Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Where y’at, Jolie? I mean, where you from?

Posted on June 2, 2014 by markweiss86

Four random riffs ripped on Jolie Holland; or Birds Became Boards 1. On Saturday night, performing alone at City Winery and struggling through some stifling sound problems, she sang “The Littlest Birds,” a pleasant folk song she used to perform … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto residents seek big turnaround for fall election

Posted on June 1, 2014 by markweiss86

I posted this on Palo Alto Weekly website. It drifts off topic a little bit: Posted by Mark Weiss, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood 0 minutes ago I think Fred Balin is doing an excellent job here. Kudos. It … Continue reading →

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Big buzz for World Cup Buzz, THE new app

Posted on May 30, 2014 by markweiss86

1. There’s a big buzz in certain parts of South Barron Park, a part of Palo Alto, a part of South Palo Alto that I have, in previous posts likened to the Vieux Carre (a poetic and sometimes metaphorically useful … Continue reading →

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Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

Posted on May 28, 2014 by markweiss86

  I met Maya Angelou twice; first, at the Clinton Inauguration, Brian Gaul and I stood among about 10,000 others, several hundred yards from the action, “marked the mastodon” creeping through our eardrums, penetrating our senses after a while. The … Continue reading →

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Rock off with your balk-off (from Eric Hanson ‘Tribelines’ poetry archive)

Posted on May 22, 2014 by markweiss86

Game 47 – Indians 11, Tigers 10“A trickle of strangers were all that were left alivePanic in Detroit”– “Panic in Detroit” from David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane (1973)Some said this was year’s best gameShould be in some hall of fameNot because … Continue reading →

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Mona Simpson at Kepler’s

Posted on May 20, 2014 by markweiss86

MK of The Times likes the new Mona Simpson book, “Casebook.” I found for $1 a fairly clean (or hardly soiled) first of her 2010 “My Hollywood” at Menlo Park library, around the corner. The clerk misunderstood me about Mona … Continue reading →

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To solve everything, click here…soon

Posted on May 19, 2014 by markweiss86

We have been working closing with an outside contractor to map the process and begin the conversion of our old microfiche blueprint plans to a digital format.  This will be a multi-year effort to convert all of the 125,000 fiche … Continue reading →

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Kevin Skelly and Vieux Carre

Posted on May 16, 2014 by markweiss86

I ran into Kevin Skelly, the out-going (meaning he is leaving, not that he is approachable or gregarious, which he also is) PAUSD superintendent at a yogurt shop the other day, and had the opportunity to express my sense of … Continue reading →

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Au revoir for Monique’s Chocolates at 359 Bryant Street

Posted on May 15, 2014 by markweiss86

I was Cathy Hubbell West’s first customer Thursday at Monique’s Chocolates of Palo Alto. Due to my furious chatter, it took her 30 minutes to make me a cold hot chocolate drink. It took me less than a minute to … Continue reading →

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Party time with Marcia Ball y’all

Posted on May 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Marcia Ball sat for me three times Sunday. The first time, ok, she was sitting at her piano, cross-legged in a skirt, flapping her flip-flop sandal to the beat, her fingers flying across the board, like two acoma hawks herding … Continue reading →

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