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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

FB Pr and Real Estate Team ‘Man-splaining’ Corporate Creep to Menlo Park neighbors, June 21, 2018

Posted on May 14, 2020 by markweiss86

BLUF: Facebook exacts threaten to pull out of silicon Valley unless they get their way which means quit it with all this democracy self governance stuff I’m going to update this with a transcript.My recollection and paraphrase is they are … Continue reading →

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Great Article in the Merc about Harvard bound student athlete poet, Eleanor Wikstrom

Posted on May 13, 2020 by markweiss86

I said on this social media page that she is sort of a cross between Rupa Marya the singing physician who lives in Oakland, Joshua Shedroff Redman the Berkeley high and Harvard grad who turn down Yale Law, and Helen … Continue reading →

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Willy and Elvin doing Jackie at The Mitch

Posted on May 13, 2020 by markweiss86

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Steal your data VS Steal your face

Posted on May 12, 2020 by markweiss86

Steal your face is a Grateful Dead trope circa 1970. I don’t know, US Blues? It’s the dead head sticker on the Cadillac— someone wrote recently that Shoreline Amphitheatre is designed as a steal your face. Hadn’t noticed. Not stoned … Continue reading →

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Honk if You’re Horny

Posted on May 11, 2020 by markweiss86

Ed Solomon was in my Hebrew school car pool in 1973 when I was 8 and he was 11. There were a total of six of us in the car pool. Our mother’s drove. Ed made a sign that he … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto Mayor who makes the trains arrive on time

Posted on May 10, 2020 by markweiss86

Palo Alto mayor Adrian Fine, who is in hot water this week for pledging his support for proto-Fascist CEO Elon Musk, literally references trains arriving on time on his social media home page:

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Is social media making what I say meaning less?

Posted on May 7, 2020 by markweiss86

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I saw an Aztec frog tattoo on a white guy’s tricep

Posted on May 6, 2020 by markweiss86

You would’t know from the picture but he has a colossal head.

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Protected: Revenge of the frog

Posted on May 4, 2020 by markweiss86

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Musial vs musical

Posted on May 4, 2020 by markweiss86

Lisa Mezzacappa has a work Touching Bass featuring three bass playing musicians and three dancers. As compared to an ESPN feature from 12 years ago about a softball player tearing her ACL and being helped or carried around the base … Continue reading →