, apropos of nothing, and he of infinite jest, I made a post-modern pseudo-writing job by cutting and pasting bits of nine previous works in … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Coleman, MacFoundDaddy

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

Steve Coleman won a MacArthur Genius grant. He joins Steve Lacy, Corey Harris and many others. M-Base, his thing. Not sure how it works. It says in his bio he was part of the Stanford Jazz Workshop, mid-1990s. Went to … Continue reading →

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Power to

Posted on September 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Seven oh eight on Friday and my car is mis-parked so will rush thru this: 1. Rachelle at Peet’s helped me thru my story about Tracy Turner the Gunn cheerleader circa 1978 and viewing the documentary about Harvey Milk riots, … Continue reading →

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Gaspar y yo

Posted on September 10, 2014 by markweiss86

Steve Staiger, historian, greeted Jack Porterhouse, avid archivist and a whiz with a Fiskars — our version of Edward Scissorhands — and since I happened to be sharing a table with Jack, at Downtown Library — I hit up Steve … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto’s poker politics

Posted on September 8, 2014 by markweiss86

Steve Cohen is a dear friend, and fellow Gunn alumnus, and an Oracle staffer, Stanford grad, son of a famous math professor. He helped edit my ballot pamphlet statement, as he did in 2009. He is an avid poker player … Continue reading →

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Hooray for boobies

Posted on August 30, 2014 by markweiss86

Patch sent me a blast that said Paly has a new dean, Adam Paulson, from San Carlos district and a b.a. from Colorado, masters from Pepperdine, announced by Max McGee (I call him “Bill”), who I had a nice little … Continue reading →

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Schauer / Brown for Michigan 2014

Posted on August 28, 2014 by markweiss86

as fate would have it, I wandered into a Old Palo Alto fundraiser for Democrat Mark Schauer, who is leading according to polls in his effort to become the next governor of Michigan, and the tie-in here is that he … Continue reading →

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