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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

Top of the world, ma

Posted on December 27, 2018 by markweiss86

Aleta Hayes said I’m a “flaneur”. Happy holidays to Aleta (the dancer and actor and leader, of Stanford). Today I happen to be in San Francisco for a minute, at the Potrero Hills library, built in 2010.  I returned three … Continue reading →

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Baby, it’s gold outside

Posted on December 25, 2018 by markweiss86

1705 Fulton, 94301: $5.939m 1708 Fulton, 94301: $7.378m Santa been good to Palo Alto’s Christmas Tree Lane. Actually Property Shark survey has Palo Alto 94301 as 6th most expensive place in the country with median recent sales price of $3.76m … Continue reading →

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NO TRESPASSING

Posted on December 25, 2018 by markweiss86

NO TRESPASSING 4/17 OF @ HAIKU (Brautigan, 1967, p.6; Weiss, 2018) Terry Acebo Davis, Mark Weiss; Davis; Bronco’s fans at 49ers; Marcell Harris; EPL soccer on TV dogpile; former AAA football star, Weiss; Davis, Minerva Amistoso, the filmmaker and photographer; … Continue reading →

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Fewer than 20 of the last 500 IPOs have reached $1b in revenue

Posted on December 23, 2018 by markweiss86

Gives new meaning to below: baby’s on fire, better put him in the water. So look, if you’re in Palo Alto covering the music business you were occasionally going to drift off into Barron‘s magazine roundtable on VC. And then … Continue reading →

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Baby’s on fire!

Posted on December 21, 2018 by markweiss86

Today is my 20,000th day on earth celebration — i’m actually from the Sun. I’m going to go to gym, then walk the dog, then go catch the very first showing of the long awaited “Aquaman” starring my favorite of … Continue reading →

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Christmas ‘Caroleen-ing’ at Make Out Room, San Francisco Mission District, Holiday Party, 2018: Doug Hilsinger (black lace-ups ) & Caroleen Beatty (white boots): waycool!!

Posted on December 20, 2018 by markweiss86
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Ed Sheeran, 563,132,637; Eden and Shea, 70

Posted on December 20, 2018 by markweiss86

  Obviously the original version by the British superstar is better, but the two young people from New York deserve to be heard, too. Hopefully their version — especially IF THEY RE-RECORD IT — will hit 10,000 views before Ed’s … Continue reading →

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I have no idea who Silvana Estrada is, other than her being world-class

Posted on December 19, 2018 by markweiss86

And that 2 million others got here first:

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Kevins Mitchell

Posted on December 19, 2018 by markweiss86

Batted third

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On the same day The New York Times critiqued ‘Baby, It’s cold outside…what’s in this drink?’ Magos Herrera thanks her tequila sponsor in blast

Posted on December 19, 2018 by markweiss86
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