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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

a bridge to Mars

Posted on August 18, 2015 by markweiss86

watching quote artifact unquote the documentary about the rock band directly after watching erase screening a bridge too far quote unquote provoked in me this clever mash-up head especially the scene where the good guys se quote we are holding … Continue reading →

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Namigoro Rashomon v. Chuck Wepner

Posted on August 11, 2015 by markweiss86

(I’d like to see a fight between Chuck Wepner and Namigoro Rashomon…. Mark Weiss retired concert promoter, budding fight promoter, of middle aged to elder men — Rashomon is 95 what about a fight club focused on former William Morris … Continue reading →

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Pawdaddy!

Posted on August 4, 2015 by markweiss86
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Capital corrupts worker outreach campaign, for Carpenters 22, in P.A.

Posted on August 3, 2015 by markweiss86

The international guild of puppeteers should file a protest here, demanding someone qualified operate the grimbo. As ye sew, so ye reap and all that. Part II: Joe 90 w. Joe Hill Truth Drive Seefried & Bouchard

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Steal this post

Posted on August 2, 2015 by markweiss86
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Andile Dyalvane in Palo Alto

Posted on July 28, 2015 by markweiss86

Andile Dyalvane, an emerging artist from Cape Town, South Africa, who works in ceramics and painted, scarified leather, is in residency at the Palo Alto Art Center thru August 2, 2015. He is producing a body of work in conduction … Continue reading →

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PMSCs v. ‘dacoits’

Posted on July 20, 2015 by markweiss86
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L Sax L

Posted on July 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Pat Labarbera (1944) Steve Lacy (1934-2004) Guy Lafitte (1927-1998) Oliver Lake (1942) Ralph Lalama (1951) Byard Lancaster (1942-2012) Harold Land (1928-2001) Brian Landrus (1978) Don Lanphere (1928-2003) John Laporta (1920-2004) Prince Lasha (1929-2008) Yusef Lateef (1920-2013) Christof Lauer (1953) Azar … Continue reading →

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Sans Fran’s

Posted on July 6, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add: Fran Hinson, in his shop, 497 Lytton, circa 1970, courtesy Palo Alto Historical and Guy Miller archives: and1: Beacom said. It is particular to every time and place. From her own childhood, Beacom remembers the reliably warm … Continue reading →

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I saw a Deadhead taper in The New York Times

Posted on July 6, 2015 by markweiss86
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