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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

A’s Davis crashes 4Oth tater

Posted on September 1, 2018 by markweiss86
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Phoebe Hunt fiddler on or near the roof

Posted on September 1, 2018 by markweiss86

This explains it better:

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Our Cali torque for Tejas and the republic

Posted on September 1, 2018 by markweiss86

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t0f4-Vh9qwk Rachel and Julie work it, to the left In a related matter I hear there’s a big Ruthie Foster show on sale in Austin. Well, I’m not sure of ruthies politics but to me it would bring a heap … Continue reading →

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Rocky road

Posted on August 30, 2018 by markweiss86

I could not imagine that when I collected baseball cards as a eight-year-old in 1972 that pulling them out of my mothers attic as a 54-year-old I would be using the magnifying feature on my handheld computer and communication device … Continue reading →

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It was 20 mins ago today

Posted on August 30, 2018 by markweiss86

w I’m working on, scraping only above the incredibly high bar that is plastic alto, something about logrolling or coincidences and the fact that the second musician mentioned in today’s Merck in the eye by Andrew Gilbert former jazz bakery … Continue reading →

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Ode to Thurman Munson or 1970 Topps trading card

Posted on August 29, 2018 by markweiss86

I retrieved recently from my mothers attic a binder of old baseball cards from nearly 50 years ago and I was perhaps a different person or several different people back. I retrieved were pulled from the plastic coffee is about … Continue reading →

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Random Ta-Nehisi / Sprouse Story Martin bomb

Posted on August 28, 2018 by markweiss86

Bw blacked width

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Our 1-in-10000 shot at The White House

Posted on August 28, 2018 by markweiss86

Alison Cormack, a former Google stalwart and Palo Alto soccer mom, is first-time candidate for public office and, when pressed, a self-described one in ten thousand chance at being the first woman to pot us. She actually said it was … Continue reading →

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Counting Crows w Crazy Crab

Posted on August 27, 2018 by markweiss86
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Gilbert and George Schultz

Posted on August 27, 2018 by markweiss86

I don’t know much about Gilbert and George other than the fact that Collin Bailey of the D Young thought they were cool. George Schultz ate at Chef Chu’s when he worked at Hoover and then join the bushing ministration … Continue reading →

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