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Bay Bridge Series 2013
I have only been to one MLB game this year, a Giants-A’s game back in May (pictured above). I have been to several professional baseball games in Asia though. This weekend I plan to see a different Giants team; the Lotte Giants (of Busan, South Korea) will be taking on the SK Wyverns. It will be my first time in Sajik Baseball Stadium which is supposedly the best baseball stadium in Korea.
Brandi Carlile
Reserved tickets are sold out, but there are still about four hundred or so lawn tickets available for Brandi on 8/21/13.
University of Oregon campus from Skinner Butte
Southern Oregon sunset
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom – Vallejo, California – aerial view
Back when I was a kid, I would go to Marine World which changed its name to Marine World Africa USA when I was an older kid. We drove across the bay to Redwood City on those occasions. At some point Marine World moved to Vallejo. And at some point after that it went through a series of name changes and is now called Six Flags Discovery Kingdom and looks nothing like the Marine World I once knew.
I took today’s photo from a small airplane on my way back to Ashland in late May.
Hee-Seop Choi of the KIA Tigers
I have mentioned before that I’m in Korea and have been for the past month. If you want to take a look at some of my recent photos from Korea, click here.
Today’s photo is of former Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, and Los Angeles Dodgers player Hee-Seop Choi. Choi is back in South Korea, playing for his hometown team, the Gwangju KIA Tigers. I’m living in Gwangju now so I have seen him play several times. Choi was the first Korean position player in Major League Baseball. He didn’t hit all-star status in MLB, though he was featured in the 2005 Home Run Derby as South Korea’s representative when they toyed with the international component to the event that year.
He led the KIA Tigers to the Korean Championship in 2009 after leaving MLB.
In late May I flew down to Oakland in a friend’s private plane. Soon after takeoff from the Ashland Municipal Airport this was the view out the window.
Tyler Loney of Spellcaster
On July 2, Spellcaster will be playing at Musichead in Medford. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend as I will be about 6,000 miles away in South Korea. Today’s photo is from the last time I saw them. Tyler Loney played guitar at the time. Now he does the lead vocals.
Also performing at this show will be the debut of Sylent Storm.
A friend and former (accounting) student of mine recently got into photography. Here is a sunset photo he took in Brookings, Oregon a couple months ago. For more of his photos on Flickr go here.
Michale Graves @ Musichead
The night Michale Graves played at Musichead was a strange one for me. I was really getting into his music, especially his new CD, Vagabond, during the prior month. My mom was dying, and his tunes helped to get me through that time period.
My mom died a few days before the show. The day after the show we were going to be driving to Eugene for the funeral. It was also my daughter’s birthday (4/18/13) so it didn’t look like I would be going to the show after all. My daughter ended up having volleyball the same night in Medford so I did end up catching just the first few songs before I had to leave.
I didn’t have my concert, camera lenses with me so these didn’t come out the best. The night was still a welcome change of mind for me. I really hope Graves comes back to Southern Oregon so I can see his full show someday.
Johnny B. Morbid (Carmen Ugaro)