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The Vicar of Dibley!
Oct. 8th, 2003 05:46 amYay! My favorite Britcom comes out on DVD this month!
And the BBC has also announced series one (uncut!) of Mi-5!
And the BBC has also announced series one (uncut!) of Mi-5!
Oct. 8th, 2003
Baseball thoughts
Oct. 8th, 2003 09:13 amWow. I've been a huge Mike Lowell fan for a while (he and Pujols kept my lame-ass Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team afloat this year), but it just doesn't get any more magical than what he did last night. And I've got to say, liking both teams in the NLCS means that I just want good games, regardless of who wins. And last night may bump game 6 of the 1986 NLCS out of the top spot in my "favorite playoff game" list. Yeah, it was that good.
Speaking of the Cubs, am I the only person who remembers that Bill Buckner ripped off his schtick from Leon Durham, who blew the 1984 team's playoff hopes by letting a grounder through his legs? Those BoSox never had an original thought, did they? ;-)
(And one thing even many Cubs fans forget is that Durham replaced Buckner at 1B for the Cubbies that year)
(And one thing everyone forgets is that Buckner was a great player, and one of the top defensive 1Bs of his time)
As for today's ALCS, I'm torn. I'm not a Yankee loyalist by any stretch of the imagination (being a Mets fan, of course). But I also have been conditioned to hate the Red Sox with a fervor normally only reserved for Illinois Nazis and Florida Republicans.
In the end, it doesn't matter. I'll be rooting for the NL team this year, regardless of the outcome.
I'm still working over my Mets season in review (the long version, as opposed to the Jay Sherman short version). Thoughts on that will be posted eventually.
Speaking of the Cubs, am I the only person who remembers that Bill Buckner ripped off his schtick from Leon Durham, who blew the 1984 team's playoff hopes by letting a grounder through his legs? Those BoSox never had an original thought, did they? ;-)
(And one thing even many Cubs fans forget is that Durham replaced Buckner at 1B for the Cubbies that year)
(And one thing everyone forgets is that Buckner was a great player, and one of the top defensive 1Bs of his time)
As for today's ALCS, I'm torn. I'm not a Yankee loyalist by any stretch of the imagination (being a Mets fan, of course). But I also have been conditioned to hate the Red Sox with a fervor normally only reserved for Illinois Nazis and Florida Republicans.
In the end, it doesn't matter. I'll be rooting for the NL team this year, regardless of the outcome.
I'm still working over my Mets season in review (the long version, as opposed to the Jay Sherman short version). Thoughts on that will be posted eventually.
Wondering what our daughter is planning.
Oct. 8th, 2003 09:20 amElayna is many things. But subtle has never been her strong suit. When she bought me a jellybean machine for my birthday a few years ago, she kept telling me that she couldn't tell me what it was (no, I wasn't asking!), but that she hoped I liked jellybeans. Yeah. That's her idea of subtle.
So I'm curious, because after reading a few more pages in her current book last night (The School Story by Andrew Clements), she told me that she had a great plan. But she couldn't tell me or Mommy, ever.
Well, the thing is, I know what the big secret in the book is (no spoilers, since it's on the cover), and it's that the main character writes a book and then gets it sold to her editor mother under a pen name. Since neither![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shadesong nor I are editors (we're just lowly writers), I'm not sure what she has in mind. I'm guessing it's to write a book and sell it, but I'm not sure why she feels she couldn't tell us. I suspect that when she finishes the book (and the mother finds out who wrote the book -- not a spoiler, since I'm just guessing here), she'll decide to tell us. :-)
So I'm curious, because after reading a few more pages in her current book last night (The School Story by Andrew Clements), she told me that she had a great plan. But she couldn't tell me or Mommy, ever.
Well, the thing is, I know what the big secret in the book is (no spoilers, since it's on the cover), and it's that the main character writes a book and then gets it sold to her editor mother under a pen name. Since neither
shadesong nor I are editors (we're just lowly writers), I'm not sure what she has in mind. I'm guessing it's to write a book and sell it, but I'm not sure why she feels she couldn't tell us. I suspect that when she finishes the book (and the mother finds out who wrote the book -- not a spoiler, since I'm just guessing here), she'll decide to tell us. :-)