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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

Out of closet w. censored or double-secret probation

Posted on February 16, 2015 by markweiss86

I liked that the Stanford band played music by three groups that I once booked into Cubberley center: blink 182, Cake, and Squirrel Nut Zippers. I liked the Lili Thompson handshake video shown overhead. I would have gone to the … Continue reading →

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Sam Yates COPA the gift that keeps giving

Posted on February 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Breena your story on Sam Yates is pretty disappointing. The central point is that Palo Alto unwisely withheld payment and closure for two years because someone put the idea out there that the artwork should include a data base useful … Continue reading →

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Library pottery as focal point

Posted on February 16, 2015 by markweiss86

Palo Alto’s renovated Rinconada Library, formerly known as Main Library, has on display a white Raku-style pottery pod or jar maybe not an olla by a local artist named Stephen A. Stephens (1943-1983). The staff, especially “Karen” are quite fond … Continue reading →

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Colin Bonini for Governor (of Delaware, a small state back east)

Posted on February 16, 2015 by markweiss86

I tried to place this comment on a news site, but could not: I am not on Facebook, I am a refuse-nik, so was not actually able to post this: I think Colin Bonini has a core value system about … Continue reading →

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Lincecum under control

Posted on February 16, 2015 by markweiss86

I bought a pack of Topps baseball cards, for $3, to bring me back to 1972 when Andy Dieden and I would ride our bikes ten minutes into the Saratoga Village to get the same 10 cards plus gum for … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth Holmes portrait by Jenny Hueston in 12/15/14 The New Yorker

Posted on February 16, 2015 by markweiss86

I conducted a mock interview by voice mail with New York based photographer Jenny Hueston. I wanted to know if, like David Choe and Facebook, she was given a choice of either her day rate in cash or Theranos stock. … Continue reading →

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I Wish

Posted on February 15, 2015 by markweiss86
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Sharod garners ‘Toga laurels

Posted on February 14, 2015 by markweiss86

For my money I like Sharod Miller as man of the match, Gunn over Saratoga by 2, in that in crunch time he back-to-back made a tip-in then swatted inside the Falcon shot. This after the Saratoga rooters were heckling … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 13, 2015 by markweiss86

David Carr also starred in the doc “Page 1” covering Vice media. Cut to Orozco 1934 at dartmouth in ray Faulkner 1969:

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Ada’s Cafe slightly less special Friday the 13th

Posted on February 13, 2015 by markweiss86

Tony Hughes, a former Paly golf champ, a Barclays banker of muni bonds and an all around White Hat (good guy) is holding down the fort today at Ada’s Cafe for wife Kathleen. Golf holiday? Personal chef to Obama? No, … Continue reading →

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