12-11-13

12/11/13

Softball: Briefly from the North

Dear People,

On a gorgeous yet brutally icy day, Chris Fure's team rallied from a disgraceful 17-3 fourth-inning deficit to beat my own, 29-26 (!), and yet none of that matters now, for the bitter reality is that as I peck these very words, I'm essentially trapped in the dank and dreary basement of my sister's Seattle hovel. Oh sure, I'd be a better man if I could rise above the situational fray and truly imbibe some of those sagacious chestnuts that give soothing reassurance to haunted souls-I refer specifically to the great Mark Twain, who once wrote that “I've had many worries,” whimsically adding “most of which never happened.”

Fair enough, but let's get real; The only visible book in this insufferable oubliette is that disturbing bio of Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive. Yeah, maybe it's coincidence, but I have my concerns. And therefore, assuming I can actually break free, there will be a game at Codorncies this Sunday at 11, IF I get enough commits by this Friday morning . . .Raymond

12/13/13

Softball: Help!

Dear People,

There will be a game at Codornices this Sunday at 11, and as of now there are still six slots left.

Please bring $4 for the field, which for this week only includes a personal post-game reminiscence of what it's like to spend six straight days debating the subtle distinctions between Luteinizing Unruptured Follicle Syndrome and Persistent Follicular Cysts, under, of course, a ceaseless suicide-grey sky . . . Raymond

PS: Chris Fure and Kora's band, Spoken Road, will be rockin' Saturday night at the Monkey House, on University Ave! If I weren't simultaneously flying back from the ghastly basement-dungeon of my sister's annoying excuse for a Seattle abode, I'd be so there….

https://www.facebook.com/events/165533430308680

PPS: Would you like to help the great Steve Seskin, community backbone and singer-songwriter extraordinaire, to teach school kids how to write great songs of their own?! Yes you would, and now you can! . . .

http://kidswritesongs.org/

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