>>It was raining hard in Frisco
>>Needed one more fare to make my night
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>> -- Harry Chapin, "Taxi"
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>>Two classics in as many weeks at Candlestick.
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>Marshal alluded to that line, too, as we watched the game. We were big Chapin fans, saw him in concert many times (pretty much every time he came to town), and cried when he died.
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>Tamar
Here is another great one he left us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH46SmVv8SUIt has been said that to make art you have to open a vein and bleed a little. That was Arnold "Red" Smith, the late great sportswriter of the New York Times. When I was in high school I sent him a letter -- handwritten, there wasn't anything else back then -- saying I wanted to be a sportswriter and asking his advice. I received a handwritten letter in return. He said if you're serious about this there is one main fact. Always, always, always keep writing. And read everything you can get your hands on from the dictionary to Proust.
