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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

Revised version of Adrian fine Adrian Figg riff for readers of the Palo Alto Weekly

Posted on June 8, 2020 by markweiss86

(Eleven hours later, kind of reminds me of the joke when I was a kid about Gilligan and Ginger and Gilligan asks if he can stick his finger in her belly button and she says “If Black Lives Matter”..)I saw … Continue reading →

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Jenny Scheinman found footage project coming to Stanford Bing Second Stage a year from now, lord willing and the Covid-19 creek don’t rise

Posted on June 6, 2020 by markweiss86

Stanford announced a slate of shows for 2020-2021, including a small show in Bing Second Stage with Jenny Scheinman, violin; a banjo player, a guitar player and some found footage from 100 years ago.Her Parlour Game was booked into Palo … Continue reading →

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You had me at ‘ARRRGGHHHH!!!!!!!’

Posted on June 6, 2020 by markweiss86

It’s been six years since the biggest sea change about corruption in Palo Alto vis a vis the developers, the billion dollar industry micromanaging every last parking spot and tree planting in Palo Alto and things have sure gotten better. … Continue reading →

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Pitter Pat pear

Posted on June 6, 2020 by markweiss86

Pat you were in leadership here for 16 years, 2000 thru 2016. Two companies, now worth a combined $1.6 trillion market cap were either founded here or based her during that time (FB, 2004; Google, 1999-2003). Why did we fail … Continue reading →

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Drop the fucking mic, mayor of Palo Alto

Posted on June 6, 2020 by markweiss86

    I saw the mayor of Palo Alto speak today. Not really, I got there too late to see the podium. I could barely hear the speakers. There were 10,000 people at Hamilton and Ramona, 250 Hamilton. I taped … Continue reading →

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Mother Hips meet Dena Dey

Posted on June 6, 2020 by markweiss86
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Fugazi ‘Bad Mouth’ 1991 VS 2020

Posted on June 5, 2020 by markweiss86

A Recent Castilleja grad named Charlotte LammName checks Fugazi badmouth 1989 song as an inspiration. I wonder if she knows that band cofounder Ian Mackaye attended Palo Alto’s Terman junior high one year when his father was at Stanford sabbatical.

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Clarinet Thing full concert Palo Alto 66 minutes

Posted on June 5, 2020 by markweiss86

Beth Custer artist Mark Weiss promoter selfie February 25, 2020:

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I am George Floyd

Posted on June 4, 2020 by markweiss86

Are you? edit to add, the next day: the Rev. Kaloma Smith has an op-ed in today’s Weekly that has some sugestions to improve public safety here, apropos of race or bias. I posted this set of commments: Ventura is … Continue reading →

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Latest word on Nick Nolte film by Dartmouth grad Jonathan Nossiter

Posted on June 4, 2020 by markweiss86

Times says that Jonathan Nossiter, a Dartmouth ’84 which means I may have overlapped with him two years although I’m not sure we’ve met, yet I think so, has a new film called “Last Words” that was selected for Cannes … Continue reading →

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