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  • Jul. 19th, 2009 at 1:12 PM
If'n you're in San Diego and you need to get to the Convention Center, you have a number of options. Walking ain't bad. Driving and expecting to find a place to park is. The convention has set up a series...

Jul. 19th, 2009

  • 3:39 PM
I'll just keep this one short---the Bergstrom-Mahler Arts Festival was better this year than I've usually known it to be. Recognized a lot of artists from Off the Square, saw some other familiar names here and there. Grabbed a painted bookmark[!] from Bonnie Loeh [and told her how interesting of a medium they were!], and got in on the now-traditional Wes Hunting glass vessel raffle. Also checked out the museum itself---it was cool seeing the Millefiori exhibit again, but it was just great to see my favorite paperweight in the collection----a 1971 Saint Louis turquoise-green mabrie---back on display after seemingly forever.

Not much is up for the next week. Can't wait til next Sunday, though---I can hardly believe Art in the Park is almost here.....it's gonna be a lot of fun, I guarantee it! [And once again---if you're gonna be near Appleton next Sunday, come to City Park!! And say hi if you see me!!]

The week began with the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, where the best players in each league play in what is technically an exhibition contest, but decides which league's champ gets the more games in the World Series. The American League all-star squads haven't lost since 1996, and didn't lose again, as the AL won the 2009 tilt 4-3. Carl Crawford won the Most Valuable Player award mainly by robber Brad Hawpe of a home run, and the Rays skipper, Joe Maddon, was the winning manager.

Personally, I always liked baseball's all-star game, probably better than all the other contests of their ilk put together. The game means something, the other games do not, and are basically a show. The Pro Bowl is probably the worst event of them all, played after a Super Bowl, an afterthought more than anything else. Although next season, they will play the Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl at the same site as The Big Game. An appetizer before the main course.

But how can we not recap the week of sports and not talk about Tom Watson's run at the British Open?

For the longest time, it looked like Watson at age 59, a decade older than any major golf tournament winner in history, would hoist the trophy. Many thought that Watson would fade away time and time again in the final round, but he hung on until running out of the gas in the playoff against Stewart Cink. It was a fine effort by Watson, a truly historic run. But as we often see in the sporting world, even a considerable effort by an undermatched team, or someone too old, or too young, is a story within itself.

Thank you Tom, for making this weekend one to remember.

Gene Splicing

  • Jul. 19th, 2009 at 11:01 AM
The great comic book illustrator Gene Colan has found it necessary to cancel his appearance at the Comic-Con International this year. As I understand it, it's for medical reasons but not necessarily serious ones. Gene merely needs some tests which...

Today's Bonus Video Link

  • Jul. 19th, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Here, people, is the proper way to make a grilled cheese sandwich. Or at least, it is according to this person......

Jul. 19th, 2009

  • 1:27 PM

from our last show at the skate park, 6-26-09. this was taken with our friend's digital camera, so he couldn't get the entire song.

I look like a dork. and it's weird to be watching myself. by weird I mean extremely disconcerting.

From Twitter 07-18-2009

  • Jul. 19th, 2009 at 2:05 AM

  • 17:25:48: Heat without the humidity? It's possible! It is so nice when it's 95, 15% humidity, and not a cloud in the sky.

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Recommended Reading

  • Jul. 19th, 2009 at 1:42 AM
Elizabeth Kolbert answers the simple question, "Why are Americans so fat?" Hint: It has something to do with deep-fried Oreos....

Recommended Reading/Viewing

  • Jul. 19th, 2009 at 1:36 AM
Dick Cavett tells us what it was like to have Richard Burton on his PBS show...and provides us with a video of that show. I have eight thousand channels on my satellite dish. Why isn't there room on one for...

Today's Video Link

  • Jul. 19th, 2009 at 12:13 AM
I should have linked to this when Karl Malden left us. It's a deleted number from the movie Gypsy and it contains Rosalind Russell's unredubbed vocals, and I think that's Malden's actual voice, too. His character didn't have a lot...

Another Cronkite Link

  • Jul. 18th, 2009 at 11:31 PM
An old op-ed piece by Walter Cronkite on why he turned down Bobby Kennedy's suggestion that he [Cronkite] run for the Senate....

  • 07:24:03: July 18th begins....81 degrees out, no rain yesterday...beginning to think something's very odd with the weather this summer..
  • 07:29:36: Tom Watson, yes THAT Tom Watson (who had duels in the 70s and 80s w/Nicklaus), is one of the leaders of the British Open with Steve Marino..
  • 07:30:53: I'm old enough to remember Walter Cronkite's last space launch coverage, the Apollo-Soyuz mission in '75, couple of months shy of 4 then.
  • 07:31:45: I knew something was going on as there were a bunch of numbers on the screen, then a rocket took off...
  • 07:32:45: But I didn't really know what Russians were, and what made them different from us..hey, I wasn't even 4 yet.
  • 11:46:28: Tom Watson still leading the British Open...if he wins Sunday, he'd be the oldest winner of a major by over a decade.
  • 11:46:53: Julius Boros was 48 when he won the PGA Championship in 1968.
  • 16:21:23: So Tom Watson still leads The Open after 54 holes...got a feeling he's going to win come tomorrow.
  • 18:46:19: #Rays and Royals underway in less than a half hour..
  • 22:19:10: US leading Panama in Philly "dos a uno" (2-1) in the "primero timepo extra" (1st half of extra time) after a "Penal" (Penalty kick)...
  • 22:23:34: #Rays face Zack Greinke (well on the way to a Cy Young in this tweeter's opinion) and survive, beating the Royals 4-2...
  • 22:29:39: Will do "Sports Shorts" tomorrow, as a major development is brewing in the sports world across the pond, as many of you know..
  • 22:31:09: @daveiddreams No honor amongst thieves...

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Michael Jackson at 40

  • Jul. 19th, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Image from 1985 shows a magazine's projection of what Michael Jackson would look like at age 40

Recommended Reading

  • Jul. 18th, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Jon Stewart's secret weapon: Let's go to the videotape....

"Midsummer?? You must be mistaken!!!"

  • Jul. 18th, 2009 at 9:31 PM
The event I went to today is known as the Midsummer Festival of the Arts. However, one would have thought that it may have been a misnomer, given today's rather spring-like temperatures. Heck, the area even got a visit--correct that, 2 visits---from Every Art Fair Goer's Worst Enemy™. None of that had any effect on the show, which was as good as always. And it was a good thing I left at approx. 9:40AM---today was a really long day!!!

How long was it!? )

Bergstrom-Mahler's arts festival is tomorrow. Art in the Park is next Sunday in Appleton---and I'm proud to say, I will be volunteering!!! Park greeter from 12:30-2:30PM----say hi if you see me!!!!

Recommended Reading

  • Jul. 18th, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Todd Gitlin has another view of Cronkite, focusing on the few times (Vietnam, Watergate, not much else) that the anchorman departed a bit from dispassionate reporting of the headlines. Thanks to Andy Rose for suggesting the link....

Hollywood in Burbank

  • Jul. 18th, 2009 at 6:54 PM
I braved the warmth of Burbank today and went out to the Hollywood Collectors Show, a crowded autograph event loaded with famous folks. Let me see if I can quickly run through a list of those I talked with... In...

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