Every now and again I need to be reminded about why I love the Pacific Northwest. This was the view from the main lounge in SeaTac on Tuesday afternoon, rather ironically as I was leaving…
You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you!
If you don’t recognize it, it’s a quote from Planet of the Apes. It’s kinds relevant and the Charlton Heston original is a great movie. I’ve mentioned that we need to be ready to face anything, and that my money was on a Zombie Apocalypse, but this week I’ve been reconsidering what the source may be when it all goes pear shaped (however, I do…
A weekend of contrasts
Friday night out was easy, Black Happy were playing at The Crocodile (great music venue in Bell Town formally known as The Crocodile Café). I’ve heard of Black Happy, not sure I’ve ever seen them before; they were to be the next “big thing” band out of Seattle in the mid 90’s and just never made it. They were playing the Croc over the weekend…
Another visit to the men in white coats
Saturday morning I played tennis for the first time in many, many months. It was fun, I stopped hard and pushed off my right leg a couple of times. It hurt, but not too bad. Sunday my right knee locked solid, could not bend it with out a lot of pain. Yesterday was a little better, I could drive (appreciated owning an automatic like never…
Music as it used to be…
The title makes me sound like an old fart. There are times I’m a member of the order of old fartdom, but not today. There were many albums that were influential to my musical growth. The Marillion album “Misplaced Childhood” and Floyds classic (a word not used lightly here) Dark side of the Moon are very close to the top of the list. I owned…
The difference between imagination and real life
Growing up birthdays were never a particularly big deal in the Kean household, it’s just how it was. Anniversaries of pretty much any kind tended to be discrete affairs. A card, a couple of small presents and that was typically it. There would be a small birthday party as I was growing up, but I think my parents discretely stopped kids birthday parties altogether as early…
I went to a fight and a rugby game broke out…
I grew up playing rugby, it’s a great sport and unfortunately is largely responsible for my damaged broken down body. I’ll admit it was ably assisted by a few race cars into tree moments, but I’m primarily blaming rugby. In the decade or so that I played with the odd shaped ball I’ve never see anyone do what Australian Kava Lumanuvao did. He pulled a…
Another competition, another good result
The momentum is building and with 10 points out of the last 12 available in the league this looks a lot like the team we expected to see at the beginning of the year. First there was Sundays great performance at San Jose, and it really was a great performance from Seattle. Unquestionably the better side throughout the game, the first 20 minutes were some…
Schumacher confirms the apocalypse is coming!!!
While it’s not actually listed as one of the seven signs of this apocalypse thing, it makes way more sense than Michael admitting he may have been in the wrong on his own. I’ve done a little research this evening, and no where does it actually give the names of the four horseman, its very possible one is called Michael.
Thanks Freddie, it’s been fun
If you have any interest in what led to the excesses of the NASL it’s worth looking for “Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos” written by Gavin Newsham. It goes into this in some detail and is a good read. In short the lunatics were running the asylum, and in the case of the NY Cosmos running it with other people’s money with little accountability.