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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

Why Gunn Titans are better than Paly Vikings in football

Posted on September 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Paly is 1 and 1 with an aggregate score of 30 for and 61 against. Gunn is 0 and 2 with an aggregate score of 39 for and 42 against. Gunn’s 39 points is 30 percent better than Paly’s 30. … Continue reading →

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A little chin music for the corporate behemoth

Posted on September 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Tom Hanks, or a character he played, said “there’s no crying in baseball”. Surely, you know there is no “center field foul pole / corporate communications behemoth 65 foot pole antenna” in baseball. At the risk of going full Juan … Continue reading →

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Allison Miller in Santa Fe fantasy league

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

ALI BOOM TIC BOMAYE October 9 Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom in Santa Fe, and also ALBQ (she likes the LBQ part) and then on to Denver, where I like a big blue stud with glowing red eyes. Harummph! I … Continue reading →

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Eastern Michigan and points over the Spartans, and Schauer over Snyder

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

i am kinda souring on the MS thing in that I’ve gotten about a dozen emails about money and none that acknowledge that I thought i connected to the candidate on a unique level, in palo alto. mark weiss 650.305.XXXX … Continue reading →

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Plastic Peters

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

I wrote earlier today about Steve Coleman, jazz musician and MacArthur Genius laureate. Earlier today, however, apropos of nothing, and he of infinite jest, I made a post-modern pseudo-writing job by cutting and pasting bits of nine previous works in … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Coleman, MacFoundDaddy

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

Steve Coleman won a MacArthur Genius grant. He joins Steve Lacy, Corey Harris and many others. M-Base, his thing. Not sure how it works. It says in his bio he was part of the Stanford Jazz Workshop, mid-1990s. Went to … Continue reading →

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Great football writing, part II

Posted on September 17, 2014 by markweiss86

hut 1: Devon Cajuste told me,the night of his 3-td performance against we the people’s black nights — compared to the private cardinal robber barons — that he had never heard of Dwight Clark and the Catch but is a … Continue reading →

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Street music at Lytton Plaza

Posted on September 16, 2014 by markweiss86

a man calling himself Neil Young Jeezy lit up the night Tuesday and made Jake. Not fade away, if you vine it: Terry came by and shot us:

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Gunn Titans football the best 956th ranked team in the nation, no doubt: Just say ‘Nozo’

Posted on September 16, 2014 by markweiss86

NOTE: CHECK BACK SOME DAY FOR THE UNCENSORED VERSION OF THS Gunn travels to Branham of San Jose Friday in search of their first “W” although so far, despite the 0-and-2 they are closer to the “L” hand-signal in Ed … Continue reading →

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Chop Keenan as Lester Maddox: he may be a hick, but he’s our hick

Posted on September 16, 2014 by markweiss86

I am saying we should be making money, public sector, on the phenomenon of tech miracle; we don’t have problem attracting tech. We have the opposite. On Conway: Web Link and the connection back to the topic is that the … Continue reading →

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