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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

Plastic plastic mediation

Posted on January 8, 2015 by markweiss86

Or, the ship I carry in my chest 1. Heritage: California Slim: Music, Magic and Madness, May 5, 2013 (dvd or recordable dvd, copyright 2013 Palo Alto History Association, but may be unique copy, of Andy Bernstein the logistics executive … Continue reading →

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Jerry Perry

Posted on January 8, 2015 by markweiss86

I thing it wod be punny it would to producer Jerry Hannan show in Menlo park my my merrier their girly fled fleyy flier like acids Yat ft f red te stirrup Perry Lane Jerry  Hannan

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(Weird) preview of Echo Brown one-person show at Stage Werx Mission SF

Posted on January 7, 2015 by markweiss86

in the spirit of Samsom Occum the original Dartmouth Indian or Big Green in that, according to Michael Dorris, the Mohegan or Mohican was forced to dress “in drag” in that he was already civilized enough to wear Abercrombie or … Continue reading →

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transparency

Posted on January 6, 2015 by markweiss86
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The Examiner: Haimovitz and O’Riley to tour with historically-informed Beethoven performances

Posted on January 6, 2015 by markweiss86
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Price lauds c.b.a. and labor in farewell address

Posted on January 5, 2015 by markweiss86

Thank you, Gail, for your service and role model. Good luck mayor-elect Karen Holman. Good luck, vice mayor-elect, mayor to be, we hope, Greg Schmid. Politics make strange bedfellows. I gave brief speech for Nancy Shepherd about how I voted … Continue reading →

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Happy new years and back to work, on the ‘stinkers’

Posted on January 5, 2015 by markweiss86

I posted this on the Weekly site and will check back every few hours to see how long until they censor me. I suggest rather than censoring me outright, they substitute a euphemism “stinkers” for my word of choice, “asshole”. … Continue reading →

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Sleater-Kinney back in black

Posted on January 4, 2015 by markweiss86

Jon Pareles in Sunday The New York Times on Sleater-Kinney reunion: yeah!!!

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Gunn grad victim of ‘graffiti hate crime’ hoax, not the perp

Posted on January 4, 2015 by markweiss86

“Yell ‘FIRE’ yo, eo yo yo”, Michael Franti, 2006* Sean Berry, an 18-year-old recent graduate of Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, a stones throw – but be careful — from Stanford University, will be sentenced January 26 by … Continue reading →

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Yes, Peggy, there is a Jerry Garcia thread to the Palo Alto jazz story

Posted on January 3, 2015 by markweiss86

Peggy McKee, a history teacher and board member of PAHA, asked me, while advancing our Jan. 25, 2015 event, whether there would be any Jerry Garcia discussions during the event, a discussion of jazz here. I said no, that Jerry … Continue reading →

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