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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

I missed Rent Live by 24 hours, 600 minutes

Posted on January 29, 2019 by markweiss86

But I’ll get ahead of the curve for “Jagged Little Pull” . Which premiered at American repertory theater in Cambridge Mass. and is headed to Broadway with a $14 million budget. Yes I deliberately miss identify the album I was … Continue reading →

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Let’s get BV with it

Posted on January 27, 2019 by markweiss86
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Posted on January 25, 2019 by markweiss86
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Bang Bang Bang v Beng Beng Beng

Posted on January 25, 2019 by markweiss86

bang bang bang is newspaper composition typsetter shop talk for a series of three punctuation marks, known as exclamation points, like this: !!! (you know what’s weird, but not to bore you: as i tried to type the three “bangs” … Continue reading →

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Cormac Ryan, KZ Okpala, Ugonna Onkeywe, Kent Lockhart, Marvin Gaye, Marlinda Fitzgerald, Hans Delannoy, Mick Jagger, Jared Goff, Todd Gurley, Tom Brady, Lynn Swann, Barry Bonds, Pete Broberg, Dr. J and me

Posted on January 25, 2019 by markweiss86

Dear (Friend of mine, former Sports Editor of The D, Sports Ilustrated Summer Reporter, UPI baseball stats desk jockey, of counsel to Office of Commish and basketball nut): (Re Cormac Ryan, Stanford’s new #23, from Milton Academy and Collegiate of … Continue reading →

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Rollie Fingers v Gregg Rolie’s fingers

Posted on January 25, 2019 by markweiss86

Rollie Fingers, Hall of Fame Oakland A’s reliever I saw play in his prime and thought of just yesterday when the current HOFs including the fairly mediocre former Stanford hurler Mike Mussina were announced. I was originally going to write … Continue reading →

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A brief memoir regarding Jonah Mekas, 1922-2019

Posted on January 24, 2019 by markweiss86

photo of New York Times, Thursday, January 24, 2019; p. A24; Screen capture or cut-and-paste of copy of note sent to Eden Arielle Gordon in New York, regarding Mekas, “Pull My Daisy” and “New American Cinema”, July 24, 2019 — … Continue reading →

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Bartles and Jaymes drink their own Kool-Aid, and die…or do they?

Posted on January 24, 2019 by markweiss86

  I’ll have what she’s alive. save my wife or Nachmanoff? i watched our children die, I mean I watched an hour of this movie then died.

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Kat Parra v KZ Okpala

Posted on January 24, 2019 by markweiss86

Tonight Latin jazz basketball fans have the quandary that only Spiderman spider verse could solve which is a concert in Redwood City or a basketball game on campus at Maple Roscoe pavilion I mentioned KZ Oak Poler to a Nigerian … Continue reading →

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Maybe Matt Jaffe could learn “The Drug Suite” by Stew, for 4/20

Posted on January 24, 2019 by markweiss86

   The young singer/songwriter and band leader from Marin, Matt Jaffe is turning 24 on April 20, 4/20, which in some circles and certainly not foreign to Marin especially West Marin,  people smoke dope and get high especially reggae people. … Continue reading →

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