Back in the early sixties, my dad was a student at Westmoor High School in Daly City. One evening during the school year, my dad and his friend, Piggy, were attending a dance in the gym. Taking a break from doing the Hully Gully and the Mashed Potato, the two friends were hanging out in [...]
Archive for March, 2010
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Posted in Allegedly Funny, Family Fun, Memories on March 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Room 36 Revisited
Posted in Life, Memories on March 10, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Every so often I miss being in the classroom. Besides the obvious — the kids, the lessons, the grading (seriously), and the rush of it all — I find myself longing for the more creative aspects that a career as an educator afforded me the opportunity to engage in. While I wouldn’t say that all [...]
Just Tossing This Out The Window
Posted in Ask the Audience, Life on March 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Defenestration has been on my personal pop culture radar ever since I saw a bit involving flung objects from the NBC studio rooftop on the Letterman show way back in the mid-eighties. Several years later I discovered the existence of the Defenestration building in San Francisco. I even snapped these pics on the way to [...]
Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Posted in Concert, Music on March 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Caught the Counting Crows on Paladia in HD the other night. They performed their newest album track by track. Funny thing was that it sounded better live on tv than it does on the actual record through my headphones. I’ll never forget the time when my friend Diane (aka Numbnuts) and I saw them in [...]
The Watched Pot
Posted in Accessibility on March 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Bubble……… Test-drove Eye Gaze a few weeks ago. ……..bubble……. I abso-freaking-lutely loved it. Bubble…………bubble……. Took to it like Tiger to a driving range (or a pancake house). ……..bubble, bubble…………. Words will soon form on the screen of a Dynavox V-Max with as much effort as it takes for me to Stare and Blink. Bubble…………………..bubble………………bubble. E-mail, [...]
A Star is Born… Again
Posted in Fehmeen, Life on March 1, 2010 | 9 Comments »
We recently had the pleasure and privilege to be interviewed by Donna Yeager for the On The Move cable television show. The entire episode will air at a later date. Posted below is the edited youtube version. The star is, of course, the fabulous Fehmeen.
