I missed about four days of blogging, but this morning when I was going over the Bee there were three stories that made me very proud to be a Sacramentan. There is the big sports story, of course: The Monarchs are the queens of the WNBA. Hooray professional basketball champions!
And then of course the City of Sacramento is trying to blanket downtown and midtown in free wireless internet access. (Imagine hundreds of Sac Rags all over the central city, only much more specific: Boulevard Park Rag, for instance.)
But the most important and pride-inducing story for me: the 2004 world champion chili chef lives in Elk Grove. I’d just like to point out to Mrs. Kathy Hipskind that I am free any night of the week to come over for a bowl, and that I will definitely bring the corn bread and RC Cola.
Hmm, three Sac Bee links this morning. I wonder why he’s so pro-Bee this morning? I wonder why he’d ask a leading rhetorical question like that? I wonder if we’ll find out an answer to those rhetorical questions later this week. Stay tuned…?
The Sac Rag 
I just hope Monarch fan keeps the looting and car flipping to a minimum.
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Oh my god, I was thinking the exact same thing. We’re not good at ‘public parade’ type events here.
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Correction on previous post: Al Franken’s partner is/was TOM not TIM (forgive my error, oh comedic types.)
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The Monarchs are even getting some love on the east coast. I’m in NYC for business right now, and the NBA store on Fifth Avenue has a huge WNBA championship display in the front window, and the two mannequins are sporting Monarchs “2005 WNBA Champions” t-shirts. I took a photo of it because I couldn’t believe it.
Sactown also got a shout-out from Al Franken at the Upright Citizens Brigate Theatre on Monday night when he and longtime writing companion Tim Davis were interviewed together on stage. He mentioned that a forgettable movie the two of them produced many moons ago showed only “in a small theater in New York and someplace in Sacramento.” I gave a good “whoo hoo” which resulted in their saying, “Yay, Sacramento.”
And, to round out the trifecta of Sac mentions in the Big Apple, a panelist at my conference this morning was a former Reuters reporter who actually mentioned the Sacramento Bee (there was no “whoo hoo” this time around.)
So there you go! I’m planning on kissing the ground (and Sac Eats) when I touch down at SMF later tonight, as it will be nice to be back in a relatively affordable city where the people are genuinely kind. New York is great, don’t get me wrong, but it’s always nice to come home.
(BTW, the JetBlue direct flight from SMF to JFK is fantastic. You can get from JFK to Manhattan by the AirTrain and the NYC subway system in less than an hour and for a mere $7 — now THAT’s something we need to work on in Sac, but that’s a different subject for a different time.)
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