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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

Coco coming Aug. 24

Posted on May 5, 2018 by markweiss86

BLUF bottom line up front: from the quotidian to the international scoop Plastic Alto has 12 posts in two weeks after nearly two years of disruption and relative silence. All in, this comprises 1,610 posts and more than 500,000 words. … Continue reading →

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Words on the street

Posted on May 1, 2018 by markweiss86

 I stopped Stephanie and Steve and their dog as they were leaving the Cobblery and ask them if they missed Go Mama Or were upset that the piece was removed from kitty corner to their CalibAvenue establishment.  She said that … Continue reading →

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Turkish breakfast, two states

Posted on May 1, 2018 by markweiss86

skillet state 1, 9:30 Skillet state II, 10:05 (Expresso, two states, not shown. Next: menemen v shoshaka)      

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Why Marcel Marceau is a bad political role model.

Posted on May 1, 2018 by markweiss86

Or, getting to “———-“. What is obviously and painfully missing from Gen’s story is the context, The Downtown Cap, or THE DOWNTOWN CAP, Program L-8 on Page L-8 of the Comp Plan: Limit new non-residential development in the Downtown area … Continue reading →

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Creamy lentil soup and signs of the Times

Posted on April 30, 2018 by markweiss86

BLUF bottom line up front: Politics is like making sausage, in this case quite literally, and deliciously. I am very responsive to New York Times. I was pleased to see the photo today of Turkish Basketball star. Reminds me that … Continue reading →

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‘Keys’ w. Keats

Posted on April 29, 2018 by markweiss86

At minute 56 of “Passing Strange” at the musical crescendo and climax of “Keys” — this is a solo by Stew (Narrator) after Youth and cast sing “Amsterdam” — and this is the Spike Lee version concert movie meaning a … Continue reading →

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Miracle header by Fellini to win MU ARS 2-1

Posted on April 29, 2018 by markweiss86

Fellaini 90+1

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Sunset clause or best of plastic alto from six years three months ago

Posted on April 29, 2018 by markweiss86

Ok, to sum it up, as Aleph approaches the Zeta landscape, there is making it, and making it up, there is truth and fiction, there is reality hunger, there is 23 and Me and 40 Acres and a Mule, there … Continue reading →

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Corned beef, laundry, Koopee

Posted on April 29, 2018 by markweiss86

A message from a Santa Fe gallery this a.m. has me thinking about Jacob Koopee and Marti Struever. The parallel forms of these three images stored on my handheld device barely merit a discrete post. No disrespect for Jabob. I … Continue reading →

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Vida Blue w. Pumpsie Green bands

Posted on April 27, 2018 by markweiss86

The news of Yawkey Way being renamed because of Tom Yawkey’s racism reminds me of the time I asked Pumpsie Green if he would let me use his name as namesake for a proposed rock/funk band that would feature Henry … Continue reading →

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