The Daily Mac (baseball & SFGate.com)

Call went out from SFGate.com for their Giants Fan bloggers. I had just complained (below) to Jon Carroll about the passivity and lack of interactivity of the Chronicle. But some bright person had this in the works. The invite is on their main sports page. My blog is HERE.

Re-opening the stables

EXCERPT: “”Then what I call “the descent” where the tendrils tighten in rapid succession, drawing harder and harder towards the climax. And here is where short stories often differ from novels or novellas…and it is why I love them (er, that and they are done in a morning and that’s that). Right at the moment you think you see how it all resolves….the author yanks the chute on the whole plummeting story moments before the impact you envisioned and expected. And in a violent upward swing is yanked high into the air and lands at an utterly other place than you thought.”

Connelly gulped.” Read MORE.

Dear Jon Letter: The Other 98 Cents

The SF Chronicle Two Cents column that is being held in a statis field like most good newspaper ideas.
A letter of response to Jon Carroll’s column today in the Chronicle and on SFgate.com. Read it first for good stuff and context.

Dear Jon,

Good article today…online.

Some of what you say resonates to be sure. I love [...]

Wednesday Poem on Salon.com Blog

A blogger at Salon.com’s relationship site for the last year (Wednesday’s are Poetry Day) here is today’s entry by Mac: The Lunchbox.

Mac on KPIX Obama Video

Comments for KPIX News piece on racism on Easter Sunday at St. Andrews Presbyterian.