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Ya know, I’ve never watched any of that stuff. I haven’t caught the super-hero bug and the special effects in TV sci-fi has always seemed a little cheesy to me. I’m willing to bet though, regardless...

Bah, while it’s not quite like riding a bike, I did find my balance fairly quickly. The muscle memory was still there, sort of. The comedy came from the neighborhood dogs who evidently were indignant...

Speaking of cycling, I did a strange thing the other day — I bought a unicycle. What hoot. I built one years ago out of spare parts and managed to teach myself a few tricks, but I haven’t been on a...

Finished Stephen King’s 11/22/63.

If you could go back in time and change something, would you? If you could pick a historical event to change, what would it be? Would you stop John Wilkes Booth...

M*A*S*H the movie was way better than the book it was inspired by, IMHO.

I’m having an exceptional reading year thus far. I’ve managed to get ahold of some good ones.

Just finished The Moor’s Account, by Laila Lalami

I came to this one in a round about way: I was...

Haha! I like ‘em all. And that second one kinda has a metaphor within a simile, eh? I mean the vegetarian is fishing the caterpillar out of the salad.

And as far as similes on the metaphor...

A most excellent Grateful Dead simile:



Found today in a story in The Atlantic by Tommy Tomlinson:

Why a Dog’s Death Hits So Hard
I loved my mom more than my dog. So why did I cry for him...

Haha! I’m gonna need one of those book bags. I actually met John Waters once, sounds like something he’d say.

Hey, have you read The Boys In The Boat, by Daniel James Brown? Pretty good. I’ve got...

Naw, man,not pretentious, you did the work. But hey, you gotta research degree!? Holy moly. Now it seems like I'm the guy at a dinner party, patiently explaining to my table mate how the brain works...

No way, man. Newman was the MVP.

I remember a good article in Outside Magazine about the benefits of an impact workout. The writer looked at running vs cycling for the lower body, and boxing vs...

Oh yeah, I'm a big believer in swimming for health and flexibility. Evidently so is Kramer:



I can't say that I recommend swimming in the East River though.
...

Dem bums! I got on an elevator the other day with guy who was wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers ball cap. Another guy takes a look at the ‘B’ on his cap and says, “Go Red Sox.” 1st guy looks at me with a...

I like this metaphor from my current read, The Moor’s Account:



The context is this: a young man is speaking with his father about his future. The father wants him to be a lawyer, and if not a...

I think by the 70s the cop shows had pretty much subsumed the cowboy shows. Both genres more or less followed the same formula. Movies too. The man with no name became Dirty Harry. I watched a few...

Also, bounty, bah-hahahaha,
I gotta get one of those bed covers!

I found this from The Atlantic. It’s concerning the physiological limitations of the human body and the demands for ever more speed in major league baseball:

Arms Are Flying Off Their Hinges...

Hey, I read Marley and Me a while back. Enjoyed it. At the time we had a dog named Molly, so for me the book was Molly and Me.

Gotta say, I totally enjoyed The Hunter. It’s a who-done-it, but it’s...

Agreed. I caught a little of the Paris - Roubaix this morning.

I could stand to learn a little more Japanese. I’ve going there recently. I only know a handful of words, but I use all of them with every local I meet:

Hai - uh-huh
Eeie - uh-uh
Konichiwa -...

Ya know, I think that’s a valid defense for murder in some states:

Judge — Why’d you do it?
Defendant — He killed my dog, your honor.
Judge — You’re free to go, sir.

I’m aware that there are...

Domo arigato.

Yeech! Brutal.
Collarbones and ribs snapping like twigs in Basque Country.
Meanwhile in L.A. a young pitching/batting phenom looses 4.5 mil in a some sort of fishy gambling/translator type thing.

***SPOILER ALERT***

The psycho killer, the bone collector, I more-or-less figured out. He was playing the cops with a specific target in mind — Rhyme. In a parallel story, there's actionable intel...

Gotta be a beast to ride in those conditions (and on those cobbles).

You know, come to think of it, I don’t think anybody has ever eaten Cracker Jacks at a Mariners game. At T-Mobile park it’s all...