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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

‘Bemsha Swing’ by 86 different artists including Charlie Hunter, TJ Kirk and MMW– but I learned it from my then-client Jack Walrath, at the Octopus Lounge in Pacifica, on October 5, 2004

Posted on March 26, 2019 by markweiss86

  And I once wrote about it to a Penn grad student Bethany Klein, who apparently had different ideas of what is “our song”. The song of course is by Thelonius Monk and Denzil Best. It’s a pigeon of “Bimshire”. … Continue reading →

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A short memoir about Louise Erdrich (occassioned by The New York Times Book Review section, interview with author and memoirist Laurie Halse Anderson)

Posted on March 25, 2019 by markweiss86

BLUF: Six minutes into the Glenn Close Jon Pryce thingy about a fake Philip Roth and I sort of want to switch to the Fred Rogers doc while I make a pork stir fry for my wifey; the jumping (not … Continue reading →

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Quincey Tyler Bernstine, Elizabeth Holmes, Natasha Lyonne

Posted on March 21, 2019 by markweiss86
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Primed to be the 8,501st finisher at next month’s sf half

Posted on March 20, 2019 by markweiss86

edit to add, the next day: So I did sign up, via my smartphone, for a 12 mile race next month, inspired by a fellow student in Lynn Stegner’s writing class, who chronicles her development as an endurance athlete. I … Continue reading →

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Piscotty gives A’s early lead

Posted on March 20, 2019 by markweiss86

you can tell it “ sayonara” or “All right now” For the slugger it’s 10 years from Amador Valley hi to the Tokyo Dome plaudits But in the end the Mariners out slug the local Eastbay guys 9 to 7. … Continue reading →

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14 piano players with whom I’vry worked

Posted on March 15, 2019 by markweiss86

  Taylor been paid since his days of underoos — which is actually a Biggie Smalls line; which I copped from Spider-Man Spider Verse; and sample Herb Alpert. andand: I just got off the phone, eight minutes, with the advertising … Continue reading →

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8 Ella songs, and their respective composers

Posted on March 14, 2019 by markweiss86

Edit to add three months later or bottom line up front: BLUF: I put this up after confirming a Jane Monheit show June 21 at Mitchell park el Palo alto room  but was not allowed to announce it until after … Continue reading →

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Our 1-in-50 shot at the White House

Posted on March 13, 2019 by markweiss86

  I met Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, at a luncheon and think she has a 2 percent chance at winning the U.S. presidency. How many of the 45 U.S. Presidents (1776-2016 elections) were previously U.S. Senators? How many … Continue reading →

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John Updike ‘tomahawk’ swing v. Notah Begay III Stanford New Mexico golf great

Posted on March 13, 2019 by markweiss86

 

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After Lou Bega ‘Mambo No. 5’

Posted on March 12, 2019 by markweiss86

A little bit of my Dartmouth classmate the writer and producer Holly Sorensen…. A little bit of J_, a music executive from Memphis, that attended Pollstar… A little bit of the writer Lynn Stegner, who teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies… … Continue reading →

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