David’s Journal

It was 6:04. I had to teach a class at 6:30. I hadn’t eaten. And I forgot to bring dinner.

So I rushed out the front door of Petaluma Community Access, aiming for my car, so I could rush off to some fast food restaurant.

Then I stopped. Looked up.

Something wasn’t quite right.

That’s snow (yes, a meager sprinkling by most reasonable standards, but unexpected just the same) on Sonoma Mountain, as seen from the front door of my workplace.

It’s a scorned field, this access world I teach and work in. But someone has to do it.

Asked by Oprah Winfrey if he worried about ruffling feathers [as host of Sunday night's Oscars telecast], the star of cable TV’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” was self-deprecating— at first.

“If I had a movie career, I might worry about that,” he said. “But what can they do to a guy who’s on basic cable? Can they bump me down to public access?”