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Jan.11.2011
KFTY/50 New Georges McCormack, Kevin Matier & Ross Matier, Phil KRON/4 Dickey, Glenn Jim Rome Show KNBR, the "Giant 68" Macgowan, Bruce...
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Jan.11.2011
Walter Alston was a company man. After the tempestuous Leo Durocher and the egotistical Charlie Dressen, who insisted on a multi-year contract after...
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Jan.13.2011
Nose Guard-Defensive Guard 1987 - 1990 Tim Ryan was a classic Trojan with a classic Trojan persona: movie star good looks, charismatic, married a...
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Jan.14.2011
  For 40 years the Angels wandered in the desert of modern Los Angeles. They were led by a “Singing Cowboy,” a “White Rat,” a “Smiling Python,” a “...
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Jan.16.2011
"Man, that's what we're playing the season to find out."   - Willie Mays, when asked who would win the 1962 pennant   When Spring Training...
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Jan.18.2011
One Night, Two Teams: Alabama vs. USC and the Game That Changed a Nation Southern California, University of “distant replay” StreetZebra “When...
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Jan.19.2011
USC Trojans: College Football’s All-Time Greatest Dynasty, The             re-printed in paperback,             can be read in its entirety at http...
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Jan.20.2011
Travers, Elizabeth Marin General Hospital Travers, Katherine Wilkes Topanga, California Los Angeles, California Orange County, California Garden...
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Jan.20.2011
ROCK'N'ROLL HEAVEN 1.     FADE IN:   EXT. SPROUL PLAZA (1967) - UNIVERSITY OF CALIF.-BERKELEY - DAY   The campus is resplendent with activity on...
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Jan.21.2010
Soft, steady rain. It drips through the redwoods. The world says "Stay in your cave, little human being.  Build a fire.  Maybe you could paint a...
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Feb.06.2010
Something I don't get:  why, when I'm reading a bit of The Prelude  (Bk 1, ll 498-542), and I get to the "table" my mind lights up like an...
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Feb.13.2010
I'm researching a review:  (re)reading the poet's previous books along with the new one. I scribble mental notes, and light pencil notes around the...
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Jul.10.2010
Every couple of weeks I write parsley on the grocery list and get it wrong. I've just thought of a mnemonic device: ley like the end of my name which...
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Nov.28.2010
It's cold out there.  Yesterday I bundled up and went to the supermarket:  a rabbit (why no rabbits in California?), some lettuce, half a dozen rough...
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Dec.10.2010
Unless I dawdle it takes me about ten minutes to walk to the gym.  I walk past cafés and restaurants;  I walk past  8-some bookstores or editors or...
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Dec.02.2011
Dark outside.  Not quite 7 a.m. I've been lying in bed awake for maybe 15 minutes listening to street noise, which is the occasional car--normal...
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Dec.10.2011
It's the other end of the day:  early evening, though it's been dark since 5 pm (which in France is mid-afternoon, a propos of which, I am...
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May.13.2012
I've been working. For nearly two weeks I've had no news from any source.  This week brought 3 rejections.  I am happy for the movement....
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May.28.2012
This week:  three rejections from agents, one from a top ten, two from the 11-20. As I wrote last, I will be changing this blog, moving on....
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.