Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss

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 be looking for Jimmie Dale to see him.
On the same roll, maybe the next frame or exposure, taken by an unknown photographer is a wonderful group portrait of Jimmie Dale, myself and Robyn Israel of the Weekly. We look like a million bucks, each. Or three million bucks split three ways.

Plunkett was already famous as a high school player

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 story on the 15th reunion of the 1970 team, Lambert Trophy winners — I had interviewed Murry Bowden and Willie Bogan by phone but overdosed on tricyclics and was renditioned to Dick’s House to sleep it off like it was so much Rapier Punch.

Outzen was the star of Brian Moore’s documentary about ROTC “Army Green”.

Might be fun to update “Army Green” 36 years later, 18 up.

I wonder what Outzen would make of Hakan Sukur’s cafe on Bryant Street in Palo Alto;

I’d love to get him on a panel with Michael McFaul.

What does Rich Outzen think — or tweet — about the January 6 events?


Outzen attended Aragon of San Mateo whose alumni include musicians Pegi Young and Neal Schon, comic book Superhero creator Darick Robertson and filmmaker Brad Lewis (Ratatouille).