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• 02-Feb-2011

  
  Professor Pidgeon Patrick Pidgeon was my Philosophy Professor at San Diego Mesa College in 1987. It was a great class and still ranks among my favorite in-class learning experiences. Pidgeon had a way of dissecting philosophical material, and especially language in a way that was challenging and engaging. It was such a good experience for me that...

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• 01-Feb-2011

  
  The Business Cycle Sometimes I took really, really pretty notes. Here’s “The Business Cycle” from the marketing class I took at Mesa College. It was held in one of the rooms in building B-100. I think I learned a fair amount in that class. For a seventeen year old, I think I did well. I really like the...

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• 30-Jan-2011

  
  Cigarette Man, 1985 Another back of a notebook, like this one previously. I’m so glad my Mom saved these old papers.

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• 30-Jan-2011

  
  Vertical Capital Letters After High School, I flailed. Which is to say I took classes at Mesa College without much of a focus. I enjoyed these classes. Drawing, History of Film, Psychology, Design, Architectural Drafting, Philosophy, Marketing, Broadcasting, Broadcast Studio Operations. This was in 1987-1988 — before we moved to Roanoke Virginia and I shifted my focus to...

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• 29-Jan-2011

  
  Prom Program, 1987 For my High School Prom, I was asked to do the program. It was quite an honor. What I wanted to do was have a kiss featured. Here’s a sketch of what I presented: I used to consider it censorship, but I suppose that was my first big run-in with design and audience considerations. This...

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• 20-Jan-2011
  Comics and the Law In about 1985, at San Diego Comic-Con, I received a free copy of the weekly Comic Buyer’s Guide (Wikipedia says it’s the longest running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry). I got myself a subscription and I was hooked. It was a tabloid, newsprint at the time. But I loved getting that...

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• 15-Jan-2011

  
  Precious It’s rather hard to believe that it was only 13 months ago my Mom, Leah and I were going to see the film Precious at a local movie theater. Sometimes it seems utterly impossible that she won’t be going to see the latest Oprah-endorsed film with us. Perhaps we’d go to Roadhouse afterwards. Perhaps she’d...

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• 09-Jan-2011
  Anecdote of the Day Fragment from Bruce Sterling: I once had a long bus-ride with a reeking, sweaty, jittery madman who had clearly once been a formidably intelligent and very well-read scholar. It seemed pretty clear to me that it had been a long time since anybody had been able to indulge him in a conversation. Although, he couldn’t...

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• 29-Nov-2010
  Thanksgiving Trip Redux Leah and I went back to California for Thanksgiving. Highlights included Thanksgiving with a turkey roasted in a Hotel room, quality time with the kids, who are now ages 16 to 21 and we are so proud of them; a playoff game for the boys that they unfortunately lost; seeing Tangled, which was good, going...

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• 24-Oct-2010
  Phyllis Silva Crawford’s Life Lessons In 2010, Phyllis Crawford’s daughter-in-law Leah Peterson asked her to contribute to a book about the lessons learned in life. These are what she shared. I believe we were created by God and when we get to the end of our life he won’t be concerned with our job title or financial status. I think...

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• 23-Oct-2010

  
  On the Eve of Jim & Phyllis’ Wedding This is a time capsule from the night before my parents were married in June of 1968. It’s an audiotape made by my uncle Jerry at my Parent’s rehearsal dinner. It’s quite remarkable. Who will you hear? Who? Age   James Crawford 21 Groom Phyllis Silva 22 Bride Art Silva   Father of the Bride...

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• 01-Apr-2010
  April Fool’s Day For me, I think April Fool’s Day will always be about April Fool’s, 1988. It’s a day to reflect on how far I’ve progressed, and not progressed as a communicator. It’s a mixed bag, and I’m taking it one day at a time. As for April Fool’s Day itself: every year websites do more and...

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• 23-Mar-2010

  
  Which American Accent Do You Have? “Or maybe you just moved around a lot growing up.” That sounds right. In Islands in the Net I think Sterling refers to the homogenization of American accents as the result of the flattening aspects of “the net.” Net English, I think it how he describes it. Consuming a lot of media–television–I’m sure has had...

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• 12-Mar-2010
  Misc about SXSW I am not at South by Southwest. Leah is. I went, myself, back in 2001. That’s 9 years ago. Austin was a great town and I had fun. These many years later what stands out is meeting the folks from evolt at Evoltageddon 2. That was fun–really fun actually — The Ginger Man was a...

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• 26-Feb-2010

  
  Paul M Bowers In this post from 8 years ago, I mention Paul M Bowers, a photographer that was around the corner from us at AVENCOM in San Diego. He took many of our photos. I thought I’d check out his site, http://www.paulmbowers.com/, and see how it had changed. I’m actually sort of delighted that it is the...

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• 23-Feb-2010

  
  Zappa Plays Zappa On Saturday, December 13, 2008, I had the pleasure to see Zappa Plays Zappa. I failed to write extensively about it, I only mentioned it. I had a wonderful time. You can see other writings where I mention Mr. Zappa by viewing blog posts tagged “frank-zappa”. And of course there is my old short piece...

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• 22-Feb-2010

  
  Capricorn One Capricorn One is a favorite movie of mine. If it’s on TV, particularly if it’s on widescreen, I can scarcely avoid it. It came out in 1978. I saw it the year it came out. It left a big impression on me. Part of my fascination was that there can be things that are stated...

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• 22-Feb-2010

  
  San Francisco, BlogHer, and Me Sometimes, drafts of posts sit in “draft” mode for a long time. I drafted this in August of 2008, a year and a half ago. I’m updating it as best I can and pushing it out into the world. For the past two years, my wife Leah has attended the main BlogHer Conference. The first...

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• 14-Feb-2010

  
  Revisiting my workspace from 2002. So I mentioned working on my blog theme today, and rejiggering my archive pages, for example December 2002. I’m liking looking at each month and year’s posts sequentially. It has given me a chance to revisit some old posts, for example: Back in the saddle again. In it, I talk about a bunch of things,...

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• 24-Jan-2010
  A trapped moment from July, 2009 Part of running WordPress is that when you start a post, your draft will get saved. It looks like on 21 July 2009 I cut and pasted this — I think from a quick email I sent with my cell phone to Leah while I was visiting my Grandparents for a while. Thanks for the...

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• 04-Oct-2009

  
  Obituary: Joseph James Crawford My Grandfather always read the paper. He kept up on the news. I don’t think he ever set down to read anything on the web in his life, but he was a man who would get the paper. When I was a teenager and into my twenties I also had this tradition. As a teen...

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• 14-Sep-2009

  
  Joseph James Crawford My grandfather turned 91 last week. Born 4 September, 1918. He was quite an interesting fellow. He joined the Navy in the 1930s and saw the world. He was a Chief in the Navy and as a navigator helped guide ships including the USS Intrepid during World War II. He had a long career in...

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• 09-Aug-2009
  John Waters: No Smoking When I was in my teens in San Diego, I loved movies. I didn’t like all movies, I was more discriminating, or snobbish, depending on how you looked at it. I loved seeing movies at The Ken in Kensington, and The Cove in La Jolla. The Cove is no longer there. There was one in...

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• 22-Jul-2009

  
  Sometimes a tetherball is just a tetherball. One of my favorite things as a kid was playing tetherball in the back yard of my Grandparents house. The tetherball itself has been changed out a number of times over the years, and it looks like it’s about due. I enjoyed playing though when I was shorter it pained me to get beaten. Once...

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