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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

Laura Snapes is an iota

…And I’m certain that by the time anybody reads this, I’ll forget what I was thinking. B/w I told somebody the story recently my version of what I remember reading about a brown woman from the Middle East who worked … Continue reading

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Joan Baez portrait as a black woman by Palo Alto High school diversity activists VS Pinoy boxer who took Mexican name

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Francisco Guilledo was world champion boxer, but died young and fought using a pseudonym based on the Mexican anti-hero, Pancho Villa. I saw the Joan Baez portrait, a detail of a larger work, at the Paly 100th year reception, in … Continue reading

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Jeff Parker with Dave King, Scott Colley, Jason Lindner and Marquis Hill

Great show last night at The Stanford Jazz Workshop. Highlights included “Freakadelic” by Jeff Parker, off his Trio cd; and Jason Lindner’s “Monserrati” which he said is about a church on an Andrew hill in Bogota. They are pretty finicky … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Dayna Stephens

COMING TO PALO ALTO, SUNDAY AUGUST 18, 2 P.M. SHOW TICKETS ON SALE, AT EVENTBRITE I had the pleasure of seeing Dayna Stephens at the Stanford Jazz Workshop concert series, at Dink. Because he is coming back to his home … Continue reading

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New Mariano Rivera Inspired Design

I bought this from Bill peaks while visiting New York City on my honeymoon in September 2018 via New Mariano Rivera Inspired Design

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Cynthia Branvall, ‘Porcelain Medallions’ VS Billy Nayer, ‘Vagina Made Of Glass’ VS Lily He golfer w 234k social media followers VS ‘From Russia With Love’ wrestling match

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  Weiss: This started with, and maybe I should not admit, something triggering a memory of a dirty joke I read in Playboy magazine years ago about a businessman playing golf in Japan but not speaking the language too well … Continue reading

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Terry and I happened upon Rachael Short’s opening in Carmel

The next morning Duffy and I cane upon some colorful flowers:

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Molly Tuttle at Hardly Strictly, 2018

  Palo Altans likely have been following her progress for more than 10 years,  but Molly Tuttle made her debut in 2018 at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco. I got a report from my friend who went to Telluride … Continue reading

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Crate-digger: from Creamer and Layton ‘Whoa Tillie’ to Eddy Mitchell ‘Baseball (Anna)’ in five easy paces

Yesterday while in my walk-training I stopped at an estate sale and bought five not necessarily play-able 78 shellacs From a guy name Chris Easton On Marion Street very near where the Ohlone had burial mounds until the 1960s — … Continue reading

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Matt Gonzalez says: about Washington High Arnautoff murals

We have a Arnautoff mural here in Palo Alto at the old medical building that is becoming a history museum. The controversy here was that it showed a woman’s bosom as she is being checked by the male doc. New … Continue reading

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