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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

Lisa Fay Beatty

Posted on December 5, 2020 by markweiss86

I’m watching the documentary “Hype” about the Seattle grunge music scene, a very 1990s experience, but when the screen flashed to 7 Year Bitch, I thought of my friend Lisa Fay Beatty. Lisa was the guitarist for the Mudwimin, who … Continue reading →

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The rush dies when Colts lineman rookie Danny Pinter becomes versed

Posted on December 3, 2020 by markweiss86

I’m following the development of Colts lineman Danny Pinter, number 63 above, a rookie from Ball State and South Bend, Indiana. His position coach is Chris Strausser who was the quarterback for Gunn of Palo Alto Titans in 1981. I … Continue reading →

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The Looters, 2020; or, using Terman to sort racists, proposed

Posted on December 3, 2020 by markweiss86

  I woke today (Wednesday, named for Odin a Norse God) reaching first mentally then physically for my Bevington, the Complete Works of Shakespeare, specifically honing in on “The Merchant of Venice” and that line. What is it:If you prick … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Cam for new release ‘Otherside’ on Thirty Tigers

Posted on November 30, 2020 by markweiss86

Cam aka Cameron Ochs of Lafayette, CA (East Bay, Contra Costa County, but also in her case UC Davis and time at Stanford labs) has a new cd out, “Otherside”. Expectations are high; her song “Burning House” from 2015 has … Continue reading →

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Six singles released by Earthwise’s Lions With Wings imprint on Bandcamp

Posted on November 29, 2020 by markweiss86

Lions With Wings, the content platform spearheaded by Mark Weiss of Earthwise Productions as a work-around for a cancelled concert series, has released a total of six songs, with more in the works, Weiss says. The songs are: 1) Dayna … Continue reading →

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Go with God, Diego

Posted on November 25, 2020 by markweiss86
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Good luck, Anna Wilson #3 and Alyssa Jerome #10 of the Cardinal hoopsters tipping off this morning against Cal Poly

Posted on November 25, 2020 by markweiss86
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Baffled ‘bout Utah

Posted on November 24, 2020 by markweiss86

This is Darrell Griffith Dr. Duncan Stein I get that but why would there be a team called jazz in Utah? today’s main stream news had an article about an art installation in the middle of nowhere they don’t know … Continue reading →

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The new burgers of Cali

Posted on November 24, 2020 by markweiss86
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Tracy Chapman, ‘Baby Can I Hold You’, 1988 and 2020 VS Pop Smoke posthumous New Yorker review, August, 2020

Posted on November 23, 2020 by markweiss86

I found a copy of The New Yorker in a free library two blocks from my house and tore out pp 78-79 to read or reread about Pop Smoke. I own a Pop Smoke t-shirt. I bought it on the … Continue reading →

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