Packed
Books Inventory from memory:
1. Asimov short stories
2. Hans Christian Anderson collection of fairy tales
3. Dostoevsky short stories and The Brothers Karamazov
4. Kafka The Trial and The Castle (so I’m don’t get disillusioned about living a life of service)
5. Sherlock Holmes Complete Novels and Short Stories Volumes 1 & 2 (a partying gift)
6. Superman: The Dailies [...]
Like a Kid
My love of NFL football begins early Saturday afternoon with warm glee. The kind of warm glee you feel as a kid waking up on a surefire snow day. No enduring the grueling minutes waiting and listening to school number after school number, county by county. Or state by state if you were unlucky. Not [...]
NFL FOOTBALL IS BACK!
I’m watching the 3rd quarter of this year’s opener between the defending champs, Pittsburgh Steelers, and the team with the best regular season record last year, Tennessee Titans. Let me tell you now that I have fallen head over heals for Chris Collinsworth, the replacement for John Madden in the broadcast booth next to Al [...]
Who cares about All Stars, let’s talk Rule 5 and Futbol
The All Star game was two nights ago. It is a mockery of baseball and I will not watch it until we have a new commissioner that realizes that it should not decide which league has home field in the World Series. The whole thing was made boring and self-serving by ESPN in the mid [...]
Banana Splits, Poppin’ like a cork!
Saw this video, the intro for the Banana Splits Adventure Hour, on Boomerang, sing-a-long form and much better quality, but alas I don’t have access to old TV archives like Cartoon Network people. Anyway, this makes me extremely happy, I hope it makes you happy too.
Letters from Iran
original letter from Iranian med student here. Translation below:
Hello,
It’s painful to watch what’s happening.
I don’t want anything to do with what has been said this far, as I neither have the strength nor the resilience to face all these unfathomable events.
I only want to speak about what I have witnessed. I am a medical student. [...]
Happy Birthday Momma
While Shaan and I may not show it most of the time. We love you. The gift of life is extraordinary, but you have given us both so much more. Through our failures and successes, heartaches and romances, and the many places life leads us, we will carry with us the integrity, thoughtfulness, and compassion [...]