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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

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Posted on February 14, 2022 by markweiss86
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CCS Top 20 teams, ranked by wins

Posted on February 12, 2022 by markweiss86

  SIXTEEN WINS Christopher (Gilroy) ^ Fremont (Sunnyvale) ^ Lynbrook (San Jose) ^ Pioneer (San Jose) ^ Sobrato (Morgan Hill) ^ SEVENTEEN WINS Burlingame ^ Gunn (Palo Alto)^ Menlo-Atherton ^ Palma (Salinas) St. Ignatius (San Francisco) San Lorenzo Valley (Felton) … Continue reading →

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Centripedes attack at your leisure

Posted on February 12, 2022 by markweiss86

sounds like a song.

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Kudos Sylvia Rhone, Billboard power list, 2020; 1st ears on 3rd Eye Blind

Posted on February 9, 2022 by markweiss86
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Ears for Ransom

Posted on February 9, 2022 by markweiss86
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Pumped up Kicks

Posted on February 9, 2022 by markweiss86
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Is Brandynn Williams Gunn’s all-time winningest hoops coach?

Posted on February 9, 2022 by markweiss86
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‘Dirt it tough’ at Dartmouth: jah and shakespeare in the reagan irie

Posted on February 9, 2022 by markweiss86

“‘Dirt it tough’ at Dartmouth: jah and shakespeare in the reagan irie” Actually Peter OutLoud had a great story this week about the history of the tenderloin but he could’ve name checked “the hard crowd” by Rachel Kushner whose parents … Continue reading →

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Gunn grad Joanne Reid places 57th in the world in Olympic Nordic event

Posted on February 7, 2022 by markweiss86
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Posted on February 7, 2022 by markweiss86

  1st time I met Will Bernard was on Telegraph in Berkeley. He was sitting in with Alphabet Soup, whose cd I had. I approached him to get their contact info and he said that no one in that set … Continue reading →

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