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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

Coldplay y yo

Posted on November 14, 2018 by markweiss86

  (I have a headline, a screen capture and 34 tags so if I don’t get back to this – circulocuting but not overlapping with the popular and large rock band Coldplay, just read my list — “drawn a line” … Continue reading →

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Elif Batuman w Joan Crawford

Posted on November 13, 2018 by markweiss86

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There’s a stain on my notebook where your coffee cup was

Posted on November 12, 2018 by markweiss86

There’s a stain on my notebook where your coffee cup was Great coffee table book about Joel and Ethan Coen I saw it at Butt Sink Palo Alto and randomly shot a shot I think it’s from burn after readingB/w … Continue reading →

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Free Lou Gehrig

Posted on November 11, 2018 by markweiss86
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This is America/Mohegan, by Beto and Donald

Posted on November 11, 2018 by markweiss86

Amy is watching Last of the Mohicans in the other room with the kids. We started it last night after Ulysses’ basketball game. Pizza, carrots, Mohicans and then early to bed. This morning, before everyone got up, I went on … Continue reading →

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The Conquest Will Not Be Photographed

Posted on November 11, 2018 by markweiss86

BLUF: File Zack and Wyatt Vinci former football turn fancies under “right said Fred meets Gordie Lockbaum if Lockbaum’s mother’s maiden name was Licht” edit to add or prologue, 2020 hind-sigh: I’ve updated this a couple years later, partly because … Continue reading →

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The Great Disrupter Of Foamy, Delicious cafes

Posted on November 11, 2018 by markweiss86

This is an inside joke especially following my post about foothillspark in that in 2014 the hollow out the weekly called me the great agitator

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Windshields at ‘Lee Flats’ (7.7 baby!!!)

Posted on November 11, 2018 by markweiss86

  I love that old Mary Chapin Carpenter song (tho written by someone earlier) about sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. Yesterday, at a beautiful though slightly (appropriately?) smoky late morning early aft at Foothills Park, about 40 … Continue reading →

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Beasley ‘Stone Arpeggio’ (2007) w Beasley ‘Arpeggio V’ (2011)

Posted on November 10, 2018 by markweiss86

BLUF: was this truly a commission or merely a placement of an existing work? The dialogue with Paula K did start in 2006 or 2007 — I met Bruce at Cali Ave site a year or so before my house … Continue reading →

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The macaroon studs from France

Posted on November 9, 2018 by markweiss86

I noticed the pretty blonde lady shooting the new window display on University Avenue. It was the fancy dessert patisserie that I rarely go to that is next to places I do go to like Peet’s and sometimes sushi Rito … Continue reading →

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