Category Archives: words

language or etymology

Daniel Bard Verses Hanif Verses Shakespeare

Posted on April 1, 2021 by markweiss86

This is not an April one joke this is how I roll.

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Lions With Wings…

Posted on February 28, 2021 by markweiss86

is both a symbol of the arbitrary cultural detritus that fifth-gear capitalism expels into the world and also an effortless, obvious merger of the roots-rock then and the arena post-rap now that suggests the conditions for this song to succeed … Continue reading →

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Let’s rename the park

Posted on February 3, 2021 by markweiss86

Let’s rename the park, for a Black man.We’re all equal, not a sequel.With 2020 hindsight, we’d repair the funkAll the other parks, they want the darkness. We charge the poor to park the car,but we don’t tax the man, and … Continue reading →

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‘No Sleep til Brooklyn’ VS ‘Gotta Get Some Sleep’

Posted on January 22, 2021 by markweiss86

This is shameful I admit. One is a Beastie Boys still frame where they are wearing rock and roll wigs. The other is Keith Jarrett, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian in the 1970s, during the era that they produced 17 … Continue reading →

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Streb dancers VS hoop dancers

Posted on January 14, 2021 by markweiss86

Laura Veirs has a new video featuring a young hoop dancer she met randomly; that remined me of my interest in streb dancing. I don’t do streb dancing, mind you, I just sometimes talk about it.I’m kind of a streb … Continue reading →

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Rufus T. Fireball Fingers and their finery

Posted on December 25, 2020 by markweiss86

OR, WHEN I HEAR ‘CHIN MUSIC’, I ‘DUCK SOUP’ Been walking around all morning with 10 baseball cards in the pocket of either my Patagonia green vest or my Polo maroon cotton pants, what I call “finery”; “Finery” is a … Continue reading →

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The Looters, 2020; or, using Terman to sort racists, proposed

Posted on December 3, 2020 by markweiss86

  I woke today (Wednesday, named for Odin a Norse God) reaching first mentally then physically for my Bevington, the Complete Works of Shakespeare, specifically honing in on “The Merchant of Venice” and that line. What is it:If you prick … Continue reading →

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Writing about music may be like dancing about architecture—

Posted on November 13, 2020 by markweiss86

But mark morris layla on my cellphone is just one more thing draining the battery

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Post-modern exchange with Pam Mandel

Posted on November 11, 2020 by markweiss86

Regarding her memoir “Same River Twice” published by Skyhorse Press and distributed by Simon and Schuster. Pam is from Palo Alto, graduated from San Jose State and makes Seattle her home base. Actual title is The Same River Twice: A … Continue reading →

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Cutting contest for candidates

Posted on October 29, 2020 by markweiss86

I am hereby inviting the 10 Palo Alto City Council candidates to respond to a prompt: on your cell phone, sing a bar, a line or a verse from the song “When You Were Mine”.I will post the results on … Continue reading →

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