sitting on the brown leather chair reclining hands securely fastened with magical splints stretching bob dylan only in my ears headphones filled with 1975 live listening alone with acoustic guitar harmonica voice poetry and thoughts swimming reverie rewritten as dynamic duo enters joining couchbound with homegrown mac and cheese blowing too hot for baby too [...]
Archive for August, 2010
live 1975
Posted in Life on August 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Living at the Movies Volume 3 Issue 3
Posted in Living at the Movies on August 29, 2010 | 7 Comments »
You know you watch way too many movies when you begin to see patterns emerging in the closing credits. First you have the unit production manager and the first and second assistant directors. I’ve learned that they get their own separate section above everyone else. Then comes the camera operators and the costume and [...]
Pining for PIN
Posted in Memories on August 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Parent Information Night — PIN for short — is an annual tradition at La Entrada School. PIN takes place one evening during the first week of classes and it is the same exact concept as Back to School Night except PIN is a way cooler sounding acronym than BtSN. I used to enjoy PIN a [...]
This Is Your Homework?
Posted in Allegedly Funny on August 25, 2010 | 12 Comments »
How does it feel to finally be an eighth grader at LE? No matter what you are feeling right now — overwhelmed, empowered, excited, terrified, eager, or even a tad nervous — one thing is unequivocally true: at least you are not a sevie any more. Thank goodness for that. Among the many privileges you [...]
First Day of School
Posted in Life on August 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Give me syllabus or give me death. Okay, it wasn’t exactly like that but it was pretty close. I have always been and will always be a syllabus junkie. The only thing on my mind during that first class meeting was getting my mitts on that precious piece of paper. Sure, it was nice knowing [...]
Falling on a Grenade
Posted in Ask the Audience, Pop Culture on August 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you just gotta respect ‘em. Philanthropic to a fault and more courteous and respectful than a young man asking his potential future father-in-law for his daughter’s hand in marriage, these eight raven-haired ambassadors of decorum and dignity have burst onto the pop culture scene with such panache and aplomb that [...]
Older Than Dirt
Posted in Life on August 20, 2010 | 10 Comments »
You could never tell just by looking at him but today my dad officially became a geezer. Even though he has been receiving AARP Magazine for at least a decade, it is on this date, August 20, 2010, that John Picetti turns sixty-five. Holy crap, 65!!! That’s older than dirt. This is a guy who [...]
Worth a Looksee
Posted in Pop Culture on August 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Have you seen the latest episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO? It is quite interesting to say the least. Scientists have discovered a link between traumatic brain injuries such as concussions and ALS, particularly in regards to professional football and soccer players, boxers and even Lou Gehrig himself. Those same scientists were [...]
Breathing Easy(er)
Posted in Treatments on August 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Everything we ever needed to know about BiPAP we learned in ten minutes. Muchas gracias to Peggy and Cyndi and the entire team in the Pulmonary Medicine department at Santa Clara Kaiser. Throughout the duration of my personal ALS experience in regards to the astronomical number of doctor visits I’ve accumulated, it is their department [...]
E5C4P3
Posted in Life, Music on August 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Back when I was a wee lad of eleven, my dad dragged me up to Drum World in San Francisco to attend a drum clinic put on by legendary drummer Louie Bellson. The joint was jam-packed with percussionists so much so that people were sitting on the floor. I remember being seated next to a [...]
