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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

Shroud of Lubbock

Posted on June 26, 2021 by markweiss86

This is a portrait I took of Jimmie Dale Gilmore in 1998 in Palo Alto, in the green room of the old Spangenberg Auditorium at Gunn High. It’s not very good. It’s like the Shroud of Turin. You have to … Continue reading →

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Song-catching in a chain cafe in Wayland, Mass., former hometown of record producer Gerard Cosloy (short film by Brian Moore)

Posted on June 25, 2021 by markweiss86
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While this guitar gently weeps

Posted on June 23, 2021 by markweiss86

In the R District of Sacramento is an artist loft and retail mall including a record store run by Marty DeAnda the founder of Dig Records. On the wall near the reg is a small guitar signed, it claims by … Continue reading →

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I would drop football before I’d pay the players

Posted on June 23, 2021 by markweiss86

Plunkett was already famous as a high school player

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Rich Outzen ‘89, from Aragon to Antalya

Posted on June 23, 2021 by markweiss86

Rich Outzen ‘89 is a retired colonel in the US Army and a language scholar and diplomat. At Dartmouth he was a lineman on the football team and a reporter for The Dartmouth; he used my notes to finish my … Continue reading →

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Los Panaderos demo of Cake’s ‘Mexico’ with two-voice-harmony and jawbone

Posted on June 22, 2021 by markweiss86

I met Sharon Benitez and her sister Tanya Benitez Sunday busking on University Avenue, near Oren’s Hummus. They peform in a grupo called Los Panaderos (The Bread-makers) and also teach folkloric dance to children under the name Quetzal.They were here … Continue reading →

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Ledisi Anibade Young The 1st Elected The New Queen of Stern Grove

Posted on June 21, 2021 by markweiss86
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Hark

Posted on June 21, 2021 by markweiss86

Despite the fact that i both taped the game and bought the morning paper, it was my trainer James Ward who told me that the A’s lost to the Yankees on a triple play to end the game.

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Jules at 33

Posted on June 17, 2021 by markweiss86
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Don’t bullshit a bullshitter, Pacaso

Posted on June 17, 2021 by markweiss86

J.K. Dineen of the Chron has a story about a unicorn billion dollar start up buying vacation property in Napa and Sonoma but claiming to be PLUR. He wrote me back a four word exegesis: diversity in the workforce ie … Continue reading →

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