Wildcats edge Aggies, 14 to 7; Humbolt Next - Dick Heringer at UC Davis

California Aggie, Volume 52, Number 3, 1 October 1953

WILDCATS EDGE AGGIES, 14 to 7; HUMBOLDT NEXT

   The 1953 Aggie grid schedule was opened last Sat. night by losing a hard fought opener to the Chico State Wildcats. Although the Mustang gridders showed that immortal Aggie fight, they were confronted by a team that had the edge in early season practice and scrimmage tilts. But Coach Forbes will be putting his men through a tough workout this week to iron out the weak points in the Aggie defense and offensive tactics to stop that powerful passing combination of Machols to Diaz.

CHILCOTT RECOVERS FUMBLE
   The Mustangs tallied early in the first quarter when 'Big' Bob Chilcott recovered a Wild Cat fumble deep in the latter's territory. The Aggie crew lost no time with left half Jack Dickenson driving hard over the center of the Chico line to rack up 6 points. "Work horse" Chilcott ran the conversion.

WILDCATS RETALIATE IN SECOND QUARTER
   Chico returned hard to recover an Aggie fumble on their own 19 yd. line, with Maderos doing the recovering. In two plays the Wildcats went for 6 with a right end sweep to tie the score 7-7.

CHICO SCORES AGAIN
   Early in the 4th quarter halfback Bob Gloyd galloped over the left side of the Aggie line and managed to slip away on a fifty-six yard run to the end zone, making it 14-7.

AGGIE YEOMEN
   Doing an outstanding job offensively were hard running backs Hal Leigh, Jack Dickenson, Jim Reynolds, Jim Naviaux and Ken Crandall.
   Outstanding defensively were Bob Chilcott, Dick Heringer, Dick Raycraft, Dennis Mott, and Don Donsing, who was chosen as "Player of the Week" for his outstanding plays; defensively he repeatedly tackled the Chico backs for large losses, and offensively, for his fine pass snagging.

HUBOLDT NEXT
   Next week the Aggies will travel to Areata to meet the powerful Humboldt Lumberjacks on the latters gridiron. Let’s all be there to support our hard fighting team!!!!

Dick Heringer and Joyce Abbott at UC Davis

Benjamin Rush Gravesite

In October, I finished reading a biography of Benjamin Rush that Wallen had recommeded. We visited his gravesite when we were in Philadephia for the 2019 Army/Navy game.

Benjamin Rush Gravesite
American Revolution Patriot Graves
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BENJAMIN RUSH, M.D.
1745 - 1813
Father of America Psychiatry
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
Heroic Physician, Teacher, Humanitarian
Physician General of the Continental Army
Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital
Professor of Physic, University of Pennsylvania
Erected April 19, 1965

Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father

My book for October is Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried. Wallen and I talked about the book when I was in Bremerton in June. I read Appetite for American by Fried more than fifteen years ago.

Stephen Fried’s biography explores the monumental and complex life of Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the youngest signers of the Declaration of Independence. The book highlights Rush's tireless work as a revolutionary political thinker, a confidant to early presidents, and a pioneering military surgeon general. Beyond politics, he earned renown as the "American Hippocrates" for fundamentally reforming how American society approached medical care, addiction, and mental illness. The narrative also details his progressive social advocacy, including his fierce opposition to slavery and racial prejudice.

This is an interesting book. Given the amount of talk about bloodletting, the Yellow Fever epidemics and mental health, it is not my favorite book. I have a section in my novella that outlines why dealing with other people's mental health issues is not a subject that I enjoy.

The book fits loosely into my long term project to read books about all of the presidents. Rush desires credit for getting Adams and Jefferson back together. After a close friendship during the American Revolution, the two men fell out during the partisan political battles of the 1790s. The rift deepened significantly after the bitter presidential election of 1800, leading to a decade of complete silence. Benjamin Rush played a central role in brokering the reconciliation. From 1812 to 1826, Adams and Jefferson exchanged 158 letters discussing history, religion, philosophy, science, and the future of the nation.

At the Army/Navy game in 2019, we visited Benjamin Rush's grave. Pictures of the gravesite are here.

Notre Dame verus The 'U'

As I have mentioned before, I am fascinated and a little dumbfounded by how passionate Sharon's family is about Notre Dame...

Sharon's brother Tom and her two nephews, Eric and Kevin, traveled to South Bend for the Notre Dame versus Miami football game. The Irish won the game by the score of 31 to 24.

Picnic adventure with Lee and Clem

Daniel, Morgan, Lee and Clem came down the mountain for an afternoon visit. The six of us had a picnic lunch in Ancil Hoffman Park. The boys ran wild!

Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy

Friday night, Sharon and I watched Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy on Peacock.

The film explores the actor's sudden death alongside his lifelong, public struggles with addiction. The documentary details the police investigation into a covert network of individuals—including doctors—who allegedly supplied the fatal doses of ketamine. It contrasts his immense career success and comedic legacy on Friends with the dark, tragic final days of his life.

Sharon and I didn't enjoy it. I was hoping for something that explored his life and career, rather than katamine, his death and the prosecution of people who supplied him with katamine. I don't recommend it.

We realized afterwards that the documentary that we were looking for is called The One About Matthew Perry. This is a three part documentary on Netflix. Oy vey... We will watch this in the future.

Tiber's Italy Vacation

1978 Oscar Nominations

Best Picture

• Annie Hall
• The Goodbye Girl
• Julia
• ✔ Star Wars
• The Turning Point

Best Actor

• Woody Allen — Annie Hall
• Richard Dreyfuss — The Goodbye Girl
• Robert De Niro — New York, New York
• Marcello Mastroianni — A Special Day
• John Travolta — Saturday Night Fever

Best Actress

• Anne Bancroft — The Turning Point
• Ellen Burstyn — Same Time, Next Year
• Jane Fonda — Julia
• Diane Keaton — Annie Hall
• Shirley MacLaine — The Turning Point

Best Supporting Actor

• Mikhail Baryshnikov — The Turning Point
• Peter Firth — Equus
• ✔ Alec Guinness — Star Wars
• Jason Robards — Julia
• Maximilian Schell — Julia

Best Supporting Actress

• Leslie Browne — The Turning Point
• Quinn Cummings — The Goodbye Girl
• Melinda Dillon — Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Vanessa Redgrave — Julia
• Tuesday Weld — Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Best Director

• Woody Allen — Annie Hall
• ✔ George Lucas — Star Wars
• Steven Spielberg — Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Fred Zinnemann — Julia
• Herbert Ross — The Turning Point

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Equus — Screenplay by Peter Shaffer
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden — Screenplay by Gavin Lambert and Lewis John Carlino
• Julia — Screenplay by Alvin Sargent
• That Obscure Object of Desire — Screenplay by Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière
• The Turning Point — Screenplay by Arthur Laurents

Best Original Screenplay

• Annie Hall — Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman
• The Goodbye Girl — Written by Neil Simon
• Late Show — Written by Robert Benton
• ✔ Star Wars — Written by George Lucas
• Warhead — Written by Menahem Golan

More Oscar Nominations

2026 Midterm Election Results

Halloween 2026

Drew, Carmen and Dawson

Halloween 2026

Daniel, Morgan, Lee and Clem

Halloween 2025

Halloween 2024

Halloween 2023

Halloween 2022

Halloween 2021

Halloween 2020

You Can See Everything

Saturday afternoon, Sharon and I went to see You Can See Everything at the CinemaWest Country Club. This is part of our annual journey to see all of the films that might be nominated for any Oscar. The movie has come out of nowhere over the last two months and jumped up a number of Best Picture Oscar lists.

You Can See Everything is a documentary film directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. The film premiered as a secret screening at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival on September 6, 2026 and was theatrically released by A24 on October 16.

You Can See Everything follows disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans as they grant a film crew unfettered access to their home in the weeks leading up to her prison sentence. Intended by Holmes to reshape her public image, the access instead turns into a complex, multi-year exploration of perception, truth, and mutual manipulation between the couple and the filmmaker.

Under Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) rules, documentary feature films are fully eligible to compete for Best Picture alongside narrative fiction films, provided they satisfy the standard distribution and theatrical requirements. While documentary films are eligible for Best Picture, a documentary has never received a Best Picture nomination in the history of the Oscars. Prediction markets currently place the odds of You Can See Everything securing a Best Picture nomination at ~82%.

The film is very unique. I recommend it.

About halfway through the film, Felder asks Elizabeth Holmes about the Theranos automated microfluidic blood analyzer. The answer that she gave surprised me. It wasn't consistent with what I had remembered about the collapse of the company. I have started to go back and read about what happened. I wish Felder had asked some follow-up questons about the purchase of off-the-shelf laboratory analyzer machines from standard manufacturer vendors and the diluting samples.

2026 San Francisco - Day #2 - Adventures with Dawson

A lazy morning. Sharon and I were not moving fast. Eventually, we wandered down to hotel lobby for breakfast (bagel and breakfast sandwich). The plan for the morning was to stop in Orinda after Dawson got up from his nap.


We had a nice visit with Drew, Carmen and Dawson. Drew got Doordash from Sweet Greens for lunch.

Sharon and I did a zoom call and a conference before we headed for home. Leaving Orinda about 2:50 pm and fighting the Friday afternoon traffic, we were back in Carmichael about 5:10 pm.

2026 San Francisco - Day #1 - SF Double Cross Trail

The plan for the day was to hike part of the San Francisco Double Cross Trail and then have dinner with Jack. Five years ago, we hiked the San Francisco Crosstown Trail.

Hoping to roll by 7:45 am, it was 8:15 am before we left the house. We dropped Tiber at Best Friends and then dropped our luggage at the Stanford Court about 10:35 am. We got to Fort Funston about 11:10 am.


We ended up hiking 4.28 miles in an hour and fifty-two minutes of moving time. There was a great view of the coast from the observation deck where the hike starts. We had lunch at a picnic table along Lake Merced. Towards the end, we hiked through Pine Lake Park and Stern Grove; it was beautiful.

We stopped and caught an Uber back to our car at Vicente Street and 20th Avenue. At some point, we are going to come back and pick up the Double Cross Trail from there. The total trail is 14.2 miles long and ends at Pier 23.


Once we got back to our car, we headed to the Stanford Court Hotel to check-in. We got cleaned up and dressed for dinner. Jack showed up about 4 pm. The three of us had a drink in the bar at hotel.

Sharon made an early 5:45 pm dinner reservation at 7 Adams. We took an Uber to the restaurant.

We had the five course tasting menu. For third course, Jack and I had the saffron rigatoni [braised beef sugo, black garlic, smoked parmesan], while Sharon had kuri squash agnolouti [toasted pepitas, pecorino, sage]. For the fourth course, I had seared black cod [bone dashi, matsutake, sea urchin tare], while Sharon and Jack split washugyu ribeye for two [hasselback potato, broccoli di cicco, cipollini onion].

The food was solid, but nothing to write home about. Sharon said that they advertise as the least expensive tasting menu in San Francisco. I didn't realize until later that the restaurant has a Michelin Star. The dinner was a lot more expensive than I expected...

After dinner, we took a Waymo back to the hotel. It was a Waymo Ojai. Developed in collaboration with Geely’s electric vehicle brand Zeekr. The base vehicle is built in China with the Waymo technology added in Mesa, Arizona. It was custom-built from the ground up specifically for autonomous ride-hailing rather than retrofitting a standard production car. I am looking forward to Waymo being available in Sacramento!

2026-2027 Kings Season

During the 2026-2027 Sacramento Kings season, the Kings
are 0 and 1 in games which I saw in person, including:

REGULAR SEASON

10/23/2026: Trail Blazers-128, Kings-120 - Larkin

2026-2027 Season [0-1]
2025-2026 Season [4-3]
2024-2025 Season [5-4]
2023-2024 Season [6-2]
2022-2023 Season [5-3]
2021-2022 Season [1-5]
2020-2021 Season [1-0]
2019-2020 Season [1-4]
2018-2019 Season [7-4]
2017-2018 Season [5-2]
2016-2107 Season [5-3]
2015-2016 Season [2-2]
2014-2015 Season [1-4]
2013-2014 season [3-2]
2012-2013 Season [1-0]
2011-2012 Season [3-2]
2010-2011 Season [3-6]
2009-2010 Season [4-7]
2008-2009 Season [2-7]
2007-2008 Season [7-7]
2006-2007 Season [5-9]
2005-2006 Season [8-8]
2004-2005 Season [10-4]
2003-2004 season [12-3]

44 Years Ago

The last time that the Brewers were in the World Series was 44 years ago. The Milwaukee Brewers played the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1982 World Series. It was a hard-fought, thrilling seven-game series (often remembered as the "Cardinals vs. Harvey's Wallbangers" matchup). St. Louis ultimately won 4 games to 3.

My ex-wife and I went to a Halloween party that year at Buoy Way in Sacramento. Nooter and Geselbracht were living there in a duplex.

With a Brewers jersey and hat and a mask with shaggy hair, I went as Gorman Thomas. Gorman Thomas played center field for the Milwaukee Brewers; he started all 7 games of the series in center field. Thomas was not considered a handsome man.

Nooter dressed as a bottle of Tylenol. At time, Tylenol was being hacked to poison people. If my memory serves me right, Hunter came dressed as woman, while Devan was dressed as a man...

Cascade Canal Hike

Sharon and I hiked the Cascade Canal Trail. We hiked part of this trail almost exactly two years ago. This time, we started from the Red Dog Road trailhead, rather than the Gracie Road parking lot.

Sharon was a little disappointed. Due to the warm weather in September and October, the trees haven't changed color as much as we had hoped.

We covered 7.7 miles in three hours and twelve minutes. We stopped for lunch on a bench near the trail down to the Woodpecker Wildlife Preserve.

Stacey & Kirill's Baby Shower

Sharon and I spent a couple of hours at Holly and Van's house for Stacey & Kirill's baby shower.

2026 Sacramento Kings versus Portland Trail Blazers

Larkin and I went to the Sacramento Kings 2026-2027 season home opener versus the Portland Trail Blazers. Although it is hard for me to believe, we had been going to Kings games together for 42 years!?! Over the years, Larkin and I have tried to go to the first and last games of the season. We had dinner before the game at the Foundation (Italian Cobb Salad).

Sacramento led for all of the first half; they were ahead by the score of 64 to 59 at the break. The Trail Blazers went on a 15 to 0 run to start the second half. The Kings were outscored 44 to 26 in the third quarter. Sacramento cut the lead to 121-118 on a 3-pointer by Sabonis with 3:21 left to play in the fourth quarter. The Trail Blazers won the game by the score of 128 to 120.

Rookie Daris Acuff was the high scorer for the Kings. He had 33 points on 10 for 26 from the field, 2 for 11 from three and 11 for 12 from the free throw line. Domantas Sabonis add 27 points and 19 rebounds.

Deni Avdija was the high scorer for the Trail Blazers. He had 26 points on 8 for 16 from the field, 1 for 5 from three and 9 for 12 from the free throw line.

Larkin and I connected with Van at halftime. He had Amir, his little brother, with him.

The Kings now have 0 wins and 1 loss in games that I have seen in person during the 2026-2027 season.

Tiber's Thirteenth Birthday!

To celebrate Tiber's thirteenth birthday, we took him to lunch at the Main Event at Ancil Hoffman golf course. He had a hamburger patty.

Daniel - Over the Years

Happy Birthday, Daniel!

At Ancil Hoffman Golf Course

Thursday afteroon, Sharon and I played nine holes at Ancil Hoffman Golf Course. Sharon teed off at 2:52 pm with Debbie, Jim and Jim's friend Jeff. Larkin and I teed off at 3:08 pm. It was overcast. It drizzled on us from 2nd to the 4th holes.

Making consistent contact on the driving range, I was pretty happy with how I was striking the ball over the course of the round. I made a mess of the first hole, but settled down. I had a long par putt on the 2nd hole, but three putted... With the greens wet, I three putted the first four holes. I made a long putt on the 6th hole to card a bogey.

I ended up with a liberally scored 57. Managing my emotions better than Monday, I enjoyed the afternoon.