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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

Ted Hoagland’s three nature essays in Sports Illustrated, all in the 1970s

Posted on February 6, 2019 by markweiss86

OR: TED, NOT DEAD, HEAD “In a Lair with a Bear,” Sports Illustrated, March 26, 1973 “A Mountain with a Wolf on It,” Sports Illustrated, January 14, 1974 “Big Frog, Very Small Pond,” Sports Illustrated, March 3, 1975 (from Lynn … Continue reading →

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EMANTIC F. BRADFORD, JR., 21

Posted on February 6, 2019 by markweiss86

Fuck is you saying

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2019 in Palo Alto: jet boy, jet girl

Posted on February 2, 2019 by markweiss86

I’m reporting from the lobby of 250 Hamilton on a rainy Saturday, a policy Shabbat so to speak. Reading the 189 responses on an electronic message board, in anticipation of this meeting, “City Council Retreat”, it seems that what is … Continue reading →

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Dartmouth Green Empire State Building hoax v University of Farmington fake University sting

Posted on February 1, 2019 by markweiss86

was this perpretated by the same people from Gonzaga Prep of D.C. who in 1969 turned Washington Monument purple?

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Gretchen Menn v Greta Van Fleet

Posted on January 31, 2019 by markweiss86

Gretchen Menn is a guitar player in a Led Zep cover band, who I met once at Peet’s in Palo Alto and she went to Smith. Greta Van Fleet is a new band of 3 brothers from Michigan who play … Continue reading →

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‘Boogie with Stu’ by Led Zep w ‘Black Limosine’ by Rolling Stone

Posted on January 31, 2019 by markweiss86

Stu is Ian Stewart late great “6th Stone” who also guested on Physical Graffiti “Boogie with Stu”. And his wiki sent me to Tattoo You “Black Limosine”. Will this make me like or dislike Wil Blades in San Jo? Ian … Continue reading →

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Former 650 singer Hale Baskin now a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader or jazz singer with a residency at The Mitchell

Posted on January 31, 2019 by markweiss86

I saw her at Cogswell Plaza nooner brown bag dealio it must have been 2006, maybe with Akira Tana in her band and maybe Jim Harrington still of the Weekly wrote her up and now thru the magic of the … Continue reading →

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My mother is a fish, but Cousins is not a monkey

Posted on January 31, 2019 by markweiss86

This bit, a new prologue three weeks later, is lifted from the wikipedia entry on David Shields’ “Reality Hunger” my manifesto: Shields also discusses, at length, the distinction between memoir and fiction–a distinction that, Shields argues, is mostly imaginary. Because … Continue reading →

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Laura Veirs memoir slash advertisement

Posted on January 30, 2019 by markweiss86

For those of you who have made it this far… Here is an essay I wrote about the process of making “Libba.” Pictured at the bottom is a photo of Libba’s great-granddaughter Brenda Evans and me backstage in DC last … Continue reading →

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Cigarette scofflaw, Tuesday 10 a.m

Posted on January 29, 2019 by markweiss86

On Ramona: too close to the building, flicking ashes into street, makes me sneeze   b/w girl band singer in Thailand performs  on tv wearing a Swastika on her T-shirt, though she later apologized personally to an Israeli diplomat named … Continue reading →

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