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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

Mountain View blues goddess Laura Chavez spotted in New Hampshire in Austin-based rockabilly band, by New Hampshire blogger Natalie Curtiss, or her hubby

Posted on October 24, 2018 by markweiss86

The person I mentioned below, regarding her tribute to Sorry To Bother You, also shot Laura Chavez at a music festival in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Laura was playing with Lindsay Beaver, the Alligator Records artist, based in Austin but from Halifax, … Continue reading →

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Bol Park donkeys outbid by Wall St bulls

Posted on October 24, 2018 by markweiss86

Darn I was hoping this would revert to park land, more room for the Bol donkeys to graze. Maybe for the expanding HQ of their satellite project, Jen and Perry’s Capitalist Crunch.   from: JPMorgan Chase & Co. is expanding … Continue reading →

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Thinking of Sukoenigs of musical varietal for no specific reasons (2)

Posted on October 23, 2018 by markweiss86

I wonder if the cantor above is related to the folksinger below (there is likely a town somewhere near Minsk with 500 Sukoenig tombstones — and how many more sukoenigs and semi-sukoenigs in the diaspora?) Me:   Guy on the … Continue reading →

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Thinking of Frances Toor (1881-1956) this week, 62 years later

Posted on October 23, 2018 by markweiss86

We have a couple signed copies of books about The Americas (Peru, Mexico) by Frances Toor. She was a relative of my mother. Before my parents collected Pueblo Pottery, they were gifted a piece of  Peruvian antiquity from the Toors, … Continue reading →

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Wow this just in: Natalie Curtis of New Hampshire nesting dolls tribute to Boots Riley of The Coup ‘Sorry to Bother You’

Posted on October 22, 2018 by markweiss86

  Wow wow wow. Speaking of female ejaculations, kudos to Natalie Curtiss of New Hampshire, the illustrator and fanatic about the film, “Sorry to Bother You” which works in New Hampshire — although I also saw something, which sent me … Continue reading →

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I only read enough about Red Hot Chili Pepper NBA brawl to post inanity about Andy Kaufman; and other stories

Posted on October 22, 2018 by markweiss86

I tried to post a comment to a Yahoo Sports story about a musician being ejected from courtside of an NBA game thusly: “coincidental, I was just re-watching ‘The Big Lebowski” and another member of RHCP not quite getting into … Continue reading →

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Noname TDC is brilliant revelation (from a couple years back) oh yeah that and Allison Miller Trio tonite earlier tonite in Palo Alto

Posted on October 19, 2018 by markweiss86

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  I wrote a fan letter to her Pm just based on yesterday Colbert thing, which I saw just now tomorrow ie 1:39 am trying to chill after the show (and Tacolicius– I over-ate). Allison with Ben and Kirk really … Continue reading →

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Owing to my work on my Allison Miller show, I don’t have time to post to compare Jocelyn Lee photos in New Yorker of robust women and Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, thrice-removed Palo Altan conceptual artist at Marist

Posted on October 16, 2018 by markweiss86

And gratuitous mention of 9 minute rap with Elizabeth Wong of 429 University who I might stump for next Monday at Council to ask if she is being treated fairly, certainly not as fair as the white ladies in Jocelyn … Continue reading →

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$70k Zia pot owned by Maynard Dixon, on AR

Posted on October 15, 2018 by markweiss86

Earth knower, at Oakland Museum edit to add, the next day: speaking of “pot” or “tea” this is what flew out of mein fingers today as I read Diane Diamond in the PAW (looking for my previous post of dense … Continue reading →

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England 3-2 thriller in Sevilla

Posted on October 15, 2018 by markweiss86

Pounds Sterling 16,38

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