Happy Santa Cruz Video #1

Will be finding a creative way to post this and other videos being submitted to www.happysantacruz.com, but until then you’ve got to check this out! All credit goes to Robert Victori, Artem Yermano and Mike Xu (my amazing interns this quarter from UCSC) who put this together last week.

Did You Know?

This is simply remarkable stuff if you stop and think about it.

I’m Throwing a Party… You Should Come

After the AmGen Bicycle Tour rolls through town

Come tour 4 of downtown Santa Cruz’s finest venues

$20 gets you great food at Hula’s and Cypress, 1 Free drink, and a chance to win a beach cruiser… Plus it helps us offset the cost of the food, band and beach cruiser!

1st Stop from 5:30 – 6:15pm @ Hula’s (Light Appetizers Provided)

2nd Stop from 6:30 – 7:15pm @ Motive

3rd Stop from 7:30 – 8:15pm @ Vida

4th Stop from 8:30 – closing time @ Cypress (Great Food, Band and Beach Cruiser Raffle)

JOIN THE SANTA CRUZ PUB CRAWL GROUP ON FACEBOOK

The OC vs. Gossip Girl

For the record, despite the character and cast similarities, The OC wins, hands down, on so many levels.

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Happy Belated Holidays and Happy New Year!

MY ANNUAL LETTER ON WHAT WENT DOWN IN 2008

Most of all, I’m just happy that so many of the people I love and care about were directly a part of our lives this year. In all honesty, though the world is changing drastically day by day around us, I simply can’t wait for what 2009 has in store and look forward to sharing another great year!

Blessings and Bliss,

Sean

Those Crazy Cubs

So, my buddies are all a buzz about baseball spring training coming up, and as I consider heading down to Arizona with them for the first time ever to check it out (an experience I think worth having at least once) I gotta get something off my chest…

The CUBS are the only sports team with the power to make me cry.  I’m not proud of this fact, and have tried to just stop caring on a number of occasions, but every season, I get sucked back in.  They’re like a child who is a continual disappointment in school, but every year you have hope that they’ll change, because they say they’ll change and they sound sincere, and so they start out doing really well, and you get all hopeful after bringing home a few good grades, so you start believing that they’ve finally turned over a new leaf and that this year will be different, but then a month before graduation, your kid goes and hits the Principle in the head with a baseball bat, lights the school on fire and gets himself expelled and your back at square one with a 15 year old that’s still trying to pass 3rd grade.

I cried in 1989 when they BLEW a phenominal season to the SF Giants in the playoffs right before the big earthquake. Clearly remember being 8 years old and running out of my friends house and running home as the 4th game ended so that he wouldn’t see my tears. Cried in 1998 when they BLEW another phenomenal season by being swept by the Braves in the playoffs. Wept in 2003 when they CHOKED on their best chance yet, losing to the Marlins in the NLCS. Cried in 2007 and 2008 when they got SWEPT in the NLDS… especially in 2008, after having the best record in the MLB and losing to the team with the worst record going into the playoffs.*

Unfortunately, I expect this pathetic and insane tradition will continue for decades to come… but maybe next year, just maybe.

*Screw the Red Socks by the way for making all us Cubs fans think, “heck, if they could do it after all these years, so can our Cubbies!!!” We were better off having major doubts throughout the process.