Game Thread 2: August 4, 2009
by APV on Aug 4, 2009 9:23 PM EDT
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Indians down 9-0 in the 7th. When do we face Seattle again? (Now with a literary bonus!)
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Regarding the conversation from the previous thread about the offseason.
I think we’re much more likely to see Shapiro get “creative” in the trade market than free agency. If you believe he’s looking to make a meaningful addition for 2010, and possibly beyond.
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It would have been a little bit melty by the time we reached your locale. :(
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I’m often not much of an ice cream fan. But if that was caramel instead of peanut butter…you could probably count me in
by APV on Aug 4, 2009 9:40 PM EDT up reply actions
I pretty much dislike ice cream and hate chocolate in general, but that Cotton Candy at Cold Stone is pretty good.
I was just sitting here wondering exactly how that worked. Wouldn’t ice cream that dissolves in your mouth be kind of awesome?
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i’m an ice cream enthusiast. just stocked up on some half baked this afternoon…very excited for dessert this evening (west coaster)
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 9:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Nooo! Bookworm adventures! You spell words to fight literary figures. I beat up Hamlet. It was good times.
In my defense, I was reading an article earlier today about using hookworm to fight auto-immune disorders.
there’s respectable research that says we’d all be a little better off if we just had a few more parasites as kids (mild exposures, mind you)
by APV on Aug 4, 2009 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions
JESUS ACTUAL CHRIST, JOE. I know you’re trying to impress me, but do it when you’re not playing my team.
ohka seems like he may run in a wolfpack of one
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions
am I the only one who thought The Hangover kind of sucked?
It got off to a great start, but then it just kind of dragged, and then they stashed all the funny stuff right at the end…
by APV on Aug 4, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought it was amusing … but not the laugh-riot everyone made it out to be.
by FallsTribeFan on Aug 4, 2009 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions
not off the top of my head. i haven’t seen bruno, though
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions
This year? Probably not …
Although I do want to see the Jason Bateman “Office Space” type flick … that could be a sleeper for me.
by FallsTribeFan on Aug 4, 2009 9:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Kunis is … well, maturing nicely, shall we say.
by FallsTribeFan on Aug 4, 2009 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought the set-up was really good, and “the day after” got off to a good start, but then….it just dragged. It wasn’t funny, it wasn’t interesting.
by APV on Aug 4, 2009 9:54 PM EDT up reply actions
That seems about right … although I do have a soft spot for Ed Helms, so that is likely coloring my perception of it.
I didn’t hate it … but it was far from the slam dunk everyone was making it out to be.
by FallsTribeFan on Aug 4, 2009 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions
I didn’t hate it either…but it’s probably not a movie two years from now that if I catch it on TBS I’ll stick around and watch it
by APV on Aug 4, 2009 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions
i saw ed helms, sarah silverman, one of the other guys who’s on the office every once in a while (holly’s new boyfriend, specifically), and a bunch of others at dinner in hollywood the other night.
so, basically, we’re best friends.
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Sounds like the night I had dinner with Jeff Garcia and Dennis Rodman in Vegas.
Although one of the two actually spoke to me.
by FallsTribeFan on Aug 4, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
Nice guess, but sadly wrong.
This was the off-season when Garcia signed with the Browns … he was actually kind of a nice guy …
Rodman’s bodyguard just grunted at me as I went to the restroom.
by FallsTribeFan on Aug 4, 2009 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Damn. I figured it’d be the opposite effect. The guy with a little fame (Garcia) lets it go to his head, while the legitimately famous guy is laid back and doesn’t care.
No .. it was a shame.
My group walked in right before Garcia, and when we said hello as Browns fans … I think he got a little scared.
Then after we were all seated, he actually got up from his table and came over and talked to us.
Really made me want to root for him … until he stared whining in Cleveland.
by FallsTribeFan on Aug 4, 2009 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
i love the image (maybe i’ve trumped it up in my mind) of carmella garcia executing a “kill bill” style swinging roundhouse kick to the face of jeff’s old girlfriend at a club in cleveland (i always picture it as the funky buddha).
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I was in a scene with Lauren Graham once.
by Logodaedalus on Aug 4, 2009 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
i’m in santa monica, but was out at the laserium (awesome name, not as awesome presentation) in h’wood for a show, and grabbed dinner on sunset
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 10:04 PM EDT up reply actions
it’s pretty clean living out here. easier weather to get used to than shaker heights.
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions
i thought it was pretty funny…the slideshow at the end was definitely the funniest part, though. that is true.
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 9:52 PM EDT up reply actions
I am not saying anything about anyone in our FO here, but I was getting a bit depressed on the way to Cold Stone hearing Hamilton rhapsodizing how lucky Minnesota will be to keep their awesome future free agents. Bah.
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Until they realize that the new stadium has no roof. In Minnesota. In April.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
Yeah, after April 30, the Twins will either have no off days remaining thanks to a ton of re-scheduling, or an amazing amount of doubleheaders.
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yeah, what is that shit? aside from stupid, of course
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I’M HERE! and in Clemson! But my MLB.TV is not working. Is this happeneing to anyone else?
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I liked Love in the Time of Cholera okay, but I was literally sobbing at the end of 100 Years. Like, your childhood dog just died grade sobbing.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Left my camera with my friend Amy at the wedding we were attending last weekend. Just editing the photos.
They’re all of Amy.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 9:54 PM EDT reply actions
See if I had been here all along we would have been fine. Sorry yall.
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I drove 7 hours today. Through torrential rain in the mountains. I’ve had a rough day.
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shouldn’t you be on some orientation trip, or something?
by APV on Aug 4, 2009 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions
orientation week was always one of my favorite time periods in college
by APV on Aug 4, 2009 9:56 PM EDT up reply actions
I was supposed to read that book for three separate classes and I don’t think I got all the way through it even once.
I think I made it through. The only novel I ever blatantly ignored in school was Wuthering Heights.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 9:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I had to read that one too. That’s the one with the huge family tree thing, right?
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Erm, don’t believe so. Just a tortured, tortured romance and a big creepy house.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Though there are a lot of shitty family tree novels.
“100 Years of Solitude,” not a shitty family tree novel.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Garcia Márquez, I guess you’re supposed to say.
by Logodaedalus on Aug 4, 2009 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I think I’ve read Love in the Time of Cholera three times.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I enjoy him, though nothing so much as “100 Years.” I was sobbing at the end. Like, “your childhood dog just died” -grade sobbing.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:06 PM EDT up reply actions
I am pretty sure if there is a hell and I go to it, the first thing I will have to do is read all the books I was supposed to read in school.
I am pretty sure my advisor for high school english had me read Wuthering Heights and I wrote an essay about how much I hated it.
I am pretty sure if there is a hell and I go to it, the first thing I will have to do is read all the books I was supposed to read in school.
Yeah, I seem to recall 10th/11th grade English as being particularly godawful in that respect.
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That’s because they usually stick juniors with American lit, which, I’m sorry to say, kind of blows. There’s some good stuff in the 1900s, but if you still care after Hawthorne and Melville, more power to you.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
true, you have to do some looking for great american lit…but i really enjoy poe, like emerson, uncle tom’s cabin was great, love whitman…and slightly different, but contemporaneous, the frederick douglass autobio is unstoppable.
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions
i put down moby dick pretty quickly, myself. i did make it through wuthering heights, though, although i hated every page.
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 10:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I think A Tale Of Two Cities was the only book in high school I simply couldn’t make myself finish (I made it about 50 pages). Only time I ever used a Cliffs Notes book instead.
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This is my favorite book I have ever HAD to read. Except for maybe The Great Gatsby.
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gatsby made me really love reading fiction.
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I gots both. I had to read The Faerie Queene, the Iliad, the Odyssey and loved them.
On the other hand, I had to read Paradise Lost and the Aeneid and wasn’t taken by them.
On the other, other hand, I had to read The Divine Comedy and frankly I don’t remember it.
i tried to read the divine comedy of my own volition…i didn’t make it.
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I found Paradise Lost really interesting, but possibly because I read it after I’d spent a few years pretending I was going to grow up to be a classicist.
You, too?
I spent a long time claiming that my life’s goal was to do a translation of the Iliad.
It’s good to know my life still has a goal.
Yeah, I was a Classical Greek language major for about three years, and then I got really sick and dropped out and eventually resurrected as an English major.
Neat!
I read too much Dorothy Sayers and was convinced classicists walked around dropping Latin phrases randomly into conversation. I wanted to BE THAT PERSON. It was SO COOL.
I’m dorky now, but I was in a whole other class of dorky then.
My bff was like IS IT LIKE THE SECRET HISTORY and I laughed at her a whole bunch.
i went around my classicism totally backwards too, since I started with Greek and then went to Latin and LATIN WAS SO MUCH EASIER and then I cried.
Ha! I went from Latin to Greek and felt like I had come home. Latin was fine, but Greek was gorgeous.
I don’t remember any of it, now. I seem to lose my languages the instant I stop taking tests.
Once you read Chaucer or Spenser,Milton is damned dry.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:16 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s quotable as, well, hell, but I agree with Julie that it’s a bit of a slog.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions
If you can make it through the first 100 pages or so, it’s fantastic. All the threads come together. It’s worth the effort.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s pretty great, but I’m a Great Expectations guy.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Surprisingly, I’ve never managed to make it very far into Great Expectations.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s awful. Don’t. Obviously you will get different opinions but there is one good part in that book and you should really just watch the movie or the Wishbone version to see that.
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At least the movie has Gwyneth Paltrow.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions
I think it’s less prose-y than the other Dickens, more character-y. (These are words.) If you don’t dig on the characters, it probably doesn’t do anything for you.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Does this mean if you think Pip can just stop talking and what’s her face can just go away you won’t like it? Beause that’s how I feel.
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Damned if I know. We’re clearly disagreeing on a matter of taste, that’s all.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Obviously. I just didn’t lke it. Do you like the Great Gatsby? Because then we could agree on something.
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I loved Gatsby, but everybody does. It’s a teenage soap opera masquerading as literature. Dude loves the head cheerleader, who’s going steady with the class jock, so he starts throwing these KILLER parties he can’t afford to impress her.
That last chapter, though. Hoo baby.
You want some Fitzgerald to chew on, I recommend This Side of Paradise. It’s so indulgent. My favorite thing I read when I was 20.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I have that with me this year to read! I was going to read it last year but I left it under my bed at home.
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You just have to remember that FSF was like, 21 when he started working on it. It’s cocky as all get-out.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions
but that’s true with a lot of the early 20th century American stuff…much of it is best read after one drink and starting the second, with a decidedly cocksure attitude
This is just making me remember that time an in-class assignment was “Today we are writing a Hemingway parody!”
“The day before his foot had been chewed off by ants. He had been drinking rum. He suspected some of it was on his foot, and that attracted the ants. Damn, it was hot.”
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions
And everyone does not like The Great Gatsby. Most people in my class hated it. My friend and I were the only two to really like it. I wrote my AP essay on it.
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Most people in high school hate everything they have to read.
Honestly, most people in college do too.
It’s just the way of these things.
Well most of them liked the other things like Great expectations. I was in the honors class so we all kind of liked school and were complete nerds.
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Most of the kids in my AP class hated just about everything we had to read, too. Then again, we had a crazy person for a teacher who was like “I have to teach you two epics this year! One will be Beowulf, and the other is going to be The Silmarillion :D? :D?”
The Simarillion? That is the strangest thng I ahve ever heard anyone read in high school. I also don’t like Beowulf. my insane english teacher loved it though so we all pretended we liked it.
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we had to do video remakes of Beowulf. My group, which was far from stellar, set ours to the theme song from Cheers.
Where everybody knows that Grendel’s Mom is one bad bitch.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions
We did a little chapter on Norse mythology that resulted in re-enacting Ragnarok with beanie babies.
Sounds like a potential youtube smash hit.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Beowulf huuuugely depends on the translation you get. The one we had in our text was awesome, but aforementioned crazy teacher was hanging onto texts from the 1960s that weren’t allowed to leave the classroom because she was so in love with that particular translation.
Hahahahahahaa. Holy god.
All-time greatest high school English memory: having Miniver Cheevy read to us by a substitute teacher whose voice was indistinguishable with that of Marvin The Martian. There were many of us who damn near started laughing aloud.
The only thing that could have improved the experience was if the teacher then added a “hmm, isn’t that lovely?” at the end. I think we would have all been sent to the office from the gales of laughter that would have resulted.
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Beowulf is like testosterone in print. Unrepentantly awesome.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Beowulf also forever will be entwined with the same crazy teacher taking us to a Renaissance Fair for a day, and we all saw a version of Beowulf enacted by a comedy troupe, and it eventually degraded into hilarious mud wrestling. There was a fun little Grendel song Grendel’s mom goaded us into singing.
We read a poem called Beowoof about a dog or a cat. That is all. We tried to convince her to take us to the beowulf movie even though we were all aware it sucked but she wouldn’t let us.
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Name me another piece of literature in which the removal of limbs is so prominently featured.
And no, “The Sun Also Rises” doesn’t count.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
the stuff I had to read in college was much better, because my prof was awesome.
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I agree, but people in my classes seemed to have about an equal amount of dislike. Perhaps my judgment here is skewed by the fact that I was a writing tutor and heard a lot of chatter about how much the kids I was tutoring hated the books they were reading.
Eh, idk. My class was really small though, so only like 2 people really disliked the stuff.
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Yeah we had like 12 people in a class. 24 total in the honors english program. We all got really close and knew what everyone liked and didn’t like.
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my favorite english classes in college (and I was in an english major) were 20th century american novels and Joyce
Dubliners is sheer genius. Never been able to make it very far in a Joyce novel.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 11:01 PM EDT up reply actions
If you liked Daisy, Nicole Driver will kill you. In a lame comparison, it has a lot of Mad Men in it.
Let’s go ahead and assume it’s the other way around.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:42 PM EDT up reply actions
funny, i actually picked up cities in the past 2 years…i think i made it 10 or 12 pages past where i quit on it in high school
by DontCallMeJoey on Aug 4, 2009 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Mayor of Casterbridge for the win, but Hardy’s actually my favorite poet.
by fleerdon on Aug 4, 2009 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Big fan of both Dickens and Trollope.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I liked the Barsetshire series much better than the Palliser novels, though both series were very good. The Way We Live Now is just brilliant.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Adding it to my list. Wait, it’s already on there.
Of course, I have 604 books on my to-read list. Yipes.
I actually kept a reading list that my high school American Lit teacher gave me back in 1981 listing books that a well-read person should have read. 15 or so years later, I posted it to the web for the hell of it.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:43 PM EDT up reply actions
Oh, and here’s where I admit that I went on to get an MA in English Literature with an emphasis in 18thC Brit Lit.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Good call. I think I hated EVERY character in that book. I wanted them all to get lost on the moors.
"It's all part of life's rich pageant, you know?" - Inspector Clouseau
by woodsmeister on Aug 4, 2009 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I think that was the only thing I didn’t read at all in my Modern British Novel course in college.
by Logodaedalus on Aug 4, 2009 10:00 PM EDT up reply actions
I love Heart of Darkness….I’ve twice read it on plane trips
by APV on Aug 4, 2009 9:59 PM EDT up reply actions
This.
I propose giving Victor a 2012 World Series ring.
by Gradyforpresident on Aug 4, 2009 10:44 PM EDT up reply actions
That reminds me, for those who were laughing at my description of the accent around here:
I was dealing with a guy named Amir on the phone. I put him on hold to ask production a question and coworker Chris said, “Who’s asking?” “Amir.” “You mean like those glass things you check your hair in?”
And yes, they do sound identical. :D
I see we have slightly different takes on the seriousness of this.
by Logodaedalus on Aug 4, 2009 10:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I think you get to assign them an embarrassing avatar.
by Logodaedalus on Aug 4, 2009 10:07 PM EDT up reply actions
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