42

So, I took Sunday off of the blogging committment and I know, somewhere in the middle of the US, a good 1,404 miles from here, a lone head drooped and a lower lip was stuck out at the sight of no Sunday words... yeah right. :) It came to me at 10pm and I was curled up with Summerland by Michael Chabon and comfy under a few blankets and atop ten pillows deep in the recesses of my chilly abode, and I realized as my eyes closed at 10:02 that I hadn't yet blogged and that was o...zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. So, it's all good, you've been there before. Not a Sabbath-associated decision friends. I'll stop

But I did want to recognize in some way the number 42, which is of course the answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything for some of us, but hopefully for so many more it's the number of Jackie Robinson who 60 years ago on Sunday broke the ranks of all-white Major League Baseball by being the first African-American player to swing a bat and field a ball with the Dodgers. He's been called an icon beyond sport, an athlete akin to Jim Thorpe who was so good at everything he just happened to choose baseball in which to become a legend. For a kid born in the Bay Area in 1974 when my afore-blog-mentioned Giants had garish uniforms and played in a stadium some said resembled a toilet with the lid open, baseball has always been about hating the Dodgers and everything they stood for, because of course, Southern California was and still is stealing all our water. I knew Robinson broke out with the team when they were in Brooklyn (and really, why would I know anything about Brooklyn, wasn't The Warriors filmed there?), but I didn't care. And baseball in the grand scheme of things today doesn't amount to much considering world events. But my family loves baseball, my brother just received his MLB package and he and his son are scoring games and wiggin' out, and Jackie Robinson deserves a mention, every year, and we need to pay a little more attention to his significance beyond baseball. But that will have to wait cuz it's like 11:50 and I have to post this or else my Mac turns into a pumpkin and that's just no good for anyone. thanks.