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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

Cohen recalls

Posted on November 25, 2015 by markweiss86

  who sings like an super weird else comes to Slater

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Expectations low for saving capitalism

Posted on November 23, 2015 by markweiss86

I’m roughly two-thirds through my first crack at Robert Reich “Saving Capitalism: For the many not the few”, an endeavor inspired by seeing the former Clinton cabinet member lecture two weeks ago in nearby Campbell, Calif.   I got there … Continue reading →

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I saw the figure ‘5’ in green

Posted on November 12, 2015 by markweiss86

And then I noted the shape of the couch and thought in resembled the descender in the “5” but a student started to sit there and I asked her to move to get my shot, which provoked a brief exchange … Continue reading →

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Allen Touissant, 1938-2015

Posted on November 11, 2015 by markweiss86

(I heard a KPFA dj named Tim Lynch back-announce a set of Toussaint covers last night and immediately pulled over in my car to find via hand-held the announcemnet in Times of New York and then drove by a magazine … Continue reading →

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Raymond Smullyan’s Dracula w. Colin Meloy

Posted on November 7, 2015 by markweiss86

I saw a book worth purchasing and someday reading, at Bell’s books, about Dracula and logic. “What is the Name of This Book:…” is the name of the book. The subhead is about the Dracula riddle. It does have a … Continue reading →

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Vienna Teng at Bol Park, Palo Alto, 2007

Posted on November 6, 2015 by markweiss86

Someone taped this show by Vienna Teng on August 7, 2008 and then uploaded it to Youtube — that is, well before it was acquired by Google — the very next day, where more that 100,000 times it has been … Continue reading →

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Coupa Cafe blue room

Posted on November 6, 2015 by markweiss86

Coupa Cafe on Ramona has added a blue room to augment its super-crowded red (main) room. I say: some of the best ideas in Silicon Valley start with someone eavesdropping at Coupa Cafe. J.P. Coupal, pictured above, says there are … Continue reading →

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Rigo art in San Jose State for Olympic fist protest

Posted on November 6, 2015 by markweiss86

Steve Cohen sent me an interesting article about the Australian athlete who stood on the podium with John Carlos and Tommy Smith at the 1968 Olympics. Reminds that a year ago I took these two snapshots: The sculpture is by … Continue reading →

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Bird omenology

Posted on November 4, 2015 by markweiss86
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Barry Eisler coming to Kepler’s in February, Jerry Rice coming to Kepler’s tonite

Posted on November 4, 2015 by markweiss86

I’ve met Jerry Rice twice and would say I don’t think he actually wrote this book. I don’t think I’ve met Barry Eisler, but I’ve stopped strangers two or three times to say “Are you Barry Eisler?” I will add … Continue reading →

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