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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

New Orleans piano etouffee

Posted on March 31, 2014 by markweiss86

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Eric Cohen walking canvas

Posted on March 29, 2014 by markweiss86

Eric Cohen is a Los Angeles-based member of the Screen Actors Guild, who you can spot in numerous films. although you kinda have to look for him. He and his twin brother Steven sometimes appeared in my concert series at … Continue reading →

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Flat Stanley, Stanley Jordan, Christopher Tin and Sandra Bae

Posted on March 29, 2014 by markweiss86

Brian Moore and Liam Moore, from Springfield, IL, called me this morning to check on their friend Flat Stanley. I texted a photo of Flat Stanley, myself, and Mayor of Palo Alto Nancy Shepherd back to them. But I had … Continue reading →

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My precious Stargell and frank funk

Posted on March 27, 2014 by markweiss86

We used to ride our bicycles the mile or so from our neighborhood to the five and dime in Saratoga Village, to pay 10 cents for Topps 1972 baseball cards — ten cards and a stick of not very tasty … Continue reading →

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SF Mime Troupe post: 2012, 2011, 2014 and counting

Posted on March 26, 2014 by markweiss86

I posted this on some other sight, as a volunteer “community blogger” and am trying to paste it over here, for archive sake: To wit: SF Mime Troupe, an award-winning comedia dell arte political-musical-theatre group from San Francisco, is bringing … Continue reading →

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Protected: Make it tweedy

Posted on March 26, 2014 by markweiss86

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Music is data (work in progress – notepad)

Posted on March 25, 2014 by markweiss86

I’m still the dissident claiming music is the thing coming out of your amp or mouth and not recorded data, but for some reason I am reading up on some of the leading terms and players in that admittedly large … Continue reading →

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Tale of Two Gits: Mia and Ren

Posted on March 25, 2014 by markweiss86

I noticed a week-old New York Times magazine, in my dad’s to-recycle basket, and rifled thru it: the cover story was about Silicon Valley, from the perspective of a grad student working a summer job at a hot new generation … Continue reading →

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5. Jesus Christ was an Only Child (in 600 words, 19 images)

Posted on March 24, 2014 by markweiss86

5. Jesus Christ was an Only Child and probably never spend a Monday late morning early afternoon uploading photos from his stupid cell phone to his spiffy computer and weird blog. Continue reading →

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Two real mothers for ya

Posted on March 21, 2014 by markweiss86

JD Optekar is a Dartmouth-trained engineer (class of 1991, Th’92) out of Wisconsin, holding down the guitar slot in and c0-leading a pretty decent regional blues-soul outfit, celebrating a cd release at Buddy Guy’s in Chicago this spring, I noticed … Continue reading →

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