23 years ago, even during the Year of Raves, Sunday at Shoreline with the Dead was special in the beauty wrested from Mountain View…
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Hannah’s First Baseball Game
In a losing effort, Hannah and I cheered on the Braves (well, the 3 year-old girl sometimes cheered for the wrong team…) on this date 15 years ago. It was Barry Bonds ball night (BOO!!!), and I still have the ball, never having had the chance to throw it at an appropriate person. SF Giants …
No Such Thing As Too Much Bob
22 years ago… and my 4th Dylan show in 6 days… That seems about the right proportion… And then, 14 years ago, I saw this baseball game at Candlestick, er., PacBell Park, um… what is it again?
TBT: Week o’ Bob
22 years ago today: My 3rd Dylan show in 5 days, with another on tap for San Jose (come back tomorrow). This day’s Berkeley show was smokin’
Cinco de Bob
22 Years ago today… 2nd Dylan show in as many days — That’s the way to Rock
May Tickets Again
22 Years ago today… Dylan at the Warfield. ‘Twas an excellent show, and an excellent week of Dylan.
May Ticket Madness
A Sunday show at Frost is a joy forever — especially as I have the bootleg of this one. A beautiful day in May 27 years ago… notable for the rendition of “Little Bunny Foo-Foo” Actually, I just remembered that this may be the show that I bummed out those around me with my excess
This Day In History … and the Birthday of a Goddess
A rose would smell as sweet… 27 years ago, on Anne’s 29th birthday, I saw the Dead at Frost. Today, on her 39th, I am so glad we found each other, and that she allows me to share in her beautiful life
May Day Ticket History
Twenty-six years … and several lifetimes ago…
The Marvelous Mundane
Taking a break from reading Chaucer, and from investigating the sources for The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (notably, of course, the story of Reynard and Chaunticleer), as well as briefly dipping into George Lyman Kittredge’s analysis of how Chaucer tells his tales, I found myself reading two completely unrelated poems: “Sea Fever” by John Masefield, and …