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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

Stanford to offer masters in liberal studies to anyone who sat through 45 songs by Taylor Swift

Posted on August 5, 2023 by markweiss86
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Katie Porter vs Kate Spade

Posted on August 5, 2023 by markweiss86
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Putin Tower planned three miles from Hoover

Posted on August 4, 2023 by markweiss86

And taller

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‘Liquid Hydrogen Bubble Chamber’, August 5, 2023 – April 5, 2024, by Earthwise

Posted on August 3, 2023 by markweiss86

  Caroline Davis, Jayla Chee, Maya Kronfeld, San Francisco Mime Troupe, David Boyce, Rabiah Kabir, Sam Burton, Good Cheap Fast duo, John Andrews, Seraph Brass Band, Lisa Mezzacappa, Tuck & Patti, Delbert Anderson, Roberta Lea, Allison Miller, Adam Levy, Rob Reich … Continue reading →

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24 noms for next president of Stanford (not in any particular order, nor with any methodology beyond having lived hereabouts 47 years minus four years at Dartmouth, four years in the city, a month in Brooklyn and a month in Austin)

Posted on July 26, 2023 by markweiss86

Or I nominate, Michael McFaul, former Obama security chief, an ambassador to Russia, who dated a friend of mine, his freshman and sophomore years. He took us to the Grateful Dead once although I would deny the rumor about how … Continue reading →

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7 shows in an Earthwise month

Posted on July 22, 2023 by markweiss86
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Pardon my mess

Posted on July 22, 2023 by markweiss86
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Go Mama went

Posted on July 22, 2023 by markweiss86

Bug in my bonnet about Go mama, the sculpture created by in 1999 for our public collection here later, dear session. Sitting in the warm morning sun outside Izzy’s where Olivia created some floral art I knew her mother slightly … Continue reading →

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Panel finds that MTL shit does, indeed, stink

Posted on July 19, 2023 by markweiss86

PROMISE TO EAT MORE RUFFAGE DOES NOT PASS MUSTER FOR POOPY PREXY, BLUE CHIP LAWYERS SAY 💩

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Iconic alumni of the Stanford Jazz Workshop

Posted on July 11, 2023 by markweiss86

For example, Dayna Stephens tuck Andress, Jenny Scheinman, Allison Miller, Mulgrew Miller no relation I’m not Cohen, Charles McPherson , Regina Carter remarkably every performer at the concert series also teaches at the camp or workshop. Stanford has a virtually … Continue reading →

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