Thursday, July 31, 2003 Thump I fell out of my chair earlier this afternoon.  Well, "fell out of' is a bit of a misnomer.  More like, "my chair crumbled beneath me."  I have (er..had) a wooden swivel chair at my computer that was..oh..a goodly number of years old.  (Couldn't say exactly, but it's been around for some time.)  This afternoon I felt it getting lopsided, as if something had wedged itself between the leg and the carpet.  I writhed violently trying to dislodge it, being too lazy to get down and do it myself, and then it fell, taking me down with it as the leg came ripped out of it's joint.  It was a somewhat graceful fall, back first, feet up; my headphones were ripped out of the speakers, but thankfully most other forms of death and destruction were averted.  The chair, however, does seem to be a write-off, so I'm stuck in a good old-fashioned folding chair with no swiveling capabilitites.  Sometimes my posts are helpful or entertaining or thoughtful, and sometimes I post just to..post I guess.  This would probably be one of those times.  3:42:52 PM    comment [] "29,000 People and a Million Butterflies." When I was younger, and being wooed more by the broadcasting profession than the attempted writing career I've wound up taking, I grew up enthralled by sports and by default sports broadcasters.  Since it was on my mind this morning I thought I would throw out a brief tribute to the greatest of them all.  Vin Scully  Now it would be somewhat undue to limit Scully to being merely the best sports announcer of all time.  He might well be the best radio broadcaster ever, and just happensto announce baseball games. That voice of his is just beyond words, indescribably perfect to the letter.  Here is a clip of Scully announcing Hank Aaron's record-breaking homerun.  I had heard about Scully before I had ever heard him, and that came in the late 90's when Scully was still announcing the national feed of World Series games for CBS Radio (before ESPN Radio bought the broadcast rights and replaced him with Charlie Steiner...the sacrilege).  He is not doing a full schedule anymore, only announcing select Dodger home games, but a real treat to be experienced if you ever can over the radio or internet.  I once heard someone say that Vin Scully inspired a generation of copycat announcers; I think it's safe to say he still masters them all.  Here's where the title of the post is drawn from 12:25:22 PM    comment [] © Copyright 2003 Ken Graber.

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