Gunn football #34 with a bullet


Gunn is 4-1 and #34 in the CCS but have more wins than 11 higher ranked teams.

Face Lynbrook Friday which means seven more touchdown Lord willing and the creeks don’t rise(I mean Los Altos, this week, Lynbrook next, and by the way only Los Gatos, Aptos, Palma, Menlo, Leigh have more points than Gunn’s 200 so far.)

 

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Outline of chance meetings at Coupa and ‘Once Upon a Time In Hollywood’ movie lobby scene

  1. I met Taylor Goss at Coupla and invited him to play my Hawktail show Saturday
  2. I met a tall surgeon whose son is being recruited for Dartmouth and then got transferred to a biology professor whose son is a cellist and she said she’d write program notes for my Octavia Butler jazz oratorio proposed production;
  3. I met a math teacher at Stanford who has never seen the piano on the fourth floor;

SPEAK FRIEND AND CANCEL

SAVED BY A SONGS

 

 

 

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Haniger drills homer to keep Seattle pennant hopes alive

Interestingly I had just clicked on a note from my dentist confirming an appointment Tuesday– Haniger’s uncle is Tim Mulcahy my dentist. That is, to Palo Altans’ the former Mitty star is a Mulcahy, which means hoops or water polo, Mitch is a black sheep; there will be no drilling, Tuesday in the chair with Stan, who is Tim’s protegee. (note a previous edition misidentified the pedigree of the Mariner slugger, who prepped at Mitty and Cal Poly SLO, and now has 101 career dingers.
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Elsa Sorensen VS Paul Sorensen

Elsa Sorensen was a former Miss Denmark and appeared clothed in advertisements, I learn. I’m always learning. Recently, about Denmark.

 

Paul Sorensen is in the St. Francis Hall of Fame and was on the Playboy All America team as the lone scholar — he was number one in his class at Dartmouth and starred in football.

Dartmouth under Ed Shanahan and Ted Leland returned the award, $5,000:

A $5,000 scholarship awarded by Playboy magazine in the name of a Dartmouth football player has been returned by the Ivy League school.

Senior Paul Sorenson (sic) of Cupertino, Calif., had been named a member of Playboy’s preseason all-America team. He had been nominated by Dartmouth’s sports information office for the Anson Mount scholar-athlete award.https://18fa2e1533980fc41cd0d21f3ecafde1.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html s

However, Dartmouth’s dean, Edward Shanahan, its athletic director, Ted Leland, and other school officials decided to return the check. They offered no explanation, other than to say the decision was based on “institutional reasons.”

Playboy sports editor Gary Cole said that based on a letter he received from Leland, he believes the “women’s movement on campus” influenced the decision.

Pretty sure its “sen” not “son”…and in “sense” not masculine child.

Paul Sorensen is 1988 number 54 bottom left but also near 4.0 for Dartmouth

 

Note: further research or close reading reveals that Elsa Sorensen is also known as Dane Arden;

The Dartmouth team leader in total tackles in 1987 (120) and 1988 (124), linebacker Paul Sorensen ranks 13th in school history in career tackles (260). He was a part of the Big Green defensive unit that didn’t allow a single passing yard or completion in a 49-7 win vs. Penn in 1987. The two-time First Team Academic All-American was named the 1988 Academic All-American of the Year. Boasting a perfect 4.0 GPA in computer science, Sorensen was awarded six academic citations and the Phi Beta Kappa prize for highest academic standing. A member of the Advisory Committee to the Dean, he spent three summers in college as an intern for Apple. Sorensen earned his master’s and Ph.D. in geography from the University of California Santa Barbara while working as a research assistant and is currently a senior software manager at Cambridge Systematics, a provider of management and planning consulting services and information systems to the public and private transportation industries. He also serves as the associate director of the Transportation, Space and Technology Program at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis. Sorenson also holds a master’s in urban planning from UCLA.

and1: Dartmouth beat Penn 31-7 at Franklin Field on a rare Friday night lights-0ut. QB Nick Howard ran for 100 yards. Buddy’s boys are 3-0 while the Quakers are staggered at 1-2. Thanks Gunn alumni dad (his kids went there, he went to Cubberley) Bret Baird for the update — I wish someone had mentioned this earlier in the day. Especially since I spoke to Peter Roby’s office earlier that day. His secretary is new in town and played lacrosse at Elmira and is from Vermont. Apropos of a Stanford alum I met whose son is worth recruiting – -at least get straight the o’s or e’s in his name. I think his name was Monroe Trout a Harvard basketballer class of 1985 and the Wall Street Journal or NY Times finance pages claiming that that the president of the College David T. McLaughlin a football player in 1953-1954 personally recruited Trout from his upper west side prep school, failingly. The current hoops coach is also a David McLaughlin, presuably not related. The Dartmouth QB Howard is born in Utah, raised in Green Bay and Stevens Point, WI. Government mod with econ. There is a receiver from Newman of New Orleans, my roommate’s old school — he was president of the rugby club and bragged about which D1 bound player broke his ankle in a collision; the Mannings went there years later; there is a Sacred Heart all-metro former player Tevita Moimoi a Tongan whose family has rugby roots – Dave Kiefer once wrote of for the Almanac. 

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Portrait of Danilo Perez by Mike Rogers

There’s a few of my jazz music event photos: Herbie Hancock, Rhoda Scott, Lou Donaldson, Nick Payton, Jackie McClean, Gerald Wilson big band, Nancy Wilson mixed in with other photo genres.
Ed–thanks man. Nicholas Payton played with John Ellis on an album recorded in New Orleans that I helped John get put out on Joel Dorn’s Hyena Records. I’d love to run a little gallery of your shots here in Plastic Alto...
Danilo Perez is a special act for me because in Fall, 2000, 21 years ago, his Motherland quartet played in my Cubberley Series, with Donny McCaslin, Adam Cruz, Luciana Souza, Essiet Essiet. The band all went to a movie together the night before. Danilo and Luciana and I went to KSCM to talk to Chris Cortez on air. Danilo did an amazing clinic for 8th graders at a Redwood City charter school, via Orlene Chartain of Music for Minors; and when Chris Cuevas and Jerry Hannan and I went to Chicago for a road show, I caught the same combo, plus Robin Tomchin their manager, at Segal’s Jazz Showcase. 

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the lovely Orlene Chartain:
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The Palo Palooza III

Earthwise Productions welcomes

The Palo Palooza III

art by K Kain

Phillip Greenlief

Motoko Honda

La Doña

Vetiver

David James’ ‘Mission Rebel No. 1’

Steve Poltz

Dayna Stephens Quartet

Inspector Gadje Septet

Mads Tolling Quartet

Beth Custer Will Bernard Duo

Mitch Woods Rocket 88s w Nancy Wright

Plays Monk w Ben Goldberg & Scott Amendola

Eden Edell

The Sticklerphonics

Beaumann Edwards’ Equator

Josh Milgrom Trio

Amendola Vs Blades Vs Parker Vs Skerik

Hawktail

Paul, Britanny, 2020

Tommy Jordan’s Service Human

Savage BusKing f Anna Konstantopolous

Taylor Goss

A Very Special Guest

Philip Greenlief David Boyce Duo

Axon Orkestra

Mary Gauthier

Jaimee Harris

Sylvie Simmons

Barbara Manning and SF Seals

The Corner Laughers

Clean Girl and The Dirty Dishes

A Leonard Cohen Tribute

At: Mitchell Park Bowl, Mitchell Park El Palo Alto Room, Lytton Plaza,

& California Avenue July 31, 2021 thru November 20, 2021

Special thanks, Together Again Palo Alto, Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, City of Palo Alto Community Services, Gunn Oracle, Audio Pro Group, Rejuvenation, EventBrite, The Black Index, High Road Touring, Karla Kane.

Help wanted: street team or interns send query to earwopa@yahoo.com or Earthwise Productions PO Box 60786 Palo Alto CA 94306 (650) 305-0701

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Earthwise Posters set and checklist (1993-2001)

(Earthwise Productions of Palo Alto is a concert and artist management company founded by Mark Weiss that produced more than 200 shows in Palo Alto most notably a run of 150 events at the Cubberley Community Center in the late 1990s. Beyond the posters and flyers, the events were marketed with mailings, email, commercial radio, college radio, and ads in Palo Alto Weekly, Bay Guardian and San Jose Metro) 

This is a set of 59 posters. 

  1. Durham / The Basics, March 18, 1995, Cubberley Theatre (Tina Dussault)11 x 17
  2. Eskimo / Oxbow / David Brian / Rob Craig of Number Nine / Mono Pause / Curbside (benefit for Making Contact), September 16, 1995, Cubberley 4 1/2 x 11
  3. Zen Cowboys / Susan James Band / Sunshine Club / David Elias w/ Roger Powell, June 21, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium 5 1/2 x 17
  4. Kristin Hersh, April 16, 1998, Cubberley( Donna Sharee) 10 x 16
  5. A Great Laugh / 22 Brides / Number Nine /Alison Faith Levy, November 10, 1995, Cubberley 11 x 17
  6. Broun Fellinis, November 11, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium, 11 x 17
  7. Pele Juju /Pamela Martin Band / Rilke String Quartet, October 28, 1995, Cubberley Auditorium (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  8. SF Seals featuring Barbara Manning /Stephen Yerkey Trio, May 5, 1995, Cubberley, 11 x 17
  9. Tin Hat Trio, May 18, 2001, Museum of American Heritage, 11 x 17
  10. Dar Williams / David Brian / Charlie Hunter Quartet / Seven Day Diary / Huge /Two Lane Blacktop, November 25, 1995, December 14, 1995, January 13, 1996 Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  11. The New Morty Show featuring Connie Champagne & Vice Grip / Billy Nayer / Billie Eyeball October 6, 1995, Cubberley (Sally Lieber) 11 x 17
  12. Rainforest Awareness Project 1993 Bay Area Tour (including 10/28/93 Peninsula Peace Center Palo Alto)(Donna Sharee) 9 1/2 x 16
  13. Bimbetta, March 12, 1995, Cubberley (Tina Dussault) 10 x 17
  14. Pansy Division / J Church / The Peechees / The Electrocutes, January 31, 1997, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
  15. Greyboy Allstars, September 11, 1996, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
  16. The Palo Alto Soundcheck (various artists — calling for entries, 1995 fall/winter series,  (Pierre-Paul Pariseau) 13 x 19
  17. Archers of Loaf / Frightwig, March 10, 1995, Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  18. Calobo / Sweet Virginia / Laura Kemp Band / Shelley Doty, May 16, 1997 Cubberley Auditorium (“The Big Room”) (Michelle Nelson) 11 x 17
  19. Pinetop Perkins / Bob Margolin / Rusty Zinn / Wendy Waller Duo, February 11, 2000 Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  20. Jimmy Dale Gilmore, May 11, 2000, Spangenberg Auditorium (Andrew Hardy?), 11 x 17
  21. Engine 88 / Spoon / Van Gogh’s Daughter / I.B.O.P.A / Van Gogh’s Daughter / The Keeners / Peel / The Babysitters Club March 1, 1997 & March 7, 1997, Cubberley 11 x 17
  22. Archers of Loaf, November 8, 1998, Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
  23. Mest / Luckie Strike / Wunder Years July 13, 2000, Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  24. Alvin Youngblood Hart Band / Slaid Cleaves, June 9, 2000, Cubberley Auditorium 8 1/2 x 14
  25. Femi Kuti,  August 2, 2000 Cubberley (Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  26. Superchunk / Creeper Lagoon / Dr. Frank / Ralph Carney’s Partial Parrot September 11, 1999 Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
  27. Frank Black / Victor Krummenacher December 8, 2000, Cubberley Auditorium 11 x 17
  28. Danilo Perez Motherland Project / Kitty Margolis / Beth Custer’s Dona Luz 30 Besos / Austin Willacy / Rachel Z / The KGB / Big City Rock / Eleventeen / Box Set Duo / Richard Shindell / Jerry Hannan / Taylor Eigsti / Mermen / Stanley Jordan (“Situation Fall ’00” series /The  Cubberley Sessions) October 16, 2000 thru January 12, 2001 11 x17
  29. Mother Hips, City Hall Plaza August 12, 2001 11 x 17
  30. Stroke 9 / Mumblin’ Jim / Bozac / Imperial Teen / Anna Waronker, July 24, 1998 & July 31, 1998, Cubberley, 11 x 17
  31. Stanley Jordan, January 12, 2001, Cubberley (Adrienne Drayton) 11 x 17
  32. Mother Hips / Etienne De Rocher / Oliver Lake / Broun Fellinis / Train / Far Too Jones / The Billy Nayer Show / Beth Lisick January 16, 1999 thru February 5, 1999 Cubberley 11 x 17
  33. Stone Fox / Lyme / Groovie Ghoulies / Blink-182 / Soda / 98 Mute April 13, 1997 & April 20, 1009, Cubberley Auditorium (Bruce Meyers) 8 1/2 x 14
  34. Bill Frisell, November 7, 1999 Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 11
  35. Warm Weather Series / The Toasters / Spring Heeled Jack / Monkey / MU330 / Janitors Against Apartheid / Slapstick / The Queers / The Hi-Fives / The Mr. T Experience / The Groovie Ghoulies / Zen Cowboys / Susan James Band / Sunshine Club / David Elias w/ Roger Powell / The Clarke Nova / Marginal Prophets / Groovie Ghoulies / Martin Sexton / Stephanie Mechura / Rebecca Riots / Idiot Flesh / Oxbow / Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto / Medeski Martin & Wood / The Basics May 24, 1996 thru August 1, 1996 (9 dates) Cubberley & Cubberley Auditorium (Michelle Nelson) 11 x 17
  36. Box Set / Stroke 9 March 20, 1999 Cubbeley 6 x 11 1/2
  37. Jello Biafra May 8, 1999 Cubberley 6 x 11 1/2
  38. The Olivia Tremor Control / The Music Tapes April 24, 1999 6 x 11 1/2
  39. New Orleans Klezmer Allstars / Stephen Yerkey / Royal Fingerbowl March 26, 1997, Cubberley (Michelle Nelson) 8 1/2 x 14
  40. Vinyl / Steve & Eric Cohen, “Thursday” (circa September, 1998), Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 14
  41. Bill Frisell, October 4, 1998 Cubberley 8 1/2 x 14
  42. Cake / New EZ Devils / The Negro Problem September 2, 1995, Cubberley Auditorium  (Lane Wurster / Mac MacCaughan), 11 x 17
  43. Tarnation / Virginia Dare / The Buckets / Stonefox / Spit Muffins / Slip April 1, 1995 & April 22, 1995 Cubberley, 11 x 17
  44. Slow Gherkin / IBOPA / Marginal Prophets May 2, 1997, Cubberley (Keith Knight) 11 x 17
  45. M.I.R.V. / Bimbo Toolshed / Ripple / Amanda Krugliak / KZSU’s Glenn Smith, September 1, 1995, Cubberley, (Lane Wurster) 11 x 17
  46. Pansy Division / Crumb / Odd Numbers / Trunk Federation September 4, 1998, Cubberley (Jon Hess) 11 x 17
  47. Broun Fellinis / New Orleans Klezmer Allstars March 29, 1996, Cubberley 11 x 17
  48. Charlie Hunter Quartet / Will Bernard Quartet / Broun Fellinis / Anibade / Galactic / Stephen Kent, Eda Maxym & Friends / Toledo / Action Plus / Mingus Amungus / Dave Ellis Quartet, March 28, 1998 thru April 25, 1998 (five dates jazz series) (Michelle Nelson/Mark Weiss) 11 x 17
  49. The John Doe Thing / onelinedrawing / Matt Nathanson, September 10, 2000, Cubberley, 11 x 17
  50. Penelope Houston / Bonfire Madigan / Umami / Billie Eyeball / Noelle Hampton / Allette Brooks, December 4, 1999, Cubberley 11 x 17
  51. The Basics / Squeeze The Dog,  August 10, 1996, Cubberley, 8 1/2 x 14
  52. Freedy Johnston / Matt Nathanson / Sparkler / the girl and I / Stefanie Gleit / Nick Thompson/ The Birdwatchers April 7, 1998 thru May 12, 1997 (six shows) Stanford Coffee House “CoHo” 8 1/2 x 14
  53. The Mermen / Pothole, March 20, 1998, Cubberley, (Lynn Grant) 11 x 17
  54. Cheryl Wheeler / Rebecca Riots / Allettte Brooks June 26, 1998 Cubberley (Callie Withers) 11 x 17
  55. Box Set / Vivendo De Pao / Shelley Doty, October 2, 1999, Cubberley 8 1/2 x 14
  56. Richard Shindell July 11 (circa 1998) Johnson Park (Charles Goldman) 8 1/2 x 14
  57. Three Day Stubble / Heavy Into Jeff / Susan James / Huge / Cottonhead / Sally Ann / KZSU’s Glenn Smith / Rufus the Bobcat /( “the Palo Palooza”) July 3, 1995 11 x 17
  58. “The Palo Alto Soundcheck” “series starts September 20, 1996”, Cubberley (John Yates / Harvey Bennett Stafford) 18 x 24
  59. Asylum Street Spankers June 2, 1999, Cubberley, (Colby Printing) 14 x 22 

format is: Performer/Date/Venue/Artist designer or art directer where appropriate/size. compiled 2016 by Mark Weiss, earwopa@yahoo.com

also:

Oxbow silkscreen by Frank Kozik, 1995 available thru Frank Kozik

Idiot Flesh / Oxbow silkscreen by Christine Shields, 1996 — few remain

Third Eye Blind – Heavy Into Jeff 1995 flyer few remain

Fifteen handbill ca. 1996 few remain

Ragady Anne handbills, redeemed for dollar-off, few remain

Earthwise 2009 at Bottom of the Hill by Robert Syrett (chronological and geographic outlier)

1993 Earth day mini Pow Wow at Addison School by Jeannell Steiner

1993 Rainforest Awareness Project by Donna Sharee

#35 is scarce — Warm Weather Series (otherwise all of above numbers is available in 40 sets of 58 or so?? I am researching making this available as sets only to collectors and collections, up to 40 sets — the remaining overruns were destroyed by MBW in 2016. There are 59 lots of 40, destined to be 40 sets of 59.

There are bands and artists that appear on this list but did not appear at the concert; there are bands that appeared at these concerts that are not listed above. (There are also concerts that had no poster)

Should I reformat this list by date? by size? Alphabetical by first headliner? 

There are also ticket designs and some scarce handbills (Femi Kuti – Steve Lacy)

Private collection of signed posters (signed by the performers)

Collection of correspondence, contracts, publicity still provided by record labels, et cetera— nine boxes ie. 30 yards or so. There’s about 40 hours of audio tapes, of varying production value, mostly on analog tape not digital. 

Michele Nelson (sic) also known as Michele Turner??

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Partial score: Gunn 42

Half game vs Saratoga Coach Miller and Big Red

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Your girlfriend is the best (still)

Keith Knight played twice in my music series as Marginal Prophets. He is on tv now as Hulu. He also did a poster for me. Go, Keith!

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Eazy easel tree

  1. Eazy E tee or sweatshirt bought at Nordstrom — I don’t listen to N-words With Attitude, NWA nor did I really see or listen to either the movie or the documentary about them, but I couldn’t resist buying at Nordstro a gray garment “straight off the streets of compton” or Palo Alto or Stanford, but sales tax remit Palo Altans, though the university has a $30B billion endowment and another $18B worth of leases at their industrial park, which is now mostly video games not military industrial complex although some they say these devices are all part of a war, on class, or will be comandeered when the time comes, to keep us in line and separate the thinkers from the dutiful zombies. Feel me?
  2. Ezel — Gwen of Letter Perfect sold me a deck of flashcards with info on the history of the language, the mother tongue as it were. And it was. So “Ezel” is a horse and from that we get easel. I will cross check this with both my Webster’s, Ninth and Eleventh.
  3. Tree. As in Stanford unofficial mascot. And not the Cardinal color nor the Cardinals bird – -not even in Indian summer; it was 59 degrees farenheit when i got up and then in the high 70s and Mike from St. Mikes told me not to say that phrase. But what replaces it?
  4. Tree — I bought a white cap at Stanford driving range gift show and “Fran” I think said apologetically “I’m going to have to charge you $50 for this cap?!” and I said “Stanford has a $30b endowment with a “B” and another $18B in leases, that’s why I moved here” which is a lie – when I moved here in 1974 the endowment was in the millions not billiions. But I meant I think its good if caps are $50 that means I can charge more for my goods and services.
  5. Like my free concert coming up in about 31 hours at Lytton Plaza with Hawktail, Taylor Goss, Tommy Jordan’s Service Human, A Very Special and Surprise Guest, Jacob Savage and a Mexican-Greek American singer who can really bring it, like Janis even when doing Norah named Anna; maybe another special guest doing Frank Turner “reasons for being an idiot”

 

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Blue and black curves

By Altoon Sultan b. 1948 Chris Sharpe Gallery ZLA

By Jenna Chanel b. 1998 circa
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