tweetlebeetlebattle.com Blog » Go Bears! http://tweetlebeetlebattle.com/blog Hi ya doin'? Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:17:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Cal Athletic Center http://tweetlebeetlebattle.com/blog/2007/08/15/cal-athletic-center/ http://tweetlebeetlebattle.com/blog/2007/08/15/cal-athletic-center/#comments Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:07:06 +0000 Nick http://tweetlebeetlebattle.com/blog/2007/08/15/cal-athletic-center/ The following is a letter I found posted on the http://goldenblogs.blogsome.com/ website about the stadium upgrades and athletic center.  All those who care about Cal Athletics should take a look.  I know it’s not the most important cause out there, but I think it’s critical to the success of the university in continuing to have and build a top athletic program.

Hey Everyone,

IF YOU WANT THERE TO BE A NEW TRAINING FACILITY AT MEMORIAL STADIUM, PLEASE READ AND VOTE!

I am helping a newly formed organization called Berkeleyans for Cal Athletics get the word out about things you can do to help the University get a ‘green light’ to move forward with construction of the new Student Athlete High Performance Center at Memorial Stadium.  Please take a bit of time out of your day to read the action items listed below and help us out! 

Also, be sure to:
–Visit our new website for news and information about the following action items:  www.berkeleyansforcal.com
–Visit the University’s official stadium site for details about the stadium project: http://stadiumcampaign.berkeley.edu/
–Add Memorial Stadium as your MySpace friend: http://www.myspace.com/calmemorialstadium .

Fiat Lux, and Go Bears!

Alec Stewart
Class of 2005

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]]> http://tweetlebeetlebattle.com/blog/2007/04/04/farewell-omar/feed/ 0 Oh, we had a little party down in Newport … http://tweetlebeetlebattle.com/blog/2007/03/20/oh-we-had-a-little-party-down-in-newport/ http://tweetlebeetlebattle.com/blog/2007/03/20/oh-we-had-a-little-party-down-in-newport/#comments Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:16:27 +0000 Nick http://tweetlebeetlebattle.com/blog/2007/03/20/oh-we-had-a-little-party-down-in-newport/ Lucy is more than a month old now, and is becoming more alert every day.  We also discover interesting things about her on a regular basis!  As an example, on St. Patrick’s Day, she was being very fussy in the evening around Jay’s bedtime.  Sharon and I had just had a couple of Guiness Stouts to celebrate the occasion, and decided to sing some Irish songs to try to calm Lucy.  I spontaneously broke into the first part of the Cal Drinking Song (captioned below), which has a couple of references to the Irish later in the song.  Sharon knows the song better than me, so, holding Lucy, she continued all the way through.  For you non-Cal-alumni out there, it’s a long, involved and irreverent song that ends up with a granny, in her nightie, swinging from the outhouse door.

The funny part of the story is that Lucy immediately calmed about half way through the first stanza (below) and was quite happy as long as we were singing that song.  We tried other songs, upbeat and mellow, and they didn’t work at all.  But come back to the Cal Drinking Song, and all was right with the world again!

So the latest lullaby for kids starts as follows:

Oh, we had a little party down in Newport. 
There was Harry, there was Mary, there was Grace.
Oh we had a little party down in Newport,
And we had to carry Harry from the place.

Oh, we had to carry Harry to the ferry,
And the ferry carried Harry to the shore,
And the reason why we had to carry Harry to the ferry
Was that Harry couldn’t carry anymore.

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Despite today’s ruling, a half-dozen protesters roosting in an oak grove next to Memorial Stadium said they will not be coming down for at least another several months, when a trial will decide the fate of the proposed training center.

Zachary RunningWolf, who has been living in a redwood tree on and off since Dec. 2, choked up this morning when discussing the judge’s decision.

“I’m very emotional,” he said via cell phone from his perch in the tree. “It’s been a long road — 59 days. But we’re going to keep the pressure on. The lawsuits have helped, but we feel that we’ve been the pressure in this movement.”  

Grrrrrrr!   Don’t these people have jobs (or more important causes) to pursue???  (I’ll leave it at that.)

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