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12월 31일 Hat Trick In Everett...Dan Gendur has just scored his third goal of the night here at Comcast Arena and the Silvertips are up 5-3 in their WHL game versus Kamloops. For those of you who don't know, three goals in hockey is called a "hat trick," and when a player does get three goals in a game, the fans throw their hats onto the ice. So the game was just stopped for a few minutes so they could clean up all the hats. It will take me a little longer to get to my post game New Years Eve party. Happy New Year! Death Of An English Teacher....Sad news today....Ironically I was reading a column about famous people who passed away in 2007 when I received an email from my mother saying that my high school English teacher and a close friend of my family, Georgina Winsberg had passed away in Morton today. Mrs. Winsberg helped teach me how to turn thoughts into words and put them on paper. She was an English teacher and also the school newspaper advisor when I was the editor. While in college I worked a summer job for the local paper and had the honor of interviewing my former teacher and writing a tribute piece about her upon her retirement from teaching. Admittedly I was "teacher's pet," in her class but I worked hard and received all A's until senioritus hit my last quarter of school.
While not British, she seemed so to me with lots of makeup, a wig and the straightest posture you'd ever seen. She was always nattily attired and spoke such proper English I imagined that she even had a British accent. I often thought she would have been a natural on the stage in a Shakespeare production. Whenever I returned to Morton, I would see her making her daily walk, rain or shine, completing a circuit around the town. She was always happy to see me at church and would approach for a handshake which I would wave off in favor of a hug. We would do the same routine every time and she would always act surprised. I didn't realize she had been battling cancer so it was a shock to hear she had passed. I'm glad that I hugged her the last time I saw her. She was a nice lady.
12월 29일 For the ladies: How to find a good man.... Okay so I'm watching this very funny comedian and he says ladies, listen up. I'm tired of hearing you complain about how you can't find a good man. You want to know the secret of how to find a good man. Listen up, I'll tell you. Listening? Here it is........LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS! Cracked me up. Good stuff. I also think it's great advice for most of the women (or men) on Craigslist and Match.com, get real. And what's with the people that put horrible photos up? You know the ones who hold the camera at arms length or shoot their reflection in the bathroom mirror. Why do so many people decide to photograph themselves in the bathroom anyway? I guess that's where they do their best work? But again, why post an ugly photo, who are you thinking you'll attract? I also love the ladies who put photos up where they're licking their lips and their boobs are hanging out and then they say, "I'm looking for a real relationship with a nice guy, not a one night stand." Right...we'll revisit this topic later. 12월 28일 Gary Payton - Good Riddance!.....In another life (actually as recently as four years ago) I was an in-house video producer for the Seattle Sonics of the National Basketball Association. I've kind of soured on the NBA and the Sonics too but I gave in and tuned in to last night's game to check out the Boston Celtics and the return of Ray Allen. (My brother and nephew were attending in person, young Ben lasted 3 quarters before they had to head home.) My thoughts are the Celtics are going to need to acquire a veteran point guard before the end of the season and do something to shore up their bench. That's not what I'm here to write about though. The return of Allen meant that the Sonics would have to come up with the obligatory "thanks for the memories," video for Ray and that reminded me of the video I had to quickly put together after Gary Payton and Desmond Mason were traded to the Milwaukee Bucks four years ago for.....Ray Allen. At that time I had to put together the "thanks for the memories" video for "The Glove, " arguably the greatest player in Sonics history.
We didn't have much time because the Bucks played in Seattle right after the trade. As it turned out, GP didn't even show up that night but we still had to prouduce a video. Looking through our music library, I found a few candidates to run by the powers that be and they liked Green Day's "Time Of Your Life." Nice song, lyrics okay and the video turned out pretty nicely. It wasn't until after the game that I realized to my horror that the actual title of the song is "Good Riddance." I was shocked that local columnists like Steve Kelley and Art Thiel never caught that. I'm sure they would have figured we did it on purpose because in private many people in the organization were not sad to see him go. He could be a pain in the ass but I never had any problems in the few times I had to work with him. He was always animated and energetic whenever I had to record him doing crowd prompts and chants for the videoboard. He even had some hilarious dance moves for the fan dance videos. I also enjoyed his version of the English language. He had his own way with words, Glovespeak I guess you'd call it. I'd have to rate Gary #2 for material shot for the videoboard. Brent Barry was far and away the greatest guy to work with on that stuff. After awhile he got sick of it but he is one smart and very funny dude. He would have fit right in on Seinfeld I think. (I'm glad Brent is winning lots of games with the Spurs now, he's a class act.) Okay, I rambled a bit but back to the video. Gary, I didn't know the song was called "Good Riddance" and I wouldn't have used it if I did. My apologies.
Speaking of Gary and the Sonics, at last week's game against Toronto, I ran into another Sonics alum who also worked for the Gary Payton Foundation, Steve Banks. Banks is now a sports agent and working for Goodwin Sports Management, he represents Rodney Stuckey, former Eastern Washington University standout who was drafted 15th overall in the 2007 NBA Draft by the Detroit Pistons. Nicely done Steve, keep up the good work! 12월 26일 This Story Literally Stinks....From the Des Moines, Iowa Register... DES MOINES, Iowa — Christmas Eve stunk for Robert Schoff. The 77-year-old Des Moines man got stuck in his septic tank. 12월 25일 An American Blogger In China... For my friends in China, this guy is a friend of a friend. He's trekking through Asia and just spent seven days in China. Here's some thoughts and photos from an American perspective. Check it out. http://theartofstopping.blogspot.com/ A Camel Through The Eye Of A Needle For those of you looking for that last minute Hanukkuh gift for that mensch who has everything....Israeli scientists have created the
world's smallest Bible, fitting a Hebrew-language version of the holy
book on a silicon chip smaller than a pinhead.
Speaking of pinheads, who gave this project the green light? Researchers from Israel's Institute of
Technology, were able to pack the Old Testament — on a 0.5 millimetre square. Ohad Zohar, who
directed the project, said
"This is the world's tiniest Bible. The Guinness Book of World Records has a Bible 50 times bigger."
The scientists managed their feat by sending focused beams of
tiny particles, called gallium ions, onto the surface of the silicon
chip.
"By sending a particle beam towards various points on the
substrate, we can etch any pattern of points, especially one that
represents text," said Zohar, a physics doctoral student.
Don't these scientists have anything better to do with their time, maybe work on a cure for cancer, AIDS, baldness? The nano-Bible was developed as part of an educational program aimed at increasing interest in nanoscience among teenagers. The scientists now want to take pictures of the miniature Bible and blow it up to a seven-by-seven meter (yard) poster, which will make it "possible to read the entire Bible with the naked eye," he said. Maybe they should have created nano-videogames and nano-cellphones if they wanted to attract teens. All together now, David Lee Roth, lights the menorrah.... Christmas In China.... Merry Christmas! It's officially here on the west coast now. I'm still up hoping to catch Santa coming down the chimney. Here's a link to an interesting article about Christmas time in China from the Seattle Times. The Times is also running a blog by a reporter in Beijing leading up to the Olympics. Check it out! http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004089750_chinachristmas24.html 12월 24일 Are Space Aliens Stealing Our Plasma Screens? Happy Christmas Eve from Kingston! (Washington, USA not Jamaica) Finally a sunny, dry day in the Seattle area. Beautiful ferry boat ride across the sound and I had a nice beach walk and nature trail hike near Point No Point (that's the name, really) lighthouse with my brother's Danish Schnauzer Buddy. Took my camera along so hopefully I can get some photos up soon. Great Christmas Eve dinner and opened a few presents before part of the family had to head home. I got a Lofa Tatupu Seahawks jersey! Actually I was tipped off earlier in the week by 4-year-old nephew Ben that he had gotten me a Lofa jersey for Christmas. My Aunt Carolyn (local Emmy Award-winning writer for one time KOMO kid's program Boomerang) came across an interesting article in the December 20th Police Beat column in The Stranger and was kind enough to pass it along to me. The Police Beat is always filled with fun stuff but this one had a special twist. On the surface there was nothing that special about the lone crime in the column. Someone called in to report the theft of a 42 inch plasma TV from the lobby of their business. Surveillance video showed a suspect entering the lobby and taking the TV without interruption. This occurred after regular hours when the lobby could only be accessed with an employee card. It is believed the suspect tailed an employee into the building to commit the crime. Riveting drama right? So why was this story given a whole column to itself? Surely there were more dastardly deeds going down on the mean streets of Seattle. (If you ain't never been to Seattle, don't never come to Seattle, cuz you wouldn't understand!) No, the point of interest is that the television was
stolen from the lobby of KIRO Channel 7. Let me repeat, a television was swiped from the lobby
of a TV Station. I was a sports intern there and KIRO 7 was also my
first employer after graduating from college.
In addition to working with Survivor host Jeff Probst and the likes of
TV geniuses Pat Witt, Steve Hamada and Chris Smith (not to mention the future ex-Mrs.
Probst) on the local Emmy-award-winning and extremely short-lived program Northwest Car Care, I also worked a stint in building maintenance,
the department responsible for the lobby security at KIRO. The suspect is described as a black male so that pretty much rules out it being an inside job. (If the suspect had been described as a "perky looking blonde," I would have immediately suspected one of Jeff Renner’s harem of fair-haired weather girls from rival station KING 5.) The following is the article written by The Stranger’s Charles Mudede. “This is not the way most criminals think. If he (the criminal, that is) wakes up in the morning and has it in his head that today is the day to steal a TV, two options will instantly present themselves: one, to burgle a house, and two, to burgle a store. Not for a moment will this idea present itself to him: three, to burgle a TV station. But if you give the third option a little consideration, you will soon see that it has a shimmer of sense. And if you give the option even deeper thought, you will begin to see the sun of its simple logic – the logic of stealing a TV from a TV station. Indeed, isn’t that the first place that a criminal, say from outer space, a crooked E.T., would go if it had no idea how one steals a TV on planet earth? The idea of burgling an earthling’s house or store would not appear to it before the idea of burgling the station for TVs, the center of TVs, the point of their radiation, the source of their entire meaning. We may wonder which came first, the chicken or the egg; in the case of the TV and the TV station, there is no such wonder – we know which came first.” As always, I will contact my sources at KIRO and try to
follow up with more details on this most heinous of crimes. Merry Christmas! 12월 23일 Stripper Pole Coming To Morton?! You can't make this stuff up. (disclaimer: I once worked for the East County Journal, at the time known as the Morton Journal. The name change was a brilliant marketing ploy to increase circulation in places like Packwood, Randle, Glenoma and Mossyrock.) Just received my hometown paper, "The East County Journal," and buried in a front page article about the city council I find mention that Hap's Place, a local bar, was installing a pole for pole dancing. I might have expected something like that in Shotgun Freddy's, home of the Logger's Jubilee wet t-shirt contest but not Hap's Place. Hap's place is pretty much right next to the Roxy Theater, just down the street from the Teen Center and kitty corner across the street from the police station. Location, location, location.....Anyway, at the last city council meeting a community member appeared before the council and in "a somewhat heated discussion," raised concerns about said pole: "If you want to go to Seattle to see that, (pole dancing) you can but it is not the place for it in Morton. The council needs to stop the fighting, the window busting, and the kids going into these places to drink. A pole is for perverts." Police Chief Mortensen reported that he had contacted the bar owner and she assured him the pole would not be used by professionals, only locals. Hmmmm....not that comforting if you ask me. I think that fact alone will keep me from attending the opening day festivities. Mortensen said "the pole is not illegal and can't be stopped." (You cannot stop it, you can only contain it...) Mortensen will continue to monitor the situation (tough duty, cue the music: bad boys, bad boys!) and "should anything arise (no comment) that is illegal, he will take action." Your tax dollars at work, citizens of Morton, you can sleep easy tonight. I am also now revisiting my decision to install a pole in the middle of my living room. I will keep you abreast of the situation. I promise to rip the top off the story and get down to the bottom of this exotic situation. I pledge to strip away at the rumors and get down to the bare facts. I will uncover all and get to the naked truth of this matter that is arousing my hometown....Maybe I can get some unadulterated photos of this notorious pole while I'm at it. Gracie Hanson is rolling over in her grave. (she's dead right?) Stay tuned.... 12월 19일 Christmas is coming....Slow news day Finally started my Christmas shopping tonight downtown. Still raining and the weather is just miserable. May be snowing on my commute tomorrow up north. Went to the singing squirrels movie last night, "Alvin and the Chipmunks," with Marina and the Ronie. Probably a fun movie for kids, (M & R enjoyed it) I could've waited for it to come out on video. Got a feeling that won't be a long wait. The animated squirrels acted circles around their human co-stars. Jason Lee is great as Earl but he cannot carry a movie on the big screen. He was....well, he was Earl in this movie too. Maybe he's not acting on TV. The Ronie and I played one on one Texas Hold'em after the movie and I won $5. Hey paid for lunch today. In other big news, I just noticed Shannon O'Donnell is back doing the weather on King 5, bringing the total of cute, blonde weather girls at the station up to three unless Rebecca Stevenson has moved on. 12월 18일 Starting Out Slowly....Trying to get my page up and going so I can share photos and thoughts. Bear with me as I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to computers. I have several hundred photos from China and other adventures so check back on a regular basis and hopefully I'll be updating often. |
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