Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Swift Swede at Dartmouth

Posted on April 8, 2014 by markweiss86

My little set of jokes about Mindy Kaling and the potentially raunchy meaning of “wah-hoo-wah” also had me thinking about a conjoined set of threads of Dartmouth stories regarding the history of track and field, Harry Hillman, Don Burnham, Gunder … Continue reading →

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Wah-hoo-wah to Mindy and her wah-hoo-wah

Posted on April 2, 2014 by markweiss86

The inside joke about the Sploderzz execs and one of the docs all being Dartmouth grads is that Mindy Kaling herself is an alumna. Nobody from Dartmouth would, as the characters do, refer to each other as “fellow D-bags”, however. … Continue reading →

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5. Jesus Christ was an Only Child (in 600 words, 19 images)

Posted on March 24, 2014 by markweiss86

5. Jesus Christ was an Only Child and probably never spend a Monday late morning early afternoon uploading photos from his stupid cell phone to his spiffy computer and weird blog. Continue reading →

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Eyeball, beisbol, cristobal and the 29

Posted on March 20, 2014 by markweiss86

1. At Georgia O’Keefe show I visited yesterday at the De Young, the taped tour featured a recitation of Emerson’s famous “transparent eyeball” passage, from “Nature” (1838) — I am nothing, I see all” which made me glad to have … Continue reading →

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It will be interesting to see if these four Palo Altans can indeed carve a livelihood out of these events, and do so without losing their dignity

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Let’s rab. Continue reading →

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He am the walrus

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Tig Notaro and fact that she appeared at Stanford a few weeks ago but I saw the flyer too late and am losing a step. I had pretty much abandoned the Harbaugh tribute excepting fact that Ann Killion had a … Continue reading →

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To Foothill, Fondly

Posted on March 16, 2014 by markweiss86

A look back in anger at a 2013 memoir about 2012 and minding the gaps between words, thoughts and reality, at Foothill College and blogosphere, or Plastic Alto Continue reading →

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Zion I and I and I (and Steve…and Peggy)

Posted on March 13, 2014 by markweiss86

I’m cleaning out my storage space to create room, physically and psychically for more experience, and music, and indeed I and I and Zion I and Steve and Peggy get with it plastic alto style in the real (not media) worlds. Continue reading →

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A Casebook on the BEAT by Thomas Parkinson casebook

Posted on January 21, 2014 by markweiss86

If I rifle is seen hanging over a fireplace in the first act, then it should be fired by the third.* 1. A couple weeks ago I was at Temporary Main Library (former council chambers, former Palo Alto Cultural Center … Continue reading →

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Serendipity farmers

Posted on November 7, 2013 by markweiss86

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. Ralph Waldo Emerson Precisely 5:25 Wednesday evening I spied a cluster of flyers on the kiosk near the north corner of Stanford’s Tresidder … Continue reading →

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