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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

Four in one post on the media and namedropping: ‘Woj’ed’

Posted on December 22, 2014 by markweiss86

Or, Mazel tov to Susan from down the block on baby-launch number 5 I am liking more and more the moniker or tagline “The blog with 500,000 words and no readers”. Here is 4 quick posts, or the abstracts for … Continue reading →

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I paid $6 for Susan Wojcicki

Posted on December 21, 2014 by markweiss86
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Paye to play

Posted on December 19, 2014 by markweiss86

If history recalls John Paye as a political leader who prepped as an NFL quarterback like Jack Kemp, you will have read it here first, in Plastic Alto, the blog with 500,000 words but no readers. Towards the end of … Continue reading →

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Sita sings the green

Posted on December 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Licensor (make check to) Address (send check to) in the US in Canada in British Territories anywhere else in the World Which songs? WARNER/CHAPPELL MUSIC, INC. 10585 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90025-4950 $0.938 $1.050 $0.687 $1.050 Am I … Continue reading →

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I had a little Freydele

Posted on December 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Post video for you? No problema. Rob bank for you? Let’s talk. Tal vez — but I would claim it is Paul McCarthy inspired performance art, taking a page from “Ragtime” with a grant from the Judaica Foundation for Judiaica … Continue reading →

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Two minute take on Lev Grossman on Mark Zuckerberg cover of Time, December 15, 2014

Posted on December 18, 2014 by markweiss86

cover photo by Ian Allen “Wired Ambition” Facebook CEO MZ wants to put every person on earth online photo of MZ in Chandauli, India or a soundstage ala James Carrey movie Technology: The Man Who Wired The World: MZ’s crusade … Continue reading →

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Jim Harbaugh and Steve Jenkins, circa 1981, fighting over the last maple bar

Posted on December 18, 2014 by markweiss86

I just realized that two of the most difficult and fascinating people I have met, Steve Jenkins the rock band leader and Jim Harbaugh the football coach and quarterback, may actually know each other, from Paly High in either 1980, … Continue reading →

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Fake interview with the black eyed beauty of France

Posted on December 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Or, Do you have freckle like a turkey egg? hello, bonjour, black eyed beauty of France, please excuse sil vous plais, that I am writing you via Plastic Alto the obscure blog rather than more directly thru your email account. … Continue reading →

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Pasatono De Oaxaca an vivo end Berkeley

Posted on December 17, 2014 by markweiss86
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Congrats of Gunn grad Jana Herzen of Motema for her five Grammy nods

Posted on December 17, 2014 by markweiss86

Akira Tana, the quarterback of the league-champion Gunn Titans football team, in fall, 1967, or so, is the producer of a cd by Rufus Reid the bassist called Quiet Pride and I just called him to congratulate him or it … Continue reading →

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