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maybe one day, it'll all be clear
See, why should I care? Why should I even care? I think the last time I even watched a baseball game was a random Baysox one with out-of-state people. And I've been in a crappy mood all afternoon since I accidently copied over some files I needed for a project I was working on. And yet, I flip to channel five and see 6-0 Boston, and suddenly I'm grinning like an idiot.
Forget the *Yankees* being evil. I forgot that sports in general were an insidious method of mass mind control being used for dubious purposes by The Man. I must never forget that again.
And I wore my only sports logo clothing today, my old-style O's tee, with black overalls and a bright orange overshirt which used to hang in Dad's closet, since it was here, and I was amused by the Kodel(tm) stamped on the tails, so I ventured into the scary world of vintage clothing in an attempt to find out just how *long* it had been hanging in Dad's closet, and whether it dates to the same era as my equally-orange curtains which were also Dad's. Did I mention the world of vintage clothing is scary? The best I could tell from the dates given for Kodel in clothing, and the style of the tag and the Manhattan logo, it must be on the order of thirty years old. And still DURA BRITE ! For some reason, I don't think it was ever worn much.
Book meme
Hardback or Paperback? Paperbacks. Because you can get more of them. Hardbacks last longer and are easier to read, though, so I wouldn't toss one out.
Highlight or Underline? Neither. If the text is really that badly written, I take notes.
Lewis or Tolkien? Tolkien.
E.B. White or A.A. Milne? They're both good writers who I don't admire much as people.
T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings? That's evil! I can't pick!
Stephen King or Dean Koontz? King, as I've actually read something by him.
Barnes & Noble or Borders? Neither. But Borders, because it has CDs and DVDs too.
Waldenbooks or B. Dalton? Neither. Support your local independent bookstore!
Fantasy or Science Fiction? I go for pretension, and say I am an SF fan, and SF stands for "speculative fiction". Because these days, the gray areas are so big it's all twilight zone. And you rarely meet anyone who reads one and not the other anyway.
Horror or Suspense? Suspense.
Bookmark or Dogear? Seriously? I have apparently acquired the skill of putting a book down, picking it up later, and thumbing right back to my place *without any sort of marker* except tactile and gross visual memory.
Hemingway or Faulkner? Hemingway. And he's not as bad as people make him out to be.
Fitzgerald or Steinbeck? Fitzgerald.
Homer or Plato? Plato generally.
Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser? Chaucer is a lot easier to read in the original. And more fun.
Pen or Pencil? Depends. For writing, pen. For scribbling and figuring, pencil.
Loose-leaf or Notepad? Notebook.
Alphabetise? Fiction is alphabetical by size, for more efficient storage. Non-fiction is by LOC number. And no, I'm not obsessive-compulsive.
Dust jacket? I put them all back! Really! Shows how observant you are! -- but actually I find them annoying, they get in the way and get bent and don't actually do anything useful.
Novella or Epic? I like the length that used be considered a novel and is now a novella, like those old double-sided sf paperbacks and collected serials. 50,000 words or so, the NaNoWriMo length. It's long enough to sink my teeth into but I can still read it in two hours or so. But sequels are good. Sequels are lovely.
John Grisham or Scott Turow? Never read either one.
J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket? Haven't read any Snicket except excerpts. He seems to write a good pastiche but it sometimes seems just a little too precious . . . Rowling just writes stories.
John Irving or John Updike? Never read either.
Fiction or Non-fiction? Either. These days, it's mostly fiction online, non-fiction in paper, just because that's what I have an unlimited supply of.
Historical Biography or Historical Romance? Neither? Romantic biography . ..
A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter? Er, I can read a few pages while in the act of sitting down . . . so it's read as much as I can at a time, sometimes meaning an entire epic trilogy in one night.
Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay? Depends. Bad creative non-fiction is better than bad stories, good stories are better than good cnf.
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"? Once upon a time. Or long ago and far away. Or even "as long ago as forever, as far away as Selidor"
Buy or Borrow? Buy used. For less than $1, unless it's really special. I seem to have a problem with overdue fines lately.
Book Reviews or Word of Mouth? Word of mouth. 'course, online that can be a tricky distinction.
The Uniqueness of It All!
Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Probably nobody else has the Hardheadz demo CD.
Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Raven Dance. Really good novel, published print-on-demand, so probably nobody's heard of it unless they ran into the author's personal promotions.
Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:
Los Casos Mysteriosos de Sherlock Holmes? I know there are some spanish-speakers on my list, but I assume they actually have *taste*.
Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:
This is hard. The meteorites lab at the National Museum of Natural History?
Name a piece of clothing that no-one else on your friends list has:
Um. Practically my whole wardrobe. Hows about a bright orange Kodel (tm) cotton blend men's shirt? A pair of homemade silver harem pants? Nylon old lady underwear! And an entire collection of lingerie inherited from my grandmothers! An ocelot-fur hat! Polar Fleece cowl-thing! An Ionian chiton! An Old Mill Mathletes T-shirt! A Severna Park High School Faculty Polo! A tunic-length sweatshirt! A blue leather bomber jacket! Roger Williams Park Zoo souvenir socks with lobsters on them! A Lady Godiva kerchief! Need I go on?
Name an occupation that you've had that no-one else on your friends list has had:
I'm willing to give even odds that I'm the only person on my friends list who has never had a paying job. Sure.
Oh dear, the Yankees got a run while I was writing this. How sad. But the Sox caught up!
Forget the *Yankees* being evil. I forgot that sports in general were an insidious method of mass mind control being used for dubious purposes by The Man. I must never forget that again.
And I wore my only sports logo clothing today, my old-style O's tee, with black overalls and a bright orange overshirt which used to hang in Dad's closet, since it was here, and I was amused by the Kodel(tm) stamped on the tails, so I ventured into the scary world of vintage clothing in an attempt to find out just how *long* it had been hanging in Dad's closet, and whether it dates to the same era as my equally-orange curtains which were also Dad's. Did I mention the world of vintage clothing is scary? The best I could tell from the dates given for Kodel in clothing, and the style of the tag and the Manhattan logo, it must be on the order of thirty years old. And still DURA BRITE ! For some reason, I don't think it was ever worn much.
Book meme
Hardback or Paperback? Paperbacks. Because you can get more of them. Hardbacks last longer and are easier to read, though, so I wouldn't toss one out.
Highlight or Underline? Neither. If the text is really that badly written, I take notes.
Lewis or Tolkien? Tolkien.
E.B. White or A.A. Milne? They're both good writers who I don't admire much as people.
T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings? That's evil! I can't pick!
Stephen King or Dean Koontz? King, as I've actually read something by him.
Barnes & Noble or Borders? Neither. But Borders, because it has CDs and DVDs too.
Waldenbooks or B. Dalton? Neither. Support your local independent bookstore!
Fantasy or Science Fiction? I go for pretension, and say I am an SF fan, and SF stands for "speculative fiction". Because these days, the gray areas are so big it's all twilight zone. And you rarely meet anyone who reads one and not the other anyway.
Horror or Suspense? Suspense.
Bookmark or Dogear? Seriously? I have apparently acquired the skill of putting a book down, picking it up later, and thumbing right back to my place *without any sort of marker* except tactile and gross visual memory.
Hemingway or Faulkner? Hemingway. And he's not as bad as people make him out to be.
Fitzgerald or Steinbeck? Fitzgerald.
Homer or Plato? Plato generally.
Geoffrey Chaucer or Edmund Spenser? Chaucer is a lot easier to read in the original. And more fun.
Pen or Pencil? Depends. For writing, pen. For scribbling and figuring, pencil.
Loose-leaf or Notepad? Notebook.
Alphabetise? Fiction is alphabetical by size, for more efficient storage. Non-fiction is by LOC number. And no, I'm not obsessive-compulsive.
Dust jacket? I put them all back! Really! Shows how observant you are! -- but actually I find them annoying, they get in the way and get bent and don't actually do anything useful.
Novella or Epic? I like the length that used be considered a novel and is now a novella, like those old double-sided sf paperbacks and collected serials. 50,000 words or so, the NaNoWriMo length. It's long enough to sink my teeth into but I can still read it in two hours or so. But sequels are good. Sequels are lovely.
John Grisham or Scott Turow? Never read either one.
J.K. Rowling or Lemony Snicket? Haven't read any Snicket except excerpts. He seems to write a good pastiche but it sometimes seems just a little too precious . . . Rowling just writes stories.
John Irving or John Updike? Never read either.
Fiction or Non-fiction? Either. These days, it's mostly fiction online, non-fiction in paper, just because that's what I have an unlimited supply of.
Historical Biography or Historical Romance? Neither? Romantic biography . ..
A Few Pages per Sitting or Finish at Least a Chapter? Er, I can read a few pages while in the act of sitting down . . . so it's read as much as I can at a time, sometimes meaning an entire epic trilogy in one night.
Short Story or Creative Non-fiction Essay? Depends. Bad creative non-fiction is better than bad stories, good stories are better than good cnf.
"It was a dark and stormy night" or "Once upon a time"? Once upon a time. Or long ago and far away. Or even "as long ago as forever, as far away as Selidor"
Buy or Borrow? Buy used. For less than $1, unless it's really special. I seem to have a problem with overdue fines lately.
Book Reviews or Word of Mouth? Word of mouth. 'course, online that can be a tricky distinction.
The Uniqueness of It All!
Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Probably nobody else has the Hardheadz demo CD.
Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Raven Dance. Really good novel, published print-on-demand, so probably nobody's heard of it unless they ran into the author's personal promotions.
Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:
Los Casos Mysteriosos de Sherlock Holmes? I know there are some spanish-speakers on my list, but I assume they actually have *taste*.
Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:
This is hard. The meteorites lab at the National Museum of Natural History?
Name a piece of clothing that no-one else on your friends list has:
Um. Practically my whole wardrobe. Hows about a bright orange Kodel (tm) cotton blend men's shirt? A pair of homemade silver harem pants? Nylon old lady underwear! And an entire collection of lingerie inherited from my grandmothers! An ocelot-fur hat! Polar Fleece cowl-thing! An Ionian chiton! An Old Mill Mathletes T-shirt! A Severna Park High School Faculty Polo! A tunic-length sweatshirt! A blue leather bomber jacket! Roger Williams Park Zoo souvenir socks with lobsters on them! A Lady Godiva kerchief! Need I go on?
Name an occupation that you've had that no-one else on your friends list has had:
I'm willing to give even odds that I'm the only person on my friends list who has never had a paying job. Sure.
Oh dear, the Yankees got a run while I was writing this. How sad. But the Sox caught up!
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You don't really *need* to follow baseball religiously to love seeing the Yankees lose. Just growing up an Orioles fan is enough.
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This is completely irrational, but what sports loyalties aren't?
And! Boston vs. Texas! Why did I not realize that earlier? Whee!
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But also, yay! Boston's *so* going to win.
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Mmhmm. Agree, (nod)
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Oh, and Baysox suck.
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Yeah, I'm really more about the Shorebirds.
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Theres just something about being in that huge stadium, shouting with the crowd, or shouting them down when I went to O's games out here.