Thirty years ago – December 25, 1987 – I got a Christmas gift that wasn’t on my list. No biggie. I knew how handle it. Simple rules of engagement, per the social contract we all agreed to as kids: 1) We got to ask for anything. We could make a long list of those things, […]
“Welcome to the Winter Meetings”
My car broke today on the way to the airport. My wife was driving, and we went over a set of train tracks and just like that: *crack* and our hood suddenly looked like we had tried to trap The Hulk in the engine, and he was letting us know in no uncertain terms that […]
Baseball and Music are my Perfect Combination
Perhaps you’ve noticed the many connections between the worlds of baseball and music. Countless professional musicians are huge baseball fans and a large majority of baseball players would like nothing more than to be rock stars… speaking literally, not figuratively. I’ve been hooked on both baseball and music since I was very young. I was […]
Rise of the (soda) machines
I was waiting in line to for lunch on a Wednesday at a fast casual restaurant in Cedar Park. It was a little bit after 1 p.m., so the lunch rush was over and only one employee was working behind the register. It was a short line, I wasn’t in a hurry, so it wasn’t […]
Chemistry: A History of The Ticket’s Origins
It shouldn’t have worked Nobody thought it would. If we’re all telling the truth, most of us on the inside spent who knows how many days thinking this would be the one when it all comes crashing down, and it would be left to somebody else to try and do what we couldn’t: deliver all-sports […]
My First Memory (or Dancing on the Table With Paul Robert)
This is my first memory. It is my third birthday party. One or two other half-memories from before this may have sneaked in; pastel-colored cups at my grandparents’ house with mysterious and un-dumpable water trapped between two layer-walls, a green sweater that one of my relatives has sewn, an old trailer outside of a house […]