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ZepBlog: July 2012
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Writings of Mark Zepezauer, past, present and future. Tuesday, July 10, 2012. My booksigning appearance at Kepler's on July 18 has been relocated. The bookstore is doing some remodeling. This month, so the event will take place just down the road apiece at the Redwood City Public Library. So meet me in the Fireplace Room. At 7pm. Here's the revamped poster for the event:. But that's not all. Kepler's also offered to host a second event. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Santa Cruz Comic News.
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ZepBlog: August 2012
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Writings of Mark Zepezauer, past, present and future. Monday, August 20, 2012. The Next World and Welcome to It. This may mean nothing except to those of a certain age, but William Windom. Has passed. He was the star of one of my favorite 60s sitcoms, My World and Welcome To It. And featured animated segments mixed with the live action. 1964-66) also based on the work of a New Yorker. Mr Windom had a successful career, with many other TV roles (including Commodore Decker on Star Trek. Links to this post.
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ZepBlog: July 2014
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Writings of Mark Zepezauer, past, present and future. Sunday, July 6, 2014. Forward to Social Structures of Direct Democracy. About a year ago, I was contacted by John Asimakopoulos, a professor of sociology at the City University of New York. He asked me to write an introduction to his new book,. Social Structures of Direct Democracy. Meanwhile (and not coincidentally), the USA’s mentor and patron saint, the Global Capitalist Empire, is having trouble putting the finishing touches on its 500-year ...
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ZepBlog: The New Old-Fashioned Way: Holiday Classics 1963-2013
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Writings of Mark Zepezauer, past, present and future. Monday, December 23, 2013. The New Old-Fashioned Way: Holiday Classics 1963-2013. Critic Chris Klimek lamented the absence. Of all but a few contemporary compositions from the canon of holiday favorites. In the chart at left. A cool interactive version accompanies the article), Time. S Chris Wilson explains why that is: older songs are in the public domain, hence more lucrative to record. And Donny Hathaway's " This Christmas. If we use 50 years ago a...
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ZepBlog: December 2012
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Writings of Mark Zepezauer, past, present and future. Monday, December 31, 2012. That Was the Year That Was. It's time now for a year-end list enumerating my favorite music from the past 52 weeks. Every December I send in my votes to the Village Voice. S Pazz and Jop. This year the Dirty Projectors (pictured above) ended up on the top of the heap with their masterful 7th album, Swing Lo Magellan. More on them below; the various sub-lists leading up to the master list went as follows:. When their brief to...
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ZepBlog: February 2012
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Writings of Mark Zepezauer, past, present and future. Wednesday, February 29, 2012. So Long, Davy Jones. There's a column in the Tucson Weekly. Where they ask various people a series of questions about their musical tastes, including "What was the first album you ever bought? And "What are your guilty pleasures? I've no guilt for still loving the Monkees; as Peter Tork says. The same column regularly asks, "What was the first concert you ever attended? In 1967. But that's another story completely. The si...
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ZepBlog: June 2012
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Writings of Mark Zepezauer, past, present and future. Thursday, June 7, 2012. Join me at Kepler's, July 18. I will be at Kepler's Books and Magazines in Menlo Park CA, on Wednesday, July 18, discussing and signing copies of "The Fully Revised and Updated Second Edition" of The CIA's Greatest Hits. Hope you can join me there, and if not, pass this message on to somebody who can. Here's a poster for the event (if you click to enlarge or download the file, it should print out in fine detail):.
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ZepBlog: November 2012
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Writings of Mark Zepezauer, past, present and future. Thursday, November 8, 2012. I want to take a moment to thank the Republican party for working so hard to make themselves unelectable. Their media pundits, with their relentless focus on Rev. Wright, birth certificates and Benghazi, made it clear to undecided voters that Republicans had no meaningful solutions to discuss. Thanks, Republicans, for helping to re-elect Obama, institutionalize Obamacare, and lock down the Senate! And PS: Even though you ma...
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PHOENIX JUSTICE: Will This Truly Be The Month of Pride?
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Monday, June 1, 2015. Will This Truly Be The Month of Pride? June is historically the month celebrated by the LGBT community as "Pride Month". This celebration of the LGBT community goes back to the Stonewall Riots of 1969. These celebrations of pride in our community have evolved into parades and all day events in towns and cities around the world. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Labels: 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Supreme Court of the United States. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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PHOENIX JUSTICE: Bariatric Surgery: The Big and Very Personal News
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015. Bariatric Surgery: The Big and Very Personal News. For the last 27 years I have been struggling with my weight. I went from a skinny teenager to an overweight adult almost overnight. And while I have done diets and diet pills, I have continued to add weight. In fact, in the last 14 years, I gained over 100 pounds to top out at 400 pounds. That amount of weight is killing me. This is a drastic step, but it is a necessary one. I thank you all in advance for your support. 12/01/13...
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