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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

EI on BLM and TGTBATU

Posted on July 7, 2020 by markweiss86

As with The Hand in the Glove, Stout makes a play for social justice, this time confronting segregation. Unsurprisingly, the scenes with the Black waiters at the Spa haven’t aged well. However, even after all these years, one point of … Continue reading →

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Samora Pinderhughes mentions

Posted on July 7, 2020 by markweiss86

SAMORA PINDERHUGHES’S ‘VENUS’ at Le Poisson Rouge (July 19, 8 p.m.). Mr. Pinderhughes, a pianist and vocalist, grabbed attention in 2016 with his politically incisive “Transformations Suite.” At Le Poisson Rouge he returns with a new set of material, “Venus,” … Continue reading →

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Anita Wheeler Raiderette Fan Club Page

Posted on July 7, 2020 by markweiss86

I made a weird reference to Raiderette Anita Wheeler – -in a post about horse racing, me making fun of already weird names — about nine months ago and someone today wrote me back claiming to be Anita, from the … Continue reading →

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Indian mounds vs monster house, 2551 Webster at Middlefield

Posted on July 7, 2020 by markweiss86

I swung the car into Webster when I spotted the site of the plaque regarding Indian mounds of the Ohlone or coast to knowing that we’re here in 1769 when Portola arrived.  But I couldn’t find parking so I detoured … Continue reading →

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Plastic Alto welcomes Robert Syrett pop up flash art flash menagerie and suite

Posted on July 7, 2020 by markweiss86

Robert made a couple posters for Earthwise, back when he worked for Gil. Then one day he was evicted from his apartment and I agreed to take on a suite of works on paper, that I imagined selling out of … Continue reading →

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Baldwin, Baldwin, Baldwin

Posted on July 6, 2020 by markweiss86
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Maybe the ‘60s ended about the time it was no longer possible to be the only student in the dorm with the first album by Van Morrison and ‘Them;’ to be the only freak in your small town; to have been one of the 400,000 at Woodstock. Even by that time, everyone had been to at least one Woodstock, everyone owned a pair of hiking boots (albeit not Austrian-made), and almost everyone had climbed Everest

Posted on July 6, 2020 by markweiss86

Again, not sure where I am or how I got here. Return of the naked guy   Something about Hunter S Thompson transcript l Did I miss last call? By about 8 years? I have no idea what I’m doing … Continue reading →

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Petra Haden tribute to Morricone VS Stew apropos of Lincoln Memorial

Posted on July 6, 2020 by markweiss86

The news feed mentions that the composer Ennio Morricone died and naturally I go to look for famous covers of “Fistful of Dollars” and I land on Petra Haden, from “Petra Goes To The Movies”.Which sends me back, second post … Continue reading →

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Something deeper than these changes, that frightened me (James Baldwin, 1962, Mark Stewart, 2005)

Posted on July 5, 2020 by markweiss86

This gallery contains 22 photos.

cue the Stew aka the booya BASS:

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Godspeed you black empress

Posted on July 5, 2020 by markweiss86
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