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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

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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Don’t get your Dauber down (note to self)

Posted on July 26, 2014 by markweiss86

humm baby its a grand old flag. and yes we can (do) (better) sho nuff ya dig by any means necessary or is that mo better blues Continue reading →

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The swingin’ Ms. Seeling

Posted on July 26, 2014 by markweiss86

Check back for the post, I just liked the headline. See also: Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando, Rollie Fingers, the Swingin’ A’s: East Bay thing, dontcha know? Here

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Hip kitty seeks crash pad

Posted on July 26, 2014 by markweiss86

Hip kitty seeks crash pad. Mews along to early Derek Bailey. This is real, and not sequel to “Inside Llewyn Davis: further adventures of Roland Turner”. Reach Earthwise Productions via Plastic Alto comment board for more info.

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What I want and what I got

Posted on July 25, 2014 by markweiss86

What looks to be a reader of the Palo Alto Weekly and potentially a supporter of fellow Palo Alto City Council candidate Lydia Kuo — he posts anonymously or under the name “another res” — directs a question to me … Continue reading →

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Lense wars, Weiss v. Weber

Posted on July 24, 2014 by markweiss86

I warned Veronica Weber, in fall 2012, not to do me like the (fictional) press did the Jimmy Stewart character in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (they ran pictures of him doing bird-calls). As insurance, I snapped this from my … Continue reading →

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