I'm surprised how slow I've been to start utilizing the features of my cable box completely. I still don't usually start watching something halfway through so I can zip through the commercials, although obviously I do that if I tape it. (You can get a hockey game down to 90 minutes that way, so that may be the way to go. I might consider also taping the last 1/2 of 1/3 of west coast Red Wings starts, and finishing it over breakfast.) Only recently have I started pausing live TV to answer the phone or run to the kitchen, and replaying goals and close calls and such in slow-motion. Just now it occurred to me I could use the picture-in-picture to follow both the ALDS and Monday Night Football.
Seriously, I feel I should be quicker on the uptake with all this...
Monday, October 10, 2005
The Amazing Race 8--"I Don't Kiss, I Make Out!"
Heh heh...hope for me and the Hope chicks yet.
This week's US Heritage lesson will include NASA. And probably regurgitation.
This week's US Heritage lesson will include NASA. And probably regurgitation.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Yes, someone got paid to design this
In honor of hockey restarting, let me present the goofiest major professional sport logo ever:
Trust the Gorton's Fisherman!
Let me also add that NHL Center Ice is awesome, and I intend to never leave my couch again.
Trust the Gorton's Fisherman!
Let me also add that NHL Center Ice is awesome, and I intend to never leave my couch again.
Monday, October 03, 2005
The Amazing Race 8--"How Do We Know We're Not Going to Get Shot?"
Gettysburg, Manassas, or Antietam?
Smart money's on Gettysburg. Antietam was the bloodiest, and might fit the stretcher theme best. Manassas is the only one I've been to.
They've got to be coming to DC in this very special Americana race, so I'll let you know if I can do any lame location scouting once we've seen it.
Oh, and you're not going to get shot because it's a freaking game show, you lamer. Whoever provided the episode quote will be excused from my pathetic wrath if they are under 12.
Smart money's on Gettysburg. Antietam was the bloodiest, and might fit the stretcher theme best. Manassas is the only one I've been to.
They've got to be coming to DC in this very special Americana race, so I'll let you know if I can do any lame location scouting once we've seen it.
Oh, and you're not going to get shot because it's a freaking game show, you lamer. Whoever provided the episode quote will be excused from my pathetic wrath if they are under 12.
The end of the Nationals season
Well, we had quite a good time at the ballpark on Sunday. They didn't put on a great showing, but there were a lot of Phillies fans (?phans?) who came down to watch their team and to scoreboard watch, seeing if the Astros would lose and force a playoff. So naturally we chanted "Let's go Astros!" a lot.
The cheerleader in front of me--this is the hummus guy I blogged about before, and whose approval I have apparently won--managed to get chants going with all of his friends for each fielder, in succession, until they acknowledged our section. That was pretty dorky cool, actually. And they even got on Mr. Church ("Who's your rab-bi?") and he promptly hit a homer. Which even I had to cheer.
The team took the field--after letting Philly finish their post-game self-congratulations--to further rousing standing ovations. It was quite the feel-good close to a feel-good season, despite it ending with a sweep at home.
So the Nationals hit what I thought was their absolute upside, at .500. It's a little disappointing that they do it by going 50-31 and then 31-50, but I can't complain. It was a heck of a summer. I'll definitely get tickets again next year, maybe in a pool. We'll see.
Time for the baseball playoffs--starting tomorrow at 1, in Stevis's annual week of seriously reduced production--and hockey season.
The cheerleader in front of me--this is the hummus guy I blogged about before, and whose approval I have apparently won--managed to get chants going with all of his friends for each fielder, in succession, until they acknowledged our section. That was pretty dorky cool, actually. And they even got on Mr. Church ("Who's your rab-bi?") and he promptly hit a homer. Which even I had to cheer.
The team took the field--after letting Philly finish their post-game self-congratulations--to further rousing standing ovations. It was quite the feel-good close to a feel-good season, despite it ending with a sweep at home.
So the Nationals hit what I thought was their absolute upside, at .500. It's a little disappointing that they do it by going 50-31 and then 31-50, but I can't complain. It was a heck of a summer. I'll definitely get tickets again next year, maybe in a pool. We'll see.
Time for the baseball playoffs--starting tomorrow at 1, in Stevis's annual week of seriously reduced production--and hockey season.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Transcendent Importance
Senator John McCain at today's steroid hearings:
Funny. I'd say the same thing about securing the levees in New Orleans. Or perhaps ensuring that important government posts are filled with competent people. Or, you know, exercising oversight power over the President's use of the military. I sure as hell wouldn't say that about an entertainment option that no one is obliged to support at the federal level. (Yes, of course, sports teams do extort awful sums of money from state and local governments...)
I love baseball, but this is not an issue of "transcendent importance." Vast swaths of America couldn't give a crap, especially when so much of the focus was the integrity of the game as opposed to "think of the children" which at least you can squint your eyes and justify.
Don't you understand that this is an issue of such transcendent importance that you should have acted months ago?
Funny. I'd say the same thing about securing the levees in New Orleans. Or perhaps ensuring that important government posts are filled with competent people. Or, you know, exercising oversight power over the President's use of the military. I sure as hell wouldn't say that about an entertainment option that no one is obliged to support at the federal level. (Yes, of course, sports teams do extort awful sums of money from state and local governments...)
I love baseball, but this is not an issue of "transcendent importance." Vast swaths of America couldn't give a crap, especially when so much of the focus was the integrity of the game as opposed to "think of the children" which at least you can squint your eyes and justify.
Monday, September 26, 2005
Banned Books Week
To keep with my "real post" commitment, I'll remind you all it's Banned Books Week. Check out the list of 100 most frequently banned books of the 90s. How many have you read?
I've read 14 (4,5,7,13,22,37,41,47,56,70,77,83,84,97). Actually, number 97 (The View from the Cherry Tree) was read to us in 6th grade, but I'm counting it. Once again I find myself amazed that the public school system in Manistee was as non-repressive as it was--for a rural education, we could have had it a lot worse. I do remember one board member trying to pull The Catcher in the Rye (#13) from the cirriculum, and it not even getting to us protesting at the board meeting, as all the other board members laughed it off.
I've read 14 (4,5,7,13,22,37,41,47,56,70,77,83,84,97). Actually, number 97 (The View from the Cherry Tree) was read to us in 6th grade, but I'm counting it. Once again I find myself amazed that the public school system in Manistee was as non-repressive as it was--for a rural education, we could have had it a lot worse. I do remember one board member trying to pull The Catcher in the Rye (#13) from the cirriculum, and it not even getting to us protesting at the board meeting, as all the other board members laughed it off.
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