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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

Agit props

Posted on January 14, 2015 by markweiss86
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Pharaoh, Pharoah

Posted on January 14, 2015 by markweiss86

My notes on Don Cherry, which are actually Don’s notes on himself, circa 1970 have the traditional Egyptian to English spelling for his collaborator Sanders, see for you self:

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Dennis Whittaker’s 5 no 4 rules to follow to stay out of harm’s way, 1971 2013

Posted on January 14, 2015 by markweiss86
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Jason Garrett high road

Posted on January 13, 2015 by markweiss86

When Jason Garrett head coach of the Dallas Cowboys football team, was interviewed post-game about the loss to the Packers he said something like “we had our opportunities to prevail but did not, and the officiating was not the reason … Continue reading →

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It’s a girl, or triplets

Posted on January 13, 2015 by markweiss86

1. Echo Brown: Not sure why I was being so PC (politically correct) or dorky to write my previous piece as if I was leaving room for this woman to be transgender, but upon further review, unlike Dez Bryant — … Continue reading →

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All our need, none our greed

Posted on January 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Buena Vista Mobile Home Park hearing, Palo Alto, I spoke for 30 seconds: There is room for all of our needs,  but none of our greed; all our need, none our greed.

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E.B. White’s pig’s long tail tale (meta Plastic Alto)

Posted on January 12, 2015 by markweiss86

Eighty-eight posts received exactly one hit, the long tail. Nineteen posts got two hits, for instance “In another mental universe, LAMI lives” about the Beat poet Alden Van Buskirk, I feted back in 2011. Nine had three readers. Six had … Continue reading →

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Worst call in NFL history against Dez Bryant, Cowboys

Posted on January 11, 2015 by markweiss86
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Denver juice fluffer

Posted on January 11, 2015 by markweiss86
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Holy cow…boy!

Posted on January 11, 2015 by markweiss86
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