early October update

well, it's colder than it should be, but I'm inside a lot.
transcribing.
transcribing.
transcribing, and then transcribing some more.

way, way too much of listening to my own voice (99% of which will be edited out (you're welcome)), but also in this past week (thankfully) the compelling voices of writers Tony Earley (Jim the Boy), Stewart O’Nan (The Circus Fire) and Anita Stansfield (Shadows of Brierley: A Far Horizon), friend and trauma surgeon James Walter, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians bassist Brad Houser and the lovely Susan Olsen who played Cindy on the Brady Bunch.

but the Facebook page for the 49ers has surged past 100 Likes (thank you, thank you! (times 50)) and today, despite the chill, interviewee (thanks Ingrid!) and ICA (Philadelphia) senior curator Ingrid Schaffner, Loyola (Maryland) Greyhounds soccer coach Mark Mettrick, stand-up comic (MTV's Half Hour Comedy Hour) Mario Joyner, Judging Amy actor (with a famous father and famous younger brother) Marcus Giamatti and pro wrestler Darryl Peterson (Maxx Payne and Man Mountain Rock) all turn 50.

and sixty years ago this afternoon (at just about 3:58 Eastern), when Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham was just over twelve hours into his second birthday, the Staten Island Scot, Bobby Thomson, hit a home run off of Ralph Branca that is now known as the Shot Heard 'Round the World.