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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

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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CJ, Coach, Rambis and me, no kidding: honorable mentions of all time Bay Area and Palo Alto prep hoops legends

Posted on March 26, 2015 by markweiss86

Hans Delannoy and I it seems like just yesterday — March 25, 2015 — were discussing an all time Palo Alto All City team, maybe five groups of five or 25 deep, and maybe a top 20 all Gunn team … Continue reading →

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Judy Kleinberg says corporations are people too

Posted on March 26, 2015 by markweiss86

Judy Kleinberg said recently that “corporations are people too” if that helps explain her stance here. She was speaking of the German software giant SAP (market cap $18B) which is now also a tenant on University, running the cafe in … Continue reading →

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Vannevar Bush

Posted on March 26, 2015 by markweiss86

I am working on something about Vannevar Bush. He worked with Lewis Terman. More to come. Whatever fits, print. http://www.dougengelbart.org/events/vannevar-bush-symposium.html

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Greenberry RFB

Posted on March 26, 2015 by markweiss86

I was grooving on the track #8 and probably single four or five from the multi-platinum Green Day break-thru “Dookie” from 1994 or so, “She”: She, she screams in silence. As I whistle it, hack that I am, it sounds … Continue reading →

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