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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

Schauer defeats Sndyer

Mark Schauer is a guy I met on the campaign trail here in Palo Alto, on Santa Rita Street to be precise, so I was excited to punch his name into the search-injun to learn that he got 47 points … Continue reading

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You are truly a generalissimo

Don’t think twice, vote for weiss. Don’t splice or dice, just vote for weiss. Roll ’em twice, it still comes up weiss. OK, OK, you’ve suffered enough this morning, dude. If you don’t win today it’s probably because you waited … Continue reading

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President of Mexico in Palo Alto and other auspices

I was in not University commercial part of Palo Alto not campaigning 25 hours or so before polls open and close like a Venus fly trap and walking off the beer and football I notivrdt a familiar face some kind … Continue reading

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Two minute warning or warming to or of Steve Almond Against Football

This has 45 reviews on major web portal compared to 3 for the compilation I bought and mentioned above, with Namath and Red Smith and Dwight Clark the catch on cover, but 500 for Nate Jackson: Steve Almond who lives … Continue reading

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Jodi is smarter than her meter; or, 8888 w. Jodi w. SEIU

SNAKE ANTHONY IS NOT A SMALL JAPANESE WOMAN NOR IS OR WAS JODI BALL, S.E.I.U (In the course of a 12-week campaign leading up to my name on the ballot as candidate, member, Palo Alto City Council, I am slightly … Continue reading

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No on D rant for weird lady blogger

If Tuesday does not solve our very real set of problems, I would look to the Measure D supporters –and by the way LWV was biased in listing H, K and B and thirty others to E, J and T … Continue reading

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Gratuitous Matt from P.A. (Haimovitz) shout or peek

Matt Haimovitz lived in Palo Alto and was a child prodigy on cello and someone told his parents “you could or should move to New York and train him at Carneghie Hall and Julliard” and so they moved, he was … Continue reading

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Nina n me

I said to the rock, please hide me. Lord. I’ve been listening to Nina Simone, a cd I bought at of all places S_(national chain, coffee, and music, — Don MacKinnon — Plastic Alto don’t play brand name), called “How … Continue reading

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I say “Boom, Boom” Pat Travers say “out go lights”

Pat Travers is or was a Canadian blues rocker who released a live album in 1979, my freshman year at Gunn, that included a cover of the Little Walter song “Boom Boom”. Did this become a Gunn football or basketball … Continue reading

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Two-tone Titans triumph

Gunn football rode four electrifying touchdowns from receiver Guy Kasznik (#81) and running back Nozo Imanaka (#21) to defeat a pesky Lynbrook team Friday night in South-West Palo Alto, 28-19. Kasznik hauled in Noah Riley tosses of 45, 56 and … Continue reading

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