I've been writing posts in my head the last couple weeks and then running out of time to actually commit them to ye olde LJ. So here's a rumination on sports that I've been thinking about for months. Yes, months. Not that thinking about it for months is making it coherent (and it's long too).

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Happy birthday to heven2mrgatroid! I think it's entirely fitting that your birthday is celebrated today, as approximately half my Flist is celebrating Daniel Radcliffe's legality ( Read more... )

I had the All-Star game on in the background while I did some editing tonight, and there was a truly awful exchange between Ken Rosenthal and Joe Buck about how we don't know all the facts about Bonds and doping. Their take on it seemed to be that it could come out down the road that 70 percent of all MLB players were taking banned substances, and ( Read more... )

Tonight, I had snacks for dinner (blue cheese with fig spread and prosciutto, potstickers, sesame cold noodles and wasabi peas) and watched Battlestar Galactica. There was probably a baseball game on, wasn't there? Normally, I'd be on top of this, but for the first time in, uh, decades, I can't remember and I almost don't care ( Read more... )

So, I've been cheating on Livejournal. I started a blog over at blogspot to chronicle the virtual three-way tie for the bottom of the major leagues between the Kansas City Royals, the Chicago Cubs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. It's called Race to the Bottom, and I do hope you check it out and tell your friends.

I direct all y'alls over to my better half's blog, Candy Cigarettes, for an excellent analysis of Robert Pollard and the intersection of sad and awe-inspiring. (That could be the title of his next album, come to think of it. It would have to be something like "Goats and the Intersection of Sad and Awe-Inspiring," though ( Read more... )