2012_07_04
19:45


here are some july dates for my tickets.  Premium Lower Box 110, row 29.  sorry, not too many remain; insider trading is rampant on my site.  There will be more for August, but I am going to use some; i am waiting to finalize my travel dates before i list the other dates.

tickets can be transferred electronically, instantly and securely, for $4, via the giants' web site. you can pay me with paypal, (even though i hate those fuckers i don't have an alternative set up) or if we have done business before, just send me a check.

the giants use differential pricing, so i will list the literal face value for each date. face value varies between $34 and $78. price is always negotiable, up as well as down.
 

shoot me an email anytime, or comment here on the blog, i'll see it and get back to you.




Fri     13-Jul     Astros     7:15 $52          -----SOLD
Sat     14-Jul    Astros     6:05  $52          -----SOLD
Sun    15-Jul    Astros     1:05  $52

Mon    23-Jul    Padres     7:15  $34          -----SOLD
Tue     24-Jul    Padres     7:15   $34
Wed    25-Jul    Padres    12:45  $52          -----SOLD

Fri     27-Jul    Dodgers    7:15  $68         -----SOLD
Sat     28-Jul    Dodgers    6:05  $68          -----SOLD
Sun    29-Jul    Dodgers    1:05  $68          -----SOLD

Mon    30-Jul    Mets    7:15  $52          -----SOLD
Tue     31-Jul    Mets    7:15  $52          -----SOLD
Wed    1-Aug    Mets    7:15  $52          -----SOLD
Thu     2-Aug    Mets    12:45  $52          -----SOLD

2012_07_02
19:15


Monday 7/23
Category:   POLITICAL LITERATURE
Clue:   The key message to this title figure in an Italian work is "it is far safer to be feared than loved"

Answer:  What is The Prince? by Nicolo Machiavelli.  no, Tupac is a wrong answer.


Tuesday 7/24
Category:  '80s SITCOM CHARACTERS
Clue:   Creator Gary David Goldberg wrote this Republican character as unsympathetic, but the actor made him lovable

Answer:  Who is Alex P. Keaton ? 


Wednesday 7/25
Category:   NEW OLYMPIC SPORTS
Clue:  This sport introduced in summer 2000 plays out over a raised area 16.5 feet long and 9.5 feet wide

Answer:  What is trampoline ? 


Thursday 7/26
Category:  OPERA
Clue:   The swan boats in Boston's Public Garden were inspired by this opera in which a swan pulls a boat on the Scheldt river

Answer:  What is Lohengrin? 


Friday 7/27
Category:   ANTARCTICA
Clue:  This country that explored the antarctic interior is the most northerly nation to claim territory on the continent

Answer:  Where is Norway ?




Monday 7/16
Category:  INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISTS
Clue:  David Phillips, whose exposé reporting inspired this word made popular by Teddy Roosevelt, was later shot dead

Answer:  What is muckraking ? 


Tuesday 7/17
Category:   FIRST NAMES
Clue:  A wife of King David & 2 of our early first ladies shared this name derived from Hebrew for "my father's joy"

Answer:  What is Abigail ? 




Wednesday 7/18
Category:   BRITISH HISTORY
Clue:  This 17th Century King was the last British monarch to enter the House of Commons

Answer:  Who was Charles I ? 


Thursday 7/19
Category:  ANTHROPOLOGY
Clue:    The most famous resident of the National Museum of Ethiopia is the very old young lady named this

Answer:  Who is Lucy ? 

this did not come up on the show, but i think Australopithicus deserves credit as a correct answer.  (it was not my answer, but in case someone else answers this way.)  but i don't know shit about anthropology.   

oh.  rules.

Friday 7/20
Category:   RECENT FILMS
Clue:  One of its first lines is "I won't talk! I won't say a word"


Answer:  What is The Artist ?





















Monday 7/9
Category:  NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING SCIENTISTS
Clue:  1910 winner Albrecht Kossel studied a new material in the control center of cells; today we know it as this

Answer:  What is deoxyribonucleic acid, aka DNA ? 


Tuesday 7/10
Category:  ENTREPRENEURS
Clue:  In 1989 he said, "you can't just ask customers what they want… by the time you get it built, they'll want something new

Answer:  Who was Steve Jobs ?


Wednesday 7/11
Category:  INAUGURAL ADDRESSES
Clue:  He said, "(i)t is 72 years since the first inauguration of a president under our national constitution"

Answer:  Who was Abraham Lincoln ?


Thursday 7/12
Category:  UNITED NATIONS
Clue:  Of the six official languages used at the U.N., this one is the last alphabetically

Answer:  What is Spanish ? 


Friday 7/13
Category:   BRITISH HISTORY
Clue:  This appointed position first held by John Dryden echoes a "Versificator Regis" of Richard I in the 12th Century

Answer:  What is Poet Laureate ?












Monday 7/2
Category:  FAMOUS RELATIVES
Clue:  In 2011 his daughter Svetlana, living in the U.S. under the name Lana Peters, died in Wisconsin at age 85

Answer:  Who was Josef Vesarionus Shugashvilli, aka Josef Stalin ? 


Tuesday 7/3
Category: 1950s MOVIES
Clue: "The Man on Lincoln's Nose" was a working title for this 1959 film

Answer:  What is North by Northwest ? 


Wednesday 7/4
Category:  NUCLEAR NATIONS
Clue:  On May 18th, 1974 this country tested its first nuclear device, nicknamed "Smiling Buddha"

Answer:  Where is India ? 
china joined the club earlier, in 1964


Thursday 7/5
Category:  FACTS & FIGURES
Clue:  With only 58% of residents, this U.S. state has the lowest percentage of licensed drivers

Answer:  Where is New York ? 


Friday 7/6
Category:  OPERA CHARACTERS
Clue:  In a play subtitle she's called "The Chinese Sphinx"; in a later opera, her suitor calls her "Principessa Di Morte"

Answer:  Who is Turandot? 

2012_06_07
15:45

 here are some june dates for my tickets.  Premium Lower Box 110, row 29.

tickets can be transferred electronically, instantly and securely, for $4, via the giants' web site. you can pay me with paypal, (even though i hate those fuckers i don't have an alternative set up) or if we have done business before, just send me a check.

the giants use differential pricing, so i will list the literal face value for each date. face value varies between $34 and $78. price is always negotiable, up as well as down.
 

shoot me an email anytime, or comment here on the blog, i'll see it and get back to you.


Fri     1-Jun    Cubs        7:15    $49.50     -----SOLD
Sat     2-Jun    Cubs        4:15    $52          -----SOLD
Sun    3-Jun    Cubs        1:05    $52          -----SOLD
Mon   4-Jun    Cubs      12:45    $39          -----SOLD

Fri     8-Jun    Rangers        7:15    $55          -----SOLD
Sat     9-Jun    Rangers        1:05    $65          -----SOLD
Sun    10-Jun  Rangers        1:05    $79          -----SOLD

Tue     12-Jun    Astros        7:15      $34    -----SOLD
Wed    13-Jun    Astros        7:15      $34    -----SOLD
Thu     14-Jun    Astros        12:45    $34    -----SOLD

Mon    25-Jun    Dodgers        7:15    $52   -----SOLD
Tue     26-Jun    Dodgers        7:15    $110   -----SOLD
Wed    27-Jun    Dodgers      12:45    $52    -----SOLD

Thu    28-Jun    Reds        7:15    $42    -----SOLD
Fri      29-Jun    Reds        7:15    $52    -----SOLD
Sat      30-Jun    Reds        1:05    $52    -----SOLD
Sun       1-Jul    Reds        1:05    $88   -----SOLD

2012_06_01
19:17


Monday 6/25
Category:  PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS
Clue:  Though shot in the chest, Teddy Roosevelt gave a 1912 speech saying, "It takes more than that to kill" one of these animals

Answer:  What is a Bull Moose ? 



Tuesday 6/26
Category: HISTORIC U.S. CITIES
Clue:  A 1905 treaty named for this U.S. city ended a foreign war 7000 miles away & was actually signed at Kittery, Maine

Answer:  What is the Treaty of Portsmouth ?    (ending the Russo-Japanese War--it's Teddy Roosevelt week!)


Wednesday 6/27
Category: EARLY FILMS OF OSCAR WINNERS
Clue:  The 1995, 2003 & 2006 winners for best actor al appeared in this 1982 teen comedy

Answer:  What is Fast Times at Ridgemont High ?


Thursday  6/28
Category: NOVEL TITLES
Clue:  The title of this scandalous novel set in 1930s Paris symbolizes "the disease of civilization"

Answer:  What is Tropic of Cancer (by Henry Miller) ?




Friday 6/29
Category:  NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
Clue:  Among the many books he wrote were "The World Crisis", "The Second World War" & "Painting As A Pastime"

Answer:  Who was Winston Churchill ? 











Monday 6/18
Category:  FICTIONAL PAIRS
Clue:  These 2 men first meet after one of them tells a friend, Stamford, of needing new lodgings in London

Answer:  Who are Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson? 


Tuesday 6/19
Category: FABRICS
Clue:  The name of this fabric includes the initials of the city where it was introduced at a World's Fair site

Answer:  What is nylon ?  (New York World's Fair, 1939)


Wednesday 6/20
Category: 2011 MUSICMAKERS
Clue:  According to Billboard, the top 2 music artists of 2011 were these single-named singers, neiher born in the U.S.

Answer:  Who are Adele and Rianna ?


Thursday  6/21
Category: UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES
Clue:  Listed in 1983, this complex finished c.1650 features inlaid semiprecious stones & Arabic calligraphy

Answer:  What is the Taj Mahal ?


Friday 6/22
Category: 20th CENTURY TECHNOLOGY
Clue:  The first major use of simultaneous translation, before adoption by the U.N., was in this European city in 1945 & 1946

Answer:  Where is Nuremburg ?










Monday 6/11
Category: EVENTS IN THE BIBLE
Clue:  Acts 1:13 says this event occurred in "an upper room"

Answer:  What is the Last Supper ? 

but alex said they made a mistake.  because they had.  the event was a meeting to decide who would replace judas. they picked mattias.  but i had to look that up. 





Tuesday 6/12
Category:  AUTHORS
Clue:  His multi-novel series is based on Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"

Answer:  Who is Steven King ?


Wednesday 6/13
Category: POLITICAL TERMS
Clue:  19th Century reports on horse races used this 2-word term to mean horses that were in the field but didn't finish high

Answer:  What are 'also-rans' ?



Thursday  6/14
Category: U.S. TOP SELLING ALBUMS
Clue:  Tho bestselling album of all time by a female is a 20 million seller by this woman who started singing at the age of 8 in Ontario

Answer:  Who is Shania Twain?


Friday 6/15
Category:  ISLANDS
Clue:  This nation, independent since 1960 is the largest island in the world with french as one of its official languages

Answer:  Where is Madagascar ?





Friday 6/1
Category: WORD ORIGINS
Clue:  From the French for "to set in the woods", this word refers to a type of attack

Answer:  What is an 'ambush' ? 

funny coincidence that the final spelling bee word yesterday was 'guetapens', another french word with the same meaning.


Monday 6/4
Category: AFRICA
Clue: Very different places, the first 2 African nations to gain independence from a European power were Egypt & this one.

Answer:  Where is South Africa? 


Tuesday 6/5
Category: WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT
Clue:  1 of the first 2 women in Hollywood to own a studio (according to the offical bio of no. 3, Oprah)

Answer:  Who is Mary Pickford/or Lucille Ball ?




Wednesday 6/6
Category: THE PRESIDENCY
Clue:  Between Jan. 1, 1841 & Dec. 31, 1850 the U.S. had this many presidents, the most in a 10-year period

Answer:  What is six ?  (Martin van Buren; William Harrison, elected in late 1840, inaugurated in 41, died in office a month later; John Tyler, assumed office; James K. Polk, elected 1844, promised to serve only one term and kept promise; Zachary Taylor, elected 1848, died in office in 'July 50; Millard Filmore.)


Thursday  6/7
Category: THE ARTS
Clue:  Formed in 1909, it performed to great acclaim in Paris, London, New York & Monte Carlo, but never in Moscow

Answer:  What is the Ballets Russes?


Friday 6/8
Category: CLICHES
Clue:  In an 1873 Thomas Hardy serial, a chapter ends with a character dangling from an "enormous sea-bord" this

Answer:  What is a cliff ?   you know, 'cliff-hanger'

only ten clues, since the teen tournament and some dopey celebrity week took up most of the month.


Monday 5/28
Category:  AMERICAN INNOVATORS
Clue:  This Grammy winner who died in 2009 at age 94 was an inductee into both the Rock & Roll & National Inventors Halls of Fame

Answer:  Who was Les Paul ?






Tuesday 5/29
Category: CLASSIC MYSTERY NOVELS
Clue:  A letter in this mystery says, "we are going…to Luxor and Assuan by steamer, and perhaps on to Khartoum

Answer:  What is Death on the Nile ? 


Wednesday 5/30
Category: PRESIDENTIAL RESTING PLACES
Clue:  Only three sites have the remains of 2 presidents; 1 at Quincy, Massachusetts, 1 at Arlington,& 1 in this state capital

Answer:  Where is Richmond, Virginia  ?

and the extra credit answer?  Grant, and his wife.


Thursday 5/31
Category: AIRLINE HISTORY
Clue:  Clipper Goodwill, a Boeing 727, took this airline's last passengers from Barbados to Miami December 4, 1991

Answer:  What is Pan American Airlines  ?




Monday 5/21
Category:  DRAMA
Clue: This play that came to Broadway in 2005 is set in the autumn of 1964 at St. Nicholas Church School in the Bronx

Answer:  What is Doubt ?






Tuesday 5/22
Category:  1957
Clue: On Sept. 5, Dwight Eisenhower told this state's Gov. that "the federal Constitution will be upheld by me by every legal means"

Answer:  Where is Arkansas ?  bonus if you can name Govenor Orval Faubus


Wednesday 5/23
Category: ANIMALS
Clue: A 2005 study reported that this animal named for an island has, pound-for-pound, the most powerful bite of any mammal

Answer:  What is the Tasmanian Devil  ?


Thursday 5/24
Category:  BIOGRAPHIES
Clue: "The Man Who Invented the 20th Century"  is a biography of this scientist who was born in the Balkans

Answer:  Who was Nicola Tesla? 


Friday 5/25
Category:  MILITARY MATTERS
Clue: In 1934 the lease for this place was increased to $4085 per year; since 1959 the checks haven't been cashed

Answer:  Where is Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?


 

obomney announces that he and the g-8 leaders have reached a consensus that they all will do more to promote growth and create jobs.

brilliant!  damn, someone should've come up with this months ago.  growth! that's the ticket.

austerity measures have resulted in collapse of governments in greece, riots in the streets of spain and italy, and ouster of the president of france in favor of an anti-austerity socialist. and the ability to retire the debts of these nations has not occurred.  in other words, austerity measures have fixed nothing.

so, next they'll try growth.  heh.

what can a government possibly do to promote growth and jobs?  specifically a government that is running deep annual budget deficits?

spend more money.

and where will that money come from?

they'll just borrow it.  and/or raise taxes.  or print the money.

these clowns already borrowed unprecedented sums and spent into the economy in the name of stimulating economic growth.  and they got a little bit of growth.  now the growth has ground to a halt in europe, and is likely to do the same in the usa.  the money they borrowed is still owed, plus interest.  the money they printed caused significant inflation of oil and food prices, sufficient to drag economic growth.

they are stuck.  cut spending and decrease deficits = economic stagnation.  borrow/print and spend = inflation sufficient to stagnate economic growth.

the short-term benefits of borrowing and printing have become shorter term and less effective each round.  here, in europe, and in china.

there is no good way out.  economic pain is inevitable.  all they can determine is the particular path to pain--inflation or debt default.

i wonder if they realize this, and are lying, or if they have managed to swallow their own bs and believe that if they just promote growth and job creation, the economy will be fine?

there is no magic 'growth ' button to push.  borrowing/printing more money will make things worse.  they have already demonstrated this reality, with the borrowing/printing of the past three years, and the subsequent inflation, stagnant job results, stagnant gdp growth and return to recession in europe.

excess debt must be paid off or defaulted.  deficit spending must stop when you have so much debt, no one will lend you any more.

growth financed with debt eventually fails.  eventually is here.  debt shrunk by printing money is accompanied by the inflation caused by printing money.

there is no 'solution'. the fruitless attempts at finding a painless solution are now farcical.  there is only the choice of what flavor pain we suffer.  

2012_05_16
23:45

six weeks into the season, and finally i make my first post of the season regarding my extra tickets.  punctual as usual.

same story as prior years.  i will put the tickets up one month at a time, since my travel plans are usually last minute, and i like to use the seats when i am visiting cali. so around the last week of each month i will post available dates for the following month.

tickets can be transferred electronically, instantly and securely, for $4, via the giants' web site. you can pay me with paypal, (even though i hate those fuckers i don't have an alternative set up) or if we have done business before, just send me a check.

the giants use differential pricing, so i will list the literal face value for each date. face value varies between $34 and $78. price is always negotiable, up as well as down.

there are only a couple of dates remaining for may, but i have plenty for june, and will post shortly.
 

shoot me an email anytime, or comment on the blog.



Fri  18-May     Athletics     7:15    $52-----SOLD
Sat  19-May     Athletics     1:05    $52-----SOLD
Sun 20-May     Athletics     1:05    $52-----SOLD

Mon 28-May     Dbacks         2:05    $68-----SOLD
Tue  29-May     Dbacks         7:15    $34-----SOLD
Wed 30-May     Dbacks         7:15    $34-----SOLD