June 2006

“Why is there one red star on the ceiling?”

June 29, 2006

On Wednesday, I watched Superman Returns. It was an absolutely wonderful movie. When that familiar, triumphant John Williams score opened the movie, when those electric blue-outlined credits started whooshing past the screen, I was five years old all over again: back in Mrs. Elmes’s kindergarten class on Movie Day, watching Christopher Reeve defeat Zod, Non and Ursa; running around my [...]

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Thoughts whilst watching Argentina-Mexico.

June 24, 2006

On msn.com they had a picture of the late Aaron Spelling next to this headline: “176-year-old ‘Darwin’s Tortoise’ dies in Australia.” It took me a second to realize they were from different articles. … I flipped over to an old episode of Star Trek between games. A bad guy shoots someone with a phaser, but says that [...]

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Suck, Part Two a.k.a. World Cup Germany 2006, Part Four.

June 22, 2006

Not an impressive effort by the United States today. I must confess that over the course of these three games, I have come to doubt Arena’s judgment, which is tough considering how much he’s done for the Men’s National Team over the last eight years. But in a game that we had to win in order to advance—no [...]

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Time-cross’d lovers.

June 21, 2006

Suspension of disbelief is essential to the enjoyment of much, if not most, fiction. The desire and ability to accept certain illogical or impossible plot devices will vary from person to person, but if people can’t accept those plot points, they can’t enjoy the movie. For example, let’s say a person who knows a little [...]

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World Cup Germany 2006, Part Three.

June 17, 2006

I’m about to go watch the US-Italy game with my dad. The US has to win this game to have a realistic chance of advancing, but defeating Italy is highly unlikely. All the same, our boys need our support, and lots of karma, luck, and superstition on their side–prayer’s probably going to be a wash with the Vatican being in Rome–so [...]

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Suck.

June 12, 2006

That team sure did suck last night. They just plain sucked! I’ve seen teams suck before, but they were the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked. –Homer Simpson Couldn’t have said it better myself. The US sucked today. They sucked. There’s not much else to say, aside from describing how much they sucked and why they sucked. And suck [...]

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World Cup Germany 2006, Part One.

June 8, 2006

At long last, the World Cup Finals, a.k.a. the best month in any given four-year period, begin tomorrow. Hopefully it’ll be relatively high scoring, there’ll be some great games, and a worthy champion will be crowned at the end. The United States is in Group E with Italy, the Czech Republic, and Ghana. It’s either the toughest or second-toughest group in [...]

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Decca.

June 8, 2006

Yesterday I saw a news item out of Maine that enraged me to the point that I threw something at the television. The something was a balled-up napkin, so I then had to deal with the frustration of not having broken anything in anger, which I accomplished by stomping my foot. Twice. The news struck me as so [...]

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Iconochasms.

June 5, 2006

I recently took an internet quiz called “Iconochasms,” which challenges you to identify the surprising sources of controversial quotations. The purpose of the quiz was to “adjust the pedestals on which you placed some of your favourite icons,” i.e., show you that sometimes our heroes and heroines say things that we might find contrary to what we’d expect [...]

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It’s off.

June 1, 2006

My boycott of Wendy’s came to a peaceful end this afternoon. I drove back to the Wendy’s in Glen Ellyn for the first time since I was shocked to find it closed on that communist holiday one month ago. I walked in, was greeted courteously, ordered my usual modified #6 combo, and received it promptly. I ate [...]

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