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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

Dial M, or dialing for dollars

Posted on January 5, 2022 by markweiss86

Silicon Valley Business Journal reported recently that Palo Alto companies give and get more than a billion dollars each year in venture capital. Billion with a “B”, a thousand times million with an “M”.  Meanwhile I noted, in an “Uplift” message … Continue reading →

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A schoolmate at Gunn High of Palo Alto writes in today’s Sunday Times of being homeless two years

Posted on January 2, 2022 by markweiss86

  bw A set of portraits of friends, strangers and people I met:       I interrupt my own broadcast to note that that’s Dave Feldman, Paly 1983, on tv talking about today’s NFL scores. If I was briefly … Continue reading →

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I appreciate comments about live music during these strange times by Cate Armstrong in SLO as told to Stephanie Zappelli for Cal Matters and printed in the Quran today

Posted on January 2, 2022 by markweiss86

We started (the band —Purple Hibiscus) in the end of June. The first show that we had was at my house. We planned it, but I was like, I’m nervous about this because we’re entering a new realm of, “Is … Continue reading →

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The Way We Woof

Posted on December 30, 2021 by markweiss86

  I’m very PoMo which means that rather than write the way I was trained at newspapers, ad agencies or at the best English department at America’s 10th oldest college or university, I paste together texts, emails and other people … Continue reading →

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One oh three, thirty two and seven, baby

Posted on December 29, 2021 by markweiss86
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Saying ’tah-tah’ to Desmond Tutu

Posted on December 27, 2021 by markweiss86

Not sure why my mind flashed to Bhi Bhiman singing about the circa 1990 assasination of Bobby Saele but here goes:     I’m not sure we’re all these items for together But I guess when you die it’s better … Continue reading →

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MacBeth witch vs Hong Kong pillar of shame

Posted on December 24, 2021 by markweiss86
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If you never pulled a muscle, you never did the hustle

Posted on December 24, 2021 by markweiss86
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Forty-four years on, I can still name the college attended by 20 Raiders from 1977

Posted on December 23, 2021 by markweiss86

George Buhler, Stanford, Dave Dalby UCLA, et cetera. 

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Tolendo tolens and the future of Democracy

Posted on December 22, 2021 by markweiss86

    Bob Watson, Willie Crawford and Bobby Tolan were all teammates at Fremont High in Los Angeles. Tolan held his bat usually high in his stance. I was sometimes compared to him, for that reason.  A New York Times … Continue reading →

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