Well, that is another week in the books. My halfth birthday is past history now, the Mets are out and there is a bed sheet ghost hanging in the tree out front. What a game that was last night - tied from the first to the ninth 1-1, then the Cards pull ahead in their last at bats and the Mets lose with the bases loaded after a kid...ok, a guy with a beard...smokes one past a multi-millionaire who was fooled and frozed where he stood, only able to watch the curving ball enter the strike zone and then the catcher's glove. The game featured the greatest double play last night with the Met's Chavez (a former Expo, portland pointed out) robbing a guy out in left by snabbing the ball way over the wall then having the presence of mind to drill it back in to the relay man who got it to first. WHAMMO!
- Update: having a good argument here with good folks who think we need a dutiful or responsible press. I think they are being nutty but I side with the rabble in most things.
- In the impending gap in life called the baseball off season, you should be brushing up on the knowledge you need. The Baseball Hall of Fame has an email newsletter that you can sign up for.
- Go read Gary's blog. He is starting to describe the work of potters he admires. It is knowledge sharing time and it is very interesting.
- The Tories have a green plan. Let me be the first to dub it the Tom Green Plan - hey, I didn't know he was born in Pembroke. I have to wait longer than I have lived, until 2050, for this policy goal to be achieved. Nothing like an ambitious plan. They wait for a decade to start. Andrew Coyne, looking alarmingly like a man who know he was being an embarassing party lapdog, was on the CBC national last night saying how waiting ten years is just like starting soon and a plan that waits longer than my lifetime to date (and I am an old fart) to kick in is pretty much like one diligently pursued and aggressively implemented. They think we are dopes. They are starting to look like one-termers, history blips, modern-day John Abbotts.
- Did you know you are wicked and bad? Almost everything is bad:
While he did not specifically mention gay marriage, thousands of listeners at the fairgrounds in Verona's outskirts strongly applauded the two parts of his speech about the family and "other forms of unions". He urged them to fight "with determination ... the risk of political and legislative decisions that contradict fundamental values and anthropological and ethical principles rooted in human nature". The Pope said they had to defend "the family based on matrimony, opposing the introduction of laws on other forms of unions which would only destabilise it and obscure its special character and its social role, which has no substitute".
Each and every one of you are going to hell. Especially you! - Today is my answering the phone day at NCPR. I even got a confirmation card in the mail. So pledge between 3 to 5 and you will get to talk to me. I am taking the camera so as to have a scrapbook tomorrow, a photo montage as it were, maybe a even a three dimensional mobile of events. Interesting when someone asked how long it would take to go that far south, I got to reply that I am heading north-east to Canton, New York.
Comments
cm - October 20, 2006 8:50 am
Well, as my friend Pooky says, evil has better hair.
gr - October 20, 2006 8:52 am
Drat, foiled by cm again, in the race to first on Friday. Now I will read what Alan has to say....
gr - October 20, 2006 8:55 am
Yeah, too bad for the Mets. I remember calling a St Louis/Detroit series months ago, though, and have to say: these 2 teams and cities worked for this. These are not big and glamorous places, these were not spoiled rich kids playing baseball. I'm glad to see fresh faces in the series.
Paul - October 20, 2006 9:44 am
If we're all going to hell we might as well have a bloody good time while we're here !
Alan - October 20, 2006 9:53 am
You are now at the head of the line-up, laddie!
Flea - October 20, 2006 9:54 am
Everyone sing along now; it's Friday:
Non, je ne regrette rieeen!
Non, je ne regret-te rieeeeen!
Shelley - October 20, 2006 9:59 am
What does a Maltese accent sound like? Just curious.
Alan - October 20, 2006 10:17 am
I understand Andy Kaufman's character on <i>Taxi</i> was supposed to have a Maltese-Latvian accent.
Alan - October 20, 2006 10:21 am
A Flea stocking stuffer suggestion. See disc 3, cut #14.
Gordo - October 20, 2006 10:45 am
Latka Gravas was <i>supposed</i> to be Latvian, wasn't he?
Alan - October 20, 2006 10:46 am
I thought I recalled there being a Maltese aspect to his lineage, too. Maybe this was a joke in an interview I am remembering.
Hans - October 20, 2006 11:01 am
I actually have a professor and a classmate who are Maltese (its a comparative study of islands thing). They sound like a cross between Italian, British & Arabic. In my opinion, Latka Gravas did in no way sound Maltese.
As for being bad and going to Hell, I think Hell is going to be a much more fun place to spend eternity. Kinda like "Survivor" but noone gets voted off.
Gordo - October 20, 2006 11:06 am
Accoridng to the Restored Church of God anyone with a blog or personal web site is going to hell. Except, of course the guy who wrote this.
gr - October 20, 2006 11:08 am
Carol Kane was one hell of sexy ditz. Sure, I had a crush on her.
OK, what's the deal, you slackers? I am especially disappointed in Paul: nobody cares about baseball anymore?
Chris Taylor - October 20, 2006 11:29 am
Tigers in five with minimum 3-run spread per game.
gorthos - October 20, 2006 11:35 am
Baseball? I didn't know people still watched that..
ssssssssmack.. :)
Karol Kane as I remember it, was palling around with her neighbor Bette Davis when she was near death and rumour at that time was that she was gold digging..
cm - October 20, 2006 11:38 am
So she'll be with the rest of us in hell, then.
gr - October 20, 2006 11:56 am
I said she was a ditz, maybe a flake too.
I note that the host is over here in NY buying beer and eating bar-b-q and taking calls for donations at NCPR. This calls for a special meeting of the KSPC at noon. Meet at Paul's office, (wink wink).
gr - October 20, 2006 1:11 pm
Guess nobody knows where Paul's office is.
OK, Chris--I will bet you one tenth of a Loonie that it goes 6-7 games and the Cardinals play it tough, but the Tigers win it late in a close finish and how come Buffalo has such a good hockey team?
Flea - October 20, 2006 1:48 pm
That would be one deciloonie.
Also, Carol Kane was a goddess.
Brodie - October 20, 2006 2:09 pm
I know where Paul's office is and no one else showed up - except me and Paul. The phad thai was excellent by the way. BR
Chris Taylor - October 20, 2006 2:14 pm
Heh, you're on Gary. Actually I would prefer a 6-7 game Series as that would be far more exciting.
Looking at the relative stats and trying to apply the ex-Atheltics' Billy Beane "Moneyball" approach has me thinking that the Tigers should be able to do it handily. But then "Moneyball" could be a load of horse pucky since Oakland got bounced from the postseason without much hassle. In fact without much of anything at all, sadly.
Paul Mac - October 20, 2006 2:34 pm
If the Bloc Alberta (read conservatives) had printed it on green paper then maybe it would be a green plan. Without the green paper it is blatant attempt to defer any action on climate change until all the meat has been stripped from the bones of what is our national disgrace - the Alberta oil sands. The oil sands - where a full 25% of Canada's (intentionally did not say Alberta's) natural gas (a cleaner burning fuel than anything produced by oil sands) production goes to liberate the sludgy bitumen from the sand.
And of course all that oil revenue is Alberta's don't you know. The rest of Canada has no claim there; at least not until the vast tailings areas burst their dams and spill their unsettleable contents into the Athabaska river. Then of course there will be a state of emergency declared and the rest of Canada will be compelled to rush forth with chequebooks open to clean up the ungodly mess and compensate anything still standing.
It's a sick joke - but unfortunately its on everyone.
ry - October 20, 2006 5:14 pm
I say shades of 1988 when the collection of battered and beleaguered players beat the snot out of the AL team that ripped thru everyone in their path. I say Cardinals. NL always gets a boost from being able to play in an AL park(let's see, we can sit Pujols, add Spiezio, and not have a wasted out on the pitcher hitting. Oh, and we don't have to pull our pitcher to get more O? Happy Day!). Now only if La Russa pulled some stuff out of Whitey Herzog's book.....
Alan - October 20, 2006 9:14 pm
Back in the southwest here in Kingston after my trip northeast to North Country. Thankfully, I have discovered more craft ale infiltrating upupstate NY with Smuttynose, Middle Ages and even a Flying Dog IPA snagged. Fab time at NCPR.