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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

Proposed monument at 261 Hamilton in Palo Alto in the shape of a giant Good Humor bar with alphabet spelling BUILDING ENVELOPE?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by markweiss86

Being a concert promoter turned land-use watch-dog, with forays into arts advocate and blogger has the weird effect of sometimes imagining a parallel world in which all my ideas come true. I am posting this while listening to a public … Continue reading →

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More Earthwise Gallery of Posters and Ephemera, sweded versions

Posted on June 23, 2014 by markweiss86

NINE YEARS LATER: New intro: In spring summer 2023, I am trying to use posters to market my concert series. For example, I have an 8.5 x 11 color Xerox by Robert Syrett for my Sonny Smith aka Sonny and … Continue reading →

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For best results read label carefully do not overheat

Posted on June 22, 2014 by markweiss86

Posted by Mark Weiss, a resident of Downtown North 10 minutes ago Mark Weiss is a registered user. How are we so stupid — I used the term “dented cans” in a previous post on this site — to not know … Continue reading →

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Distant relative of Obama can-doo hero of Belgian World cup

Posted on June 22, 2014 by markweiss86

Divock Origi, a 19-year-old distant relative of U.S. President Barack Obama, scored the finesse goal in the lucky 88th minute to defeat the Russians and send Belgium thru in World Cup play Sunday in Rio. Divock Okoth Origi (born 18 April … Continue reading →

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The real grateful dead

Posted on June 22, 2014 by markweiss86

Kudos to Sarah Cahill for her concert event at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland. Terry took one picture I directed, down from the third floor to the second or first floor lobby where an electronica duo, one of whom … Continue reading →

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MIRV in Palo Alto, fall, 1995

Posted on June 22, 2014 by markweiss86

The posters for the Cubberley Sessions (also known as Palo Alto Soundcheck) were conceived of a series by Lane Wurster and Chris Eselgroth, the two-man art department for Mammoth Records in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which eventually was sold by … Continue reading →

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Sixty minute triple-item on Mencken, Twain & Salinger

Posted on June 22, 2014 by markweiss86

This is the enhanced version of a previous post, “20 Minute Triple Item on Mencken, Twain and Salinger” which actually took me about 40 minutes, making us, ultimately, an hour behind our schedule to get to Chapel of the Chimes … Continue reading →

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Dude where’d you park the grand jury report?

Posted on June 21, 2014 by markweiss86

I am struck by how underplayed the grand jury report is, in today’s Daily Post — unless they also reported on it Friday will have to check. As in: We were surprised as anyone to learn that a grand jury … Continue reading →

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20 minute triple item on Mencken, Twain and Salinger

Posted on June 21, 2014 by markweiss86

because we are leaving for East Bay, Beth Custer at Chapel of the Chimes, at quarter-past 4 on a Saturday   1. The fact is that some of the things men and women have desired most ardently for thousands of … Continue reading →

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First Amendment and Lytton Plaza

Posted on June 21, 2014 by markweiss86

I got into another cluster of conversations about Lytton Plaza and my assertion that our new ordinance banning amplifiers during business hours –which I call the Dave Heidie Laws — are unconstitutional, in the wake of the sixth Palo Alto … Continue reading →

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