The Tardy Times
Three online newspapers
The PDF version of The Tardy Times is still, as the saying goes, under construction. Excerpts in full text (html) begin below in column one with notes and reports to family and friends from Lynn Ludlow, Margo Freistadt and Kenny Ludlow. Full-text from other pages (news and exploits of kinfolk, old friends, SF State j-grads, etc. etc.) will be added shortly.
The Geezer Gazoot, which compiles stories, gossip and ruminations about the Frisco and Bay Area press, is also in PDF form but not quite ready for the Web. To read the full-text version online, just click on the name here or on the link below the image of the Gazoot's cover.
Thirty combines obituaries of Bay Area newspaper journalists (2005-2008) with a report on how obits are changing. The PDF version is now working. For its online full-text versions, just click on the name here or on the link below the image of its cover.
Expect updates and fixes. We're new at this. For more, read "About the Tardy Times."
Speech repair begins with the mouth, as Kaiser speech therapist Mary Cabibi demonstrates to Lynn. He is agog. See Notes from Lynn and his stroke report in "The Slow Talkers of America."
Fishwrap crisis
Notes from LynnTHE LUNCHEON guests honored Gale Cook, their esteemed city editor in the treasured past. But not until dessert did anybody express forebodings about the future of what we retirees still venerate as the Church of the Newspaper.
Teensy microchips have shaken our faith.
Larry D. Hatfield remembered. Will Stevens had warned us.
To read the rest of Notes from Lynn on "Fishwrap Crisis," "The Slow Talkers of America" and "Son of feed/back," click here.Teensy microchips have shaken our faith.
Larry D. Hatfield remembered. Will Stevens had warned us.
Miraculous whales
and fervent birdsong
Notes from Margo
THE BIG QUESTION was, “How close do you want to get to the whales?” We were in little boats called pangas in Magdelena Bay, on the Pacific Coast of Baja, Mexico. The whales – mothers and babies – were near enough that when they blew, seawater and whale snot drenched us.
The mother whales were about twice the size of our pangas, and if they'd wanted to, they could have come up underneath us and tossed us into the drink. But a few of them approached the pangas and nuzzled the sides of the boats.
To read the rest of Notes from Margo, click here.
and fervent birdsong
Notes from Margo
THE BIG QUESTION was, “How close do you want to get to the whales?” We were in little boats called pangas in Magdelena Bay, on the Pacific Coast of Baja, Mexico. The whales – mothers and babies – were near enough that when they blew, seawater and whale snot drenched us.
The mother whales were about twice the size of our pangas, and if they'd wanted to, they could have come up underneath us and tossed us into the drink. But a few of them approached the pangas and nuzzled the sides of the boats.
To read the rest of Notes from Margo, click here.
Giraffe's lesson:
Let the kids do it
Notes from Kenny
When people ask me why I want to work with kids, I have to pause and think. Why do I want to work with kids? They're messy, loud, inexperienced and sometimes irritating. Then I remember where my love for kids was confirmed: at the San Francisco Zoo.
To read the rest of Kenny's notes, click here.
Let the kids do it
Notes from Kenny
When people ask me why I want to work with kids, I have to pause and think. Why do I want to work with kids? They're messy, loud, inexperienced and sometimes irritating. Then I remember where my love for kids was confirmed: at the San Francisco Zoo.
To read the rest of Kenny's notes, click here.
Click here to view a full-text version of "The Geezer Gazoot" online.
We're trying to get a PDF version of the Gazoot into the Website. When we do, you'll be able to click here to download it. Please be patient.
We're trying to get a PDF version of the Gazoot into the Website. When we do, you'll be able to click here to download it. Please be patient.
