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Monthly Archives April 2007

Self-respect update

I found out today that I can still hit baseballs thrown by the “fast” pitching machine at the local batting cage. I’m not very consistent, the “fast” pitches were probably only going about 60 miles per hour (which I think is about average for the 13- and 14-year-old pitchers who always got the best of [...]

Posted 22 April 2007 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Kurt Vonnegut

No artist had a greater influence on the way I learned to understand and articulate my ideas about pretty much everything that matters. Goodness requires no promise of punishment or reward; we are our own best (and only) arbiters of honor and accountability; and jerks and pain and delusion are ineradicable features of human existence, [...]

Posted 12 April 2007 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Lily Allen, HBO, Grindhouse

Some notes on recent entertainment. Lily Allen @ 930 Club. For all her efforts to cultivate an image as a diva with both middle fingers up, Allen’s on-stage manner is just childish. Dressed in a nightgown and backed by a band of polite fraternity brothers (many, many photos that other people took are available at [...]

Posted 11 April 2007 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments (2) °