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This Morning:

Featuring bands of the 1970s, including the John Morrall Construction Band

Between these towering rocks there’s another world, for a few seconds, anyway.

stories, telling how Coastsiders “survived” the temporary closing of Devil’s Slide–whether it was traumatic, an occasion to celebrate–or something in between. For every Coastsider, there must be a story.

Please email me stories and I’ll post them–or maybe they should be published.

Today I drove via gorgeous Devil’s Slide to Burlingame and about 1 p.m. I started to think about how I was going to avoid the traffic on Hwy 92–I actually started planning. I thought, uh oh, I better get going if I’m going to miss the worst of it–

And then I remembered.

Devil’s Slide is open. And it’s summer, the roads aren’t as crowded as they will be in the fall when school starts again.

I even took Hwy 92 home–and it was a sweet drive.

Send me your stories, this could be important.

Tonight is HBO night and–in between “Deadwood” and “Entourage”– the great cable tv station aired the fabulous Etta James singing ” A Sunday Kind of Love” for a fall promo of “new” movies, like “Walk the Line”, “Brokeback Mountain”, “Harry Potter”, etc.

But didn’t HBO know a major jeans ad uses the same song for their product? The “Sunday Kind of Love” song’s been running on that ad for a couple of months now.

I love Etta James and the song is great-but, HBO, you put out the best, MOST ORIGINAL shows I’ve ever seen–couldn’t you have come up with a different theme song for the fall flicks?

(I almost felt embarassed–like HBO was copying an ad).

It’s Sunday, I woke up and had an epiphany: I can’t get used to the idea that a new and improved Devil’s Slide has opened. The reality hasn’t hit me yet.

I’ve barely recovered from Devil’s Slide being closed. My doctor says I have a severe case of “Devil’s Slide-itisâ€?.

The sky is too blue, there’s a delightful breeze and the weather reporter said, “It’s going to be a warm day and everybody’s heading for the Coastside.â€?

“Oh no No NO NO NO…please don’t come; please don’t head for the Coastside.â€?

In my head there were visions of cars on Hwy 92, endless lines of cars, cars that were standing still and I was sitting in the midst of it………then my car overheated…then there was an accident….and the CHP was directing emergency vehicles…..

I woke up in a cold sweat—it was only a nightmare.

Maybe we need a halfway house for recovering Devil’s Slide victims.

My doctor advises that the only cure for “Devil’s Slide-itisâ€? is to gradually decompress somewhere…maybe a 35-minute wait on the Bay Bridge would do it—or, better yet an hour in the dark, moldy Caldicott Tunnel (wherever that is).

Maybe I’ll recover by the year 2011 when the Devil’s Slide-Oliver Mayer Tunnel (shudder) nears completion.

Phantastic! You gotta see it….

Shera Thompson asks:

“I’ve been trying to dredge up the name of a filmaker in your neighborhood who I took classes from in the early 1970’s. As I write this his name finally came to me. Larry Booth. Do you know of him–is he still around? His wife was Sheila I think and she did sound/sound effects for film.”

Anyone know?

I remember the Film School and how I wanted to take one of the classes but never did.