Last week I sat down in a room at Albany High School (where Emmett's godsister goes, and where he'll likely go in about five years) with Chris (other coach) and Eliot (manager) and a room full of other coaches and managers and we did the Triple A draft for this year's Little League. It was funny seeing Marcelo and Wayne and Fred (other coaches and ( Read more... )

Look at that. It's 2006 ( Read more... )

JZ is working off our traffic tickets by volunteering at the Circus Center (which is on our block. It is, curiously, a separate institution from Acrosports - also on our block. They are each ensconced in the erstwhile gymnasiums for the Polytechnic High which used to be there. They tore down the high school, put in some housing, and retained the ( Read more... )

The current issue of Mojo has Dylan's 100 Greatest Songs. (It also has a tiny yet laudatory review of LiTG, but that's not germane. Nor is it Jermaine ( Read more... )

I first encountered this dynamic with Monty Python. People who saw Life of Brian first were convinced it was a better movie as surely as the people who saw Holy Grail as their first Python knew in their bones it was superior. After a while I realized that it was probably that the Python sensibility was so distinctive and unprecedented (unless you ( Read more... )

Spent my lunch at Stacey's Books browsing through short stories by Truman Capote (love "The Headless Hawk" and "The Tree of Night" - his early short stories are so gothic), Carson McCullers and Jane Bowles. There was this curious surge in the immediate post-WWII years of odd duck American writers, mostly women, often bisexual. This was part of a ( Read more... )

(Man, I miss Keith Olbermann ( Read more... )

It's my birthday. I shall spend the day in glorious self-indulgence, gadding about the City of San Francisco.

When I come home? Cake.

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So Emmett's team came in second in their tournament. They won their semi-final game against Concord Blue handily, and got their asses handed to them by Concord Red tonight. EM almost started a riot with some obnoxious Concord fans (such that the ump called the Concord coaches onto the field and told them their team was about to forfeit the ( Read more... )