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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

I got 2,115 votes and have posted 23 times since the election but forgot to publish the photo of Mark Weiss at the polls

Posted on November 13, 2014 by markweiss86

At midnight on the following Wednesday>Thursday, I have 2,115 votes (and counting?) and Cory Wolbach looks like he will hang on to the fifth seat, behind Karen Holman, Greg Scharff, Tom Dubois and Eric Filseth, all of whom I am … Continue reading →

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I dreamt I saw Sara Choy play tennis

Posted on November 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Terry and I split a sandwich from Refuge in Menlo Park. She likes Russian dressing, I prefer yellow mustard. I saved the receipt. Then I dropped her at my apartment, at Oak Creek and rushed out. She said she was … Continue reading →

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There’s an article in New Yorker about Wayne Thiebaud and Lady M cakes, expensive and him playing tennis at 93, that’s all I got time for

Posted on November 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Marty Ivener the founder of Marty’s Restaurant in San Jose and Annette Ivener’s ex-husband — Annette Sunshine? — not bad for AARP-age speaking of delicacies and sweets — said that at his house they eat desert first. This makes me … Continue reading →

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Help me identify 109 shots of “Happy Dartmouth” video

Posted on November 12, 2014 by markweiss86

Kudos to the young filmmakers who parodied the Pharell monster hit “Happy” as a type of ex parte Dartmouth recruiting film. I am actually trying to suss out the film they showed in 2011 at my 25 that featured a … Continue reading →

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Iz Kyu-Young 2 young 2 ARB?

Posted on November 12, 2014 by markweiss86

OR, HOW BIG IZ THE BABY? I argued in my application for the ARB that architects per se were over-represented on the board and engage in a lot of log-rolling. I guess they listened to me and appointed someone is … Continue reading →

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Mom & I at Pomelo on Judah, February, 2009

Posted on November 11, 2014 by markweiss86

I had Manila and she had Lanzhou. Dad was having C3-C6 surgery from a “Dr. M” just “Dr. M” at UCSF and we walked down the street to have some noodles in a big abundant bowl, at Pomelo, which I … Continue reading →

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This is not taking a knee like Chris Ryan

Posted on November 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Hi Ron Greene: I follow your blog because you once wrote about Downtown Streets team of San Rafael and I was tracking that here in Palo Alto; oddly I stole a page from your play book in that I have … Continue reading →

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My jazz treatise stands at 24,776 words

Posted on November 11, 2014 by markweiss86

My jazz treatise stands at 24,776 words. I bought the book on Thelonious Monk by Robin D.G. Kelley because it mentions Danny Scher and the concert he presented on October 27, 1968; she has his yearbook, the Madrono as a … Continue reading →

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Taylor Swift in Times and on Big Machine at Starbucks

Posted on November 11, 2014 by markweiss86

I noticed that the New York Times, on my stupid smart phone none the less, made mention of Taylor Swift “1989” selling 1.3 M in the first week, and then stopping at the Starbucks on Alameda de Las Pulgas in … Continue reading →

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Dartmouth codex for English Studies, 12/84 thru S86

Posted on November 11, 2014 by markweiss86

Eoanthrophus will triumph finally over Homo sapiens Mencken, 1926 Horse-man Weiss, 1984 & 2014 According to a notebook I dug out of storage yesterday which would be also known as November 10, 2014, these are the classes I took towards … Continue reading →

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