I got 6 new CD’s for Christmas, Stand has quickly risen to the top of the replay list. It’s jangly, happy, fun, poppy, folk music by a husband wife team from NYC. Highly recommended. If you don’t trust me they have MP3 samples of every song from the al…
This is the book for anyone and everyone who grew up in the 80’s listening to bands like Motley Crue, Dokken, Metallica, Tesla, etc. It’s part memoir of growing up a metal head teenager in small Midwestern town, part analysis of what (if anything) that…
Mike, of Mikes Baseball Rants, has a rather lengthy post up in which he concludes that the Marlins winning the Series was some sort of rip-off for baseball fans and in some way is bad for baseball.
I heartily disagree. And remember, I’m a Red Sox fan!
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The third album from Chris Knight is full of down on their luck characters who have a long way to go before they see the light of day. It’s classic country songwriting, done with a Steve Earle, or Bruce from the “Nebraska” days kind of vibe. What Chris…
Marlins 2 – Yankees 0. Holy crap! What a game. Josh Beckett’s performance has to go down as one of the all time greats in World Series history. A complete game shutout on a night when he didn’t even have his grade A fastball or changeup. I didn’t reali…
When I stop to think about ancestral places, a spot on the earth where I know my forefathers walked before me, a place where I can still see what they saw, feel what they felt, connect with my past, only one place comes to mind.
Fenway Park.
The O’Donn…
I normally wouldn’t disagree with Ed in public like this. Heck, he is a friend. However, he is off-base in today’s column. Ed contends that late starts to playoff games are no big deal because the kids weren’t going to watch anyway. I’ll agree on one l…
These quotes are all from the same mother of one of the kids on the baseball team. In most cases they are paraphrased as I wasn’t taking notes. Although I probably should have.
I can’t believe I have to miss the race for a baseball game.
She is referri…
USA Today has both a pro and anti homeschooling opinion column in today’s paper. The pro article is surprisingly positive, and the anti is exceptionally snarky. Neither column however, really gets it.
Most of us started homeschooling for the usual reas…
I read it. I enjoyed it. Can’t say I really understood it though. The writing is marvelous. The sense of place he builds in the small Midwestern towns is so real you can almost touch it. Having done the small Midwestern town thing, I felt right at home…
