Norm van Maastricht | April 12, 2013
It has been quite a while since I’ve had to use the local ATM machine at my credit union. My tax return check had come in so I made plans to deposit it with speed and efficiency. I had it down to a science. I had a stash of ATM envelopes at home so I [...]
Norm van Maastricht | February 28, 2013
This is one of those stories that may bore you to tears but I do get asked about this from time to time. My avatar. The “norm head” drawing, cartoon, silhouette, of the hat, beard feather and glasses that I post just about everywhere. “Avatar” is defined thusly: “In computing, an avatar is the graphical [...]
Norm van Maastricht | December 29, 2012
I wrote this as an entry in a “Write Like Herb Caen” contest. To those of you unfamiliar, Herb was an iconic columnist in the San Francisco Chronicle until he died in the late nineties… By the way… I didn’t win the contest. I carefully kept mine in the same word length format Herb used. [...]
Norm van Maastricht | December 27, 2012
A certain reviewer for the San Francisco Weekly, Casey Burchby, had arrived at the Fox Theater on a Wednesday night to see and write about a certain character making an appearance there. For those of you who don’t know, there is a night club setting adjunct to the Fox Theater called the Club Fox and [...]
Norm van Maastricht | February 4, 2011
Toni Berry… During the Gelb years when Kevin and Henry had the store I used to take my Dobro over to Kitty and Errol’s, the Powers sisters, two pretty Montessori schoolteachers. We’d play music. They both played a little guitar, Kitty was a guitar student of mine. They both sang so we’d have a nice [...]
