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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

Palo Alto hat trick

Posted on April 13, 2015 by markweiss86

In Palo Alto we’re talking a “Downtown Cap” although some describe it more like a halo, a scarf (scharff?) or hint, but a short stroll to Town & Country yields actual, practical wearable and stylish millinery objects, like at Malia … Continue reading →

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‘Stan Chu Boy Shot From Car April 2015’ by Mark Weiss15 after McClung, after Hockney after Lorrain

Posted on April 12, 2015 by markweiss86
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Only that Patricia McClung ‘Stanford Arches’ calls to mind Claude Lorrain’s ‘The Sermon on the Mount’ (1656) as refracted by David Hockney as ‘A Bigger Message’, I saw in 2014

Posted on April 11, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add, four years later: I stumbled, lost, starving hysterical and naked into the offices of Kleiner Perkins and saw this Patricia McClung work, but couldn’t recall her name.

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Former Gunn footballer Rich Freed stands and delivers for kids v. technology, or sits at his desk for a very, very long while, rather

Posted on April 11, 2015 by markweiss86

Kudos to my Gunn classmate Richard Freed, Phd for his book “Wired Child: Debunking Popular Technology Myths” which attempt to counter the billion dollar behemoth of hype for computer proliferation and gadgets and information as consumer electronics. In the vein … Continue reading →

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Sufjan Stevens “Cali and Howl”

Posted on April 11, 2015 by markweiss86

Sufjan Stevens has resumed his much-anticipated “Fifty States” project, adding The Golden State to his paens for Illinois and Michigan. It is called “Cali and Howl” and beyond being about California it focuses on Beat poet Allen Ginsberg as a … Continue reading →

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I’d rather tax the realtors

Posted on April 10, 2015 by markweiss86

I’d rather tax the realtors. That’s my post under Steve Levy column in the Palo Alto Weekly. Steve usually deletes my posts, in whole or in part. Sometimes he neuters them and then goes “sissy!”. The topic is Measure A … Continue reading →

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Do Muslim women need saving?

Posted on April 9, 2015 by markweiss86

The lecturer, who has two degrees from Duke, and is a visiting scholar in the Stanford Humanities program, recommends this book: and1: I have a tremendous respect for the Cantor exhibit “She Who Tells A Story” and have covered if … Continue reading →

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Seven or eight more media or documents I would think read write about were I faster higher stronger

Posted on April 9, 2015 by markweiss86

I wrote and thought about an upcoming land use proposal, which took me most of my morning. I am also prepping for a significant and real-enhanced little ten minute spurt, around 8 p.m. on Wednesday April 15 at 250 Hamilton, … Continue reading →

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Paule Anglim slud into heaven

Posted on April 4, 2015 by markweiss86

Kenneth Baker tells me that Paule Anglim has died. I immediately call Paula Kirkeby and speak to her assistant Karen (a former Palo Alto arts commissioner and married to one of the coolest guys in the world, LF). Terry, my … Continue reading →

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Interim assistant city manager Ed Shikada to lead search for Palo Alto mascot

Posted on April 4, 2015 by markweiss86

Jim Keene has named the former city manager of San Jose Ed Shikada to an interim position on the 7th floor of 250. Word on the street is that Keene is sick and tired on Our Fair City not having … Continue reading →

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