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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

McNellis v Weiss, 2018: Ward v Rock Against Racism, 1989

Posted on November 29, 2018 by markweiss86

(I was standing in the entry of Hotel President apartments and John McNellis walked by, with a colleague, at I stopped him for a selfie, reprising our stunt from 2014 when we bumped at Peets ie a few doors up … Continue reading →

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Garaj Mahal, Palo Alto w Garaj Mahal, Cambridge

Posted on November 29, 2018 by markweiss86

Garaj Mahal is a jazz/jam/world band featuring Fareed Haque and Kai Eckhardt guitar and bass that, for instance, played House of Blues Cambridge Massachusetts in 2000 the exact same night that my dear friend Dr. Brian Moore had his bachelor … Continue reading →

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Commission aspirant pitches “tape and plungers” as traffic measure

Posted on November 27, 2018 by markweiss86

Elaine Uang, millennial growth zealot, suggests, in response to question about Ross Road bike lane boondoggle, that according to a guru with a blog “plungers and tape” work surprisingly well. I taped 3 minutes of this thread — tape in … Continue reading →

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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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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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