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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

Swetka’s sweet teaming of tennis and fantasy football

Posted on September 25, 2021 by markweiss86

Two of the members of my fantasy football league are tennis professionals, John Swetka and Kenny Arnold.They are good players and they own or manage a tennis shop, Swetka’s in Los Altos or Mountain View, on El Camino just south … Continue reading →

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Carol McComb pka Kathy and Carol in the Chron and Smithsonian

Posted on September 25, 2021 by markweiss86

Hey howdy local music teacher Carol McComb is part of a set of archival performances now made available from Smithsonian folkways on bandcamp She or they or we do a traditional called “swallow song” which is about birds I think. … Continue reading →

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This Bud’s for Budd

Posted on September 24, 2021 by markweiss86
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(N-Word)-dog VS (N-Word)’s dog

Posted on September 24, 2021 by markweiss86

something deeper than these changes or being punk’d by punctuation I watched the 49ers’ opening game early Sunday at The Old Pro, formerly The Old Pro’s Bar. The bar was in a quonset hut on Pepper near El Camino and … Continue reading →

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White man speaks truth

Posted on September 23, 2021 by markweiss86

Good for the city council to tell developers NO to more jobs. We are in the mess we are in now (city and state wide) from building too many jobs and no housing. Second we should not overwhelm this site … Continue reading →

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Free concert today at Lytton Plaza, jazz trio, nooner, encore from Mayor Tom’s ’Together Again Palo Alto’ series, by Earthwise

Posted on September 23, 2021 by markweiss86

I’ve got this cool new trio – me, Raffi Garabedian -tenor sax, Danny Lublin-Laden – trombone. Sent by Scott Amendola, drums a few months ago but i just added it to the schedule when the police added Thursday, September 23 … Continue reading →

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Just added: free concert, Lytton Plaza, noon tomorrow, jazz trio

Posted on September 22, 2021 by markweiss86

I’ve got this cool new trio – me, Raffi Garabedian -tenor sax, Danny Lublin-Laden – trombone. Sent by Scott Amendola, drums a few months ago but i just added it to the schedule when the police added Thursday, September 23 … Continue reading →

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Lew Welch vs Haruki Murakami

Posted on September 22, 2021 by markweiss86

The author if many nivels including ”1Q84” and its 2 moons has an essay haps a book on tee shirts

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Sandow Birk San Quentin prison in fog and 39 other prison paintings perhaps at DeYoung

Posted on September 21, 2021 by markweiss86
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I’m not sure if I like Kat Edmonson’s music but I might go to the city just to watch her thru the window at SFJazz

Posted on September 21, 2021 by markweiss86
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