Category Archives: Plato’s Republic

pertaining to government, the public sector, governance, democracy, politics, issues pertaining to such, like “freedom of speech” concepts

Clearer story about the mouse

Posted on May 7, 2012 by markweiss86

In Palo Alto Clear Story is both the name of public art by Mildred Howard and a venture backed startup in data. Continue reading →

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Do Talking Dogs enjoy the First Amendment?

Posted on May 6, 2012 by markweiss86

After the excellent Kiwanis’-sponsored Palo Alto May Fete Parade (90th) and Fair(1st) Saturday, I had lunch with Council Member Karen Holman at Peninsula Creamery. As a convenience to our server, I had what she’s having, a BLT on rye with … Continue reading →

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Sharon Jones please help Sharon Jones

Posted on May 2, 2012 by markweiss86

I am writing the artist manager Alex Kadvan to suggest that his client Sharon Jones (of The Dap Kings) appear or speak out on behalf of Sharon Jones of Arkansas who apparently is being swindled out of her lottery winnings … Continue reading →

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Plastic Alto welcomes “Palo Alto” and “The Set of All Blind Piano Players”

Posted on April 29, 2012 by markweiss86

1. A whiles back I ran into Jim Keene, the City Manager for City of Palo Alto, at a chain coffee house on El Camino, near Stanford Avenue, the place that us old timers think of as the former Mountain … Continue reading →

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My sloppy notes on Cake on KQED, verbatim and unedited

Posted on April 26, 2012 by markweiss86

We don’t have in our music the equilvalent of deforesatatoin. Turn the amp to 11 is not subversive, its what Exxon is doing. I grew up in bekrely and had to move to sac as a tennagaer and hated it … Continue reading →

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Announcing Earthwise Productions Institute and news-reading service, not necessarily in that order

Posted on April 23, 2012 by markweiss86

WE RECOMMEND YOU BUY THIS BOOK: Niners Stadium price shows how stakes are rising, by Gwen Knapp, who the very busy doctor, dad and blogger from the midwest Dr. Brian Moore, a transplanted New Englander helpfully or perhaps wishfully remembers … Continue reading →

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Lytton Green 4-20 shindig

Posted on April 21, 2012 by markweiss86

Earthwise Productions my day job predates “Plastic Alto” the blog by about 17 years and is a spinoff of Bay Area Action which produced a large Earth Day event in 1993, I worked on. In 1997 for Earth Day I … Continue reading →

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Yeh for Microsoft Store Opening

Posted on April 19, 2012 by markweiss86

I’m not on a drug. But I got all goose-bumpy at the grand opening at Stanford Shopping a Simon Property merely to be within 48 hours and one thousand yards of Adam Levine and his band, who I estimated will rake in about three hundred thousand dollars for their playing along and pomping and circumstancing. Continue reading →

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Sweet smell of McGee

Posted on April 9, 2012 by markweiss86

Barry McGee  A special exhibition at our off-site space 1717 17th Street, San Francisco hours: Thursday – Saturday 11am -5pm April 14th – May 19th , 2012 Reception: April 14th from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m       Barry McGee and Friends … Continue reading →

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Thirty-three things I (might) write about on “Plastic Alto”

Posted on April 8, 2012 by markweiss86

1. Laurel Nakadate ‘The Wolf Knife”, free in Believer; 2. Andrew Bogut, and Kent Lockhart: Kent told me he once coached Bogut, who worked out with Dandenong, Kent’s old team, in 1997 as a teenager and guard; 3. A Passover … Continue reading →

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