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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

Jack Cullen (music) VS Jack Cullen (baseball)

Posted on May 5, 2022 by markweiss86

 

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Anna for Congress: Or, what is the sound of half a brain clapping?

Posted on May 5, 2022 by markweiss86
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Lit in lines

Posted on May 3, 2022 by markweiss86

I was in nearby Menlo Park yesterday, trying to replace Todd Sickafoose’s worn Size 10 1/2 sic Saucony Jazz lime shows and I wondered into Feldman’s for the first time since it relocated. A young man was playing on the … Continue reading →

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Robert Duncan and GD

Posted on May 3, 2022 by markweiss86

Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow BY ROBERT DUNCAN as if it were a scene made-up by the mind,    that is not mine, but is a made place, that is mine, it is so near to the heart,    … Continue reading →

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Cowboy songs

Posted on May 2, 2022 by markweiss86

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Mondo bongo

Posted on May 2, 2022 by markweiss86

The Mickey Hart show last night at Stanford with Zakir Hussein  and world music singers reminds me of a poem by the late Al Young : Bad drumming always pounds out good, but badder bongo builds and builds, abounds. Your … Continue reading →

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Free concert Sunday at Mitchell Park bowl

Posted on April 30, 2022 by markweiss86
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Because I was reading Jerry Mander ’In The Absence of The Sacred’ (1992), Dr. Cindy Russell put me in charge of the ‘Earthwise Traditions’ section of Stanford’s Earth Day, and that led directly to me founding a company Earthwise Productions”

Posted on April 30, 2022 by markweiss86

   

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Guitars in the news

Posted on April 29, 2022 by markweiss86
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I’ll be sitting by myself in the balcony of the Fox Theatre to see Bob Dylan in Oakland in about six weeks (after about eight shows of my own)

Posted on April 27, 2022 by markweiss86

I’m medium cool on Bob Dylan but bought a ticket just on principle. There are VIP seats for $400 each – -and I bought some very expensive tickets to see Counting Crows in Saratoga – -I like the ring to … Continue reading →

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