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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

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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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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