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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

Terry, Bruce and I

Posted on September 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Terry shot this view:

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Gunn football chasing first win

Posted on September 27, 2014 by markweiss86

Gunn dropped a 35-28 decision at Prospect of Saratoga Friday, its four straight defeat. Coach Shinichi Hirano’s Titans are continuing to remind me of “The Seven Samurai” from the famous Japanese movie about a small group of fighters trying to … Continue reading →

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David Shields San Jose 225 229 A

Posted on September 25, 2014 by markweiss86

1 I was expecting a more content rich experience.

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Grand Jury Report, our response and my real time qualms

Posted on September 24, 2014 by markweiss86

I’ve read the Grand Jury Report. I have not seen the response, written by Pat Burt (council),Greg Schmid (council) and Jim Keene (staff, City Manager). Here is a reprint of a speech I gave to ARB two years ago, in … Continue reading →

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U.S. State Department and McFaul Support Jailed Rock Band

Posted on September 24, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Svayambh-PA, or New Residentialist Platform(NRP):
Russian authorities interrupt performance by agitprop group Pussy Riot, February, 2012 The United States is concerned about both the verdict and the disproportionate sentences handed down by a Moscow court in…

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Cubberley As a Regional Arts Center for 300-capacity theatre

Posted on September 24, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Svayambh-PA, or New Residentialist Platform(NRP):
I am on my way to the Cubberley meeting at 7:30 tonight. While checking the time online, I became perhaps the last person in the room to learn that Mandy Lowell…

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Colorado dissent debate and Lytton Plaza

Posted on September 24, 2014 by markweiss86

The Chronicle teed me up and the New York Times online hit me home about some noise out of Arvada, Colorado where a school board wants to revise U.S. History so as to produce a citizenry that is less likely … Continue reading →

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Shields 224 (on R.Stern), ‘Damn right I’m no body’ & 10 day schedule

Posted on September 24, 2014 by markweiss86

As I started to write this, waiting for my breakfast burrito, my table overcrowded with books and papers, I knock the plastic case of my reading glasses from the high top to the floor, and bending over I notice that … Continue reading →

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Sam and Bill displaces Jenny

Posted on September 23, 2014 by markweiss86

Sam Amidon is a young artist on Nonesuch and, according to Mark Christman of Philly’s Ars Nova series, is touring with Bill Frisell as a sideman. Sam Amidon is also married to British folkie Beth Orton. Ok. Sam Amidon is … Continue reading →

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Michael McFaul lecture for World Affairs Council in Atherton, Calif., September, 2014

Posted on September 23, 2014 by markweiss86

Terry and I caught an excellent lecture by Michael McFaul, of Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and the former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, for the World Affairs Council, at a private residence in Atherton, California, in September, 2014. McFaul is a Rhodes … Continue reading →

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