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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

Chip Conley where r u?

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

I met Chip Conley the day he was touring Uni Ave apropos of his conversion of Casa Olga into The Epithany and Lure +Till. I said I had stayed in his rock and roll dive, The Phoenix in SF. I … Continue reading →

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Down with hateful license plates from Texas and Florida

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

NPR radio had a report about rightwing weirdos and hate-mongers in Texas wanting to use the government to sponsor their views via special license plates and how the Roberts Court is trying to figure whether the First Amendment applies here … Continue reading →

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This is the best link to Cheryl Wheeler gun song

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

Quick back and forth with Nashville music manager and mensch Tony Gottlieb reveals that the best link to Cheryl Wheeler “If it were up to me…” is via Soundcloud. Here. God bless. Cheryl played the Cub back in June, 1998, … Continue reading →

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‘Mr. Mastodon Farm’ w. ‘Guitar’: birds fall w. if i throw my guitar

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

windows 1,418.0* Birds fall from the window ledge above mine Then they flap their wings at the last second w. this is deep hamlet-type stuffing: If I threw my guitar Out the window, so far down Would I start to … Continue reading →

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Media images and the Fabian Way murders

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

This is somewhere between a red herring and besides the point, but I couldn’t help noticing that the Daily News (The Mercury) had two photos Friday that seemed to glorify gun violence, on the day that the double-killing was discovered. … Continue reading →

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Belated kudos to Norm on the mallard stamp

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markweiss86

and1: And kudos to EPA for enforcing the Clean Water Act apropos of the Cargill scheme to develop 1,400 acres of marshland in Redwood City, CA and to KQED forum with Joshua and San Jose Mercury with Paul Rogers for … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Williams bass

Posted on March 22, 2015 by markweiss86

The Sunday night guy on KCSM says that in 1941 a bass player named Chocolate Williams, along with a nearly equally now obscure vocalist Ollie Potter, recorded “There’ll Be Some Changes Made” with Art Tatum. He was working on a … Continue reading →

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Let’s put Farrah Fawcett on the $20 bill

Posted on March 20, 2015 by markweiss86
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Baby Ringo in Liverpool by Andrew Grant Jackson, Oliver Goddard et al

Posted on March 20, 2015 by markweiss86

Whoa, that’s actually a house on Cowper just east or south of Oregon somewhat notorious for building too close to a heritage oak, and now they are flipping it. My Motorola is wigging out a bit. Here is the bootleg … Continue reading →

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After Goldsworthy, or alter

Posted on March 19, 2015 by markweiss86
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