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Showing posts with label sports. Show all posts
Saturday, December 03, 2022

AIFF2022: Busy Saturday Starts With Kids Program, Ends With Recommended French Film - All at Museum

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I started thinking about the Anchorage International Film Festival late this year, so I'm not as organized as I have been in past years....
Monday, November 28, 2022

Cancelled Wiz Leads To Seattle's Pacific Science Center

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 The Wiz was not high on my todo list.  It wasn't even on my todo list.  But when invited to accompany my daughter and granddaughter to ...
Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Thank You Vin Scully For Making The World A Better Place

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Before the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, my dad and I would root for the Hollywood Stars, a Pittsburgh farm team, at Gilmore Field i...
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

". . .forced labor camps that were politely called plantations," From Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

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As I'm reading Caste I'm struck by so many things I never saw before.  The title quote is probably the most profound.  Of course, pl...
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Monday, May 10, 2021

Getting Out - Short Hike At McHugh Creek And Watching Birds At Potter Marsh

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Went for a walk at McHugh Creek Sunday.  This was our greeting at the beginning of the trail (to Potter Marsh).  That's when I realized ...
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Saturday, April 03, 2021

Supreme Court Conservatives Seem Ready To Break NCAA Control Over Student Athlete Pay. Why?

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 Background   If the conservatives on the Supreme Court have been consistent about anything, it's been in support of big business.   Sen...
Friday, December 04, 2020

Goodbye Rafer Johnson

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One more hero in my life moves on.  The picture below was taken two and a half years before I'd enter UCLA as a freshman.  The legacy of...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

What's The Difference Between a Memoirs and a Memoir? And an Autobiography? But That's Just The Hook. There's Also Kimani. [Updated]

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I follow  Kimani Okearah @theKimansta on Twitter.  He's a photographer for the Sacramento Kings.  Well, that's not exactly right.  ...
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Tuesday, January 01, 2019

Famous People Born In 1919 - J.D. Salinger, Jackie Robinson, Liberace, Nat King Cole, Kalashnikov, And Others

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There seem to be fewer notable people born in 1919.  World War I had ended in November1918.  There had been a big influenza epidemic in 1918...
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