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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

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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Ann Hagedorn elevator pitch plug review and or preview

Posted on November 10, 2014 by markweiss86

1. the first part; Or, The Pledge THE director of the Secret Service has resigned after, among other problems, the revelation that, in a visit to Atlanta on Sept. 16, President Obama rode in an elevator with a private security … Continue reading →

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Red Haring

Posted on November 10, 2014 by markweiss86

I will redact this if needs be, but my friend and sister in hoops Rachel Garlin reports that the Keith Haring show “The Political Line” at the DeYoung, Saturday thru February 16, 2015 rocks. She should know because she is … Continue reading →

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‘oohhahhhheeeeeoooohhh yeh yeh!’ 4 2 Toms

Posted on November 9, 2014 by markweiss86

Or, We Are Broadcasting Live and Want To Hear All of “Yah” at the bottom i am re-posting Tom Jordan 2 aka Tommy Jordan of Geggy Tah at Earthwise Showcase in 2009, trumpet solo and splits we are broadcasting live … Continue reading →

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Elisha Cook, Jr. Day in Palo Alto

Posted on November 9, 2014 by markweiss86

One of my weirder initiatives is Elisha Cook Jr Day in Palo Alto, in honor of the man who played Wilmer in The Maltese Falcon and an informant in The Big Sleep. It is a ploy to lure David Packard … Continue reading →

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