Posted on January 15th, 2014 under Other. Tags: bikes, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D600, seattle, washington. Comments Off on Bike parking @ Pike Place Market

Myrdal, Norway

I don’t think Myrdal is an actual town. Instead, it’s a place to change trains from the Bergen-Oslo Line to the Flam Railway Line which takes people down from this location to the fjords. I’m guessing most places people go to merely to change trains aren’t quite this beautiful.

Posted on January 13th, 2014 under Other. Tags: Nikon 18-200mm VR II, nikon d7000, norway, norway in a nutshell. Comments Off on Myrdal

Holiday Lights on State Street @ night (Santa Barbara, California)

Posted on January 9th, 2014 under Other. Tags: california, christmas, night photography, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S NIKKOR G ED N, Nikon D600, santa barbara. Comments Off on Santa Barbara’s State Street with Christmas lights

Jerry Coleman

Posted on January 5th, 2014 under Other. Tags: baseball. Comments Off on RIP Jerry Coleman (1924-2014)

Mickey Morabito – director of team travel (previously referred to as traveling secretary) for the Oakland A’s

I have always been rather fascinated by people who alter their appearance in ridiculously fake ways. It doesn’t matter if the alteration is to their boobs, face (cosmetic surgery or stage-level thickness of makeup for everyday use), or hair; I just can’t get over how unnatural and strange these alterations look.

I think this fascination may go back to my early teenage years and this man, Mickey Morabito. I would hang out with a bunch of friends at the Oakland Coliseum in the early 1980s, and we had loads of time to kill. We would do so, in part, by talking about what Mickey’s “hair” would look like when he showed up for work on that day.

Flash forward 30 years… I hadn’t followed the A’s that closely during the 90s and 00s–especially when it came to the executives. So when I saw Mickey poke his head out of the A’s dugout during the pregame warmups in Anaheim in 2012 I had to smile when I saw his strange taste in toupees (hairpieces, wigs, whatever you want to call them) hadn’t changed over the decades. You’d think that with a job for a baseball team, you’d opt for a more natural look, like a baseball cap, or just show off your bald head now that people like Bruce Willis, Michael Jordan, and Patrick Stewart have made the bald look rather popular. But, no, Mickey will be sporting a fancy hair hat until the end.

Posted on January 1st, 2014 under Other. Tags: baseball, people. Comments: 4