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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

Guy Kasznik touchdown catch and run versus Los Altos for Gunn High of Palo Alto Titans, November 2014

Posted on November 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Senior Guy Kasznik has stood out for Gunn of Palo Alto Titans football this season. He has close to ten touchdowns, most of which involve him breaking multiple tackles. He is an excellent student — I confirmed this with assistant … Continue reading →

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Beth Custer, my grandmother, Dina, Jess & David take New York

Posted on November 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Beth and I had breakfast Just For You yesterday and I bid her bon voyage as “My Grandmother” plays New York Saturday, part of a Georgian film festival with parts at Berkeley PFA and New York Museum of Modern Art. … Continue reading →

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Curtis McMurtry & Rachel Garlin to headline ‘earthwise@20’ Friday, Nov. 21 at Cafe Zoe Menlo Park

Posted on November 17, 2014 by markweiss86

Austin-based Curtis McMurtry and San Francisco’s by way of Berkeley singer-songwriter/activist Rachel Garlin headline a bill at Cafe Zoe in Menlo Park Friday. The event, open to all ages, is also known as the Earthwise Productions Twentieth Anniversary concert or … Continue reading →

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Gratuitos and random Cody Sanderson shout

Posted on November 17, 2014 by markweiss86

I been workin’ today from Palo Alto’s Mitchell Center Library, near Mitchell Park, the new building, the one with the Bruce Beasley granite arch marking the automobile entrance. I hereby declare that we raise a few extra bucks and replaced … Continue reading →

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Row row row the vote (John McNellis non-endorsement photo op)

Posted on November 17, 2014 by markweiss86

John McNellis is a former rower and a developer in Palo Alto, although he lives in Atherton. I run into him at a local coffee shop. He kindly posed for this photo during my campaign (see also the photo but … Continue reading →

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Titan gridders it shall come to pass

Posted on November 15, 2014 by markweiss86
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Rachel Garlin cd release Saturday, December 6 in San Francisco

Posted on November 14, 2014 by markweiss86

Rachel Garlin has been on my radar, and intermittently, like a comet, come to think of it, in my orbit for about 15 years. I heard “Sweetly” on KZSU and tracked her down. The song was produced by a member … Continue reading →

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Landing on a comet

Posted on November 13, 2014 by markweiss86

If I am landing on a comet today, and that’s pulled from the headlines of The New York Times, I am doing so with eight books, a DVD three consecutive years of Who’s Who In Baseball and fourteen cilps or … Continue reading →

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MARK WEISS 2014 My vote for Palo Alto City Council

Posted on November 13, 2014 by markweiss86

mark got a parking ticket most likely because he was chatting up a citizen or potential voter, he is like that. he listens to all comers and takes them at face value. yes, i will pay the ticket, duh, sometimes before it go DBW Continue reading →

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Kismet Kate

Posted on November 13, 2014 by markweiss86

Steve Levy and Eric Rosenblum have appealed to me ex parte that I am under-estimating Kiss Me Kate. Duly noted. What I actually said, in my own blog post, which started merely as a back-up to the points I raised … Continue reading →

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