It’s been a crazy week on my home planet, one that presses the line of credibility to an extent. It seems all the books have major crises one after another, piling into one great crescendo that’s either cataclysm or triumph.…
Tag: A Day in the Life
Mariners Baseball: A New Day, A New Way
Trying to ride Obama’s coattails into ticket sales? Trying to distance itself from the Bill Bavasi era? Trying to highlight an ABCABC three-letters-or-less rhyme scheme? Trying to simply point out that tomorrow is, indeed, another day? Whatever the motives behind…
Glide Series Finale
Last night, I had one of the most transparent dreams of my entire life. Fresh from some emotional goodbyes at Glide in real life, I dreamt that a bunch of people I knew in my life, consisting primarily of Glide…
Last Days
When I used to work at the Seneca Center for Children and Families, I spent a good part of my last year wondering about my last day. My friend Kevin was going back to grad school and gave plenty of…
Cool Moment
So I was listening to the Mariners’ radio broadcast via MLB-TV’s audio package and this ad comes on the radio advertising tickets for the Giants’ series in Seattle, marking Randy Johnson’s return to Safeco. And I realized quickly that I…
A Poem on the Journey Homeward (or: Something Other than Duck and Cover)
I finished a book tonight that would’ve been more fitting to finish on my last day of work and it was all I could really think about as I was walking home from the train doing one of those walking…
Great Moments in Sports
Tonight I watched one of the most incredible Mariners games in recent history, with the M’s crushing the Angels 11-3 on a grand slam by Ichiro in his first game of 2009, alongside Griffey’s first homer at home for Seattle…
It’s Princeton!
Wanted to make the official announcement that Emily has chosen to return to Princeton University for two more years of academic rigor. We will become New Jersey residents sometime late this summer. Many more plans to be announced as they…
Reality Check
Statistics, 2002-2008 Domestic US Deaths by Firearm Homicide: over 80,000 Domestic US Deaths by Terrorism: 0 While people enjoy citing the fact that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed under the US Constitution (conveniently dropping…
Bubbles
We could live beside the ocean leave them far behind swim out past the breakers watch the world die. -Everclear, “Santa Monica” Russ and I went down (up? over? out? – I have no sense of direction in LA) to…