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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

May 24 Willie Mays

Posted on May 24, 2018 by markweiss86

Willie Mays by David Leventhal by Plastic Alto

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Me likey Joe

Posted on May 24, 2018 by markweiss86

Apropos of nothing in particular, I am posting to my blog today, Plastic Alto — it’s a jazz reference— under the title “Me Likey Joe” something about generally glad I voted for Santa Clara County Supervisor, representing we here in … Continue reading →

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Good Don Cherry day

Posted on May 24, 2018 by markweiss86

Stephen Bernstein the slide trumpet player and then later from Berkeley the New York told me once that if he saw Don Cherry I knew it was going to be a great day. My version of that as someone who … Continue reading →

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Hey, San Francisco dick building, Detroit has a skyline too!!

Posted on May 23, 2018 by markweiss86

bluf: all things are connected, salesforce tower and proposed -and-passed New Guild Theatre in Menlo Park. Thosed who don’t know what’s passed are condemned to read staff report, so to speak. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mpsOcNti_KU I’m not the only one. It looks tiny … Continue reading →

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We came to splay

Posted on May 22, 2018 by markweiss86

Something about Palo Alto human relations commission, the poet Nathaniel Maki, my years in advertising especially sports advertising in the Palo Alto Firebirds in the World Cup

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The Great Democracy Tap-Out (of Palo Alto) revisited

Posted on May 21, 2018 by markweiss86

It’s 9:30 on a Monday in 2018, and two of the characters from my 2011 opus “The Great Democracy Tap Out (Of Palo Alto)” are reprising their roles, surrounded by seven new leaders. In 2011, Karen Holman alone voted against … Continue reading →

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Blue Mustang by Luis Jimenez shot by Denver airport by Broncos line coach and Palo Altan Chris Strausser w. Confederate monument in Mississippi captured from American Public Media ‘In The Dark’ podcast as reported in Times By Leonhardt

Posted on May 20, 2018 by markweiss86

   This is a weird juxtaposition I admit even buy plastic out through  Buy plastic alto standards I am meaning to listen more carefully to the podcast about Curtis flowers case in Mississippi the monument above is a screen capture … Continue reading →

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Mo mural in Cairo

Posted on May 20, 2018 by markweiss86

   B/w my favorite usher at Stanford baseball games

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Mark and Duffy at Blue Trees Project, 250 Hamilton, City Hall, King Plaza by artist Kon and Adele

Posted on May 15, 2018 by markweiss86
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I lost or traded in or sold the car with the combination Superchunk David Gilhooly mash up bumper sticker but now have a magic silver box thru which I pretend I can see and hear Superchunk more recently than Bottom of Hill with baby in arms

Posted on May 14, 2018 by markweiss86

new video by one of my favorite bands, called Chuck then Chunk then Superchunk edit to add: 1. It was  post called “Das Sticker” from February, 2011 that is to say seven years ago: David Gilhooly Smith-Andersen bumper sticker circa 1985 … Continue reading →

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