Month: April 2007

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    1  Yes, it's finally here!

    2  All you college folks had this already, but ours begins at 1 p.m. today!!!

    3  Good Friday, indeed!

    4  The funny thing is I was just taking care of business so much that I actually thought it was NEXT week, and suddenly I had a million deadlines to hit. At first I was actually annoyed, but last night the reality set in: Spring Break!

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    5  Yesterday I left the school looking around and everywhere there were events being planned, students enjoying all sorts of activities, basketball practice between students and staff, cheerleaders practicing, drama productions in action, our Desi club dancing and working on a huge event, and I just looked out over the town and thought, "I love my job!"

    6  It's the first time I really smiled and relaxed with it all. It's a tough job, and never a dull moment, but all those events were happening, and I helped coordinate every one.

    7  People enjoy doing so many different things, and it was good to see everyone working, smiling, and enjoying themselves.

    8  I got in the TOOOOOONDRA and it occurred to me that all is well, and that today is a minimum day, and YB even has a play tonight for FREE!

    9  I went home and conked out around 5 p.m and didn't awaken until midnight, no kidding! I think I finally just stopped and was told to rest, that all this stuff was being put on hold for a week while we have a well-earned vacation.

    10  Didn't I just HAVE a few vacations?

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    11  Well...yes. But in between I did twelve-hour days.

    12  But as the sun sets on good ol' Sannozay tonight, I can rest for a bit, and smile.

    13  I'll be back, and with a vengeance.

    14  Meanwhile, you all enjoy the beautiful weather, and everthing else that's good in life.

    15  Live life, love life. Go to Original Joe's and enjoy a meal with good friends. Go to the beach. Eat. Fly a kite. Watch a great movie. Go to a baseball game, or even a museum.Visit people you love. Have a barbecue. Grow flowers.  Listen to the music. It's all around you.

    16  Peace.

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    1  Here's something fun.  YB Drama and ATFNL are staging a show tonight entitled Bang Bang You're Dead, a sort of morality play about the dangers of potential Columbine outbreaks in our schools. The show begins at 6 p.m. and is FREE! Suny Um directed this fine show, and you might want to give it a look. It is also tomorrow night and Saturday night. I'm not certain if they are running two weekends, but let's hear it for Suny and the entire group for keeping Drama alive at YB!

    2  Break-a-leg guys!

    3  Moving on:  Something fun.

    4  I just have thought about the word "fun" for years.

    5  We all want to have it.

    6  We want to do things that are it.



    7  In fact, any time we could do something that IS it, people seem happy.



    8  "It was fun!" is always met with smiles and affirmations.

    9  Last night I began goofing on the word "fun". I googled it, and here are some pictures of what came up. I'll try to explain each, and perhaps how it ended up in the fun section of Google:

    10  This first one makes sense to me. I personally think gorillas are fun.

    2  At the top of the page, we have Michigan J. Frog, the famous Warner Bros. song and dance guy who performs only for his owner. HIs fun song is I'm Just WIld About Harry, and frankly, I think he's pretty fun too!

    3   Standing in puddles is clearly fun.
    4   There are those who claim washing a car is fun, and that a gift filled with car wash stuff is fun as well. This one I sort of agree with and sort of don't. If you just got a NEW car, then this is a great present. If you just got a NEW car as a gift, and this is in a present that is labeled "Open Me First!" then this is GREAT fun, unless the car is a Yugo.

    5  Evidently these three guys are fun. I don't really see it, unless Chris Ramirez could write me a story about them. It's an odds-on-favorite he still probably owes me a story dating all the way back to his sophomore year, which is when sophomores were invented. Chris?

    6  Dogs are always fun.

    7  Now clowns aren't fun, in my eyes. In fact, it's almost cliche to say you are afraid of clowns, so I was surprised to see Bozo on the first page of Google fun. It's obvious where the national fear of clowns originated. This guy is the scariest thing I've ever seen. No fun.

    8  I'm not trying to be politcally incorrect, but somewhere in the definition of child abuse, they should have this guy as a fellow who probably struck fear into the hearts of millions of children.

    9  And while we're on the subject, how about Barbie's eternally scary little sister, Skipper? She's right out of the Twilight Zone. No fun, indeed!
    10  And this guy just showed up on the Google fun list. How is HE fun? He's like a trans Bozo on clown-makeup roids.

    11  If I'm the boss of Google, I gotta ask my crew where they came up with this stuff.

    12  We had a vain skunk. I guess it's pretty fun. But I just think a lot of other things are more fun than a vain skunk.

    13  Actually, he or she is no fun at all.

    14  You could always make an argument for a moose, especially a moose named Mrs. Moose.

    15  These gals label themselves as Twisted Fun, but frankly, I don't see it.
    16  I have to get movin', but I think a point was made here. Nowhere on their 16 or 17 page choices did I see the Stooges, or Alfred E. Neuman, or even a rollercoaster.

    17  Personally, I love having fun, whatever the heck it is. But I'm guessing that if you were some alien from another planet, and you had to depend on Google pics for your definitions, and someone asked you if you wanted to have a litte fun, you would probably pack your ugly family back into the flying saucer and speed back to wherever you came from.

    18  Meanwhile, I think I could use a picture of a dog or two.

    19  Just for fun.

    20  Have a great day.

    21  Peace.


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    1 Did you know... If you lined up all the boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese end-to-end, they would stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles nine times over?

    2  Something like that.

    3  I have this show going on behind me called Our Greatest Fun Foods.

    4  Something like that.

    5  It features stuff like Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Jell-o, Jet Puffed Marshmallows, Hostess Twinkies, Cracker Jacks, and Swanson's frozen dinners.

    6  It is filmed like those old 50's home movies where we see a kid in a cowboy hat smile with jelly all over his face.

    7  Naturally I enjoyed craning my neck and watching.

    8  One guy said that he couldn't eat Jell-o whole, that it had to be cut up into schoolyard cubes. I gotta love this ad for Jell-o:

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    9  Another interviewee remarked that Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is a staple in his household.

    10  I just looked up and guessed that right this minute I probably have three boxes of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese in any cupboard right now. How about you, hmmmm?

    11  He even referred to Kraft Macaroni and Cheese as "comfort food".

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    12  In a strange way, it's true.

    13  Now, my mother, who was and is the greatest cook in the history of the planet Earth, wrote the book on comfort food. She always has had amazing recipes and wonderful home-cooked meals for us, every night.

    14  And yet we always had many of these pop items lying around our kitchen cupboards.

    15  I remember what a treat it was to pop a Swanson's frozen dinner into the oven and to pull it out a half-hour later, and to place the hot pan onto a TV tray.  Here's another classic ad. You could almost smell the must and dust coming off this one:

     

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    16  Cracker Jacks were always great because they had free stuff in them.

    17  Even though it was a plastic ring, or a clown tatoo, it didn't matter. It was free.

    18  It had no business at a ball game though, I don't care what you say.

    19  And marshmallows were to be put on the end of a stick and your job was to try to cook them to a golden light brown.

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    20  Like most kids though, I would torch them until they were coal black and still burning.

    21  I'd burn my tongue with them, often sending a loud sizzle flying out of my mouth. I'd still manage to eat the thing, and there was seldom anything more fun.

    22  And finally we have the Twinkie. My dad worked for Hostess, so we would always have boxloads of Twinkies, Sno-Balls, Suzi-Q's, Ho Ho's (which I would unravel like a sleeping bab and stare at with the saucer eyes of a cartoon cat).

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    23  And of course, we must always make mention of the immortal Hostess Cup Cake, the greatest of the greats. You could eat it so many different ways. You could just chomp it down, or you could meticulously peel the chocolate off the top, eat that, then suck the cream out of the middle.

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    24  I loved the creamy surprise inside, even though I had eaten millions of them by the age of six.

    25  I was also the most popular guy on the block, never realizing until way later that it probably had more to do with the Hostess Twinkee connection than anything to do with the fact that I was a swell guy.

    26  Ah, well. Today all that stuff can cause horrible things to happen to us. It's considered outrageous to give any of that stuff to children, almost akin to giving them ciggies and beer.

    27  Sometimes I just shake my head at modern times.

    28  But growing up with all that stuff is very much a part of all of our lives.

    29  I enjoyed having that stuff, and for some reason, I enjoyed traveling back to the days when we could eat foods that just seemed fun.

    30  And most of all, I'm glad that I got a chance to share all that.

    31  Hope you enjoy your day.

    32  Peace.

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    1  Spring has officially sprung.

    2  I got out to the Coliseum yesterday to watch the Giants play the A's and they got
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    3  Box seats, first base side, and I loved it.

    4  Barry Bonds lost so much weight he looked like he was wearing baggy Dockers, but he still smashed two gargantuan home runs.
                                                  

    5  He evidently could have done that all along without the clear, or the cream, or the attitude.

    6  I was pretty indifferent. I'll spare people my thoughts, but I won't waste too much space on that guy.

    7  Despite all of it, it's still all about baseball.

     
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    8  I loved it. I love the Coliseum, no matter what they want to call the place. It looked great because they successfully disguised Mt. Davis with tarps and names and numbers of some great A's players. It made the entire place look much more intimate, and it was the Coliseum, in all it's glory.

     

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    9  Baseball.

    10  The best part was listening to the last out, when it was announced that Spring training was officially over, and that baseball was starting.

    11  No matter how much else goes on in the world, it happens every Spring. And no matter how cliche it sounds, it still is all about hope, memories, being a kid, and times spent with family and friends rooting for the home team.

    12  What a grand way to spend a day. Sandwiches, sun, peanuts, the beauty and poetry of the defense, and the fans, vendors, and the breeze. I fell asleep in the sixth inning, and I guess I'll never get that one back, but that is the point.

    13  I could have been beaned by a foul ball. The game could have gone into 23 extra innings. A potential home run could have hit a bird flitting across the yard.

    14  Moving on:  I  got home and prepared a great spaghetti and meatballs feast, and later put the movie The Rookie on. Great baseball film, one of the best. Nobody created miracles, no lightning, no ghosts, no switches to the modern Hall of Fame. Just a movie about a guy and the game. Dennis Quaid. Loved it.

    15  It always begs the question: What is the greatest baseball movie of all time? How about the ten best?

    16  See? It's tougher than you think, especially if you couldn't care less about the best sport in the world.

    17  Personal opinion, of course.

    18  Anyway, I'll miss my first Opening Day in years.

    19  Oops.

    20  It's true though.

    21  So this was fun. You'd be surprised how something as simple as baseball can take on tremendous meaning as we move through life. I can think only of when I was a kid and we had a sandlot behind our house when I was growing up.

     
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    22  We would take small pieces of cement that were lying around and we would bury them, making them into bases among the weeds.

    23  Across the way was a place called the Colonial Bakery, next to the See's Candy store that still sits in South San Francisco, right off El Camino Real. Right between that See's and my old house stood the sandlot. I remember the wonderful smell of baking bread coming from the bakery when we would play on cloudy days. We could walk there and get bread, or donuts, and sometimes move over to See's for some chocolate samples, and then on to a Rexall Drug Store to see if the latest Superman or Adventure Comics had come out yet.

    24  If not, we could always buy a pack of baseball cards, but only if we had a nickel.

    25  The bubble gum that came with the cards was free.

    26  I bought a pack of baseball cards yesterday.

    27  No gum.

    28  That was about the only difference yesterday. The game survived, and so did I. Nine players on defense. Coaches at the corners. Dugouts. Take me out to the ballgame; take me out to the crowd...

    29  And beginning tonight, they all count. Every game.

                                              
    30  It means we all made it. We're all home again.

    31  Play ball.

    32  Go Giants.

    33  Peace.






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