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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

Zion I and I and I (and Steve…and Peggy)

Posted on March 13, 2014 by markweiss86

I’m cleaning out my storage space to create room, physically and psychically for more experience, and music, and indeed I and I and Zion I and Steve and Peggy get with it plastic alto style in the real (not media) worlds. Continue reading →

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To Blog or to Rant: Some Questions about Audience and Voice in Student Blog Posts

Posted on March 6, 2014 by markweiss86

Open letter to Jordana Finnegan, PhD and writing instructor at Foothill College: I’m sorry that I was such a burden to you. At the very least you should know that I respect you fifty times more that I respect Walls. … Continue reading →

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On corporate hardwire to the home

Posted on February 20, 2014 by markweiss86

I posted this on the Palo Alto Weekly comments board, the lone dissenter among a dozen or more zealot-regulars salivating for the corporate-pseudo-donation of fiber ring (faster internet to the homes): Posted by Mark Weiss , a resident of Another … Continue reading →

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Matt Haimovitz at CBGB [credit: Harry DiOrio]

Posted on January 21, 2014 by markweiss86

Hi. I wrote a long essay on the history of jazz in Palo Alto and included Matt Haimovitz as a footnote, sparked to do such because Ropeadope had included on its blog a link to an item on Matt in … Continue reading →

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A Casebook on the BEAT by Thomas Parkinson casebook

Posted on January 21, 2014 by markweiss86

If I rifle is seen hanging over a fireplace in the first act, then it should be fired by the third.* 1. A couple weeks ago I was at Temporary Main Library (former council chambers, former Palo Alto Cultural Center … Continue reading →

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Greetings from Sarah Manning

Posted on December 10, 2013 by markweiss86

  Hi Mark, Thanks for the note. Hope you’ve been doing well out there in the Bay. Sure, you can repost, although I ask that you take out my contact information (the PO Box address). And if you repost Scott … Continue reading →

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Serendipity farmers

Posted on November 7, 2013 by markweiss86

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. Ralph Waldo Emerson Precisely 5:25 Wednesday evening I spied a cluster of flyers on the kiosk near the north corner of Stanford’s Tresidder … Continue reading →

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The Wizard of Churchill Street

Posted on October 28, 2013 by markweiss86

Peter Diepenbrock, most famously, coached Jeremy Lin and the Palo Alto Vikings to the 2006 California State Championship in basketball. Although he has moved on from Paly, he still pops up around town now and again, for instance, he and … Continue reading →

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Eugene Robinson rookie card: he’s got it

Posted on October 28, 2013 by markweiss86

Randy Lutge deserves recognition for cultural contributions to our fair city, Palo Alto. He and his family managed The New Varsity for many years, and he was encouraging to the small group that tried to reclaim the historic and beloved … Continue reading →

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Fox says “Ding” in Palo Alto

Posted on October 13, 2013 by markweiss86

FOX SAYS DING IN PALO ALTO Dog goes “woof” Cat goes “meow” Bird goes “tweet” Frog goes “croak” Ducks say “quack” Fish goes “blub blub” And the seal goes “ow ow ow” What does the fox say? Ding-ding-ding-ding-dingering Ding Ding … Continue reading →

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