1. I thought tomorrow, since the best team in all of baseball - my Detroit Tigers - were playing the most notorious team in all of baseball - the NY Yankees - on a National Holiday, then I might be lucky enough to see them on national television in public somewhere. Nope. ESPN is instead showing Poker (not even a sport) and Lacrosse. With as many Red Sox / Yankees matchups that the channel forces on us, I was hoping for a little national TV love. However, ESPN only carries Yankees games when they aren't playing the Tigers. It's part of their continued commitment to not acknowledging Detroit still has a baseball team.
2. The New Yorker ran a review of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee that summarily trashes To Kill a Mockingbird. The review is here. I'm not quite sure why a review of a biography of Harper Lee would need such a vitriolic attack on her novel, which stands as one of the great American novels as far as I'm concerned.
3. Why is it the weekend that I have some free time, there's nothing at any movie theater that I want to see? Believe me, I have nothing against popcorn movies, but my vhoices run right now of (A) the third in a trilogy that I never saw the second of; (B) the adaptation of a book I found overrated and predictable, and I assume the filmed version of it is even more predictable since I know the ending of it (and will someone please tell me why this movie is taking up screens at The Charles? This is an independent movie?); or (C) seeing Tom Cruise save the world again. There have been a number of films this year that I've just plain missed that looked really good (Inside Man, United 93, Thank You For Smoking), but now they've been crowded out by these "event" movies. Ugh.
4. When I decide to go to the grocery store at 10:46 pm for lime popsicles, why is it that I must run into students, who laugh and wave and call my name across the store?
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6 comments:
Being in first place in May does not matter (see 2005 Baltimore Orioles)and two months of good baseball does not make up for years of futility in the eyes of the TV gods. Maybe Detroit'll get some national TV love in mid-September if they keep it up. Until then and unless they are I wouldn't expect too much.
go see Water. the indian chick is HOOOOTTTT. and the movie is really good, too. except for the guy in the movie. his character is totally two dementional chick-flick fodder. You'd think the director/writer has never met an actual, real live human male or something. but the female/female relationships? exceptional. One of the best movies I've seen all year.
Oh yeah, did I mention that the indian chick is HOOOOTTTT. The actress is actually half polish. You like that, right? Personally, I likes the indian ladies. Nobody has kickin' bumps like indian women.
Hey, E - Inside Man is at the Valley Center 9 in Owings Mills on Reisterstown Road - 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 tonight. Not a bad theater, and there's a pretty good Thai place in the mall there.
Best,
G
All fair, except the Tigers will be first place in June as well (even if they lose all the rest of their May games), and the Tigers' record is already five games better than the Orioles' ever was last year. But, yeah, comparisons to the 2005 Orioles scare the hell out of me. I don't necessarily care if the Tigers stay in first place. Sure, I'd love it, but this team needs a .500+ season and a pennant race so badly that that's what I'll take.
But the lack of attention to Detroit goes back a long time. It's what I attribute the failure of Alan Trammell, Lou Whitaker, and Jack Morris to gain any support for the Hall of Fame.
Thanks Eebmore and G for the tips.
i was about to point out detroit's record...i'm impressed and jealous. as a yankees fan, i never expected to be jealous of a tiger's fan.
and i still can't get over the mini-celebrity status we have as teachers. you'd think kids would dread seeing us outside of school. i know once i'm done, i'd like a little privacy. i've tried to explain to my students i like to keep my teacher-life and my real-life separate.
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