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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

GOOOOOOOOOOL!

Posted on June 23, 2018 by markweiss86

Tes I’ve been watching just the right amount of soccer I get on the tread master at the gym and watch and pedal until halftime or final I tape but don’t watch all the matches I watch a little bit … Continue reading →

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Gilhooly growlix remix

Posted on June 22, 2018 by markweiss86

b/w 7 dogs by Fritz Scholder, which reminds me that when we first moved to eat became the 650     Andar: wayne thiebaud license “art plate “ from ca  arts council and DMV. These are available 1993 but only … Continue reading →

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Pecker v Pecker

Posted on June 20, 2018 by markweiss86

I couldn’t make this “up”.

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Free show by Antibalas to celebrate the liberation of White Bean Soup

Posted on June 20, 2018 by markweiss86

when I say “free@ I mean improvised but the tickets are actually $599.  They are literally “has beans”. Near the stadium post game. B so the joke is that the beans are white but the soup as you can plainly … Continue reading →

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Harvey got Milk? w. Tamika chock full

Posted on June 19, 2018 by markweiss86

Yes, to answer my previous question, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver Canada (north of U.S., north of us) did morph the “got milk” campaign created by Goodby Silverstein and Partners or Goodby Berlin and Silverstein circa 1990 with Harvey Milk … Continue reading →

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Blandino poppies remix

Posted on June 19, 2018 by markweiss86

  this is lifted from a private correspondence, with Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Stanford historian and bike sherpa Bo Crane — if by private we mean that the press won’t print it out of context. wait a minute — you … Continue reading →

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My Max is from Frisco, your Max listens to disco

Posted on June 19, 2018 by markweiss86

The best line, to my virgin ears, of the new Ocean movie is when, right before their caper or maybe right after, when they were spooning, all eight of them — SPOILER ALERT, but seriously I have 50 followers so … Continue reading →

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DiNero no longer ‘down’ w. trump

Posted on June 18, 2018 by markweiss86
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Alexis Cuadrado and Vijay Iyer on a panel together, unless that’s Anderson Cooper and Dinesh D’Souza

Posted on June 16, 2018 by markweiss86
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Something about Mary, Obama, NYT, Yo La Tengo, Mad Bum

Posted on June 16, 2018 by markweiss86

based on a story by Nate Chinen   Gary my brother in law encouraged me to check out Yo La Tengo at the Fillmore last week after we lapped up 75 fairly strong left handed hurls by Mad Bum. He … Continue reading →

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