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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

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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I thought Anthony McGill #taketwoknees blue note version of ‘America the Beautiful’ sounds like ‘Kol Nidre’ (as did Harumi Rhodes)

Posted on June 16, 2020 by markweiss86
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Ben Wade, 1952 VS Beck Way, 2022

Posted on June 14, 2020 by markweiss86

Ben Wade I am noticing today because I am watching a rerun of the 1952 World Series especially the seventh game were Yankees made a big comeback; Wade who ended up as dodgers longtime director of scouting in the ‘70s … Continue reading →

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Taking Szabo Fountain by Strategy

Posted on June 13, 2020 by markweiss86

Kudos Jonathan and Jack. Photo courtesy of Boxing Rose (the moms)   bw Caroleen Beatty sings the Eno Classic “Mother Eyeless Whale”:  

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Maggie Davis shout out to Christo+ JC, Los Angeles VS Ken Holtzman Joe Ferguson, 1974

Posted on June 13, 2020 by markweiss86

M H Terry bought a poster at Stanford. Watching various sports replays including Oakland A’s versus Los Angeles Dodgers. Joe Ferguson was also an all CCS basketball player for Camden High near San Jose:    

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Super Wash VS Ferris Bueller

Posted on June 12, 2020 by markweiss86

I did not know until reading the New York Times obituary of Claudell Washington, 65, That the Berkeley man’s swing produced the foul ball caught by Ferris Bueller on his famous day off in 1985. I think I taped part … Continue reading →

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Groundhog Day for drum buskers at Lytton Plaza soft re-opening

Posted on June 10, 2020 by markweiss86
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My rap on Cari Templeton campaign that the Weekly hides or deletes

Posted on June 9, 2020 by markweiss86

Of the twenty comments so far, mine are the only ones that come from someone who signs their name. Of my three comments, two are behind a fire wall — I don’t even remember what I wrote and cannot access … Continue reading →

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