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Miss Me?

Friday January 13, 2012

My son is now almost seventeen months old, in case you’re wondering why I haven’t been posting very actively for the last year and a half. The last two months have been an emotional roller coaster for me, for reasons far and wide (mostly unrelated to my boy) which I don’t have the time or [...]

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Five (More) Miles in Los Angeles

Friday August 5, 2011

Even though I was still sore as hell from my run Tuesday night, I somehow managed to knock out another five mile run last night. I ran my standard “local loop”, which is east on Olympic to Beverwill, then south to Pico, and then west to Westwood back to Olympic. I almost thought that there [...]

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We Apologize for the Interruption

Thursday January 20, 2011

It has most decidedly not been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon. I had a pretty good run of updating this website almost daily for over a decade, and then one little (adorable) change in my life sent this blog so far down my priority list that it disappeared. Take heart, dear readers. There is [...]

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Spenser: For Hire

Monday January 25, 2010

“Sometimes I get distracted by food; but mostly all I think about is women and baseball.” – Robert B. Parker’s Spenser My favorite author died on Monday, January 18, and he took with him my favorite fictional character. I was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. My dad, though — who lives in Rhode Island now [...]

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The Bats Are Coming

Sunday July 19, 2009

It’s when you can’t hear the bats, that’s when the bats are coming. That is what is printed on the front of the birthday card I received from my brother-in-law. On the inside it says, “Other than that, I have no birthday advice.”

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CRAM Magazine

Tuesday January 16, 2007

Quite nifty! My mini-tutorial — Five Tips for Smarter Playlists — has been published in the second issue of the online pdf magazine CRAM. A few weeks ago I received an email from one of their editors requesting permission to republish the essay. I had actually forgotten all about it. Then this morning someone at [...]

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On Baseball

Tuesday March 29, 2005

I step into the batter’s box, placing my right foot in the hole … scraped inside the back chalk line. I am aware of nothing but [the pitcher] — not the crowd, not the infield in and Lord knows not the blue sky. This moment is the essence of the game, its molecular core. It [...]

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Excellent Potential Book Titles

Friday January 23, 2004

If I ever get a chance to write my memoirs, I think I will name them either: “What to Do If You Are Surrounded by the Entire Bolivian Army and Have No More Bullets” or “Snapshots: Twenty-seven 8 x 10 Color Glossy Photographs with Circles and Arrows and a Paragraph on the Back of Each One [...]

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These are from a joke email circulating that purports to be “ANALOGIES & METAPHORS FOUND IN HIGH SCHOOL ESSAYS”. I highly doubt that these were actually culled from high school essays. The main reason I don’t believe it is because there is no point of reference. There is no notation or source. The second reason [...]

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Typing Monkeys

Saturday May 10, 2003

Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess.

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