What a game!
Just watched all 11 innings of Game 7 of the ALCS. All I’ve got to say is:
Baseball and Books
First of all, I will admit that even as a life-long (hell, even longer than that– it was practically a genetic heritage) fan of the New York Yankees, I had been pulling for a Cubs/Red Sox World Series. An epic battle between two long-suffering cities, their teams and their fans.
However, with the Cubs’ loss of 3 consecutive games (not the fault of some random fan in the stands, as Wil Wheaton so eloquently confirms here), I’m now hoping that the Yankees win game 7 and move on to yet another World Series. With the Cubs gone, I can safely revert to the normal Boston-hating state of the true Yankee fan.
Plus, I think that the Marlins could wipe the floor with the Red Sox, and therefore a Yankee/Marlin World Series will make more a more exciting set of games. Basically, if the Sox fans are going to bitch about the Curse of the Bambino, I’d much rather the source of their pain be the Yankees, rather than the Florida Marlins.
In other news, I’ve picked up a couple of books recently:
Absolutely brilliant so far. Not really a science-fiction book, but a historical fiction book about science, written for science-fiction fans (i.e. geeks). Stephenson apparently wrote these books with a fountain pen, and, at 900+ pages, the book can also stop a small-caliber bullet, which is nice.
Taking breaks from the near-overwhelming depth of history in QUICKSILVER, I’m also dipping lightly into the following, reading one short story at a time:
Holmes/Lovecraft pastiches, by folks like Neil Gaiman, Poppy Z. Brite, and my pal James Lowder (whom I can now officially envy).
It Couldn’t Happen Here…
You don’t think so?
All elections in this country will soon be handed over to touch-screen electronic voting machines produced by corporations which are, in each case, headed by major Republican supporters, and in one case, a company headed by a man who was recently quoted as saying that he was “committed to helping Ohio to deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.”
There have already been some irregularities (to put it kindly), but, as has become increasingly, depressingly normal for this country, our so-called “liberal media” has ignored this issue. The news has to come from the UK.
Read this and get either pissed off, frightened, or both.