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Back in VA for another couple of days. A welcome respite from my house where my mom has Al Jazeera on downstairs, my father the local news or CNN upstairs, and I can't get away from the sound of women crying in hebrew, and women crying in arabic. Reminds me of that line from Suheir Hammad's "First Writing Since": i do not know who is responsible. ...shit is complicated, and i don't know what to think. but i know who will pay. in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.
Baseball stuff:
+ Oakland to be profiled on this week's TWIB.
+ Ballgame galleries. They're public right now, but they might be going friends only in a skoosh, because...I don't know. I'm feeling all weird and isolationist.
Anyway. Galleries. Small one for Tuesday night, since 1.) it was too hot to head down to the ballpark two hours before gametime, so I got down to the park just catching the tail-end of bp, 2.) I was a genius and neglected to use the sports setting on my camera, so of the few shots I took, 80% of them were blurry. We had an hour and 27 minute rain delay, which means I was up way past my bedtime and I scoreboard-watched the Marlins lose a tough one to the Nats, so I was a little down on account of that. But it was a close game, and the A's pulled it out, despite Huston putting a man on, with a one run lead, and I was glad for that.
More for the early ass Wednesday afternoon game. Which, despite the fact that it was hot as hell out, was a brilliant time. Apparently, Zito grew up idolizing Benson; that added subplot made the game even more fun. Dan signed my yearbook, so I was all ^____________^ for the next 4 hours. The A's and Marlins both won, so that was awesome. Talked with a girl in an A's hat and an O's jersey from Fairfax, VA. What are the odds? She asked me how well I knew the A's. I said I thought I knew them some. So she asks me if I know what Buckley's first name is. lol, hell, no. Before [Bad username or site: lilzie / @ livejournal.com] popped up on my radar like 3 days ago, I didn't even know this Buckley guy existed. So, I was 0-1 in the A's popquiz department. They wouldn't give us Brian Roberts posters when we came in, but I grabbed an abandoned one from under a chair a few rows back of me as I was leaving the ballpark. SO THERE. I don't really want it, but it was free, damn it. It's about 5'10, printed on fairly heavy stock paper. I damn near sliced off my pinky unrolling it to take a look. Shot of Brian, in front of his locker, I think, holding a bat and a bottle of Aqua Pod water. And since it's a "growth" poster, it has the height markers on the side so you can measure how tall you are against B-Rob. Or something. Look, it was free!
I have more and more misgivings about Lady in the Water with each tv spot I see. TPTB seem a little unsure of the approach to take to this film, which doesn't exactly bode well.
Baseball stuff:
+ Oakland to be profiled on this week's TWIB.
+ Ballgame galleries. They're public right now, but they might be going friends only in a skoosh, because...I don't know. I'm feeling all weird and isolationist.
Anyway. Galleries. Small one for Tuesday night, since 1.) it was too hot to head down to the ballpark two hours before gametime, so I got down to the park just catching the tail-end of bp, 2.) I was a genius and neglected to use the sports setting on my camera, so of the few shots I took, 80% of them were blurry. We had an hour and 27 minute rain delay, which means I was up way past my bedtime and I scoreboard-watched the Marlins lose a tough one to the Nats, so I was a little down on account of that. But it was a close game, and the A's pulled it out, despite Huston putting a man on, with a one run lead, and I was glad for that.
More for the early ass Wednesday afternoon game. Which, despite the fact that it was hot as hell out, was a brilliant time. Apparently, Zito grew up idolizing Benson; that added subplot made the game even more fun. Dan signed my yearbook, so I was all ^____________^ for the next 4 hours. The A's and Marlins both won, so that was awesome. Talked with a girl in an A's hat and an O's jersey from Fairfax, VA. What are the odds? She asked me how well I knew the A's. I said I thought I knew them some. So she asks me if I know what Buckley's first name is. lol, hell, no. Before [Bad username or site: lilzie / @ livejournal.com] popped up on my radar like 3 days ago, I didn't even know this Buckley guy existed. So, I was 0-1 in the A's popquiz department. They wouldn't give us Brian Roberts posters when we came in, but I grabbed an abandoned one from under a chair a few rows back of me as I was leaving the ballpark. SO THERE. I don't really want it, but it was free, damn it. It's about 5'10, printed on fairly heavy stock paper. I damn near sliced off my pinky unrolling it to take a look. Shot of Brian, in front of his locker, I think, holding a bat and a bottle of Aqua Pod water. And since it's a "growth" poster, it has the height markers on the side so you can measure how tall you are against B-Rob. Or something. Look, it was free!
I have more and more misgivings about Lady in the Water with each tv spot I see. TPTB seem a little unsure of the approach to take to this film, which doesn't exactly bode well.
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I love the pics. They came out great!
Interesting that Kiko was the one who stayed out signing forever at Wed's game, because I've never seen him sign at all before. I've seen Huston stay out *forever* signing, and Zito too...but other than that most people just seem to do an idle one here and there ;)
I was also relieved to hear that there's someone else who's general feelings towards Bobby Crosby is: "Eh..."
And you're the FIRST person who has gotten an image to me of Kotsay playing first base...which I appreciate, even though my opinion of that is along the lines of: "eeeeeek!"
What happened with Milton Bradley and the fans? I've read articles commenting about it, but I've been wondering how much of it is blown out of proportion because he's Milton. lol. I went to a game earlier this year in SF where he was getting a lot of shit from the Giants fans, but he just tipped his hat at them and played like crazy...so this must have been bad to get him worked up.
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He didn't want to sit with this fan, and made a big stink about it but waved to his Pops from the section we were in (129) and then blew him kisses between plays. Trily a kodak moment!
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Glad you had fun at the games and such! On the offchance that Mara doesn't want the B-Rob growth chart (right, who am I kidding?) I'd be happy to take it off your hands...;-D
I would never have guessed that: a. Zito is younger than Kris Benson or b. he idolized him. The things you can learn...
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I was completely surprised at the Zito-Benson connection, too! Very out of the blue.
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Admit it, you wanted that runner to score on Street, didn't you? ;]
A's this week.. perhaps Marlins next..? [is excited beyond words]
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whoo!
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Admit it, you wanted that runner to score on Street, didn't you? ;]
lol, yeah, Tuesday's night game, I definitely did :P
You're gonna get to see the Marlins for sure?
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on a side note...
i know so many peeps from your area, but i have yet to visit!!!
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The Buckley thing is so weird! o.O
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and, yeah. last in the league in pretty much every offensive category there is. WHAT BITCH. FIRST PLACE.
also, they say swish (with whom you are clearly in love) lost ten pounds. aw. mini-sized swish.
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Awww. I still owe you, in the grand scheme.
WHAT BITCH. FIRST PLACE.
**laughs** REPRESENT.
also, they say swish (with whom you are clearly in love)
:P Maybe just a little. I don't even have a Swish icon. Inconceivable.
Only 10 pounds? Well, I suppose that, and the fact that they say everyone looks a bit heavier on television probably explains why he looked much smaller than I expected. Poor dear.
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And the beginning of another one by Joe Morgenstern from the WSJ: M. Night Shyamalan's "Lady In the Water" was inspired, we are told, by a bedtime story the filmmaker told his kids. I'm here to tell you that this cloying piece of claptrap sets a high-water mark for pomposity, condescension, false profundity and true turgidity -- no small accomplishment for the man whose last two features were the deadly duo "Signs" and "The Village."
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I'm not reading any reviews, but I hold onto the sliver of hope that it might be okay -- I did glance at the Washington Post today (I think it was the Post), and judging from the title and the opening paragraph of that review, that reviewer really liked it.
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The Huston pics are my faaave. Was he really sunburned or did they just come out that way? It amuses me to the nth degree that they were arguing closers. "if we could have a REAL closer on our team, who would you want?" NOT COOL, guys. Save that for behind his back.
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Was he really sunburned or did they just come out that way?
He really was that toasted. You could really see it when he turned around; the back of his neck sported an especially red stretch of skin.
"if we could have a REAL closer on our team, who would you want?" NOT COOL, guys. Save that for behind his back.
LOL, I know, right?
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Of course, if I can know....
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Hope it's okay to ask, but which Al-Jazeera is that station you're watching? I think I read once that there are two news outlets that share the name, and one is much less radical than the one that makes the headlines...
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I think I read once that there are two news outlets that share the name, and one is much less radical than the one that makes the headlines...
That's curious, and I've never heard that, but I'm not really all that up with what's going on in the Arab-language media. We have the one that is part of Dish Network's Arabic Language package (http://www.allsat.com/international/arabic.php) of stations. I would presume it is the one the President and others have characterized as 'radical', but don't hold me to that.
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Okay, back to admiring yours!
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