After suffering through seven endless games of the NBA finals, I have never been so glad to see a trophy handed out. I understand the idea behind the popularity of sports, the opportunity for people to transcend political differences and language barriers and, at times, the human condition itself. But it seems to me that [...]
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Sports Mania
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged advert, agent, athlete, Babe Ruth, barrier, baseball, basketball, bidder, blessing, bowling, Bronko, Bryant, Campanella, Casablanca, cheap, check, commercial, condition, consequence, determination, display, diversion, endurance, entertainment, escape, feat, field, final, football, fun, game, golf, good, heart, high school, hockey, Jim Thorpe, Kobe, legacy, life, lineback, mediocre, money, movie, Nagurski, NBA, news, opiate, patron, pay, peak, performance, player, politic, purpose, recreation, religion, Roy Campanella, saint, senior, soccer, Sport, spring fever, stories, story, talent, television, Thorpe, tournament, trophy, truth, TV, value, watch, water polo on June 19, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Amber Waves of Gain
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, tagged abuse, accuse, activity, agent, alternate-side, article, Atlanta, attorney, authorities, authority, Baltimore, Black Friday, bogus, boot, Boston, Bronx, budget, bus zone, California, camera, car, cell, charge, Chicago, citation, citizen, city, collect, Colorado, Columbus, common sense, confusing, conspiracy, convenience, cost, country, court, courtesy, crosswalk, curb, damage, decency, Denver, Department of Homeland Security, dismiss, dollar, double-park, driver, drug-related, electronic, exception, extortion, extreme, false, fee, fight, fine, Fort Worth, freedom, funds, goal, government, greed, harrassment, holy, idiocy, illegal, illegible, increase, infraction, innocent, intention, IRS, Jericho, judge, Kentucky, law, law breaking, law enforcement, lawyer, legal, legitimate, letter, license, Louisville, machine, maid, man, Maryland, mass-ticket, mayor, meter, Michael Bloomberg, missing, money, Montgomery County, MSNBC, mugging, muni-meter, New Orleans, New York City, New York Times, news, numbers, Ohio, Oregon, parking, payroll, penalty, phone, piggy bank, police, populace, Portland, prison, productivity, push, registration, reprimand, resident, revenue, ruin, Sacremento, sale, sanction, Santa Monica, scan, Seattle, seize, shift, shortfall, signs, statistic, story, super-agent, system, taxes, tenuous, terrorism, terrorist, Texas, text message, ticket, traffic enforcement agent, trend, unlawful, unpleasant, unreasonable, vehicle, veteran, violation, violator, visitor, Washington D.C., work on September 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Let me preface this statistic-rich post by noting the following: 1) most of these numbers were derived from two online sources, so if they were incorrect then I am also; and 2) if you are caught genuinely breaking a law, you deserve to be fined, ticketed, booted, or otherwise reprimanded as defined by local law [...]
A New Voice
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, Readings, tagged 1970, 1980, accident, advice, author, bargain, beautiful, betrayal, bin, book, bookstore, chance, change, character, child, classroom, coma, comeback, Constant Reader, consumer, death, disappoint, doctors, favorites, genre, gorgeous, Hawke's Harbor, hope, love, minority, mistake, moving, novel, personal, plot, publish, rating, reading, record, recovery, required, review, Rumble Fish, S E Hinton, serious, story, stranger, striking, supernatural, surprise, suspicious, Taming the Star Runner, temptation, Tex, That Was Then This Is Now, The Outsiders, touching, treasure, vampire, voice, wary, wrenching, young adult on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before I leave yet again, on yet another trip to last at least two weeks, I thought I would share some thoughts on the most recent addition to my reading materials. Very few people haven’t heard of S. E. Hinton, a young adult genre author who makes the required reading list in most if not [...]
For the Word-Addicts Among Us…
Posted in General Mischief, Personal Insights, Poetry, Readings, tagged Amazon, author, board, book, competition, discussion, Ex Libris, Facebook, fiction, free, Good Reads, Gucci, Jimmy Choo, literature, MySpace, non-fiction, Poetry, read, review, Stephen King, stories, story, tale, tome, true, Twitter, widget, wordpress, writer on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anyone with more than a cursory glance at the history of this blog may have noticed several book-based posts. See, I like books. I like readings stories of peoples and places and things; whether or not they are true makes little difference. An author (Stephen King, I think?) once described fiction as the “truth inside [...]
Much Admired
Posted in General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged article, author, book, essay, family, fan, friends, letter, mail, story, thank-you, writer on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Though it often feels like it, I realize I do not experience most things in this life alone. What I mean is, I’m not the only person to ever have experienced a given thing. Reknown author C. S. Lewis once noted, “Nothing, I suspect, is more astonishing in any man’s life than the discovery that [...]
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