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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

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

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

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

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

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Action Bat Mitzvah photographer

This gallery contains 9 photos.

      1. Of these nine photos found on the Internet, from the same photographer, purportedly of bat mitzvahs, numbers three and seven seem traditional to me: one is a young woman at the Torah; the other is a … Continue reading →

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Female athletes posed, 1948 and 2018

The first image is from an AP Wire Photo of Oakland High School athlete Zoe Ann Olsen, who won the AAU Diving Championships and went on to medal twice for the U.S. in Olympic competition. The photo is from Wikipedia … Continue reading →

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Something comparing crawl pace of a leopard tortoise to Dunne or Marvell stopping the sun

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Ready Player Tran

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Evil tech singularity already here, says ‘Matt O’Brien’ in today’s ‘San Jose Mercury’

William Gibson Meredith Whitaker Kevin McCarthy Vint Cerf b/w humu v hono — one is a type of turtle, the other monitors “nudge”TM at work environment like Sweetgreen which of course we have in Downtown Palo Alto  the average Palo … Continue reading →

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‘Momma, ooh wooh hoof’

For BHW, (1931-2018)

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