Well, and I’m sure I’ve mentioned here a few times that John Scalzi’s Whatever is one of the few blogs I read daily that are written by people I’ve never met. One of the main themes of his blog (and…
As previously noted in this Tohu Bohu, the Venerable Order of Giants visit Colorado to play the Rockies on May 17. Your Humble Blogger is now pleased to add the information that the Pirates of Pittsburgh come to Pac Belle…
Dan, over at Position of Ignorance has written a generic journal entry, which intrigued Your Humble Blogger, and inspired the following (generic) musings. These musings begin, generically, with an examination of a word used in passing by Dan, which he…
This past Saturday was Shabbat Gadol, the Great Sabbath, which just means that services tended to go a bit long just before Passover. Our discussion didn’t go on very long, but it wound up being interesting, I think. The parshah…
Your Humble Blogger will likely have little time for posting in the next week and a half or so. Sorry about that. I will likely post a few times, but I doubt I’ll do any real research and analysis. We’ll…
The Giants play the Rockies again on May 17th. That is all….
Your Humble Blogger happened to be listening to All Things Considered t’other day, and I heard a twelve-minute piece by John McDonough called “A Look Back at ‘Your Hit Parade’”. The piece focused on what killed the show, rather than…
So. Once again, Mark Shmitt over at The Decembrist has an excellent post, this time on the hoo-hah in today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee committee meeting. For those not paying attention, instead of passing on the nomination of John Bolton…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has read twelve of the fifteen stories in McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, and I’m going to return it to the library tomorrow, so I think I’ll go ahead and add this to the…
So, I played a fair amount of APBA growing up. APBA, for those who don’t know, is a simulated baseball game based on statistics, similar to Strat-o-Matic or Pursue the Pennant. The players are field managers, mostly, setting lineups and…