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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

Pan of “Pink”: or, my brother the asymptote

Posted on May 18, 2011 by markweiss86

the surprising truth about banality of trendy group think books of the month Continue reading →

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JC Brooks is Passing Strange

Posted on May 18, 2011 by markweiss86

Passing Strange in chicago, back where it all started for this signifying monkey. Continue reading →

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Thurston Moore and Alden Van Buskirk

Posted on May 18, 2011 by markweiss86

blood never lies Continue reading →

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Wesley’s new bag

Posted on May 17, 2011 by markweiss86

Bob Dylan turns 70 on May 24 next week even. Continue reading →

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Fret de la musique

Posted on May 10, 2011 by markweiss86

we are the world here means that we are pretending that there is only the English language, spoken by white people, for no pay — the only people who get paid at Palo Alto’s “World Music” Day are the police. Where sour grapes meet dancing raisins, per haps. Continue reading →

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Why John Mickelthwait has 1.4 millions readers and I have 1.4 hundred

Posted on May 7, 2011 by markweiss86

I have spent about $100 on The Economist over the last 12 months. Continue reading →

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Myself when I am Patch

Posted on May 6, 2011 by markweiss86

It is 4:45 on a Saturday afternoon and I would rather be back on my bike heading across campus and catching some of the pow wow not here at a table in a chair tapping the keys to a computer, even a name-brand one. Continue reading →

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Dao, digressions, dreaming and diaspora

Posted on May 4, 2011 by markweiss86

I am paraphrasing but in Dao’s chapbook she reveals that when she first came to the U.S. and was living in a refugee camp the other children would shout her name “Tieu-Dao” and she would try to disassociate or self-negate in some way by replying “Not Tieu…Not Dao”… Continue reading →

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(good luck) finding jupiter at coho thursday

Posted on May 3, 2011 by markweiss86

http://www.youtube.com/FindingJupiterMusic#p/u/5/_ka0Sx58I2I I just found out that the local band whose show I was plugging at Stanford Thursday had to postpone. So I have updated quite neatly my previous post’s headline to say “good luck” if you are trying to find the band Thursday … Continue reading →

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Larry “New Blood…New Ideas” Klein

Posted on May 2, 2011 by markweiss86

Stop the presses! Or stop, using the DVR pause button, your telecast of City Council and run to your computer and post a picture of Larry Klein, a propos of the incumbent candidacies of three Historic Resources Board commissioners, at … Continue reading →

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