September 17, 2010
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The Daily News
1 I started composing today's DN yesterday at around 5:30 in the afternoon.
2 See, I've been trying like heck to sleep through the night by doing a Franklin-esque early-to-bed ritual each night.
3 It has actually worked.
4 I'm going to bed at around 10-11, WAY early for me. Long-time listeners might remember my pieces on Craig Ferguson and Jimmy Himmel, both of whom are worlds better than Conan...sorry Conan fans. Jimmy Fallon also rocks the insomniacal world.
5 Anyway, what this does is it changes my morning drastically. Instead of fighting the 4:20 awakening bark by my ear friend and confidant Phoebe, the Dog, I now awaken whether she is barking at me or not, and I may have as much as six to seven hours of uninterrupted sleep.
6 It works great because I wake up KNOWING already that I have had enough sleep to conquer the main parts of the day.
7 There actuallly isn't too much bad about it either, with the possible exception of my usual three to five-in-the afternoon biorhythms, which definitely trend South. The other day I fell asleep on my hand.
8 So today I thought I'd start writing the DN yesterday, if you are following.
9 Thursday's DN always has the Eye, which tells you what is playin' around the Bay Area each weekend.
10 The one thing that I simply couldn't move away from was the lineup for this year's The Bridge School benefit: Saturday, October 23, beginning at 5 p.m. is the following lineup: Grizzly Bear, Modest Mouse, Jackson Browne and David Lindely, Lucinda Williams, Merle Haggard and Kriss Kristofferson, Elvis Costello, Pearl Jam, and HEADLINER Buffalo Springfield!
11 Huh?
12 Yep, you heard it. Here's a blurb:
Buffalo Springfield Reunite for First Show in 42 Years
As if the line-up for the 2010 Annual Bridge School Benefit wasn’t ridiculous enough already, word has just come down the pike that none other than Buffalo Springfield will be making an appearance. To clarify: The Bridge School is a non-profit school that provides assistance, services and education to people (especially young people) with severe speech and physical impairments; the Annual Bridge School Benefit was started in 1986 by Neil and Pegi Young; and Buffalo Springfield was a folk-rock supergroup (or, sort of pre-”super”, as the players were only just gaining steam) in the late ’60s consisting of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Dewey Martin, Bruce Palmer, Richie Furay. Young, Stills and Furay are the only three surviving members, and it’s yet to be determined who will fill in on drums and bass or if they’ll play as a trio, but it is confirmed that they will be appearing as Buffalo Springfield.Others on the two-day bill include Pearl Jam (celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band), Modest Mouse, Grizzly Bear, Billy Idol, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, and more. The shows happen this October 23rd and 24th at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA; tickets go on sale via Livenation.com this Sunday, 9/19, at 10am, and you can bet your sweet bippy that sale won’t last long.
13 On Sunday, October 24, beginning at 2 p.m., the lineup is this: Grizzly Bear, Modest Mouse, Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson, T-Bone Burnett's Speaking clock Revue featuring Elton John & Leon Russell, Elvis Costello, Ralph Stanley, Neko Case, and Jeff Bridges, Pearl Jam, and HEADLINER Buffalo Springfield!
14 As long as I'm plugging things, Dial M for Murder opens this weekend in Fremont. It is being brought to the stage by Broadway West Theatre Company. The reason I bring this up is that our good friend Angie Higgins is directing the Show, and it has some other familiar faces to our Pigeon Players' fans. I'll let their ads tell the rest of the story:
15 Hmm. Notice anything unusual?
16 Suddenly, Mozilla has taken on a mind of its own and refuses to let me edit the DN.
17 It will not allow me control over fonts nor of centering, so I'm going to publicly humiliate them.
18 As mentioned above, I began this DN yesterday at 5:30 in the afternoon so that I would avoid being rushed this morning. I have a huge workshop going on in all my classes and need to get my room ready.
19 So I had much of this written yesterday, but this morning, Mozilla has made it nearly impossible for me to edit this.
20 So this is just a bit of a pie-in-the face to Mozilla.
21 Dude.
22 Leave my stuff alone. I don't want this to go out to "friends", or for the entire universe to get it. I don't want this linked to every Twitter, Tweet, or wherever they throw all this stuff nowadays.
23 I don't want every Tom, Dick, and Harry even to know I am "online" and "available to chat". With all due respect, I don't have enough time to chat, which is why I rarely do it. So don't go telling the world that I'm "available" for ANYTHING!!!
24 Who the F#$K are you?
25 Sorry.
26 Just venting.
27 Moving on, Part the First: My Giants FINALLY moved into first place all alone for the first time since May 6! I was still teaching last year's classes, and was pretty far away from the school year being over.
28 Aubrey Huff Daddy took care of that, AND the dreaded Dodgers last night with one swing of the bat. He hit it off a guy named "Lilly". I found some pictures from Red Bluff that I thought would tell the story pretty well:
29 In the Battle of the Flora, Buster Posey stepped up a second later and took Lilly deep.
30 It was a statement. Final score: Giants 10, Bums 2.
31 The Giants are now alone in first place after trailing by seven-and-a half games a little over a month ago.
32 The Panda sat down yesterday. Maybe they should let him sit around knawing on sugar canes for the remainder of the year.
33 Maybe not.
34 That's the Giants.
35 Torture.
36 But it's becoming torture for the OTHER teams.
37 Yesterday Giants' announcer Duane Kuiper used the word "cajones".
38 His parting words to Murph and Mac: "S.F. Giants: CAJONES!!!"
39 Study in Contrast, Part the First: Sports headlines in yesterday's Merc:
GIANTS BACK ON TOP
SANCHEZ STIFLES DODGERS, STRIKING OUT 12 IN STRONG START
contrast to
49ers' 'rat' angers Singletary
40 Sounds like one franchise is on the way up. I just can't imagine Bruce Bochy calling one of his players a 'rat'.
41 Just sayin'.
42 Lost in all of this is the San Jose Giants' winning of the Cal League championship opener, 10-0 over Rancho Cucamonga.
43 I saw Buster Posey play for SJ two years ago.
44 Fun stuff, no matter how you look at it.
45 Okay, Drama and Sports' fans. Go out and do EVERYTHING this weekend.
46 Have a great one!
47 Peace.
~H~
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