Sour Cream is back at school after the longest layoff either of my kids have ever had.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Professor Longhair – Big Chief
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYyFnFPhBg
Oh, mama. It's carnival time, but the only video of Al "Carnival Time" Johnson isn't great. Just go and play that song and book your tickets. In the meantime enjoy Professor Longhair melting your face.
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January 11, 2015: Church Basement Coffee
I really could have used one of those "donuts and coffee in the basement this morning" Sundays. It was not to be.
George Harrison – Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)
Let's all just chill and bob our heads for a little bit.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Im82k0DaE
1991
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Happy Birthday–January 11
George Pinkney (1859)
Silver King (1868)
Elmer Flick (1876)
Max Carey (1890)
George Trautman (1890)
General Crowder (1899)
Schoolboy Rowe (1910)
Don Mossi (1929)
Gene Cook (1932)
Jim McAndrew (1944)
Jack Zduriencik (1951)
Rocket Wheeler (1955)
Lloyd McClendon (1959)
Donn Pall (1962)
Warren Morris (1974)
George Trautman was the president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs from 1947 until his death in 1963.
Gene Cook was the general manager of the Toledo Mud Hens from 1978-1998. He is credited with convincing Jamie Farr to wear a Mud Hens cap on M*A*S*H.
Jack Zduriencik is the general manager of the Seattle Mariners.
Rocket Wheeler has been a manager in the low minors for twenty-two seasons. He was the manager of the GCL Braves in 2014 and will manage the Danville Braves in 2015.
January 10, 2015: Plague
A good percentage of my co-workers are either out sick or working sick. Two of us have daughters who just passed through serious illnesses. Is the rest of the country like this, or is it just Arizona?
Merle Haggard – Sing Me Back Home
Home frozen home.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIei_vfZN0o
1978
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Harry Wright (1835)
Chick Stahl (1873)
Del Pratt (1888)
Ziggy Sears (1892)
Max Patkin (1920)
George Strickland (1926)
Jim O'Toole (1937)
Willie McCovey (1938)
Chuck Dobson (1944)
Wilfredo Sanchez (1948)
Richard Dotson (1959)
Kelvin Torve (1960)
Wally Bell (1965)
Kevin Baez (1967)
Gary Rath (1973)
Adam Kennedy (1976)
Outfielder Ziggy Sears played in the minors for sixteen years, mostly in the Texas League. He once drove in eleven runs in a game. He was a National League umpire from 1934-1945.
Max Patkin was a well-known baseball clown from 1944-1995.
Wilfredo Sanchez was a star in Cuba from 1968-1986, winning five batting titles.
Wally Bell was a major league umpire from 1992-2013, when he passed away from a heart attack.
Down Under Diary
A look at the Australian League.
FMD: First Friday of Regular time.
No Christmas music. No reading or thinking about year-end lists. Just whatever I actually want to listen to. Maybe the same is true for you.
A short anecdote about one of the entries on my year-end album list, Untold's Black Light Spiral. I added that to my iPod the same day I added all of the tracks I added for the WGOM summer mix, and when I add new tracks, I often make a new Mix to shuffle through the various recent additions. Well, I'd forgotten about the Untold album and thought it was just the Summer Mix nominations, so when I shuffled the "New 2014 06 10"*, I thought that this song was someone's summer mix nomination:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhnajCTEMVQ
So I imagined that the beginning of this amazing noisy thing, an echo chamber without release, was the intro to someone's warped, poppy, summer song. I kept listening without prejudice and without looking until after about 2 minutes I really couldn't figure out what it was. But I was already hooked.
*(or whatever date it was, I delete them when they're no longer new)
Now, share your regular time lists.