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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 saw a werewolf drinking a latte at the DeYoung museum, salivating over his next big plunder

Posted on December 10, 2018 by markweiss86

The De Young Museum has a great little show about Gauguin that includes Oceania, Europeania, paintings, prints, ceramics and wood carvings. People who’ve been around long enough might notice that the museum’s Maori figure from 1890 is likely the source … Continue reading →

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Bullets ahead: Rage Against The Machine at Pitzer College, 1992

Posted on December 10, 2018 by markweiss86
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Leave your ‘r’ at the do’oh

Posted on December 8, 2018 by markweiss86
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This is Oakland, almost

Posted on December 8, 2018 by markweiss86

  bw This is a weird Segue but  I was at Gunn for a jazz concert and I picked up the Oracle a paper I edit it for two years in a row And clipped a tearsheet about a collaborative … Continue reading →

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Mark B Weisses, 650 w 312

Posted on December 7, 2018 by markweiss86

If you don’t like me you can find another Mark B Weiss in Chicago where I was born.Edit to add Chicago is sometimes called city of big shoulders perhaps because of this poem by Carl Sandburg Actually this is spurred … Continue reading →

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One hundred thousand decisions, by Wegner, slated for new police station

Posted on December 6, 2018 by markweiss86

Peter Wegner,  of San Francisco by way of South Dakota. whose work adds color to the new Stanford GSB, presents a preview of his coming Palo Alto Commission. 2. There’s also a colorful LED element that, like his more mechanical … Continue reading →

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Hey blue Kerouacs, why so jaded?

Posted on December 6, 2018 by markweiss86

There’s something in today’s Palo Alto Post about a comedian being pulled off the stage at Columbia University of New York for saying no one looks in the mirror, who is black, and says ‘I’d like to be gay too … Continue reading →

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Columbus Afrocentric’s brave nubian world

Posted on December 5, 2018 by markweiss86

bw Tamari Davis, 15 Spirts Illustrated has a feature on future stars including this Tokyo Alchemist to be who turns cinder into gold

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Stanford interest in naked and half-naked wrestlers, 1885-2010 (since Muybridge)

Posted on December 4, 2018 by markweiss86

Muybridge and his sexy horses were of extreme interest to Leland Stanford at the inception of the Stanford Experiment. Most of Muybridges work involved naked men doing sports, like wrestling. So the Hung Le thingy should be seen in that … Continue reading →

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Random Dartmouth ’22, copyright The Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1769/1817

Posted on December 4, 2018 by markweiss86

  edit to add: “Hello, Mark Weiss? This is Dartmouth College calling. We are very sorry to have to bother you, but we will be needing to have you return your diploma, even after 32 years in that our sources … Continue reading →

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