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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

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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Faking hipness with AlunaGeorge shout re FrostFest

Posted on April 4, 2015 by markweiss86

Four of the acts I punched up from this flyer seem to not have this on their schedule, yet from where I sit at Oak Creek I can hear some loud music as if they are sound checking at nearby … Continue reading →

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Davey Havok at the Cub, July, 1996

Posted on April 2, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add: I name-checked AFI in 2012, during my campaign, because the PAW had an item about Tim Gray’s and my campaigns, as “Rage against the machine” – I was quoted as saying Palo Alto has a Chicago-style machine, … Continue reading →

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Andy Nystrom hard rocking the Pacific Northwest

Posted on March 30, 2015 by markweiss86

Andy Nystrom was kind to Earthwise at the Cub, back in the day, for the Town Crier — Earthwise of Palo Alto sometimes pretended to be for expedience reasons based in Los Altos Hills. He and his eventual wife Carrie … Continue reading →

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Cheap image generator

Posted on March 29, 2015 by markweiss86
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Congrats, SRV

Posted on March 29, 2015 by markweiss86

Congrats to Brian Botteen and the San Ramon Valley Wolves on their State Championship in basketball, division I, which means all but the open division (won by Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland the next night). I caught two early season Wolves … Continue reading →

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Total recall (2016)

Posted on March 27, 2015 by markweiss86

The Downtown Cap as prescribed in the Comp Plan, on the books since at least 1998, would dictate a moratorium on further builds there, pipeline be damned. That current council, 5/9s of which were elected as so called “Residentialists”, changes … Continue reading →

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