that i hope you all had a happy 4/7 day. the red wings inched closer to the playoffs that night and things generally went well for me even though most of the day i was a dull boy.

i know that my friends and family in boston would appreciate a real winter and not this paltry thing that global warming's left us with ( Read more... )

our christmas mix turned into (as it was clearly meant to all along) a very special mix, one which spans the arc of our lives for almost the past ten years ( Read more... )

in nowhere near so dire a way, i am now, of how to complete our music mix the way we want to without seeming (too) pretentious and navel-gazing ( Read more... )

NB: i recommend having read my previous entry: 'detroit marathon i' before reading this entry.

so every year that we've spent christmas together in pittsburgh (2012 & 2013 so far), christy and i have worked together to create a christmas mix cd to give as a gift to friends and family, each with its own theme. the first edition was double talk ( Read more... )

it was ushered in by paolo nutini:


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i wish i could be in pittsburgh for tomorrow's game. detroit has no luck against san fran so we need somebody to take them out. and then st. louis too. going to be quite a game. like tonight's was. happy for kansas city fans seeing the real playoffs for the first time in so long.

despite hungering for more, i have to acknowledge being very fortunate that in four of the seven years i've lived in detroit (four in a row no less), the tigers have won their division. it's no mean feat this fourpeat. (outside of the evil empire) especially in this era of parity in which the world series champion from last season finished last in ( Read more... )

the magic number is one ( Read more... )

baseball is funny in the same way life is (which feels like stating the obvious ( Read more... )