Like some people who watch hockey mostly for the fights or those who watch motorsports for the crashes, it’s possible that at least some people watch competitive eating for the gross-out factor. While categorizing competitive eating as a “sport” is debatable, there’s no denying it can be pretty disgusting to watch. Case in point is [...]
“Fish heads fish heads Roly poly fish heads. Fish heads fish heads eat them up, yum!” –Fish Heads by Bill Mumy and Robert Haimer Fisheye lenses are a bit in their limited use. While they provide a very wide angle of view (at least 180 degrees) and almost unlimited depth of field there’s a price [...]
When I started at the Record in 1984, the printing press we used was an old Goss Headliner Letter Press. When it was retired in 2005 it was one of only a handful of its kind in the country still in use. Letter press is old technology that harkens back to when type was set [...]
“Carlo disappeared into the back room for a moment, then returned with an ordinary shoe box. He opened the lid and removed a hideous pair of black and white pumps. But these were not an ordinary pair of black and white pumps; both were left feet, one had a right angled turn with separate compartments [...]
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amoré” – That’s Amoré by Harry Warren and Jack Brooks Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s supermoon! While it may not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, tonight’s full moon is known as [...]
Today is James Brown’s birthday. In November 17, 2005, I photographed Brown in an appearance at what was then the Fox Theatre (now the Bob Hope Theatre) in downtown Stockton. It was one of his last performances before he died a little more than a year later on December 25, 2006. After an announcer’s [...]
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything” – William Shakespeare April had a little bit of everything: Events, sports, even a shower or two. Here are 10 favorite outtakes from April: _________________________________ 4/14/12: _________________________________ 4/15/12: _________________________________ 4/19/12: _________________________________ 4/21/12: _________________________________ 4/22/12: _________________________________ 4/25/12: _________________________________ 4/29/12: _________________________________ 4/30/12:
My wife has relatives in Alabama who, on more than one occasion, have told her that they wouldn’t want to move to California because of all the earthquakes we get here. They say: “We don’t know how y’all can live out there.” I’ve felt only two earthquakes in my lifetime. The first when I was [...]
Also during the Pacific/UC Santa Barbara baseball game a high pop foul ball was hit to the first-base bleachers. It reached the apex of its tall arc and came down onto the vinyl shade covering of one of the VIP “suites.” The coverings are slanted similarly to a roof on a house, so everyone assumed [...]
During a recent University of the Pacific baseball game against U.C. Santa Barbara I noticed Pacific player Brett Christopher in the dugout wielding a sledge hammer. He wasn’t swinging it, just rested it over his left shoulder. I guess it was used as a training bat, its heavier weight used to build up strength. Or [...]