There’s a meme for personal blogs and online diaries: a list of movies or books or whathaveyou is passed around. The blogger publishes the list on their blog, marking the books they’ve read or movies they’ve seen. We haven’t done that ’round here because, for one, this isn’t really a personal blog, and, for two, [...]
Entries from June 2008
June 24, 2008
Advice From a Man With a Condo
Bill Conlin is known in these parts (well, “these parts” loosely referring to blogs, though not necessarily this site) as a sort of crotchety old sportswriter. He overwrites. He harangues. He says that Hitler would’ve wiped bloggers from the blessed earth.
Personally, I’ve got a soft-spot for Conlin. I loved him when I was young. When [...]
June 19, 2008
Watching the Game, Under Elvis Presley’s Glass-Encased Longjohns
It’s official. This site has, for the time being, become the Shysterball Wide-Eyed Little Brother blog. That is, we’ve got another post that comes from a topic brought here by Shysterball, so we’re kinda following the guy around, even though he’s all, “back off, I’m trying to make out with Lady Shyster”, but we’re still, [...]
June 16, 2008
Watching Tiger
Every Easter, my parents would take my brothers and I in the family station wagon to my aunt and uncle’s house. Aunt Cookie and Uncle Dom only lived about 5 miles away, so the commute wasn’t long, and we saw them frequently, anyway, but this is what we did. This was the Easter event. And [...]
June 5, 2008
Cleveland and Philadelphia: Bosom Buddies
So, yesterday, I linked to a post on ShysterBall, which featured the deranged rantings of yours truly. Shyster had written a post earlier in the day about championship futility. I wanted to chime in with my two cents, but, in typical Curious Mechanism fashion, my two cents turned into 8.95, and I had to email [...]
June 4, 2008
Shameless Self-Promotion
Shyster says nice things about us, and then we go and spoil the mood by saying nasty things about, well, you know who.
