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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

Montgomery VS Vallejo

Posted on January 4, 2020 by markweiss86
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Valerie Troutt come Friday past at The J

Posted on January 3, 2020 by markweiss86

I taped 5 minutes of it from side stage — The near omnipotence and omniscience of the concert promoter:

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David O’Such, Nolan O’Such, Paul Hanley, Tim Hanley, Joe Cannon, Albertin Montoya, Allie Montoya

Posted on January 3, 2020 by markweiss86

Paul Hanley was my baseball teammate for Key Chevrolet Expos Los Altos Hills Senior Little League when we were 15, in summer of ‘79, that is to say, forty years ago. Today David O’Such told me of Paul’s passing, which … Continue reading →

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Weeding the zeta-landscape with not AI but EI

Posted on January 2, 2020 by markweiss86
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Cotton Bowls, New Years 1939 VS 2020

Posted on January 1, 2020 by markweiss86

The sports writer Dave Newhouse told me that he wrote a book about the 1939 St. Mary’s upset over Texas Tech‘s in the Cotton Bowl I found this little article that said George Webb will live on in infamy. He … Continue reading →

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Double augers 2020 foresight

Posted on January 1, 2020 by markweiss86

Firstly: Alabama receiver catches perfect pass for long touchdown in bowl game versus Jim Harbaugh of The Harbaugina monologue on first play of game. Segundo: Craig Wedge Matsumoto on Miles Okazaki solo guitar version of Monk Bemsha “shwing!!!” Great post, … Continue reading →

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Porteus in the Times VS Yardley of The Times

Posted on December 31, 2019 by markweiss86

Matt Porteus the scientist and Jim Yardley the journalist were classmates for one year, 1981, at Henry M. Gunn high school in Palo Alto, California. I don’t know how well they knew each other. Greg Zlotnick might be the only … Continue reading →

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El Camino Colt double basketball VS LACMA Jonas Wood Double Basket Ball Orchid

Posted on December 27, 2019 by markweiss86

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Bw Jonas Wood French Open vs Keith Peters portrait of Julia Pham at Gunn courts 2017

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In my run-up to my eARThwise Charlie mUSslewhite show, 2 more cites of other Palo Alto hits

Posted on December 27, 2019 by markweiss86

I have noted herein, at Plastic Alto, that Charlie Musselwhite, the focal point and hopefully vocal pointman of my Earthwise event Sunday at Palo Alto JCC, played a show years ago at The Big Beat, also on San Antonio Road. … Continue reading →

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January 25, 2020: piano shootout Mona Golabek (TheatreWorks at MVPAC) VS Marta Sanchez ( Earthwise at The Mitch)

Posted on December 26, 2019 by markweiss86

One is a one-woman show about a real-life story involving someone who fled the Nazis and then had a daughter or two daughters in the arts and probably cost 50 bucks for 90 minutes*.   The other is a piano … Continue reading →

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