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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 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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Guerrero weird Weiss plug

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

I met Guerrero the art dealer when he was with Justin Giarla at White Walls, and checked out his Portrero Hill Gallery, and did buy a Reyes from him, for like $50. I didn’t quite catch the name of the … Continue reading →

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Phyllis dress shop in Palo Alto rocks this straight guy, who dresses as he has since high school i.e. is a slob

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

My favorite girly shop in Palo Alto is Phyllis. Five-forty Ramona, great location, near Coupa. I debuted (day booted?) my Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads Howl in 2009 nearby, at 530 Ramona. For a straight guy who, please … Continue reading →

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Blessed is the Wall Street Kilburn Match Blue Line

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

My or Terry’s pink Schwinn lockless and lovelorn, picking up my Council packet, I bought four books I’ll never read for six dollars*, then grabbed five media: Black Keys circa 2008 by Danger Mouse, “Wall Street” Michael Douglas Oliver Stone, … Continue reading →

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More yack from ‘Mrak’

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Posted by Mrak Weiss a resident of College Terrace 0 minutes ago I asked three candidates early on, allies more or less, to join me in pushing for a voluntary $10,000 spending cap and struck out. (To my nine hundred … Continue reading →

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Weldon Kees page 115 of Reclaiming Sf and Palo Alto

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Neophyte readers will, like Victoria Thorpe, call this irrelevant or incoherent, but I rebooted the lap dancer to post this purloined image of Weldon Kees, apropos of 280 or Caltrain and although there is no index to “Reclaiming San Francisco: … Continue reading →

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