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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

The Residents w The Residentialists

Posted on October 31, 2018 by markweiss86

The Residents are a legendary yet obscure rock band from San Francisco that wears or wore giant eyeball constumes to help protect their secret individual identities. I know virtually nothing about them. https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/10/the-residents-hardy-fox-dead/?fbclid=IwAR288Oq7yLKSz7g4TR6aBscj7Ts_hhHr0t0NUXIeVMX36SwSb4ji90Uu7yI The Residentialists, more precisely known as The … Continue reading →

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3 Teens kill 4 no motive w 4 pols run with mo money

Posted on October 31, 2018 by markweiss86

3 Teens Kill 4 is a band from the 1980s that sound like Talking Heads meet Negativland. No Motive was their first album, both names ripped from the tabloids. Here is my comment in the PAW board — I habitually … Continue reading →

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Abstract and stylized in two colors of cement, the head of an indigenous person, in front of former bowling alley targeting students, first pointed out to me by the historic resources commissioner Beth Bunnenburg

Posted on October 30, 2018 by markweiss86
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She calls herself ‘noname’ AND talks of self in third person??

Posted on October 30, 2018 by markweiss86

    blacked with I know that’s bad I usually say backed with or bw a man who needs no introduction, I edited his early stories and assigned them, my roommate for one night, sworn to protect our Constitution, when … Continue reading →

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Feeling his presence

Posted on October 30, 2018 by markweiss86

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The Red Sox, a ‘patriot’

Posted on October 29, 2018 by markweiss86

On the night that the Boston Red Sox won the World Series in Los Angeles, Anna Eshoo Member of Congress in Los Altos Hills called my mother Barbara H. Weiss “a patriot”. On October 26, in Washington Anna had also … Continue reading →

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Egg 0, Rock 17

Posted on October 27, 2018 by markweiss86
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When I roll the dice, it will come up non-Weiss

Posted on October 27, 2018 by markweiss86

    I’ve now endorsed four candidates for next months Palo Alto council election. Plus, I qualified my name for the ballot by petition of 35 residents, but withdrew for the race when my mother Barbara Weiss died. First I … Continue reading →

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Joc Pederson homers and homelies in best month ever

Posted on October 27, 2018 by markweiss86

  The guy who was the first PCL players since Lefty O’Doul to have 30 homers and 30 steals in same season also had a World Series home run and a 7 pound 11 once — she’s beuutifl excuse my … Continue reading →

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Carrie Brownstein ‘Hung.. …’ fits

Posted on October 25, 2018 by markweiss86

  Fits her, rocker funny tv lady mensch Carrie Brownstein NPR Potlandis Evergreen college Sleater-Kinney— I’ve seen the signs — calls her memoir “Hung.. …”. River head books NYC 2015.   Im just kidding, dig me. Hunger makes me a … Continue reading →

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