Saturday, March 15, 2008

The Whole Freakin World is Out of Order

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March 15, 2008 It was Einstein’s birthday yesterday. Happy birthday to the Good Doctor. I have felt for literally decades now that everyone ...
Friday, March 14, 2008

Iggy Pop rules

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March 14, 2008 Excellent “Speaking of Faith” this week, about the real religious beliefs of the Founders. HINT: Not Christianity, at least n...
Thursday, March 13, 2008

Fear and Loathing

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March 13, 2008 Yesterday was a good day to be born-Dave Eggers’ and Jack Kerouac’s birthday. I read “On The Road”, predictably, while On The...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Kibosh on Josh?

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Apparently, Josh Beckett has some back issues. Most sources are indicating it's nothing, but then again, they are also saying that he ma...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Nugget

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Nugget from "Bill James Gold Mine 2008": Losses when team scores 6 or more runs, 2007: Boston Red Sox 3 New York Yankees 14 Wow.
Monday, March 10, 2008

Gary Gygax

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Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons and Dragons, which meant a whole lot to me back in the day, died this week.

Not in the mood

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Just finished Tom Adelman's "Black and Blue", an account of the Orioles' 1966 World Series win. I tried to read Adelman...
Sunday, March 09, 2008

Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply

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Power outage here, from about 7pm last night until a few minutes ago. As usual, makes you think of how much you depend on little things. Got...
Friday, March 07, 2008

Robert Plant and Fred Rogers

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VH1 Classic is playing what appears to be the video from the "How The West Was Won" DVD. It's tremendous, of course. Watching ...

Facing Clemens

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Just ordered a new book, Jonathan Mayo's "Facing Clemens". Sounds like it's right up my alley-a history from the perspecti...
Thursday, March 06, 2008

An Aphorism

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You know what? If you're getting out of work at 5pm, chances are a bunch of other people are, too. Don't try to do an errand at just...
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Brain Not Included

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20 Days Until The Curtain Goes Up March 25, 2008, the regular season begins with Boston playing Oakland in Tokyo. Another GREAT Common Sense...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

John W. McCain

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March 4, 2008 Today is National Grammar Day. In celebration of this fact, the following blog post will contain no grammatical errors. Factua...
Monday, March 03, 2008

When 102 million is not 102 million

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=rotowire-enoethlisbergerontra&prov=rotowire&type=fantasy Football contracts annoy me. Roethlis...

What is old is new again

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March 3, 2008 Tomorrow, March 4, is National Grammar Day. Huzzah. Heartrending story on 60 minutes about R.A.M, an organization founded to a...