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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

Constance Button shuttered to think tv on the radio purple orange haze daze

Posted on September 17, 2020 by markweiss86

second flurries so as not to cause a scene. I mostly managed and felt more free to waltz with my emotions once I was walking about downtown. My tears came more freely, exaggerated by the steam of my breath under … Continue reading →

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Erno Rubik four states

Posted on September 16, 2020 by markweiss86

I met a Stanford student who set the world record for solving the cube while juggling.

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Doja chatter

Posted on September 16, 2020 by markweiss86

She should remake every Amy Irving, Barbara Streisand and Bette Midler movie, plus another version of “High Fidelity”.  

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Eisenberg tops my rankings of City Council candidates after online forum

Posted on September 16, 2020 by markweiss86

My ranked choice of Palo Alto’s ten candidates (although we can choose four):   Rebecca Eisenberg     2. Greer Stone     3. Raven Malone     4. Lydia Kou (I)     5. Steven Lee     6. … Continue reading →

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Kudos Keith or Keef Knight

Posted on September 15, 2020 by markweiss86
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Gino Cimoli VS Cookie Lavagetto VS Con Dempsey VS Mark Koenig VS Tony ‘Push Them Up’ Lazzeri (For Dave Newhouse)

Posted on September 15, 2020 by markweiss86

ed Gino cimoli I met him once in a café in San Francisco and North Beach disrupting his card game with his cronies he signed my 1961 tops pirate card.  Tony lazzeri another Bay area guy who starred in the … Continue reading →

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The Simpsons -Tm in the window of 222 University Ave VS Adidas samba on man’s feet in front of same, at 8:47 a.m. on a Tuesday; or ‘Simpson’s vs Samba’

Posted on September 15, 2020 by markweiss86
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Stanford to offer RrR degree

Posted on September 11, 2020 by markweiss86

Laughing all the way to the bank. bw Colin Quinn livestream for $5 moderates by two very funny GSB professors, or your money back. the last bit is just a joke. LOL. maybe the headline should be “Stanford to offer … Continue reading →

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Still grooving on, intrigued by Nicole Mitchell Lisa A. Harris ‘EarthSeed’ oratorio and tribute to Octavia Butler

Posted on September 10, 2020 by markweiss86

It’s a complex work, but it’s chipping away at me. I’ve bought two Octavia Butler books, and noted that both Veronica DeJesus, the visual artist, and Rebecca Eisenberg, the activist, feel her. I was streaming it from a link provided … Continue reading →

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Mom listen

Posted on September 10, 2020 by markweiss86

I am reading a letter Wallace Stegner 30 years ago wrote his mother after she had been gone 30 years, on the brink of his 80th. At the suggestion of Wayne Horovitz who also has an evening-length through-composed oratorio about … Continue reading →

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