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dxmachina

Odds and Ends

Jul 26, 2005 16:45

I finished Gaiman's American Gods a week back, and really liked it. It's sort of the book I was hoping Winter's Tale would turn out to be off Tale's early chapters. I liked Gods a lot better for a couple three reasons. First off, Gaiman doesn't fall in love with his own prose. Mark Helprin wrote a lot of beautiful prose just for the sake of writing ( Read more... )

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veejane July 26 2005, 14:03:39 UTC

leaving because of a blister

That happened with Derek a lot last year -- finger blisters. Big, nasty, pus-oozing blisters on the ball of his first or second finger. If that's correcting his mechanics, ouch.

(I mean, last year he needed some work on his mechanics AND had the blisters, so who knows.)

dxmachina July 26 2005, 14:22:13 UTC

It was his thumb this time, so maybe that's better. Also, it's the first time he's lasted that long in a game in forever.

sophiap July 26 2005, 15:44:23 UTC

DX, another book I think you'd like (assuming you haven't read it already) is Michael Chabon's "Summerland." It's about baseball and the end of the world. Good stuff.

dxmachina July 26 2005, 15:56:28 UTC

I've been meaning to pick it up. I liked Kavalier and Klay.

elenabtvs July 27 2005, 00:57:08 UTC

There was an e. coli incident in Ontario (Walkerton) a few years back. People got very ill and a few died. Not only did some people lose their jobs, there were criminal charges because they had been warned.

I wonder, at the very least, if there shouldn't be a refund of water bills.

dxmachina July 27 2005, 05:47:57 UTC

Fortunately, no one appears to have gotten sick from it. I'm surprised places like Dunkin Donuts haven't filed suit against the town, because they've had to buy bottled water to keep their businesses going. You can explain away the first couple of times as an act of God, but after that it's just negligence.