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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

b 2 B VS Liverpool champs oh sit down

Posted on June 28, 2020 by markweiss86

i start my morning by walking the dog then sitting to read The New York Times. I had two tear sheets from yesterday’s news. Actually I carried a bit of it in my bath robe because I could not find … Continue reading →

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A call to censure Pat Burt

Posted on June 24, 2020 by markweiss86

Pat Burt is a bully he does not deserve a second crack at this; Specially in the me -too  and Black lives matter era the last thing Palo Alto needs is a macho jock white guy who is used to … Continue reading →

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Am I the last to notice that Austin powers back story is based on Michael antonioni ‘blow up’?

Posted on June 23, 2020 by markweiss86
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Stickers and tattoos and a bit of world views

Posted on June 22, 2020 by markweiss86

Guest column by Sara Dumanske (I met Sara when she worked at Karen Imperial’s gallery on Bryant St in Palo Alto; I had her stickers on the bumper of my Chevy Cruz until I sold that about six months ago). … Continue reading →

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Jim Eshelman pole vault for Stanford, 1966

Posted on June 20, 2020 by markweiss86

He was also a Cubberley grad. I’d nominate him for the Cubberley Hall of Fame (talk to Dan Fowlkes, Bret Baird or Hans Delannoy). But going forward, with our tax dollars from COPA and PAUSD using the site for cultural … Continue reading →

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Yesterday, last year or medieval?

Posted on June 20, 2020 by markweiss86

Aram James a retired public defender and also an activist in our community – – a former Gunn football player from the 1960s, who, also as much as anyone else avidly followed my three attempts at running for city council, … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto wokely

Posted on June 20, 2020 by markweiss86
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Big ups to Aldo Billingslea ‘Polar Bear…’ zoom Juneteenth theatre workie

Posted on June 19, 2020 by markweiss86
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Terry Acebo Davis self-portrait with miscellanous bird art, Hanover, NH slash Dartmouth slash Hood Museum summer 2011

Posted on June 17, 2020 by markweiss86

  Terry Acebo Davis, a graduate of Cal State Hayward and San Jose State universities and a Cali native, visited the prestigious if moldy Dartmouth College in the summer of 2011 and spent considerable time at the Hood Museum. She … Continue reading →

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Lions with Wings, Lvvvv, June 19, 2020 thru June 19, 2021 via WordPress and Bandcamp

Posted on June 17, 2020 by markweiss86

BLUF — BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT: I am starting a record label of sorts, due to Covid, starting with performers who had been booked into my concert series; the name references a landmark on the Stanford campus and or the … Continue reading →

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