Monthly Archives: August 2009

Cracking Weekend

8/30/2009 – 9:36 pm

World Soccer Daily rises from the ashes as World Football Daily? My first thought when I heard about the show’s major sponsor boycott was, “Why don’t they go to a paid service?” Even as a short-term listener, WSD quickly became a must-listen for me; this is even more true now that I’m on the cusp [...]

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Forecast for the Coming Months

8/28/2009 – 1:01 pm

I have a pretty good handle on the two classes that I’m teaching this semester. One class might be a little overly packed and the other might be a little light, but these things pan out over the course of the semester and as I tend to adjust things as I learn a bit about [...]

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Briefly

8/26/2009 – 8:15 pm

Sun. 8/9 – Tottenham Hotspur 3 – 0 Olympiakos
Sun. 8/16 – Tottenham Hotspur 2 – 1 Liverpool
Wed. 8/19 – Hull City 1 – 5 Tottenham Hotspur
Sun. 8/23 – West Ham United 1 – 2 Tottenham Hotspur
Wed. 8/26 – Doncaster Rovers 1 – 5 Tottenham Hotspur
Erm. Hel-lo Tottenham Hotspur, how do you do? Please don’t [...]

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The New Year Begins (Almost)

8/24/2009 – 10:19 pm

Still incredibly pissed about World Soccer Daily pulling the plug as I had my first commute to Milwaukee and back today for preseason training, followed by another session tomorrow. The show was so damn good, it made me laugh out loud so often, I’m wondering how I can fill the hole. And I’ve only been [...]

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A Win for Bigotry (and another win for Spurs)

8/23/2009 – 10:23 pm

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I only recently began listening to World Soccer Daily, a show that’s been around for seven years or so. I knew the show’s host Steven Cohen from watching Fox Football Fone-In and always thought the show was decent, although they catered way too much to Fox’s programming. I decided to give the podcast [...]

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Interesting Days

8/20/2009 – 12:09 pm

Well well well, it’s amazing what a couple days of games can do for you. BTW, before I launch into my knee-jerk reactions to the events I’ve witnessed, can I just say how utterly awesome it is to be a soccer fan in this country? Thanks to FSC and their network of channels, you [...]

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A Win for Me and a Cliche-Riddled Recap of Opening Weekend

8/17/2009 – 4:51 pm

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First off, a big win for me! I sold my story “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter” to Zahir: A Journal of Speculative Fiction, which is a gorgeous little magazine. Lots of “close, but not quite right” rejection slips too, so it’s good to find a home for it.
I wrote this story for a workshop [...]

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Success and Failure

8/14/2009 – 2:44 pm

Unless you’re blind (or haven’t refreshed your browser) you’ll see the template has changed for this website. I’m ever-so-slowly migrating information from my old web pages to the new ones (the baby’s disposition dictates the speed at which this happens) but I should be done with it in a couple days. Most happily of all, [...]

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Website Changes A-Comin’…

8/12/2009 – 4:09 pm

I’m celebrating an anniversary of sorts. I installed WordPress and started blogging way back on August 2nd, 2004 (see archive to the right). I learned to add content pretty frequently for a site that had previously housed pictures of our trips and vacations and a few snippets of nonfiction work I had published at the [...]

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Premier League Preseason Musings

8/11/2009 – 11:30 am

Happily, I watched the Community Shield in its entirety and it really whet the appetite for the upcoming season. Chelski looked pretty flat in the first half as Man Ure started the game in style, but those roles were largely reversed in the second half. While Chelski could never be described as high-flying, they [...]

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