Monthly Archives: October 2006

The Fall of Footie

10/16/2006 – 10:01 am

Two things to mention, one fantasy, one reality. Fantasy: O.G. Elmo has had another shake-up following Petr Cech’s life-threatening injury Saturday where he got kneed in the head. Expect him to be on the sidelines for six months, which means O.G. Elmo needs a new keeper. Please welcome American Brad Friedel to the line up. [...]

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Business as Usual

10/15/2006 – 4:08 pm

Things appear to be back on track in English football. England has again stumbled out of the gates in qualifying, drawing with Macedonia and losing to Croatia. If history is an indicator, they will roar back and clinch automatic qualification with a last-gasp win on the last match day. People will forget how they bumbled [...]

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The Importance of Reading Ernest

10/12/2006 – 12:07 pm

/ So last night I read “The Year Ernest Hemingway Adopted Me” to one of my creative writing classes. After I finished, the sound of crickets chirping was deafening. No one said a goddamned thing, and I’m not quite sure why. The professor loved it and went on and on, picking out individual sentences and [...]

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Shamrock Pudding

10/10/2006 – 9:26 pm

Just finished watching Tito Ortiz pound Ken Shamrock into UFC pudding. For the third time. My favorite moment? After the fight when Ken approaches Tito with an outstretched hand to shake. Tito pauses and Ken says, “C’mon, we made our money together.” And the rest of the night is Ken congratulating Tito, and Tito saying [...]

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Plugging Right Along

10/9/2006 – 2:31 pm

/ “Miss Pavlichenko” is now just shy of 7K words and probably only 3/4ths finished. The assignment was to write “a story with a strong research element of decent length, around 7K-words.” I’m tempted just to write The End just to see what people say. The first 4K words of Draft 1.0 is due tomorrow. [...]

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Finding New Ways to Lose

10/8/2006 – 5:06 pm

I didn’t expect much from the Packers this season, and I’m getting exactly what I expected: not much. They should have either won or at least pushed the game against the Lambs into OT. Instead, they contrived to lose by losing a fumble inside the red zone. Astonishing. We’ve been blessed with wonderful fall weather [...]

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Candud and Career Talk

10/6/2006 – 10:33 am

I finished Voltaire’s Candide yesterday. Didn’t like it. I’d been looking forward to reading it for a long time now because I understood it was about the randomness of life and the absence of a divine plan. That’s definitely there, but the book skips from event to ridiculous event, lingering only on conversation the way [...]

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Puke

10/4/2006 – 12:44 pm

I tried to post last night but my laptop puked when I plugged in my USB flash drive and I lost it. Irritating. I see that Ms. Magazine is having an issue featuring a list of 5000 names of women who have had abortions. I’m not a one-issue voter, but I have to say that [...]

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Shooting Up the Table

10/2/2006 – 12:29 am

I’m happy to say the rejig at O.G. Elmo (that’s “Original Gangster Elmo” not “Own Goal Elmo”) has worked wonders. My point total was second in the league for the second straight week putting me within 5 points of second place (that’s a lot of seconds) and a somewhat more distant 46 points out of [...]

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