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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

Nilaja Sun

Posted on November 27, 2018 by markweiss86
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Breakfast with Delores

Posted on November 27, 2018 by markweiss86

This is actually about a doomed tree at the corner of Emerson and Hamilton in Palo Alto in front of what used to be Nathan Oliveira’s downtown studio. But it starts with a Videos from Prince’s self-marketed album called “Chaos…” … Continue reading →

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Hey, you 16 developers, what else can we do for you?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by markweiss86

and remind me, How much did we pay the consultant to help us help you?   edit to add, it’s only 9:12 actually: 1)  lobbyist  Duffy Daugherty  hopes the city will throw him a bone. 2.  He’s not leadership, he’s … Continue reading →

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Artist stands down right wing provocateurs: killing it softly with her song

Posted on November 26, 2018 by markweiss86

Strolling campus with Stanford alum Steve and Eric: Cohen today I picked up the Stanford daily and found an interesting story that took me a while to translate into “real world.”  Are young rapper and activist named Melinda Hernandez made … Continue reading →

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‘we met in beirut’

Posted on November 25, 2018 by markweiss86

actually, we’ve never met, although I think we attended Gunn High school overlapping — with 1,200 others — in 1981-1982. I did not know many freshman. The girl I dated — girl, woman, “judy” — had a kid sister (actually … Continue reading →

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judy judy judy

Posted on November 25, 2018 by markweiss86
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Dons cover versus visiting Big Green hoopsters

Posted on November 25, 2018 by markweiss86

The University of San Francisco basketball Don’s led by two local lads one from Palma in Salinas a nifty point guard number one and one from a kid from Burlingame in Frenchy Fuqua or something Beat the visiting big green … Continue reading →

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Harbaugh is dead

Posted on November 24, 2018 by markweiss86

Backed with Edit to add: I was somewhat prophetic albeit crass in that Iowa State black eyed the Woofies to squelch Michigan’s final four aspirations. Such that, if I do attend the college championships in nearby Santa Clara next month … Continue reading →

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Jack Black SOR ‘Roadrunner’ >> Modern Lovers>>Jonathan Richman>>Bo Diddley>> Tom Morello

Posted on November 23, 2018 by markweiss86
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Protomartyr w Martin Sexton

Posted on November 23, 2018 by markweiss86

Protomartyr is a band I never heard of until I stumbled into Ben Winant’s Tunnel records at Taraval at 44th just yesterday while getting my saxophone serviced by Lee Kramka at 27th and Taraval. They have a rare single on … Continue reading →

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