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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

Mr. Dubois Goes To HRB

Posted on March 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Tom Dubois, fledgling Palo Alto City Council member, attended the Historic Resources Board meeting Thursday. He is the liaison from the Council to the Board. “Liaison” being fancy French word for “designated driver” of policy. HRB, Bunnenberg, Brower, Makinen, Kohler, … Continue reading →

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Hanna Cohan, 97

Posted on March 12, 2015 by markweiss86

I noticed in the rag that Hanna Cohan had passed away, March 9, at age 97. Oddly, I was just thinking about her, this morning, between when Terry got up to go to the hospital and when I got up, … Continue reading →

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Three point one four Jumbo Elliots

Posted on March 11, 2015 by markweiss86

I’m still trying — tri-ing — to figure out if if was me, my brother Rick or George Carlin himself who went from “jumbo shrimp” to “shrimpy jumbos” which means I will force myself to sit thru a re-listening probable … Continue reading →

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Things I Don’t Understand: The Graduate as Comedy

Posted on March 11, 2015 by markweiss86

Originally posted on The Waiting:
Back when Wee Cee was just a glimmer in her daddy’s eye, I had the idea to start a blog about all the things I, as an adult, did not understand or was incapable of…

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3.14.15 is Pi Day

Posted on March 11, 2015 by markweiss86

Pi Day, since about 2001 in celebration of the famous and important math ratio and irrational called Pi for the Greek letter, and generally thought of as a wee bit more than three, 3.14 or more precisely 3.1415 is Saturday … Continue reading →

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Ella Fitzgerald dear Watson w. Betty Rollin’s legs

Posted on March 11, 2015 by markweiss86
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Eshoo to call for corn dog subsidy, April 1

Posted on March 11, 2015 by markweiss86

Pork to benefit local wiener queen

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CBGB w. CDBG

Posted on March 11, 2015 by markweiss86

This ain’t no HUD club, or CDBG Help me write a parody of “Life During Wartime” by Talking Heads about the gentrification of Stevenson House in Palo Alto, founded by the Unitarians in 1968 but taken over by billionaire real … Continue reading →

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Lordy, lordy lordy a.k.a. Joe Ely

Posted on March 10, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add: I posted this via my handheld during the show and updated to say the song is called “I’m Gonna Strangle You, Shorty” and here is seen a few years back at Saxon Club in Austin. I spoke … Continue reading →

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Amazing mural man seeks IPO billions in synesthesia b2b play, in Palo Alto

Posted on March 10, 2015 by markweiss86

Sam Whiting of the Chron had a story about a mural in the lobby of a start-up and said that they don’t mind walk-ups, at 555 College, near Cali Ave (or across from the hole in the ground we call … Continue reading →

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