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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

Ghost of Esbjorn Svensson

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My ‘vag’* is Chef Chu, your ‘vag’ is frozen takeout dim sum from some hole in the wall under the bridge in Foster City

New York Times mentions crazy Rich Asians but does not mention Jon Chu until deep into the story, whereas Palo Alto Weekly gives it two- an-a-half stars but does not have a byline. *i think that word, rhymes with Madge … Continue reading

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Jungle Jim Loscutoff, the hoops champion w Maxim Loskutoff, who writes about encounters in the wild

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A little more foghorn

I did listen to a wee dram of San Francisco singer-songwriter maybe bandleader and supervisor candidate Tom Valtin and I would say it has a quality, but I would say also that it could use a little more foghorn. Foghorn … Continue reading

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Mitch Woods to hit the Lytt in about 88 shakes

He also had a very fine cd out “Friends Along The Way” With a fine cast of guests very find of virtual cornucopia including Ruthie Foster Who is previous CDs going to go home parentheses a guy stole my chair … Continue reading

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20th anniversary of Dartmouth scholar athlete, but not a playboy

Librarian and former St. Francis athlete Dave Sigua helped me research an item that magically popped into my head earlier today (it started with me returning a book about Lefty O’Doul and commenting that Paly grad Joc Pedersen of the … Continue reading

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Wallace Loh must go

University Of Maryland president Loh and football coach DJ zDurkin are responsible for the death of a student athlete. there are two reasons i am edit-adding to this today: one, a dude named Jake or Jack with a dog named … Continue reading

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Birth of a Wilco song

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Broadway By The Bay’s 53rd season artistic director Alicia Jeffrey w John Travolta Tony Manero 2 min solo

Ine owe ahm ah homer but I prefer Ms Jeffrey…ahm jess sayin’. The movie was made for $3m, grossed $300m and featured some incredible indelible performances

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Garage Mahal w. Garage Mahal w. donkey poop news

Local band garage Mahal I was likely the only one expecting to see Fareed Haque at the Father’s Day street music festival (“World Music Day”). Nothing against cute local kids rocking out. This is from June, two months ago, but … Continue reading

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