The days grow short. The sun rises later. Skidding into fall.
October 2, 2007
October 1, 2007
Cease and desist notices from the Tenderloin Housing Clinic
“From Tenderloin Housing Clinics own court records and you thought YOU had bad neighbors? “
Yikes.
[via Curbed SF]
September 28, 2007
The sun breaks through
Fog’s arrived. All that sweltering 85dF heat is but a memory. The temperature today will be 20dF cooler than it was just a few days ago.
Took a look east earlier today as the sun broke through the fog cover and shot some beams on Oakland.
September 27, 2007
Harvest Moon
Sure, I knew it was coming up. Chinatown’s Moon Festival was last weekend. Yeah, Autumn. Yeah, full moon.
But then his nibs called up the stairs, “Hey. Did you see the moon?”
… and now I have this earworm of Fogerty singing, “There’s a bad moon on the rise.”
September 22, 2007
Red Sky At Morning
Spectacular sunrise yesterday, presaging the rain that started last night as a drizzle and moved into, yes, real rain (not wicked rain, just maybe a quarter inch or so) overnight.
The rain’s stopped and …
his nibs is up on the roof, bailing out a puddle of water from a plugged up drain.
The leaks are back, in a different place this time, due to a different cause, most likely an installation flaw for the new roof for which we just paid a zillion dollars (what with other work to be done and the cost of uninstalling and reinstalling the solar panels that rest on the roof).
Dang.
But … good thing I heard the drip drips behind me and we got the buckets and towels in place, good thing the rain wasn’t any harder than it was, good thing everyone will be out here in a few days (as soon as the roofer boss is back from vacation and available) to check out what the problem is and fix it before real rain (and Autumn) blows in.
"If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let ‘em do it."
Read/watch this lecture, billed as Randy Pausch’s “last lecture.”
As an intro, the article in the WSJ that talks about the lecture.
The video of the speech is an hour and three-quarters if you watch to the very end. There’s also an edited five-minute video, but it doesn’t capture what the full video does.
Randy Pausch’s speech (and Randy Pausch), inspirational.
September 21, 2007
Burn Those Jeans [PDF]
Another excellent bit from Patti Digh and 37days: Burn Those Jeans [PDF].
A coach. An act of kindness. Goosebumps. Tears.
The video this post links to is dashing around the Web this week even though it was taken four years ago.
Made me cry. I’m sure the young woman singing the National Anthem still remembers that night and the kindness of Mo.
Check out this article, written not long after the video was taken in 2003.
*sniffles*
Also check out Patti Digh’s blog, 37days, which is where this all came from.
September 20, 2007
Who knew? Brian Hyland
I was reading someone’s blog tonight and they mentioned Brian Hyland and Gypsy Woman.
Gypsy Woman? What? I knew Gypsy Woman, of course, but had never associated it with Hyland. Why would I? I knew Hyland because of his big hit in the summer of 1962, Sealed With A Kiss. I know it was 1962 because that was the summer after fifth grade, the school year when I’d swooned over Phil Johnston, whose sister Sheila was in my older sister’s class. When school ended in June, Phil’d up and moved away. Sealed With A Kiss, was my anthem that summer as I mooned about. Sealed with a kiss, if only.
Same Brian Hyland? How many Brian Hyland’s singing in that time frame could there be?
So, I popped /”brian hyland” “gypsy woman” “sealed with a kiss”/ into Google and found out Hyland wasn’t a one hit wonder. He was indeed the same dude and, furthermore, his first and biggest hit (recorded in 1960 when he was a sophomore in high school) was Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini, written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss.
Who knew?
Last, but not least, my Web searching scored me a vid of Hyland lip-synching Sealed With A Kiss on some bandstand show, probably Dick Clark’s.
Check out the dancers! There’s a classic nerd with black rimmed glasses and plaid jacket and a girl doing what looks like the Frug. (No, not those on the stage behind him. Later in the video. Watch! The guy she’s dancing with is dressed in a buttoned cardigan sweater. No lie!)
Nostalgia hits hard tonight.