Monthly Archives: November 2004

Laxdaela Saga is Tearing Me Apart!

11/30/2004 – 9:58 pm

I’m 3/4 done with “Laxdaela Saga” and I’m finding it to be incredibly moving even though it follows the same pattern as some other sagas, most notably “Njal’s Saga.” In both cases, two of Iceland’s finest men who are close friends get caught up in complex web of betrayals and revenge and, at the heart [...]

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MLS Thoughts, Including Real-ly Bad Names

11/28/2004 – 1:51 am

Good lord, just when I think MLS might be coming around… But before the moaning begins, I’ll start on a positive. MLS Cup is turning into a consistently good event. Kansas City’s opening bomb freed the game up and the DC United goal-blitz that followed was almost too incredible to believe. The ejection of Dema [...]

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Reading, Writing, Music, and Musing

11/19/2004 – 9:23 pm

Keeping busy these days. I suggested a reading forum for my Clarion buddies and a good four or five people have jumped in. We’re reading stories from big fantasy and sci-fi mags and commenting on them. It’s good to know that I’m not alone in scratching my head on some of the stories. I’ve always [...]

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Movies That Make You Grit Your Teeth

11/14/2004 – 10:51 pm

This weekend we rented Michael Moore’s “Roger & Me” and Alexandra Pelosi’s “Travels With George.” Both were frustrating documentaries. I don’t know what was worse in Moore’s film: watching the deterioration of Flint, MI or having to relive the 80′s. I loved how this film could have been made last week–American corporations outsourcing jobs to [...]

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Super Saturday

11/6/2004 – 9:01 pm

Spent Friday deathly ill for half the day, then tagged Amy who was up half the night getting sick herself. Residual soreness, lethargy, and permaheadache today. We sold our tickets to the last UW football game for the season for $100 and elected to watch it from home, a decision I do not regret despite [...]

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Elections Are Boring

11/3/2004 – 10:30 pm

Do other countries’ news channels “call” elections when 0% of the vote has been reported? Or does CNN poll the first ten people to walk out of the voting booth before calling the state. Seriously, where’s the drama? I got extrememly tired of hearing Chris Matthews pronounce the state as “Missour-ah” as though he was [...]

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