Well, this is it, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight starts the end of the regular season. The Red Sox and Yankees both have six games left, six must-win games, if you will. This determines who ends up with the division title.

The Sox have home field advantage for all six of those games. Travis Buck is on the DL, which is apparently good news for ( Read more... )

I stayed up until four-thirty in the morning to finish reading the thirteenth Dortmunder book. Westlake is just that good.

This one was actually one of the best Dortmunder books in years, though. I particularly liked it because Murch had his own little plotline for part of the story, which was nice to see (I have so much in common with him it's ( Read more... )

Wonderful news - Iran released those British sailors they were holding hostage. Obviously, Iran knows better than to mess with John Oliver. Of course, the humor of this situation is that, earlier today, Bush stated that he saw no end in sight to the hostage situation and they were released later in the day. I await a comment from Jon Stewart.

There ( Read more... )

Someone has been exceedingly kind and has posted an excerpt from the first chapter of the thirteenth Dortmunder book! You can read it right here. Although he wasn't mentioned by name, my favorite character was there, so I was happy to see him again. (His name's Stan Murch, by the way, and he's the getaway driver. That shouldn't surprise you.)

I was ( Read more... )