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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

Khrys Davis beastmode VS Hideo Matsui 500th homer in July, 2011

Posted on April 18, 2019 by markweiss86

Something about an artwork that the A’s circulated of their star slugger in announcing he had been extended reminded me of the time eight years ago that Rob Syrett and I were scheming to create a chimera  of Hideo Matsui … Continue reading →

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Orozco of the Mets 1983 by Iacono VS Orozco at Dartmouth and ‘Happy’ video spoof

Posted on April 17, 2019 by markweiss86
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FUCT is fucked in trademark hunt

Posted on April 16, 2019 by markweiss86

Esther de jong is a muse for the fake clothing line created by conceptual artist Erik Brunetti that pranked SCROTM recently according to  Adam Liktits of the Times. Somehow here in plastic alto I’m reminded of a fellow traveler and … Continue reading →

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I can’t believe my fucking blog has video

Posted on April 16, 2019 by markweiss86

On December 22,2018 I donated 7 books to the mini library at Hawthorne and waverley

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Spiderverse Versus Cherverse

Posted on April 16, 2019 by markweiss86

  And selfsimilarly, this is my first vine on WordPress after 10 years and 2,000 photos. And 1: randomly selected from 782 vines  

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Merge at 30

Posted on April 15, 2019 by markweiss86

Merge at 30 is a party for the record label located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina or Carrboro, July 24-27, 2019. That implies the label was founded in 1989. I first heard about Merge or attended a Superchunk event at … Continue reading →

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Mttt Porteus, ‘hackeando’ sickle cell anemia VS ‘After Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison by Jeff Wall, 2000’

Posted on April 14, 2019 by markweiss86

Somehow reminds me of this photograph depicting an early scene from Ralph Ellison’s the invisible man. I’m taking Michael Krasny’s coursing literature thing at Stanford extension and happened to see the Jordan Peele movie “Us”as I was reading TS Eliot … Continue reading →

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Run to daylight

Posted on April 12, 2019 by markweiss86

The year that tiny Sacred Heart Prep of Atherton, California won the Central Coast Section football championship, I had three friends with boys on the Gunn of Palo Alto team, my alma mater. I attended every game, even on Yom … Continue reading →

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A nice thing

Posted on April 12, 2019 by markweiss86
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Four photos of Kirsten Gillibrand from her CNN town hall

Posted on April 9, 2019 by markweiss86
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