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Monthly Archives August 2006

Worse than better fiction

While I was away, Matthew Yglesias wrote to disagree, correctly, with Gregg Easterbrook’s assertion that shooter is an inappropriately PC term and should be replaced in news reports with murderer. Further on in Easterbrook’s Tuesday Morning Quarterback column (whose 2006 series began two weeks ago, to my pleasant surprise), TMQ complains that, in Mission: Impossible [...]

Posted 14 August 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Once Around the Island

We pushed off from the southern shore (my boat and me) toward the green- Ery that tipped the island’s eastern edge — the quintessential scene To end the long, camp-sited coast, where real estate was claimed by tethered boats. A fire I smelled but did not see burned somewhere in behind the trees. And passing [...]

Posted 13 August 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

It’s a journal

These things should really be written during the time they describe, because the memory afterward tends to focus on more recent calamities at the expense of longer-ago pleasantness. Anyway, here’s my 2006 Adirondack vacation diary: A lovely week. The house was fantastic; Dad and I went for a nice kayak trip; I wrote a poem; [...]

Posted 12 August 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °

Even better

Names have been changed, just because. INFINITIVE SPLITTER: “surfing on a rocket” and “coffee and tv” are two songs that are (a) perfect for any mood at all and (b) always improve whatever mood i started in SOMEONE ELSE: hahah SOMEONE ELSE: the best part is on my computer SOMEONE ELSE: (a) shows up as [...]

Posted 04 August 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Imbalance

Before today’s games, nine of the 14 teams in the American League — 64 percent — have .500 or better records. Texas is one of them, at 54-54, and the Seattle Mariners, at 53-54, could join the club tomorrow if they beat Oakland. Just five of the 16 National League teams — 31 percent — [...]

Posted 03 August 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (1) °