Posted 10:57 AM by John A. Seafisk

Potato chips for breakfast is not always a good idea.

Posted 3:27 PM by John A. Seafisk

Ballparks I've Visited

Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL - Chicago Cubs
Comiskey Park, Chicago, IL - Chicago White Sox
Milwaukee County Stadium, Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee Brewers
Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Dodgers
Edison International Field, Anaheim, CA - Anaheim Angels
Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, CA - San Diego Padres
Philip B. Elfstrom Stadium, Geneva, IL - Kane County Cougars
Stanley Coveleski Regional Stadium, South Bend, IN - South Bend Silver Hawks
Fox Cities Stadium, Appleton, WI - Wisconsin Timber Rattlers
Pohlman Field, Beloit, WI - Beloit Snappers
Lancaster Municipal Stadium a.k.a. "The Hangar", Lancaster, CA - Lancaster JetHawks
Rancho Cucamonga Stadium a.k.a. "The Epicenter", Rancho Cucamonga, CA - Rancho Cucamonga Quakes
San Bernardino Stadium, San Bernardino, CA - San Bernardino Stampede
Lake Elsinore Diamond, Lake Elsinore, CA - Lake Elsinore Storm
Mavericks Stadium, Adelanto, CA - High Desert Mavericks
Blair Field, Long Beach, CA - Long Beach Breakers
Rocky Miller Park, Evanston, IL - Northwestern University Wildcats

If I had a digital camera, and I brought it with me, I could have shown you some photos. Oh, well.

Posted 11:32 AM by John A. Seafisk

Can't think of anything to say at the moment. Sorry.

Posted 4:50 PM by John A. Seafisk

I think I had a dream once very similar to what's envisioned in this photo.

Posted 1:04 PM by John A. Seafisk

Diet Vanilla Coke?

I just heard that the Coca-Cola corporation will soon be coming out with a diet version of their recent introduction - Vanilla Coke. I don't know when, since I didn't bother to read the whole article.

I am not a big Coke fan. Part of it my have been spending four years on a Pepsi-dominated collegiate campus. The other part is that the taste is too strong & sweet...the carbonation too destructive to my insides. However, I do enjoy a good Cherry Coke now and then....the extra flavorings have a calming effect on my palate.

I do remember going on a mad hunt for Vanilla Coke when it first came out. I consider myself a soda pop semi-connoisseur, who is always up for trying new sweetened carbonated beverages...the types of unfamilair beverages you can find in places like this. I spent days, frisking every local supermarket, every other mid-range market, even checking friends' fridges for it. Finally, I saw it in a cooler near one of the numerous checkout stands in my local drug store. I gave my $1.39 plus tax (yeah, a bit pricey, but hey, who knows when I'd find it again) and stepped out of the store, taking my first swig.

It was ok. Could use a little more vanilla.

So now the time has come for a diet version. I wonder if the they'll be enough vanilla in the aftertaste? But I'm too scared to find out. I'm all for trying new things....but DIET cola?

I wonder when they'll come out with Diet Jolt.

Posted 4:46 PM by John A. Seafisk

I Won't Back Down

One song I've been listening to an awful lot lately is Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down". To clarify, this is not a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers song, as it is from the Heartbreakers-less Petty album "Full Moon Fever", even though Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell appears on it. The song & the album is produced by Jeff Lynne, former leader of ELO (Electric Light Orchestra), and George Harrison appears on "I Won't Back Down", as well. This is a pre-cursor to the Traveling Wilburys period, the supergroup made up of Petty, Lynne, Harrison, Bob Dylan & Roy Orbison.

"Full Moon Fever" definitely has a Wilbury sound, thanks to Lynne, who also produced Harrison's "Cloud Nine". In return, both Petty & Harrison made appearance on Lynne's solo album "Armchair Theatre", a very-underrated effort. All of this came about in the late '80s-early '90s.

Why am I listening to a song that's at least 10 years old? It's called rediscovery of music. We all get in certain musical moods...one week, I feel like Pink Floyd; the next, I need some Beck; the following, it's the Beastie Boys. I'm currently helping a friend get further into the Beatles, especially after a recent performance by The Fab Four, a very good Beatles cover band. Of course, I'm only into the later Beatles, from "Revolver" onwards, right about when they started doing more drugs. I in no way advocate drug use, but "Sgt. Pepper" and The White Album are definitely more musically interesting than "Twist & Shout". And I really don't think it was all because of amphetamines, barbituates & hallucinogens.

Anyway, here's what I've been singing to myself when I need to unwind, as opposed to taking my frustrations out on any walls:


Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down

No I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down.

Well I know what's right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down
No, I won't back down


If I knew how to do wav. files or mp3s, I could link it here. But I don't. And although I enjoy Mr. Petty's musical contributions, I am in no financial state to pay any royalties. In fact, I may be violating copyrights by positng the lyrics.

Eh, stick it to the man, I say! Power to the People!