Zombies of the ER
The next day, I saw Valentina’s other “job,” mopping the hotel’s floors. I took the mop from her and made her sit down while I finished her task. Then, in a spontaneous act I still don’t understand, I washed her bare feet.
Baseball is a game and, in the Dominican Republic, a way of life. It also has a way of teaching us about ourselves, peeling back the layers of our souls.
Dave Silverbrand teaches at College of the Redwoods and is a writer and former news director at KVIQ-TV in Eureka. He is the founder of Cleats 4 Kids.
Now, I wonder. Just how far will Judy Hodgson let me go? Can I turn over this valuable newsprint forever to all my crazy friends? Will I have to die before she kicks me off these pages? Check here next month. That’s when I’ll print a column from Rose Imperato. We went to kindergarten together.
First let me check the fine print on my contract.
Marcy Burstiner is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at Humboldt State University. If you have some crazy rants you want published, send her a writing sample.
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Railroad!
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Choo-choo Fantasies
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44th Annual Kinetic Grand Championship Race
STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
Flow 2012 Fashion Show
STAFF PICK / events / 8 p.m. Arcata Theatre Lounge, 1036 G St. Student designed and produced clothing. Fundraiser for Arcata Arts Institute. $35/$25 students. artsinstitute.net. 822-1220.
Woodside Preschool's Rummage/Bake Sale
events / 8 a.m.-noon. Woodside Preschool, 900 Hodgson St, Eureka. www.woodsidepreschool.com. 445-9132.
Lanphere Dunes Restoration
STAFF PICK / outdoors / 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Meet at Pacific Union School. Help remove non-native invasives at the Lanphere Dunes Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge. Tools and gloves provided, wear work clothes and bring water. Carpool to the protected site. 444-1397.
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Comment / By Fred Mangels / Jan. 1, 2009, 7:50 a.m.
Interesting: Not a word about the North Coast Journal using their cover story for a long- winded commentary of praise for Obama last summer but, when it comes to some alternative voices in the Times- Standard it’s SHUT THEM UP!
Comment / By Cindy Rawlings / Jan. 2, 2009, 8:23 p.m.
Its like two sides of a mirror sometimes, what the right rants is crazy talk to the left and what the left rants is crazy talk the right. It seems clear thinking has been lost at sea and there is no middle ground for communicating to solve real problems. Lots of hot air and hogwash being dished up daily. At least Stephen Colbert does it to entertain us. These other people seem to think their ranting point of view is for real.
Comment / By unanonymous / Jan. 5, 2009, 8:31 a.m.
very democratic of you, just another example of how our political system is screwed by intolerance of opposing views.