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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

Matt Gonzalez, part 2

Posted on August 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Matt Gonzalez actually called back, between appointments, and added some additional critique to my efforts. He suggested that even as the Residentialists are becoming bolder here in their push-back against the Developers, that people want a positive message. I agree. … Continue reading →

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What do you see in this image?

Posted on August 19, 2014 by markweiss86

I see: 1. colors 2. a shape, bunny rabbit? New England state known for leaves turning in fall? 3. numbers, letters, not quite words. Qwerty? Hazbot? Nimby? 4. Is this a reference to Raushenberg, Switters, Walker Evans or what? (it … Continue reading →

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Are you ready for some Edelman, er, exercise, er, lunch?

Posted on August 19, 2014 by markweiss86

reprinted from three years ago, with addendum: This run by Julian Edelman, of the New England Patriots, a former Woodside High and CSM football hero, makes me wish I had done my recent smog check at Frank Edelman’s A-1 AutoTech … Continue reading →

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Tygress, Tygress (Mia Levin, Sunday, August 17, 2014)

Posted on August 19, 2014 by markweiss86

Mia Levin and I met in 1977 when we were both Terman Tigers and I presume virgins. Now she is Mama Mia to Lalique, 28, and Leon, 9. Wow! She also has “put out” 10 cd’s, albums and tapes as: … Continue reading →

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Wooden ship

Posted on August 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Lame duck Palo Alto City Council Member Larry Klein tries to quote basketball coaching legend John Wooden tonight from dias. “As John Wooden would say (if he were polled on loop technology, or using staff time as a subsidy for … Continue reading →

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Notes on public safety, during three minute address to Council tonight

Posted on August 18, 2014 by markweiss86

>>Seemless transition from neighborhood preparedness to public safety Gunn, Paly and Castilleja –aspire to community service We can self-govern and self-police. No outsourcing. No privatizing. Background: 1. 2011 ballot Measure D affecting collective bargaining agreement (CBA) and binding arbitration A … Continue reading →

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There’s a little piece of Maria in every song he sings

Posted on August 18, 2014 by markweiss86

When I worked, as a freelancer or go-fer, at Goodby Berlin and Silverstein, 921 Front Street in San Francisco in the late 1980s there was an interesting looking lady there about my age named Maria. I seem to recall that … Continue reading →

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Rue-DOOR-en felt the most real so we GOOG-led it and found a section of an island in Finland that we someday hope to claim as ancestral homeland

Posted on August 16, 2014 by markweiss86

(TRIBUTE TO BIG DAYS OF JOSEPH ZIRKER, SARAH CAMERON SUNDE, THEIR FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, AUGUST 14-15, 2014 PALO ALTO AND SAN FRANCISCO) I do not know Jodi Wilgoren also known as Jodi Rudoren. Her sister Debbi Wilgoren was three years … Continue reading →

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A note on the two Williams I am have linked

Posted on August 15, 2014 by markweiss86

First, I paid a condolence call to Mr. William Davis Parker, my old little league coach and father of my schoolmates Nancy Taylor and Bill Parker; Mrs. Joan Parker, who I recalled as having the world’s finest spinach salad recipe, … Continue reading →

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Will Sigua Monument in Los Altos Hills

Posted on August 15, 2014 by markweiss86
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