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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

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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Kurt Schwitters

Posted on February 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Originally posted on The As It Ought to Be Archive:
Portrait of Kurt Schwitters by El Lissitzky, 1929. GOODBYE KURT SCHWITTERS by Matt Gonzalez “I use any material the picture demands.” Kurt Schwitters, 1920. Today marks the conclusion of an…

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Pubic defender

Posted on February 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Broke Ass Stuart has a website, and Alex Mak of the BAS confederacy profiled Matt Gonzalez, the public defender, former SF Supe and artist. I thought it neat, and commented to such, that next to the article there was an … Continue reading →

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Divisa Ensemble of the Peninsula

Posted on February 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Any chance they as a quintet would busk at Lytton Plaza? I brought the Magnolia Sisters, Grammy nominees in Cajun bluegrass, there once, April 1, 2010. Here is a duet by two members. I haven’t quite focused yet to name … Continue reading →

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More Doug Moran with finish fetish fundament

Posted on February 12, 2015 by markweiss86

and my response: Greg Brown at his address to PAHA, for the publication of Matt Bowlng’s book –Greg is on the cover — noted that when he visited Linkoping and brought up the fate of “Foreign Friends” they all started … Continue reading →

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Nya Jade keeps rockin’ in the free world

Posted on February 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Nya Jade is based I think in New York but is Ghanaian and for a while hung out in the 650. I recall seeing her at Foothill Junior College when I was taking Janis Stevenson’s class on the blues, singing … Continue reading →

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