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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

Tigers/Titans vs Dolphins/Vikings

Posted on February 25, 2022 by markweiss86

Three or four times per year, football, baseball or especially basketball, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, Nick Zaharias and his friends squared off against me and my my

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SHP-shooter makes 39 straight in practice but only 5 of 6 with season on the line; Crusaders slay Gators in OT

Posted on February 24, 2022 by markweiss86
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Slopestyle, freeski or just peoples

Posted on February 20, 2022 by markweiss86

I met FoxFace from “Hunger Games” at Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto – – three feet where I am sitting right now as I write this. I had no idea who she was — a movie star — I only … Continue reading →

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The hoisting

Posted on February 20, 2022 by markweiss86

For Spotify, the move into podcasting is the culmination of years of strategy to find a business that is more profitable than hosting music, for which it must pay about two-thirds of every dollar to rights holders.excuse me? The music … Continue reading →

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Paly tops Tino in CCS

Posted on February 19, 2022 by markweiss86
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Bruce Lee of Dallas Austin Yard Dog w John Coltrane Don Cherry Albert Ayler et al

Posted on February 19, 2022 by markweiss86
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Eight minute exegesis of ’Men in Boats’ (John Wesley Powell 1869) by Wallace Stegner and Mark Weiss

Posted on February 19, 2022 by markweiss86
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Stanford clinches championship on tv

Posted on February 18, 2022 by markweiss86
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Tim Gray, Mark Weiss, Gail Price, fall, 2009 at Smith-Andersen studios, Pepper Street, Palo Alto

Posted on February 18, 2022 by markweiss86
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Music hall of fame news/noise (after Kahneman, 2021)

Posted on February 18, 2022 by markweiss86
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