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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

Salma, at 53 VS ‘Selma’ (’65)

Posted on September 2, 2019 by markweiss86

  b/w Zelmo Beaty basketball star who attended Praire View A & M a historically black university in Texas:

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Gunn – Dartmouth tennis player Emily Zhou is the top ladies player since Rebecca Dirksen

Posted on September 2, 2019 by markweiss86

Gunn graduate and Dartmouth recruit Emily Zhou (Gunn 2019, Darmouth 2023) is the best ladies tennis prospect in two decades, since Rebecca Dirksen — two time CCS Champion for Gunn and Wearer of The Green All Time Great at Dartmouth … Continue reading →

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I kind of like the new Tool, especially for the hand-drums

Posted on September 2, 2019 by markweiss86

maybe John Santos — not John Stamos — Anna Conrad was confused –can quickly learn this for our show Friday, September 13, 2019 at Mitchell Park Community Center, unless I am confusing tablas with congas. I could ask him…

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Palantir deploys ‘smart squirrels’ to spy on neighbors in Downtown North

Posted on September 1, 2019 by markweiss86
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We are taking our dog to Sausalito Fair in, like, 10 minutes but not before I quickly post about the Stanford tennis player and her father

Posted on September 1, 2019 by markweiss86

Based on Yesterday’s Research and Revelation: Or, Kirstie Ahn Should Take a Gap Year It’s no good when the evening of your greatest victory ever the news is about how your father thinks you should quit and become a corporate … Continue reading →

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Orange Gulenists in Palo Alto

Posted on August 31, 2019 by markweiss86

The Turkish cafe in Palo Alto that came to fame as a hangout for and or investment by soccer great Hakan Sukur, has opened a juice stand on the sidewalk. The man who invented the orange and egg soda coincidentally … Continue reading →

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Fat jogger chick, Travolta on the spectrum, Oyelowo horror and Jewish doc coming to big screens

Posted on August 30, 2019 by markweiss86

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NFL needs to go to a running clock

Posted on August 29, 2019 by markweiss86
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Stanford great soccer player Catalina Macario

Posted on August 28, 2019 by markweiss86

I have not been to a Stanford Women’s soccer game in many years, but I may go this year to check out a special player named Catalina Macario. An SB sports columnist posted a vine of a great goal against … Continue reading →

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Ledesi VS Jennifer Eberhardt

Posted on August 28, 2019 by markweiss86

I literally just this minute got a message from Stanford that a psychology professor and PhD who specializes in racial bias is going to be speaking at Cubberley the former high school auditorium or theater, in conversation with LaDoris Cordell. … Continue reading →

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