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Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Someday

hummingbird

Ting solo event

Randy solo event

Regular event

Celebrant Name (year)

Remembrant Name (details, year)

Saturday

05/01/2004

Maypole Dance
May Day!

HKD Workout with Leslie

Party to celebrate Fiona Starsiak's 4th Birthday @ Chrissy Field, San Francisco

Orchestra Baobab @ the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco



Marion Walter Jacobs AKA Little Walter (1930);
Shirley Horn (1934);
Judy Collins (1939);
Rita Coolidge (1944);
Mimi Fariña (1945);
James Newton (1953);
Ray Parker, Jr. (1954)

Lindley Armstrong 'Spike' Jones (1965, emphysema)

Sunday

05/02/2004

HKD Red-Belt workout with Duc

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD Workout

Harry Lillis 'Bing' Crosby AKA Der Bingle (1903);
Fred Lincoln 'Link' Wray, Jr. (1929);

George Wyle (2003, leukemia) - composer of many classic TV theme songs, including the Ballad of Gilligan's Island



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

05/03/2004

Advanced HKD Workout

Pete Seeger (1919);
James Brown (1933)

Tuesday

05/04/2004

Morning HKD Workout

Advanced HKD class with Dr. Min

HKD Workout with Lisa and Anne Marie

Ronald Levin Carter (1937);

needle and spoon
Paul Butterfield (1987, alcohol/drug overdose)

Wednesday

05/05/2004

Cinco de Mayo stamp
Cinco de Mayo!

William Samuel 'Blind Willie' McTell (1901);
Virginia Wynette Pugh AKA Tammy Wynette (1942);
Michael Palin (1943)

Reverend Gary Davis (1972, heart attack);
Wilson Anthony 'Boozoo' Chavis (2001, recuperating from heart attack/stroke)

Thursday

05/06/2004

Morning HKD workout

Lunch with Tim Kelly from ISS

Dinner with Lisa, Lily, Hien and Anne Marie @ Hua-Hin Thai Restaurant, Berkeley

When We Were Kings @ Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley

Kai Chresten Winding (1983, brain cancer)

Friday

05/07/2004

Morning HKD workout

Lunch for JohnV @ Suraj, Redwood City

Bill Kreutzmann (1946)

Saturday

05/08/2004

TKD Promotional Exams

Robert Greenburg Lecture on the Life and Music of Ferruccio Busoni, with Robert Woodward, piano @ Herbst Theatre (AM matinee), San Francisco; with mom.

Baby Shower for Tiffany & Ed @ Kirsten's house, San Francisco

Madeleine Campiglia Read (1904)

Mary Elfrieda Scruggs AKA Mary Lou Williams (1910)
'Papa' John Creach (1917)

Amos Leone 'Leon' Thomas, Jr. (1999, heart attack)

Sunday

05/09/2004

Mother's Day!

Ting's HKD 1st Dan Promotional Exam

UCMAP Martial Arts Banquet @ VIP Palace, Oakland

Otis Blackwell (2002, heart attack)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

05/10/2004

ITOPS Lunch with Ehren @ Max's Cafe, Redwood City

Dinner with Lily, Lisa and Anne Marie @ Tachibana, Oakland

Dessert and videos @ home with Lily, Lisa and Anne Marie

'Mother' Maybelle Addington Carter (1909);
Donovan Philip Leitch (1946);
Dave Mason (1947);
Lowell Fillmore 'Sly' Dunbar (1952);
John Simon Ritchie AKA Sid Vicious (1957);
Paul Hewson AKA Bono (1960)

Shelby 'Shel' Silverstein (1999, heart attack)
John Josephus Hicks, Jr (2006, internal bleeding)

Tuesday

05/11/2004

SF Bay Area ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction Presents a seminar with Ed Chi: "The Killer App of Wearable Computing: Wireless Force-Sensing Body Protectors for Martial Arts" @ the Palo Alto Research Center's George E. Pake Auditorium; with Michael Somoza
Additional Notes from the BayCHI website

Israel Baline AKA Irving Berlin (1888);
Carla Bley (1938);
Eric Burdon (1941)

Lester Raymond Flatt (1979);
Robert Nesta Marley (1981, brain cancer);
David 'Noel' Redding (2003, natural causes)

Wednesday

05/12/2004

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD (Open Workout)

Jordi Savall @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley
Program Notes

Jesse Fuller (1896);
Burt Bacharach (1928);
Ian McLagan (1945) Steve Winwood (1948)

Thursday

05/13/2004

Tumbleweed Roller Hockey!

Ian Ernest Gilmore Green AKA Gil Evans (1912);
William M. 'Red' Garland (1923);
Ritchie Valens (1941);
Mary Wells (1943);
Steveland Hardaway Judkins AKA Stevie Wonder (1950)

James Robert 'Bob' Wills (1975, stroke)

Friday

05/14/2004

HKD (Open Workout)

Hesperion XXI @ First Congregational Church, Berkeley
Program Notes

Lou Henry Harrison (1917);
John Symon Asher 'Jack' Bruce (1943);
David Byrne (1952)

Keith Relf (1976, electrocuted while playing guitar in the bathtub);

Chesney Henry 'Chet' Baker, Jr. (1988, autodefenestration while under the influence of heroin and cocaine);

the Chairman of the Board, Francis Albert 'Frank' Sinatra (1998, heart attack)

Saturday

05/15/2004

Dinner @ Spettro, Oakland

Hugh Romney AKA Wavy Gravy (1936);
Brian Peter George St. Baptiste de la Salle Eno (1948)

Bob & Lori Jaffe's Wedding Anniversary (1993)

June Carter Cash (2003, complications following heart surgery)

Sunday

05/16/2004

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD (Open Workout)

Woodrow Charles 'Woody' Herman (1913);
Wladziu Valentino Liberace (1919);
Lorraine 'Betty' Carter (1930);
William C. 'Billy' Cobham (1944)

Jean Baptiste 'Django' Reinhardt (1953, stroke);
Sammy Davis Jr. (1990, throat cancer);
James Maury 'Jim' Henson (1990, sepsis caused by bacterial pneumonia) Lawrence 'Ramrod' Shurtliff (2006, lung cancer)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

05/17/2004

www stamp
General release of the World-Wide Web from CERN (1991)

JEL AKA Jeffrey Logan;
Holger Czukay @ the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco



John Lenwood 'Jackie' McLean (1932);
Henry St. Clair Fredericks AKA Taj Mahal (1942);
Jesse Winchester (1944);
Bill Bruford (1948);
Eithne Ní Bhraonáin AKA Enya (1961);

Lawrence Welk (1992, pneumonia);
Johnny 'Guitar' Watson (1996, heart attack);
Tony Randall (2004)

Tuesday

05/18/2004

60th Birthday Dinner for M.P.Mom @ Bacar, San Francisco

Joseph Vernon 'Big Joe' Turner (1911);
Kai Chresten Winding (1922);
Rick Wakeman (1949)

Gustav Mahler (1911, heart failure);
Horace Swaby AKA Augustus Pablo (1999, myasthenia gravis);
Elvin Jones (2004, heart failure)

Wednesday

05/19/2004

Lunch with Drew @ Quizno's, Redwood City

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD (Open Workout)

Cornelius 'Sonny' Fortune (1939);
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (1945);
Jeffrey Hyman AKA Joey Ramone (1951)

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (1969, pneumonia)

Thursday

05/20/2004

Tumbleweed Roller Hockey!

James Brown@ the Mountain Winery, Saratoga;
Garrett Kamps' review from the SF Weekly;
Robert Eleda's blog post.

John Robert 'Joe' Cocker (1944)

Friday

05/21/2004

The Kronos Quartet celebrates their 30th Anniverary with a performance of 'Visual Music' @ the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts Theatre, San Francisco;
Program Notes;
Steve Winn's review from the SF Chronicle;
Georgia Rowe's review from the Contra Costa Times;
(still more info and pics from another event participant!)

Thomas Wright 'Fats' Waller (1904);
Christian McBride (1972)

Saturday

05/22/2004

Benefit for Spencer Dryden @ Slim's, San Francisco;
emceed by Wavy Gravy and musically organized by Pete Sears, featuring:
Nick Gravenites and Friends
  (Greg Elmore, David Freiberg, Pete Sears, et al);
David Nelson and Friends
  (with separate sit-ins from Peter Rowan and Bob Weir);
the Flying Other Brothers
  (appearing alone and together with Bob Weir, Pete Sears, Barry Sless and Warren Haynes),
and yet others unnamed here.
Alan Shekter's review from Jambase.org;
Randy's incomplete attempt at a setlist.

Herman Sonny Blount AKA Sun Ra (1914);
Bernie Taupin (1950)

Sunday

05/23/2004

RLV works on the UCMAP Papers Database

HKD (Open Workout)

Mitsuko Uchida and Mark Steinberg @ Herbst Theatre, San Francisco;
Joshua Kosman's review from the SF Chronicle;
Michelle Dulak's review from San Francisco Classical Voice.

Robert Moog (1934);

Famodou Don Moye (1946)

MPM (1944)

Dennis & Laurie Ponos' Wedding Anniversary (1987)

Joseph Anthony Passalaqua AKA Joe Pass (1994, cancer);
Hamza el Din (2006, complications from brain surgery)



Day

Date

Wha'ppened?

BD cake
Birthdays

RIP
Remembrances

Monday

05/24/2004

Going-Away Lunch for Jim @ Yokoyama Japanese Restaurant, Redwood City

Dinner @ Fresh Choice

Archie Vernon Shepp (1937);
Robert Allan Zimmerman AKA Bob Dylan (1941);
Roseanne Cash (1955)

Elmore James (1963, heart attack);
Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington (1974, lung cancer and pneumonia);
Harold Eugene 'Gene' Clark (1991, bleeding ulcer) Jimmy McGriff (2008, heart failure)

Tuesday

05/25/2004

Pieter Zeeman (1865);
Miles Dewey Davis, III (1926);
Wallace Roney (1960)

Aleck Ford Miller AKA Sonny Boy Williamson II (1965, heart attack);
Roy Brown (1981, heart attack);
Warren Harding 'Sonny' Sharrock (1994, heart attack);
Desmond Dacres AKA Desmond Dekker (2006, heart attack))

Wednesday

05/26/2004

Dinner with Garth @ La Bodeguita del Medio, Palo Alto

Levon Helm (1940);
Stevie Nicks (1948);
Lenny Kravitz (1964)

William Edgar 'Little Willie' John (1968, pneumonia)

Thursday

05/27/2004

Tumbleweed Roller Hockey!

Leslie Wirpsa's Birthday Dinner @ Kensington Bistro, Kensington

Herman Parker, Jr (1932);
Ramsey Lewis (1935);
Dee Dee Bridgewater (1950);

Luciano Berio (2003, undisclosed causes)

Friday

05/28/2004

HKD (Open Workout)

Aaron Thibeaux 'T-Bone' Walker (1910);
Cecil Bustamente Campbell AKA Prince Buster (1938);
Gladys Knight (1944);
John Fogerty (1945)

Mary Elfrieda Scruggs AKA Mary Lou Williams (1981, cancer)

Saturday

05/29/2004

Drive south along Hwy 101 to the brand new Embassy Suites in Lompoc

Watch the sunset @ Vandenberg Beach, Vandenberg Air Force Base

Dinner @ Texas Cattle Company, Lompoc

Cosmic Bowling @ Lompoc's Ocean Lanes Entertainment Center

John Cipollina (1989, emphysema)

Sunday

05/30/2004

Hiking in Nojoqui Falls County Park, Gaviota

Drive to Goleta/Santa Barbara to meet up with Bob Vogel at his place

Rollerblading with Bob Vogel for a couple miles along the open space trail from Goleta Beach County Park, Goleta, to Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, and then back again.

Smoothies with Bob Vogel and Jeff Loomis @ Blenders in the Grass, Goleta

Dinner with Bob Vogel and Jeff Loomis @ the Natural Cafe and Juice Bar, Goleta

Jeff shows off his brand new blue Prius

Melvin Jerome 'Mel' Blanc (1908);
Benjamin David 'Benny' Goodman (1909);

Paul Emil Breitenfeld AKA Paul Desmond (lung cancer, 1977);
Herman Sonny Blount AKA Sun Ra (complications from several strokes, 1993);
needle and spoon
John Kahn (heroin O.D., 1996)

Monday

05/31/2004

Memorial Day!

Mural-viewing in Lompoc

Visit to Lompoc's La Purisima Mission

Hiking in the Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve, Guadalupe

Drive back home along Hwy 101

Albert 'Tootie' Heath (1935);
John Henry Bonham (1948)

William Thomas 'Billy' Strayhorn (1967, cancer)




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