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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

MC Lars tribute to NorCal indigenous for Lions With Wings label and Earthwise

Posted on September 23, 2020 by markweiss86

MC Lars sent me via these magic media boxes, that approximate the human experience thru an elablorate systems of digital pulses, some words, music and images that comes out of our discussion of a mutual respect for the pre-contact civilizations … Continue reading →

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The Lord is first; my friends and family are second; I am third.

Posted on September 23, 2020 by markweiss86
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Weird connection between Guild Theatre development and MapLight policy project

Posted on September 22, 2020 by markweiss86

I wish to point out respectfully that your Palo Alto report is seriously flawed.  Procrustean. And perhaps too short a narrative arc.  For example you list me in a table and list me as “neither” — It is trying to compare … Continue reading →

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In Tanaka’s satanic service?

Posted on September 21, 2020 by markweiss86

I da know what the fuck but Greg Tanaka mentions Satan twice in the first 30 minutes of his interview with the rev Bruce Reyes Chow of 1st Prez. This guy is a nightmare. He puts the bent in “incumbent”. … Continue reading →

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BULLY, FASCIST, NINNY, QUISLING

Posted on September 21, 2020 by markweiss86

The Palo Alto Post has picked four choices for Council even though there are still two months left in the campaign. Their slate includes four of my five bottom-dwelling worst-possible candidates. The only thing Dave Price and I agree on … Continue reading →

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Mal Sharpe Has A Posse

Posted on September 20, 2020 by markweiss86

Mal Sharpe Has A Posse was a show within a show at the earthwise productions 15 year anniversary showcase at the bottom of the hill in January 2008. It started because I saw Danny Scher Corey Scher and Mal rolling … Continue reading →

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Scary-good rock cover by private school faculty

Posted on September 20, 2020 by markweiss86
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‘’Finding Forrester’ sadly reminds me of Bryan Randall

Posted on September 19, 2020 by markweiss86

I first met Bryan on an afternoon in 1984 in the place we both felt most at comfortable: the basketball court.  From our first encounter, there was something different about Bryan that left a deep personal connection – a core … Continue reading →

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Who shot ‘Meet Jane Doe‘?

Posted on September 18, 2020 by markweiss86

When Anna Eshoo our fifteen-term Congress-member and stellar rock of Democracy — metaphorical meteorite and Haley’s Comet of light exposing the swamp — was merely a neighbor or housewife or local businesswoman, my mom got invited to a meet and … Continue reading →

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Stanley Crouch, 74

Posted on September 17, 2020 by markweiss86

“I affirm whatever I think has the best chance of working, of being both inspirational and unsentimental, of reasoning across the categories of false division and beyond the decoy of race.”   bw  

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