Poor Mechanical Skills

Here I am at age 10 on Chicago's "Bozo Show" (widely syndicated through the midwest at the time on cable). The challenge: to toss ping-pong balls into a series of ever-further buckets. The verdict: I suck.

Points to note while watching the video - [1] how bizarrely closely I stand behind the girl (hey, I was nervous, anxious, something.); and, [2] my awkward lunge to grab my prizes and get the hell off the stage the nanosecond after I miss bucket #4.

Oops, I gave away the ending.




Post-Scriptum: This video has been pulled from YouTube as a result of all those people out there posting Colbert-Show clips. So watch it QT instead.

"Turkey in the Straw" (a poultry theme emerges?)

This is my Piano 1 midterm, performed last week for the benefit of my fellow students at the City College of San Francisco.

"Performed", I should say.

The final next month will comprise the playing of two songs, one of them Fur Elise. I've got a pretty damn long way to go (and a short time to get there).

Hey, this ding-dang blog software doesn't let you put in umlauts.

--Für Elise. There you go. It works if you paste it in from Word.

Meow! Cluck!

Since I'm busy larding up this blog with links to my personal nonsense, this sure is pointless. So's this, albeit a bit less so.

Santarchy

Pictures from last December's San Francisco Santarchy in Fisherman's Wharf....

TEST

Hi. As the header indicates, this is a test.