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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

Those mother palo alto hips

Posted on March 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Above photo by Andrew Quist in 2011 courtesy of Fast Atmosphere Mother Hips website. Hips are celebrating 20 years as a rock and roll band, and extended family or brotherhood. Off the top of my head, I can think of … Continue reading →

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Tagged Bruce Beasley, Dartmouth College, Baker Library, Mark B. Weiss, Terry Acebo Davis, Joseph Mehling

Posted on March 21, 2014 by markweiss86
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Eyeball, beisbol, cristobal and the 29

Posted on March 20, 2014 by markweiss86

1. At Georgia O’Keefe show I visited yesterday at the De Young, the taped tour featured a recitation of Emerson’s famous “transparent eyeball” passage, from “Nature” (1838) — I am nothing, I see all” which made me glad to have … Continue reading →

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It will be interesting to see if these four Palo Altans can indeed carve a livelihood out of these events, and do so without losing their dignity

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Let’s rab. Continue reading →

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Bumping into Doorframe, a music biz memoir by Mark Weiss

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

To the extent that  “Plastic Alto” is a memoir of the concert series I produced in Palo Alto, 1994-2001, I am influenced by Danny Goldberg’s “Bumping into Geniuses”. He says he’s kinda smart but had a talent for surrounding himself … Continue reading →

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Run from Daylight by Jim Harbaugh

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

During my stint last fall as a “junior historian” at Guy Miller Archives of Palo Alto Historical Association at Room H-5 at Cubberley Community Center the former high school (NFL’s Art Kuehn played for the Cougars there), I turned over … Continue reading →

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He am the walrus

Posted on March 18, 2014 by markweiss86

Tig Notaro and fact that she appeared at Stanford a few weeks ago but I saw the flyer too late and am losing a step. I had pretty much abandoned the Harbaugh tribute excepting fact that Ann Killion had a … Continue reading →

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Is it the Spit on My Chin That Makes Them Nervous, Or Rocking Out?

Posted on March 17, 2014 by markweiss86

The obvious flaw in her memoir is that it is not true that my posts both mention her by name and criticize Walls. There were two posts, one that described the class, flatteringly favorably and mentioned the teacher by name … Continue reading →

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Wild Cohenolas

Posted on March 17, 2014 by markweiss86

What do you call a tribe of wild Swedish, Jewish, Irish, black Indians? Wild Cohenolas? Wild Cohen-Olafs? Wild Cohen-NOLAS? Wild Cohen-NOKAS? Flogging Mohel-ies Poincare Vieux Carre conjectures? Seeking Prime (or corned beef) on the Zeta Landscape (Garden District)? Hey Poincare … Continue reading →

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To Foothill, Fondly

Posted on March 16, 2014 by markweiss86

A look back in anger at a 2013 memoir about 2012 and minding the gaps between words, thoughts and reality, at Foothill College and blogosphere, or Plastic Alto Continue reading →

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