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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

Ida Levinthal nexus via San Jose Museum and South

Posted on June 1, 2014 by markweiss86

we are hoofing it (by car) to san jo to see a museum a movie and a dinner, then I hope to update with my insights and then gods be willing co-produce a piece of art-sculpture-monument that says something Continue reading →

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The Salty Suites and Sand Guys at Sunset shindig

Posted on June 1, 2014 by markweiss86

  Terry and I spent a couple hours Saturday down at the Sunset Magazine Celebration Weekend event. She is going back today for a second helping. It helps that we live walking distance away. Actually they comp us in to … Continue reading →

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Avery Palmer at CSMA Mountain View and Artik San Jose

Posted on May 31, 2014 by markweiss86

Terry and I noted the fine ceramics and paintings of Avery Palmer at Community School of Music and Art (CSMA) in Mountain View, the night we caught the Larry Vukovich tribute to Vince Guaraldi produced by Palo Alto Jazz Alliance. … Continue reading →

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Lundvall Not Lundvall

Posted on May 31, 2014 by markweiss86

ReCode says Don Was is President of Blue Note. Bruce Lundvall was President of Blue Note. (ReCode says we can lift their art if we give credit. Thinks ReCode) Duly noted. edit to add: more to the point, Dan Ouellette … Continue reading →

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XIX. Mere surmise slurs: now twenty percent more surmisier

Posted on May 31, 2014 by markweiss86

Originally posted on Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss:
not a vas deferens either (Brian E. Moore) My friend the filmmaker/pathologist Dr. Brian Moore sent me, apropos of nothing, a quote attributed to Kojiro Tomita, a famous curator of Asian Arts…

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The Beautiful Games

Posted on May 30, 2014 by markweiss86

The Beautiful Game is 1) nickname for soccer, especially Brazilian soccer, 2) coined by Pele and served as title for his autobiography and 3) above, forming a hat trick of memes or tropes, the opening number of a musical by … Continue reading →

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Big buzz for World Cup Buzz, THE new app

Posted on May 30, 2014 by markweiss86

1. There’s a big buzz in certain parts of South Barron Park, a part of Palo Alto, a part of South Palo Alto that I have, in previous posts likened to the Vieux Carre (a poetic and sometimes metaphorically useful … Continue reading →

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Palo Alto greenlights green lights and signs: $$$$ or #@&^

Posted on May 29, 2014 by markweiss86

Palo Alto’s Architectural Review Board unanimously approved Thursday morning (May 1, 2014) a giant green illuminated sign for the new giant building at the corner of Lytton and Alma. The building is already controversial because of its size and its … Continue reading →

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Gabi the violinist

Posted on May 29, 2014 by markweiss86

I noticed you once or twice on University Ave in Palo Alto; actually, I saw you once only, driving past, and circled again to catch another glimpse. If I had ever seen you while on foot I would have stopped … Continue reading →

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Maya Angelou (1928-2014)

Posted on May 28, 2014 by markweiss86

  I met Maya Angelou twice; first, at the Clinton Inauguration, Brian Gaul and I stood among about 10,000 others, several hundred yards from the action, “marked the mastodon” creeping through our eardrums, penetrating our senses after a while. The … Continue reading →

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