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Mid-Week Reading?

2008-07-16T03:46:58Z

As promised, it's time for some mid-week links: In honor of tonight's All-Star Game, as well as all the recent hoopla about San Francisco Giant Tim Lincecum (including a Sports Illustrated cover story that called him"The Freak"), you can check o...

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Weekend Reading

2008-07-13T20:31:58Z

Do you have Olympic fever yet? I do, and I'm feeling all nostalgic about Olympic baseball and softball, since it looks like this is the last time they'll be official Olympic sports. In those sports, and others, the host nation gets an automati...

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Arizona Diamondbacks 10, Philadelphia Phillies 4

2008-07-13T18:33:45Z

Yes, I was there for the debacle, and this is how I survived: The game starts at 3:55 p.m., the hottest time of the day during the hottest time of the year, because Fox Sports has made this its Game of the Week. During a steamy walk from the su...

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St. Louis Cardinals 2, Philadelphia Phillies 0 (Psst, this post is actually about mead.)

2008-07-10T02:58:33Z

I don't really have much to report from my attendance at last night's game. The Phillies were offensively in-offensive. Or something. My pre-game roast pork sandwich was good but not life-altering. Worst of all, I didn't meet the Handsome Str...

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Holiday-Weekend Reading

2008-07-05T04:11:37Z

Since I'm on a long holiday weekend, you're getting the week's reading a little early. In my opinion, Mary Carillo is the best tennis announcer on television. This weekend, of course, she's covering the Wimbledon finals for NBC. She's too artf...

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It's Independence Day!

2008-07-04T11:56:20Z

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One Hundred Things About Me

2008-07-03T02:08:16Z

I like blackberry cobbler. I'm proud to be from Oklahoma. When I was a kid, my favorite color was purple. Now yellow is. I've never been to Europe. I collect pottery. New Orleans is still my favorite city. My all-time favorite album is Jimmie Da...

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Presence in the Wild

2008-07-02T04:04:16Z

I'm a Unitarian Universalist, but I'm more interested in religion as a subject matter than I'm actually religious—or, at least, what most people would describe as religious. I'm certainly not "spiritual." I'm a non-theist, influenced strongly...

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Weekend Reading

2008-06-30T02:31:25Z

Well, I'm writing it at the end of this weekend, but here's what captured my attention this week: Fittingly, since we're in the middle of the Wimbledon fortnight, a NYT article looked at all those strange on-the-court habits of the top tennis pl...

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Music QotW: Favorite Soundtrack

2008-06-26T01:04:17Z

What's your favorite soundtrack? My favorite soundtrack is Elmer Bernstein's for The Grifters. The Grifters came out in 1990, and it starred Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, and Annette Bening as three small-time con artists—a mother, son, and ...

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