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covering all bases
in the wheelhouse, up the alley, around the corner, over the train tracks, under the bridge, and headed for home In my internet search for the origin of the phrase “in one’s wheelhouse,” Wikipedia included “wheelhouse” on a list of … Continue reading
Pete Rose
I wonder what he really said… “I don’t have the average thirty-eight year-old’s body. I know my face looks old, but if you slid head first for sixteen years you’d be ugly too.” — Pete Rose “If you slid late … Continue reading
sentinels
expressions o’ the day: I recently heard the expression “canary in a coal mine” for the first time. Initially I thought it had something to do with the color–the bright yellow canary against the dark of the coal mine. That … Continue reading
Posted in history/memory, language
Tagged baseball, birds, incorrect use of phrases, phrases, shakespeare
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adventures in town
Post 6 (of 6) from the past few years (with camera/camera phone) around Los Angeles a visual list of reasons I like the city (from the absurd to the beautiful)
Posted in los angeles
Tagged baseball, birds, california, griffith park, irony, park, statue
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Lancaster Jethawks
nothing says baseball like diamond-shaped things (a diamond’s just a crooked square?) nothing says baseball like NASA (NASA in Lancaster?) nothing says baseball like frantically trying to keep track (then giving up. i create my own history!)