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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

Crypto / Egypto

Posted on January 7, 2019 by markweiss86

Am I the only person on the () who thinks like this? B/w (more people likely noted this:

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Seventy years of behind-the-back

Posted on January 6, 2019 by markweiss86

  It says here, sports illustrated January 1956 that Bob Cousy invented the behind the back dribble in a particular game in 1949 so we’re celebrating 70 years of behind the back. If you were accused let me draw you … Continue reading →

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Oakland Raiders: the good guys

Posted on January 6, 2019 by markweiss86

I saw something in the paper about a new documentary about the former Raiders receiver Warren Wells, a hardluck case.  I never saw him play but I saw Fred Biletnikoff and cliff branch catching balls thrown by Ken Stabler. Here … Continue reading →

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The Sonny Smiths and an Ed Ruscha

Posted on January 6, 2019 by markweiss86

I bought the Sonny Smith box set from Gallery 16 a couple years ago, but have not given it much of a sit and spin. (Speaking of which, and as I mentioned earlier, I’m at the laudromat waiting for the … Continue reading →

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GARCIA ZARATE TRIAL

Posted on January 6, 2019 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Art & Politics: The Matt Gonzalez Reader:
first published in Medium, July 2, 2108 Photograph of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate on San Francisco’s Pier 14 taken by Jay Martin on May 23, 2015. Jose Ines Garcia Zarate Did…

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Fantasy football

Posted on January 6, 2019 by markweiss86

My fantasy football team this year was renamed The Duffy Daughertys after the former Michigan State coach, although I pronounced it with the word “dog” and abbreviated for clarity to The DuffyDogs. The real Duffy won two national championships in … Continue reading →

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Go, Sandy! Go, Sandy! (Maureen Dowd on the AOC)

Posted on January 5, 2019 by markweiss86

This makes me want to send her money more to come +TK Edit to add: but can she do the hora?

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Happy new year or ‘Oy vey’ yo musician and activist Si Kahn

Posted on January 4, 2019 by markweiss86

I had repressed the memory but suddenly recall his wonderful workshop how old a Dartmouth spring of my junior year Two thousand seventeen  lifetime achievement award from the folk alliance   . Maybe EarthWise productions can bring him out here. … Continue reading →

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Shedroff Farms Revisited

Posted on January 4, 2019 by markweiss86

First off, I want to note here that I just learned, researching this post, that Joshua Redman has lost his mother, as of November, 2016. I saw him play in June at Stanford, about a month before I lost my … Continue reading →

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Spider-Man Miles Morales by Stan Lee and Sara Pichelli w Green guitar mouth playing traumanaut (2006) by David Huffman

Posted on January 3, 2019 by markweiss86

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