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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

Nina n me

Posted on November 2, 2014 by markweiss86

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”

Posted on November 1, 2014 by markweiss86

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

Posted on November 1, 2014 by markweiss86

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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Mark Weiss the Frederick Douglass agitator type

Posted on October 30, 2014 by markweiss86

John Fredrich, candidate for member, Palo Alto City Council and a retired Gunn High School of Palo Alto social studies teacher, suggests that rather than thinking of Andrew Goodman the martyred “outside agitator” when Bill Johnson real estate investor and … Continue reading →

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Go, Dohatsuten, Giants

Posted on October 29, 2014 by markweiss86

With a 3-2 lead and Mad Bum getting loose I shook off my catcher and signaled brothy pork ramen from Dohatsuten on St Ants only 9 min walk from Fred hello Laura Stec dive bar preview. Terry now texts me … Continue reading →

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I am so third

Posted on October 29, 2014 by markweiss86

Seven-fifty-six on a Wednesday morning, two hours until my next appointment, lap top open, frothy Capucinno here at Peet’s MP, and I feel like Gale Sayers having juked Kermit Alexander at the fifty staring up at 50 yards of open, … Continue reading →

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Briefer history of time

Posted on October 29, 2014 by markweiss86

In thin blue line the case comes down to as Adams states five words fur-lined collar or bushy hair

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Mark Weiss Terry Acebo Davis official Palo Alto City Council 2014 portrait

Posted on October 28, 2014 by markweiss86
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Do Spoon your water

Posted on October 28, 2014 by markweiss86

Two threads merge here: I was psyched to hear Spoon, the Austin band that debuted in the Bay Area at Palo Alto Cubberley Center Theatre in 1997, get another song on the commercial radio, here KFOG for something called “Do … Continue reading →

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Fehr and loafing

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

I am writing this while board stiff so to speak at Council beating around the bush on “shuttle issue” –when I speak I will say what Schmid just said, and I just applauded 8:36 p.m. MARGUERITE. Speaking of chicks I … Continue reading →

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