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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

Stencil artists reach Palo Alto

Posted on November 2, 2011 by markweiss86

This stencil art graffiti is on California Avenue near the authorized Palo Alto Public Art triptych by Joey Piziali, and also Chris Johansen and David Huffman. A clerk from Accent Arts said that in the alley near their storage space … Continue reading →

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To be young and well-hung in Palo Alto

Posted on November 2, 2011 by markweiss86

Beth Lisick the former Saratoga long jump champ, who still looks smashing in a toga, once shot or at least recorded or took notes on Richard Simmons in tight shorts. How she looks in tight shorts I will probably never know. But she gave the world a giant banana! Continue reading →

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Plastissimo Alto: or, don’t walk away from the arts, Palo Alto

Posted on November 2, 2011 by markweiss86

sid meet bethany. bethay meet sid, and sara and karen and jeanne and enrique and ms. rose if not the Roses per se Continue reading →

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Come to think of it

Posted on November 1, 2011 by markweiss86

i want you to want me come to think of it,from my perhaps too orderly subconscious, circa 1980 Continue reading →

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Jesus, Dartmouth and the Great Unwashed

Posted on November 1, 2011 by markweiss86

Reading the New York Times account of the Occupy Wall Street movement at a church in England, and the discussion of Jesus and usury, the money changers, made me think of my senior year at Dartmouth, 1985 fall, when anti-Apartheid … Continue reading →

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New Careful videos including Elliott Smith cover

Posted on November 1, 2011 by markweiss86

i have green blood Continue reading →

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Queen at Winterland

Posted on October 31, 2011 by markweiss86

who can forget those trippy teenage freakouts, in the city, with older freakier people, escaping fro m our parents for a few hours, until they pick us up. Continue reading →

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Remi Benson serving our country

Posted on October 31, 2011 by markweiss86

God bless Remi Benson for serving our country this past nine years. Continue reading →

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Jim Newton is scary smart

Posted on October 30, 2011 by markweiss86

mama didn’t raise no fool apropos of barbara newton and jim newton Continue reading →

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Three thousand words worth

Posted on October 30, 2011 by markweiss86

i like ike. i like james franco. i like my cousin ryan moats I took three photographs from my cell phone and pasted them here via a baseball thread. for jim newton Continue reading →

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