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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

Mindy w Marsh

Posted on January 9, 2019 by markweiss86

I saw Mindy Kaling in Matt and Ben at PS something something,  when she was just a funny Dartmouth alarm in the arts and not a big star.  I grabbed recently her first memoir from one of those little mini … Continue reading →

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Dan Mountain, Dan the Mountain, Dan the Mountain Man, Dan Deacon and Dan Auerbach

Posted on January 9, 2019 by markweiss86

Dan Mountain is an advertising writer who won the Howard Gossage Award the year I wanted to be a copywriter; I met him 30 years later and we watched Clay Kershaw pitch; Dan is also a mountain, somewhere pictuaresque. Seeking … Continue reading →

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Sukey Bryan

Posted on January 8, 2019 by markweiss86
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That’s the tea (Tom, Eric, Alison)

Posted on January 7, 2019 by markweiss86
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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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