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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

Jerry Garcia vs Greil Marcus

Posted on November 8, 2023 by markweiss86

I thought I already commented although I may be confused but I also wish to state that at the Bob Weir show a man left early – -and slightly after me — but he had parked his Mustang in VIP … Continue reading →

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We The People perks: or, can you open up the doors for me?

Posted on November 7, 2023 by markweiss86

My coffee today is courtesy of We the People. I greeted two City of Palo Alto leaders* and in our conversation, the senior of the two offered me a cup of coffee— my normal cappuccino even — and I accepted. … Continue reading →

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Offering to the ghost of Gerber ‘Sani’ or ‘Tani’, who died in April, 2022, after ingesting fentanyl at or near Lytton Plaza (and, incidentally, playing ping pong with the Earthwise musician D—-), who said he was a cook or chef at Pacific Catch

Posted on November 5, 2023 by markweiss86
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It’s 11:41 on a Sunday morning and I will waste it by begging or blogging about the 75 things that just fired my synapses, before wifey calls to yell at me for starving our dog.

Posted on November 5, 2023 by markweiss86

I am listening to Chris Isaak wicked game at coupa but not sure if hershel yatovitz guitar solo is there or that of his (guy before him) Jimmy Wilsey plus Ezra Klein pod cast about Rick Rubin book on creative … Continue reading →

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Ugly US congress member from Detroit supports and condones murderous terrorists in Israel areas ceded to Hamas

Posted on November 3, 2023 by markweiss86
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TONY, LIZZIE COMING 1/24

Posted on November 1, 2023 by markweiss86
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Be quick but don’t hurry: four more concerts, with a total of nearly 800 unsold seats

Posted on October 31, 2023 by markweiss86

  This is a bit redundant of Tuesday’s post, if you are a serial reader of Plastic Alto: I have four more productions, and a total of five shows coming up. Things are a little slow at the box office. … Continue reading →

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A November to remember

Posted on October 29, 2023 by markweiss86

Four final shows for Earthwise Earthwise culminates its year with four final productions in November. On Friday , November 3, at the Palo Alto Art Center, Jovia Armstrong Eunoia Society presents a cd release show. On Saturday November 11, at … Continue reading →

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Which one is you?

Posted on October 28, 2023 by markweiss86

Which one is you? I started my day by noticing my wife had rearranged my desk again, revealing the black and white print of our championship team, from 1981, in the locker room, one of us wearing a net around … Continue reading →

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We want it! Let’s get it! Bob Melvin new Giants skipper

Posted on October 25, 2023 by markweiss86
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