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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

Kool-Aid VS Gatorade idioms

Posted on October 24, 2019 by markweiss86

Glenn Reeves of PAW has an article about Foothill starting the gridiron season 6-0. I commented that College of San Mateo is also undefeated, and ranked #1 in the state — I had been tracking Darrell Page the former St. … Continue reading →

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Jay Som gets some in New York and national media

Posted on October 23, 2019 by markweiss86

I’m midweek in one of the busiest of the last 20 years but at 1:23 today I flipped open my lap top to post about Jay Som the singer songwriter from East Bay — with the same last name as … Continue reading →

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Baby, it’s gold outside: Gleim gears up for 88th Christmas season in Palo Alto

Posted on October 23, 2019 by markweiss86
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Duffy V Tree

Posted on October 20, 2019 by markweiss86
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Hosteen Klah VS Mimi Parker

Posted on October 20, 2019 by markweiss86

i Just was listening to “ Dancing and Bleeding “ a new song by the Duluth LDS quiet indie band Low and its electronica beat reminds me of Native American tom sounds, perhaps for dance. I had to look up … Continue reading →

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HSB BF

Posted on October 20, 2019 by markweiss86

B/w not terribly ly flattering crop from a low fi version of “I started a joke”:

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Sylvie Simmons sluds Earthwise sonly

Posted on October 20, 2019 by markweiss86

i obviously have more to say but meanwhile here is Sylvie herself on the matter: Sylvie is an award-winning writer, the author of fiction and non-fiction books and a leading music journalist since the late ’70s. She is one of … Continue reading →

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Deca-Dextras

Posted on October 20, 2019 by markweiss86

i examanined chops of ten works by Hopi Pottery maven Dextra Quotskuyva. 1 The imagery on the faces include  birds wings butterfly hands. One detail seemed almost architectural:

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Anne Hathaway as Hevrin Khalaf

Posted on October 20, 2019 by markweiss86

For whatever reason my computer stores a review of “Oceans 8” movie as a bookmark. While reading the news this morning I learned of a politician and engineer who was murdered in a war crime in Northern Syria. Her name … Continue reading →

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Painter who can describe CH

Posted on October 19, 2019 by markweiss86

At Gallery House, there are two cityscapes of NYC by Mitun (Balman) who also, I discovered, studied math well enough to, several years later, after Berkeley, describe CH (by Paul J. Cohen) with considerable depth. I wish I could have … Continue reading →

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