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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

Helen Wills Moody art

Posted on December 4, 2018 by markweiss86

I am thinking about Helen Wills the tennis star, and her role in the arts, which is considerable. Then my brain flashed to Kathy Jordan, Stanford’s greatest tennis player, who got 10,000 votes for PAUSD board here (including mine). I … Continue reading →

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I talked basketball with Stanford’s retired professor of Applied Physics, then found this video with Marty Beller singing about speed and velocity

Posted on December 4, 2018 by markweiss86

Duffy and I were on our morning rounds when he spotted our neighbor who is retired professor, sitting in his favorite cafe. We joined him for a few minutes of gab, then he drove us home. I almost dropped my … Continue reading →

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Twenty-four Weiss dispatches for Palo Alto Patch, circa 2011 (or pre-‘Plastic Alto’), and 2 other notes on our rights

Posted on December 4, 2018 by markweiss86

  I said to someone apropos of my meeting Palo Alto Patch’s Aaron Selverston at the unveiling of the James Moore Bill Bliss bike monument at Baylands, that I subsequently filed a dozen articles there. It’s actually 24. Also a … Continue reading →

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Chevel IS country

Posted on December 3, 2018 by markweiss86
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Looking up the skirts

Posted on December 3, 2018 by markweiss86

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Nikki Glaser is funny looking: Nikki Glaser is not in Kansas anymore. I’m here all week. No, I’m here for another hour (2hr parking). Try the fish ( meanwhile, I’m at Mario’s Bohemian Cigar Store having eggplants.

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It’s a thing: de Young museum ‘Native Artists Of Western North America’

Posted on December 3, 2018 by markweiss86
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Remembering Moritz y Felipe

Posted on December 3, 2018 by markweiss86

      Eduador, Stanford (Estanfor/is down for) dartmouth pep bats consular blue booby? cf Juana Alicia codex edit to add, January 16, ie a month later: check back to see something quasi-intelligent that shows that I actually read the … Continue reading →

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Memoir from the bygone five minutes

Posted on December 3, 2018 by markweiss86

I went to the basement of a building built in 1988, the west lobby, Littlefield, to register for a Stanford extension course. I was pleased I have chosen to come here in person ; The course is limited to 21. … Continue reading →

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‘Coach: how one footballer shaped 5 Billion Cellphones’ by Mark Bennett Weiss, with help from The Leon Levy Center

Posted on December 2, 2018 by markweiss86

In addition to advising Steve Jobs and other high tech CEOs, former Columbia University Center and Linebacker and Coach William Campbell ‘61 also funded The Old Pro in Palo Alto where thousands of beers also fueled thousands more ideas: Facebook … Continue reading →

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Lower East Side part II

Posted on December 2, 2018 by markweiss86
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