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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play

Turn of the Stew

Posted on November 22, 2020 by markweiss86

My name’s Stew And I like screw A—- And by **** From on high Or down in front. Uniting Wall Street And Van Brunt Hanging chads or run Jeremy I’m now the long-time kind of guy. On my stake or … Continue reading →

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The Times says these three people are not people but CGI, AI androids or what nots

Posted on November 21, 2020 by markweiss86

I don’t know if I violate copyright by freeze framing or capturing these human type faces in the times story about AI — Havent’ read the small print. Reminds me of Philik K Dick or movies thereof. Reminds me of … Continue reading →

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Six five oh livestreams in the 212

Posted on November 13, 2020 by markweiss86

Rockwood Music Hall of Manhattan is promoting a set of ticketed livestream concerts, with Molly Tuttle and Vienna Teng. What caught my eye here in Plasty is that they are both Peninsula slash South Bay artists. Molly is from Palo … 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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Two hundred posts later, I wish more people had noticed the free Clarinet Thing concert from June or February

Posted on November 11, 2020 by markweiss86

June: 41 postsJuly: 42 postsAugust: 45 postsSeptember: 33 postsOctober: 28 postsNovember: 15 postsBut I am making sticky something I posted in June, a photo of Beth Custer and I, at her Clarinet Thing concert here in February, and the recording … Continue reading →

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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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Veterans’ Day salute with Lee Marvin and Evri Kwong

Posted on November 11, 2020 by markweiss86
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My notes on an Os Elliott lecture from October, 1985 VS ‘Six Degrees of Separation’

Posted on November 9, 2020 by markweiss86
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Warhol soup VS Thiebaud pie

Posted on November 8, 2020 by markweiss86

After Scott Shields in Wall Street Journal Emily Borrow

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We’ve been ‘burted’

Posted on November 6, 2020 by markweiss86

I would not say Pat Burt “championed a business tax” in that during his sixteen years in leadership Palo Alto failed to enact a business tax and now had budget cuts, having let off the hook a trillion dollars worth … Continue reading →

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