Category Archives: words

language or etymology

My sloppy notes on Cake on KQED, verbatim and unedited

Posted on April 26, 2012 by markweiss86

We don’t have in our music the equilvalent of deforesatatoin. Turn the amp to 11 is not subversive, its what Exxon is doing. I grew up in bekrely and had to move to sac as a tennagaer and hated it … Continue reading →

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Harbaugina Monologue Sunday at Cafe Zoe benefit

Posted on March 10, 2012 by markweiss86

I am debuting my comedic monologue “The Harbaugina Monologue” tomorrow at Cafe Zoe, at an open mic, from 1 to 3, a benefit for Project Read. As it happens, I had two opportunities yesterday to talk about football, and how … Continue reading →

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Hold the date for Reading Rainbow May 12

Posted on March 8, 2012 by markweiss86

Hold the date, for Reading Rainbow in the Park. I just came back from a meeting for the second Reading Rainbow in the Park, a book fair for kids and K-12, scheduled Saturday, May 12, 2012, 10 to 3 p.m. … Continue reading →

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Plastic Alto Top Dozen Posts All-Time

Posted on February 14, 2012 by markweiss86

its’ been a long time been a long been a long lonely lonely lonely 279 no 280 posts time. Rock and blogroll. Continue reading →

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Wishing a full Ricoh to TPH

Posted on February 7, 2012 by markweiss86

A dozen videos, 359 words, a bonus video or two hidden and a hidden document for an old friend. Continue reading →

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Lera babble coinky synchronicity

Posted on February 3, 2012 by markweiss86

By LERA BORODITSKY The Gallery Collection/Corbis ‘The Tower of Babel’ by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1563. (Please see Corrections & Amplifications below.) Do the languages we speak shape the way we think? Do they merely express thoughts, or do the … Continue reading →

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Daydreaming of Andre Dubus in a baseball boxscore

Posted on February 3, 2012 by markweiss86

Beth Custer and I rolled thru Noe Valley and stopped, momentarily — not sure stopped is the word, since we swarmed the bookstore more likes bees than not — and I walked away with two books, Octavio Paz poetry (but … Continue reading →

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Jurassic 5 meets Tortilla Phlat

Posted on January 23, 2012 by markweiss86

I have always held that a broom and dust-pan, properly, easily, 2na be and cleverly used are more thorough and certainly more colorful that a talisman, no motor, no electricity available, big shiny vacuum. — Steinbeck, TF, p. 86 and, on p. 91 it say: that machine was worth three or four gallons of wine but the miser Torrelli would give no more than two. Bah dah dah dah dee dee dee dee and all that. Continue reading →

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Yuan Yuan and Dan Dan

Posted on January 12, 2012 by markweiss86

Yuan Yuan Tan in SF Ballet “Little Mermaid” on PBS score by Lera Auerbach gives new meaning to “white russian” and I hope to catch for atone for missing this “NIxon in China” Continue reading →

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In Another Mental Universe…LAMI LIVES

Posted on January 10, 2012 by markweiss86

reportage regarding lami@50, mostly by Pinky Kushner, who met Alden Van Buskirk at Washington University in St. Louis and married his Dartmouth friend Peter Kushner, now a scientist in San Francisco: i am forwarding this to a dr. donald miller … Continue reading →

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