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(Tip o’ the hat to Crunchland.)
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A collection of ephemera.
Archive for December, 2008
Stuff journalists like
It’s really, really true: The Stuff Journalists Like blog understands its targets. Particularly accurate:
…and of course…
NPR.
New posts Randy 30 Dec 2008 No Comments
Waiting for the Nationals
Horrible. Unprofessional. Embarrassing. Those are just three of the words you could use to describe the play of the Washington Nationals last season, when they regressed in almost every way and became professional baseball’s worst team.
And yet here I sit, halfway through the off-season, waiting for those final three months to go by so I can once again head to the stadium.
Why? The Nats, again, have yet to make a dramatic pick-up in the offseason. They made an honest bid for Mark Teixeira, but they lost him — probably because of their reputation. They are a small-time team in the big town, they’re synonymous with losing, they aren’t taken seriously right now by Major League Baseball. Only winning will change that, and I don’t see much sign that this team is about to become a winner.
But what if they do? Washington loves winners and it will back the Nats if the team can win. The new ballpark has everything it needs to become a rockin’ little joint if the team can give us a reason to party.
Those are the kinds of thoughts you have as a fan of a bad baseball team as December turns into January. You wait and you hope and you dream. And that’s just what I’m doing.
Merry Christmas from the family
For anyone who has ever lived in the South, particularly Texas (or frankly, in a whole lot of the rest of the country), I present to you one of my favorite Christmas songs:
The holiday potluck pie
There is a sweet potato pie in my oven right now. I don’t make my sweet potato pie for just anyone, especially the complicated version that’s topped with chopped, toasted pecans and drizzled with maple syrup. Unless something goes terribly wrong, it will be a damn good sweet potato pie.
This sweet potato pie is for my new co-workers. There’s a holiday potluck tomorrow and I’m bringing this pie as my way of saying ‘howdy.’ Now, if I really wanted to say ‘howdy,’ I would have brought a smoked brisket, but a man’s got to know his co-workers better before he springs a brisket on them. My brisket is a serious commitment and I do not offer it to others lightly.
Sweet potato pie is more of an introductory present, sort of like bringing flowers to the door on a first date. The trick is to not bring the trashy flowers from the corner supermarket. If I wanted to bring the trash flower equivalent of pie, I would have whipped up a canned, forgettable, inferior, overrated pumpkin pie. But I’m bringing the good flowers, er, pie.
UPDATE: Evanston again tries to flare up the pie war.
Previous pie posts:
New posts Randy 21 Dec 2008 2 Comments