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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

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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Makeda Best in Palo Alto test, November 6

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Makeda Best will lecture in Palo Alto on November 6. Although I am having a hard time thinking beyond November 4, 2014, when Palo Altans take back our republic from the evil hands of the special interests and dollar-mongers, this … Continue reading →

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Weiss platform in 54 words by Terry and Mark

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

one person one vote not one dollar one vote enforce comp plan don’t gut it will rent control save even one family already here interrobang Continue reading →

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Personal to EG or BG of Portola by way of Chi-town

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Senator Gillibrand a Dartmouth ’88 is Tina Rutnik not Tina Tunik; I did not know her, I don’t think. The “inter-loper, but not ‘agitator’” is a Polly Noonan. Skimming for a more accurate word. Player, perhaps. Albany, NY kind of … Continue reading →

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Stack and pack v. rent control

Posted on October 27, 2014 by markweiss86

But concert promoter Mark Weiss dismissed the question as “biased” and said the city would be better off exploring rent control. “How many houses would we have to build before the prices would become affordable?” Weiss asked. “No one has … Continue reading →

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Gunn falls to Homestead 42-7 yet flyers flawless

Posted on October 26, 2014 by markweiss86

I spent much of the first half of Gunn at Homestead talking to a white ex-pat Jamaican named Linval DePass whose daughter is a “flyer” for the GHS (formerly GSH or HMG) spirit squad (what we called Cheer Leaders). You … Continue reading →

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