A couple of quick updates since it’s been a week…
Beck-umentary momentarily (I hope)
I still haven’t gotten the footage back from Beck’s people. While I’m waiting by my inbox hoping for the email to come, I realize that Beck and Co. are busy doing a major multi-month tour and these things take time. Still, here’s to [...]

Just got back from the fabulous Beck-umentary experience (see previous post). What a whirlwind day. It’s about a 3.5 hr drive to Bend, but when you have free tickets, backstage passes and the opportunity to meet one of your heroes, it it makes for a great trip. Didn’t hurt having a lady love to come [...]

Exciting news on my front. As many of my friends know I have a history of good luck at finding last minute tickets to concerts I want to go see — Nirvana, Simon and Garfunkel, Eric Clapton, U2, Prince, and Stevie Wonder are among artists I saw having woken up a day or two before [...]

Apologies to Dr. Seuss for the play on Yertle the Turtle, but sometimes I just can’t help myself.
So last week my girlfriend and I took at trip up to Seattle to catch some baseball (see that post), play a bit in Seattle and check out Bastyr University, where she’s thinking of going to grad school. [...]

A couple of weeks ago was an eventful day for Seattle Mariner fans, especially life-long ones such as myself. Dave Niehaus, the play-by-play announcer for the franchise since it’s inception in 1977, was inducted into the broadcasting wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
As “The Voice of the Mariners,” Niehaus is known [...]