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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

I’d like to post here an excerpt of Sara J. Jackson of northeastern on Tommy Smith and John Carlos backed with my photos of the monument to them at San Jose State by Rigo whose work I once moved in my late father’s Mitsubishi van, dig?

Posted on June 29, 2018 by markweiss86
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Oaklandrise

Posted on June 29, 2018 by markweiss86

Woke I am early 510 style. Mayor Libby who I don’t think I approve of generally was on the tube; I was in my way to Belgium England via one of my magic electronic boxes Yedterday in Frisco 415 not … Continue reading →

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ROKA v Roka v ROVA

Posted on June 27, 2018 by markweiss86
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Fifty giants, or 49

Posted on June 27, 2018 by markweiss86

I bought a value pack of sports collectible cards at the San Francisco Giants store, at Stanford Shopping Center, which itself is a billion-dollar entity, part of a $30B endowment, tax free. I paid I think $10 for 51 cards, … Continue reading →

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Hockey sculpture

Posted on June 26, 2018 by markweiss86

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Mo Salah World Cup goal v Saudi KSA

Posted on June 26, 2018 by markweiss86

there are 64 matches in the World Cup and we are roughly half way thru(weighted for significance) here is Mo Salah scoring sequence first half Egypt v KSA I watched 24 hours later:

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I woke up in a big yellow taxi, counting crows and pondering dense housing

Posted on June 25, 2018 by markweiss86

I woke up in a SoHo doorway, a police man knew my name. Twenty years in the Tin Pan, Lord there’s got to be another way. That’s a pretty close to direct quote of a famous song by a famous … Continue reading →

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Good morning, Soledad O’Brien

Posted on June 24, 2018 by markweiss86

I got up early …Brad and I coached a HS soccer team in Palo Alto, in 1993, fall when he and Siley were merely dating. Brad would go home every day at noon to catch her on the local news … Continue reading →

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Respect to Laura Chavez my former guitar teacher and Foothill College Music 7e, winter 2002 classmate, appearing twice today in San Jose, with singer Nikki Hill, her 3rd such tenure, more soul than blues, I dear say

Posted on June 23, 2018 by markweiss86

There’s a little bit of Laura Chavez in this, and a little bit of this in Laura Chavez, keep in minding that the Blues Resource Center in Los Altos Hills, CA that me, Mike Sult, Janis Stevenson and “Dean Graham” … Continue reading →

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Death Cab touch of gray on late show solstice

Posted on June 23, 2018 by markweiss86
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