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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

Charlie Chan IS a) dead b) at the Olympics and c) David Packard

Posted on July 31, 2014 by markweiss86

COMING THURSDAY OR FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 OR AUGUST 15, 2014 August 14 – 15: Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) 7:30 d H. Bruce Humberstone. w Robert Ellis, Helen Logan, based on a story by Paul Burger. ph Daniel C. … Continue reading →

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Moss Calls Grand Boulevard ‘Garbage’

Posted on July 30, 2014 by markweiss86

Reporting live from Palo Alto Planning and Transportation meeting, a public hearing, sage and activist Bob Moss says, re “build to the line” proposal that the catch-word “Grand Boulevard” is “garbage”. If I get the chance I will get Bob … Continue reading →

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HBSB coming at ya!

Posted on July 29, 2014 by markweiss86

  Henry Butler, a piano player from Louisiana, and Steven Bernstein a slide-trumpet player from Berkeley and New Yorker, cover new territory as the Hot 9. They gave a taste of their sound at Yoshi’s last  month. We will probably … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Vida Blue

Posted on July 29, 2014 by markweiss86

my gram paw, name a henry, knew your gram ma or rabbi, name of steven, sitting by the bayou, gonna set the world on fi yo. I co I co I co been a contenda. but am content as a content provider. Continue reading →

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Andrew Bird and Jessica Johnson, two free shows I would try to catch

Posted on July 29, 2014 by markweiss86

Andrew Bird has a free show Sunday at Stern Grove in San Francisco, which will draw about 7,000 fans, maybe Terry and I will make the trek; I love Stern Grove. Have not been in a few years, however. Closer … Continue reading →

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I don’t wanna be your hero I just wanna fight like everyone else

Posted on July 29, 2014 by markweiss86

Thank you,  Kerry Yarkin and one other, for diverting the cavalcade of trolls who attacked me on the Weekly’s site, under the back-handed article about entering the race. What Gennady Sheyner strangely leaves out is that I got nearly 6,000 … Continue reading →

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Obscure labor action in Palo Alto

Posted on July 28, 2014 by markweiss86

Three men who say they are part of a carpenters union are standing around on Emerson with a banner and say that in San Leandro a company I never heard of is building its new headquarters with non-union labor. They … Continue reading →

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Open letter to Diana Diamond: on Arrillaga, et al

Posted on July 26, 2014 by markweiss86

Diana, you are on-point here in many ways. I think staff actually supported The Arrillaga Towers proposal to the tune of $500,000 not $250,000. ‘Our Palo Alto” meanwhile, as if we haven’t learned anything, or it is too soon to … Continue reading →

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This machine surrounds hate

Posted on July 26, 2014 by markweiss86

Kudos to Rachel Garlin for writing this song, in honor, I am guessing, of Martin Luther King and Barack Hussein Obama, and the work of editors to create this video, using, I am guessing, Rachel’s students in 2009 at King … Continue reading →

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NEWS FLASH: WEISS PICKS UP 1,400 MORE VOTES IN CONTINUED TALLY

Posted on July 26, 2014 by markweiss86

Wow. I had been telling people, for about two years, that I garnered 4,300 votes in the 2012 Palo Alto City Council race. (I came in sixth, with four seats open). But I just noticed, on SmartVoter, that as of … Continue reading →

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