Jordan’s comment reminded me that I forgot about his other website. Which, at least currently, links to a page advertising his book, The Grasshopper King. Which I like a lot, so go buy it! I remember enjoying reading the manuscript when we were in grad school together, but in the mists of time I couldn’t remember whether I liked it because he wrote it or because it’s actually good. Fortunately, the latter proved to be the case. My only quibble is that I always feel guilty about enjoying novels set in academia. But I suppose that you should write about what you know; anyways, now that I’ve been out in the real world for a whole year now, I guess I can start getting over that.
Side note to Jordan: at first I assumed the web page was the publisher’s page for the book, but a closer examination showed that not to be the case. What’s your connection with this Zeek magazine that’s hosting it? Who did the web site design?
Anyways, the real reason why I’m typing now instead of reading a book is my happiness at the Red Sox’s victory over the Yankees (at the expense of Mariano Rivera, no less), and at the awesome catch that Manny Ramirez made to take a home run out of the stands. Manny has a bad defensive rep, but he’s actually always been more or less decent defensively. Still, that was probably the best play I’ve seen him make. Good Red Sox crowd, too; it took me a little while to realize that, in fact, the game was in New York. We went to an A’s-Red Sox game a few weeks ago where the crowd as a whole was, I think, slightly tilted towards the Red Sox, and the fans around us were heavily leaning that way. Miranda was highly amused by the simultaneous “Let’s go Red Sox” and “Let’s go Oakland” chants, but her favorite chant of the night was one all the fans could agree on, “Yankees Suck”. She is a fabulous daughter!
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Zeek is a very interesting magazine, loosely centered on progressive Judaism, run by my friend Jay Michaelson. And, to the extent that the web site is “designed”, I designed it; I whiled away a fun day looking at the HTML sources for other pages that resembled what I wanted, and cobbling together from these the code for the site.
As for the Red Sox – Yankees series; I’m finding that, now that the Orioles are a fun-to-follow losing team instead of the dispiriting-to-follow losing team they’ve been for the last few years, I care much less about whether the Red Sox or the Yankees win the AL East. With Nomar gone, I’d probably like to see Minnesota or Oakland win the pennant over either of those teams.
That said, I alwayslike seeing Rivera lose. Did you catch the game a couple of weeks ago where the Orioles scored 4 against Rivera in the 9th and he had to be relieved?
9/19/2004 @ 2:50 pm
I’m still into the Red Sox, even though I haven’t lived there for 6 years now. I would rather see Oakland win the pennant, except that I’d rather see the Red Sox win the World Series, I guess. (On the other hand, I’m so blase about Oakland these days that I didn’t even go to the playoffs last year; I’ve seen enough ALDS games, I’m waiting for them to actually reach the ALCS.) Also, Theo Epstein is the sort of GM that I approve of. (Then again, so is Brian Cashman.) I don’t have anything against Rivera, though.
I was into Minnesota a few years ago, out of a combination of liking underdogs and wanting Bud Selig to be shown up as a liar. They’ve kind of gone stale on me now, though, because they haven’t managed to turn a good young team into sustained excellence. Hmm, or maybe they have – they have a better record than Oakland right now. And they do manage to keep on competing year after year. Still, I’ll be more than happy for Cleveland to start another string of AL Central wins next year.
9/21/2004 @ 8:34 pm