Saturday, June 28, 2008

Hitting The Wall (E)

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Saw WallE today. Amazing piece of work. Absolutely gorgeous-the most realistic animated film I've ever seen. Story very good-not quite a...
Friday, June 27, 2008

Winner winner chicken dinner

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Boston scored two in the ninth, and Pap shut them down in the bottom of the ninth for win #50, 6-1.

Global Thermonuclear War

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Currently watching "WarGames" on AMC. Many things are better naked, but salad? I have never really had much of a problem with Wind...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?

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I had a thought about my brother this morning as I drove in to work. If I had his life, I’d do drugs too. My brother never really fit. The y...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Game 81: Knuckled

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As of tonight, the Boston Red Sox have reached the halfway point of the regular season. After today, there are fewer games to play than have...

Shameful

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The display from umpire Brian Runge in last night's Mariners-Mets game was shameful. Mets outfielder Carlos Beltran was bitching about a...

And you thought YOU had a bad day...

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Old friend Bronson Arroyo, against Toronto yesterday: First inning: M Scutaro reached on infield single to second. 0 0 J Inglett walked, M S...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Back In Black (Game 80)

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Charlie Black, McCain aide, says that terrorist attacks on America give McCain a “big advantage”. Nice. Do these people have no shame whatso...
Monday, June 23, 2008

DeFanged (Game 79)

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Very interesting interview with Lawrence Lessig on this week’s “Sound Opinions”, talking about copyright as it relates to music. Some artist...

RIP George Carlin

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I just learned from Twitter that comedian George Carlin had passed away. While not my favorite comedian, he was clearly a genius of the form...
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Game 78: That's brisk, baby.

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After two quick rabbit punches, we got back on the winning track today. After Pap blew a 9th inning save, Kevin Youkilis stroked a homer in ...

Stuck in a moment....

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On “To The Best of our Knowledge” this week, there was a story about the rituals the 16 year old Amish go through. It has a name, but I can’...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Game 77: Not So Return of the Dragon

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In Boston, Dice K gets roughed up by the Redbirds as Boston falls, 9-3. Tim Weiner, author of “Legacy of Ashes”, is on this week’s “Word for...
Friday, June 20, 2008

Denouement

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Boston gave up a run in the 8th, which Okeydoke seems to be doing quite regularly. We did manage to push one across in the ninth, but Game 7...

Spirit of Game 76

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June 20, 2008 Boston is at home, trailing St. Louis 4-3 after 7 innings. It’s officially summer tomorrow. Could have fooled me. I am really ...