Author Archives: markweiss86

Unknown's avatar

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

Yolanda and Bill

Posted on January 29, 2015 by markweiss86
Posted in jazz | 1 Comment

Leroi platform (rezidentialist)

Posted on January 29, 2015 by markweiss86
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Blues jam RWC

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86

Terry Hanck Feb. 11, Lara Price cd release March 25

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Tripleshot, triplecropped tennis ‘Winner’ sequence

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86

2 3

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Steve Earle at Waterloo, February 12

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86

Steve Earle does an in-store at Waterloo in Austin, Texas on February 12, 2015 to support a new cd. I like the cover art. I saw Steve in Santa Fe, at a school for the blind or deaf. I bought … Continue reading →

Posted in austistic | Leave a comment

Face time

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86
Posted in art | Leave a comment

Franco to play Sherman in Hollywood biopic

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86

James Franco, the polyglot Paly grad, will play Richard Sherman, the Compton thug turned Stanford pedant turned Seahawk Icarus-by-way-of-Butkus in a deal announced simultaneous via Skype in Phoenix and Park City. Sherman himself will play all the other characters, ala … Continue reading →

Posted in art, ethniceities, sex | Leave a comment

Fairygodmother lauds politicians

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markweiss86

County Supes support Buena Vista kids with $8 M earmark, in Palo Alto Betty Peck, Saratoga’s fabled “Fairygodmother of kindergarten”, was a secret and perhaps hermetic lobbying force in the Santa Clara County Supervisors unanimous 5-0 decision to earmark $8 … Continue reading →

Posted in Plato's Republic, words | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Maybe it’s

Posted on January 27, 2015 by markweiss86

Cheryl Wheeler, 1997 about Jonesboro, Arkansas, Garth Brooks pka Chris Gaines, 2000 and me, at PAUSD meeting, apropos indirectly about Gunn student stress (which I am hesitant to call a “suicide cluster”) — and Cheryl did play this at Cubberley … Continue reading →

Posted in media, music, Plato's Republic, words | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Palo Alto Doggone

Posted on January 27, 2015 by markweiss86
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment