Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Banjo Riot in Professorville, by Michael John Simmons of Fretboard Journal

Posted on July 12, 2014 by markweiss86

On Saturday I went to a picking party in Professorville, an elegant old neighborhood in Palo Alto. There were dozens of people there playing bluegrass, swing, folk and all sorts of good things in little clusters all over the garden … Continue reading →

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Lonnie is the tops in Cleveland

Posted on July 6, 2014 by markweiss86

  O Lord Lonnie, we bow down To a man we once called Clown So so bad he was last year A demotion seemed quite clear Somehow he stayed with the team Filling in, he kept his dream Quietly, his … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto graffiti artist in dubious battle

Posted on July 3, 2014 by markweiss86

Note: I started this post as a note-pad on the mid-May incident at Gunn High, a 17-year-old charged for possible “hate crime graffiti”. The student newspaper, The Oracle, (of which I was editor in chief, or co-editor-in-chief, my junior and … Continue reading →

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‘New Residentialists’ Send Message with Four Thousand Votes For Weiss

Posted on July 3, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Svayambh-PA, or New Residentialist Platform(NRP):
Mark Weiss received 4,016 votes for 2012 Palo Alto City Council without spending dollar one on his campaign. The result sends a clear message to the pro-developer establishment (Pat Burt, Liz…

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Mark my words

Posted on June 30, 2014 by markweiss86

We picked up one excellent word–a word worth traveling to New Orleans to get; a nice limber, expressive, handy word–‘lagniappe.’ They pronounce it lanny-yap. It is Spanish–so they said. We discovered it at the head of a column of odds … Continue reading →

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Our Palo Alto pseudo-mandate

Posted on June 30, 2014 by markweiss86

I’ve been meaning to organize my thoughts about Our Palo Alto, and the workshop I attended last week, at the Elks Club. I was seated, via purportedly random processes, at a group of 7 that included insiders Steve Levy and … Continue reading →

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Proposed monument at 261 Hamilton in Palo Alto in the shape of a giant Good Humor bar with alphabet spelling BUILDING ENVELOPE?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by markweiss86

Being a concert promoter turned land-use watch-dog, with forays into arts advocate and blogger has the weird effect of sometimes imagining a parallel world in which all my ideas come true. I am posting this while listening to a public … Continue reading →

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For best results read label carefully do not overheat

Posted on June 22, 2014 by markweiss86

Posted by Mark Weiss, a resident of Downtown North 10 minutes ago Mark Weiss is a registered user. How are we so stupid — I used the term “dented cans” in a previous post on this site — to not know … Continue reading →

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Distant relative of Obama can-doo hero of Belgian World cup

Posted on June 22, 2014 by markweiss86

Divock Origi, a 19-year-old distant relative of U.S. President Barack Obama, scored the finesse goal in the lucky 88th minute to defeat the Russians and send Belgium thru in World Cup play Sunday in Rio. Divock Okoth Origi (born 18 April … Continue reading →

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MIRV in Palo Alto, fall, 1995

Posted on June 22, 2014 by markweiss86

The posters for the Cubberley Sessions (also known as Palo Alto Soundcheck) were conceived of a series by Lane Wurster and Chris Eselgroth, the two-man art department for Mammoth Records in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which eventually was sold by … Continue reading →

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