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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

Al Young redux

Posted on January 22, 2024 by markweiss86

Al Young redux I wrote earlier about renaming Foothill Park for Al Young. Today, I met Gordon Young, who is Paly class of ’74. I mistook him for a Pinoy golf caddie I met at a sports bar a few … Continue reading →

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I’m at the ‘combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell’

Posted on January 21, 2024 by markweiss86

Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez: As a kid, I lived by a KFC in Hunters Point [San Francisco] that turned into a combination Taco Bell–KFC, I think, first, and then a combination Pizza Hut–Taco Bell–KFC after that, and I had always kind … Continue reading →

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Still life with word picker

Posted on January 19, 2024 by markweiss86

I am enjoying a late breakfast at Ada’s Café at the Mitchell Park community center; I am not blogging about what actually had me up at 7:30. But it’s a hint if you know that Mike Mulcahy was once player … Continue reading →

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Fabiola Mendez, 27 Roberto Clemente 21

Posted on January 18, 2024 by markweiss86

Fabiola Mendez, edad de 27, a Berkelee grad from Puerto Rico, plays March 1 at Club Passim; Clemente a giant of baseball wore #21 and collected exactly 3,000 hits.

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Walmart vs Mitla

Posted on January 18, 2024 by markweiss86

photo by our little Oaxacan Terry Acebo Davis

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Mollie Tuttle at Jazzfest

Posted on January 18, 2024 by markweiss86

Billed above tower of power, dirty dozen, Zigaboo, and Marcia Ball       notes: jazzfest is April 25.  in a related manner, perhaps, Miko Marks plays tonight at the guild    and 1: I taped Renee Rapp on the … Continue reading →

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#%^ you, Duguay!!

Posted on January 17, 2024 by markweiss86

Yeah I’m in Palo Alto and I claim to be a lead out Luddite despite the fact that I’m using $1000 computer to compose this – – – and walking my little pooch Duffy, I could deposit his ounce of … Continue reading →

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Jules at 36, Mark>>60

Posted on January 15, 2024 by markweiss86

Jules at 36, Mark >>60: I am going to hang out at the bar at SFjazz for 90 minutes Saturday, January 20 from 6 PM to showtime and will buy a drink to anybody who knows the name of the … Continue reading →

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Three shows

Posted on January 14, 2024 by markweiss86

(picture of Jimmy Stewart from poster of “North By Northwest”)https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthwise-welcomes-ethan-iverson-marta-sanchez-tickets-798059676977?aff=oddtdtcreator&lang=en-us&locale=en_US&status=30&view=listing (picture of a woman holding a book about fish yet I forget why) (picture of myself, Mark Weiss, of earthwise and Plastic Alto blog, under a painting pointing) February 9, … Continue reading →

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SUREFIRE CEASEFIRE PLAN FROM COUNTY EXPERTS

Posted on January 11, 2024 by markweiss86

RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING SUSTAINED PEACE AND SAFETY FOR ALL CHILDREN SANTA CLARA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION RESOLUTION No. WHEREAS, the Santa Clara County Board of Education is committed to creating inclusive and just conditions where all students, staff members, and families … Continue reading →

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