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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

BAMR mural Sacramento auspice for Palo Alto BLACK LIVES MATTER

Posted on July 2, 2020 by markweiss86

Demetris Washington artist known as BAMR has a mural in Sacramento from 2018 with the diamond image or icon featured in the “B” of his mural here.I also like his version of Edgar Al Poe raven and tell tale heart.Flows … Continue reading →

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PROTECT THE MURAL

Posted on July 1, 2020 by markweiss86

k I think the BLACK LIVES MATTER mural in front of City Hall 250 Hamilton is a high water mark for culture here in the last 25 or 30 years. Kudos to the makers, staff, volunteers and leaders. In that … Continue reading →

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Good on McFaul in the Post

Posted on July 1, 2020 by markweiss86

Please do dominate the rap Jack or Mac if you’ve got something to say

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Cornel’s love supreme for Glaude on Baldwin

Posted on July 1, 2020 by markweiss86

  bw Horace Porter v Howard Porter

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The rail: Good week for Avenue Beat from Quincy and Nashville, bad week for TJ DeStefano of San Jose and Palo Alto: fuck 2020 low key ok?

Posted on June 30, 2020 by markweiss86

 Or as the woman once said: some days you’re the windshield, some days you’re the bug  Debug. like dis:

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On June 29, 2020 just before midnight and before walking the dog, I discover Avenue Beat

Posted on June 29, 2020 by markweiss86

Riyl Molly tuttle, Aj and Sully, Jenny Tolman, the Donnas bw and now Duffy really really needs to go outside fuck leashes 2020 low key what’s the tea

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Montalvo announces Storm and Her Covered Mouth

Posted on June 29, 2020 by markweiss86
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Los Lobos opening credits in ‘Colors’

Posted on June 29, 2020 by markweiss86

  bw: United colors or estacion Penn (I will have to finish the movie and think hard about whether this is a good or bad movie but it’s interesting to see how it predicts George Floyd Black Lives Matter or … Continue reading →

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Smidgen of Bill Frisell w Petra Haden, HSBG, October, 2019

Posted on June 28, 2020 by markweiss86
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‘Plastic Alto’ will refer to ‘Black’ rather than ‘black’ as an editorial style to convey power to those that the term describes

Posted on June 28, 2020 by markweiss86

I read John Eligon article in the New York Times from yesterday Saturday, June 27, 2020, And most specifically the ideas attributed to Professor Whitney Pirtle of University California at Merced. So going forward I will speak of Black people … Continue reading →

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