April 15 is Jackie Robinson Day. Annoying ol' Joe Morgan started to say that the young people did not know about Jackie Robinson, which is totally false. That's just Joe Morgan being clueless. Like the time during the ALCS in 2004 when he went on and on asking why was Mirabelli catching during this important game (game six or something). Meanwhile it was quite obvious to everyone in New England and anyone who bothered paying attention to baseball why Dougie was catching --that is, because Wakefield was pitching.
Seriously.
Joe Morgan on ESPN Sunday baseball=put my TV on mute and put on the radio because even the timbre of your voice makes me want to vomit in frustration.
Anyhoo, Clueless Joe Morgan is postulating that young kids don't know about Jackie Robinson. I say we all email Joe withs stories of inspiration that the young people we know garner from Jackie Robinson story.
I'm such a trendsetter
Honestly, I am such a trendsetter. No sooner did I write my blogs about my love for all things Tudor, than Time magazine does a three page spread on their growing reprisal.
Apparently, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johannson (not my fave) are playing the Bolelyn sisters in an upcoming movie.
My cousin, Cate Blanchett, will be playing the Queen again as a sequel to "Elizabeth."
And Time wrote about the Tudor series on Showtime that I blogged about a smidge ago.
Apparently, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johannson (not my fave) are playing the Bolelyn sisters in an upcoming movie.
My cousin, Cate Blanchett, will be playing the Queen again as a sequel to "Elizabeth."
And Time wrote about the Tudor series on Showtime that I blogged about a smidge ago.
MAJOR TANGENT: Ooo, watching "Countdown" with Keith Oberman right now. A Portland, ME guy named Eric Taylor is the "worst person in the world."Anyway, Tudor fever is in the air, which is nice. I'm thinking cake and ale on Shakespeare's Birthday, April 23.
He divorced his wife but never paid alimony. He owes 700,000+. His ex-wife is dying of cancer. He said, "The only reason why I agreed to the terms of the divorce is because the lawyers said she wouldn't live that long." Awesome.
No seriously. Awesome.
Can you hear it?
It's sixteen hours until the start, and all I can hear in my head is the marching band playing that gloriously inappropriate school song. (From memory-not copied and pasted. Honest):
Fill the steins to dear old Maine
Shout! Til the rafters ring
Stand and drink a toast once again
Let every loyal m(f)an sing!
Drink to all the happy hours
Drink to the careless days
Drink to Maine our alma mater
The college of our hearts always
I could go on and do the verses, but I'll spare you.
According to University of Maine administrators, it's NOT a drinking song. It's a CELEBRATION song.
Right. Right.
All snowmobile drivers MUST retire their vehicles off campus before Saturday's championship game, should the Black Bears win tomorrow. This is the only link I could find to the 1999 incident. My friend Mathy is quoted in it, too. It's a perfect quote for her, too. Link
Anyway, it's so nice to be a fan of a team that is always in the playoffs.
GO UMAINE!
Also good today, the Red Sox kicked butt. Lurvely. Ah spring, I love your random snowshowers and end/beginning of my fav sports.
Fill the steins to dear old Maine
Shout! Til the rafters ring
Stand and drink a toast once again
Let every loyal m(f)an sing!
Drink to all the happy hours
Drink to the careless days
Drink to Maine our alma mater
The college of our hearts always
I could go on and do the verses, but I'll spare you.
According to University of Maine administrators, it's NOT a drinking song. It's a CELEBRATION song.
Right. Right.
All snowmobile drivers MUST retire their vehicles off campus before Saturday's championship game, should the Black Bears win tomorrow. This is the only link I could find to the 1999 incident. My friend Mathy is quoted in it, too. It's a perfect quote for her, too. Link
Anyway, it's so nice to be a fan of a team that is always in the playoffs.
GO UMAINE!Also good today, the Red Sox kicked butt. Lurvely. Ah spring, I love your random snowshowers and end/beginning of my fav sports.
Not Just Homophobic. Army Homophobic.
When Mom, Dad and I watched this story on Paula Zahn while eating our dinner of shrimp scampi--Dad's shrimp scampi is the best, BTW & National Shrimp Scampi Day is April 29 (I'll explain why I know that in a future blog)--we began discussing what will happen to Sgt Marcia Ramode, AKA the Biggest Closet kd lang Fan Evah now that her eloquent email have gone public.
Click here for the link to the story.
I must add that I really wasn't happy to hear that the insulted threw some American Indian slurs back at her. That was unfortunate, but it still doesn't excuse her behavior.
I wasn't bothered as much with the homophobia as I was with the grammar and punctuation. Listen, Sarge, you need to brush up on your writing skills. No one wants to read poorly written hate speech. That's just adding insult to ignorance.
Let me just list some style books for you. I've recently added a World Cat search bar at the bottom of the blog, so you can find them at the local library. Let me qualify this with a description of your local library, since you may not know.
(I must again qualify the derision in the last sentence. It doesn't come from Marcia Marcia Marcia being in the Army. General Petreaus has a PhD in international affairs from Princeton. The Army has plenty of intelligent people. My derision comes from her being an ignorant piece of sh1t.)
Here is the description of the Jersey City Free Library:
Serving the second largest city in New Jersey and located on the Hudson River across from lower Manhattan, the Jersey City Free Public Library system consists of a main library, four large regional branches, and seven smaller neighborhood branches to provide access to a diversified collection of 400,000+ pieces of printed, audiovisual, and electronic resources that addresses the needs of the truly multicultural clientele of the city's 240,055 population. *
(*good to know that the library is more open than the Army Recruitment Center. If only budgets were based on openness...)
And now, the list (I'm starting with the elementary level stuff):
Put it in Writing
Painless Grammar
Writer's INC
Once those are studied
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation (now there's something to be intolerant of!)
Elements of Style
MLA Handbook
Once you've read those, I think you'll be better equipped to spew hate mail.
Oh, forget it. I'll just do it for her.
I'm sorry. I just can't help myself. Once an English teacher, always an English teacher.
Instead of what Large Marsh the Sarge wrote: “YOU ARE DEFINITELY UNQUALIFIED, NOW TAKE YOU GAY SELF SOMEPLACE ELSE WE DO NOT TOLERATE GAY PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN ANY PART OF THE MILITARY”
She should have written (corrections in BLUE): You are definitely unqualified. Now take your gay self someplace else. We do not tolerate gay people like you in any part of the military.
The parents and I were discussing what might happen to her for these email. Mom said fired. I said, "Shoot, no. She'll probably get a medal if-uh- what's him name--" Then Dad said, "General Pace." "Yeah, Gen. Pace has a say in the matter.
This is what Gen. Pace said last month:
Speaking about the military's ban on homosexuals serving openly, Pace told the Chicago Tribune on March 12 that "homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and ... we should not condone immoral acts." He compared homosexual behavior to adultery, which is also prohibited by the military.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200703/NAT20070315e.html
Click here for the link to the story.
I must add that I really wasn't happy to hear that the insulted threw some American Indian slurs back at her. That was unfortunate, but it still doesn't excuse her behavior.
I wasn't bothered as much with the homophobia as I was with the grammar and punctuation. Listen, Sarge, you need to brush up on your writing skills. No one wants to read poorly written hate speech. That's just adding insult to ignorance.
Let me just list some style books for you. I've recently added a World Cat search bar at the bottom of the blog, so you can find them at the local library. Let me qualify this with a description of your local library, since you may not know.
(I must again qualify the derision in the last sentence. It doesn't come from Marcia Marcia Marcia being in the Army. General Petreaus has a PhD in international affairs from Princeton. The Army has plenty of intelligent people. My derision comes from her being an ignorant piece of sh1t.)
Here is the description of the Jersey City Free Library:
Serving the second largest city in New Jersey and located on the Hudson River across from lower Manhattan, the Jersey City Free Public Library system consists of a main library, four large regional branches, and seven smaller neighborhood branches to provide access to a diversified collection of 400,000+ pieces of printed, audiovisual, and electronic resources that addresses the needs of the truly multicultural clientele of the city's 240,055 population. *
(*good to know that the library is more open than the Army Recruitment Center. If only budgets were based on openness...)
And now, the list (I'm starting with the elementary level stuff):
Put it in Writing
Painless Grammar
Writer's INC
Once those are studied
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation (now there's something to be intolerant of!)
Elements of Style
MLA Handbook
Once you've read those, I think you'll be better equipped to spew hate mail.
Oh, forget it. I'll just do it for her.
I'm sorry. I just can't help myself. Once an English teacher, always an English teacher.
Instead of what Large Marsh the Sarge wrote: “YOU ARE DEFINITELY UNQUALIFIED, NOW TAKE YOU GAY SELF SOMEPLACE ELSE WE DO NOT TOLERATE GAY PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN ANY PART OF THE MILITARY”
She should have written (corrections in BLUE): You are definitely unqualified. Now take your gay self someplace else. We do not tolerate gay people like you in any part of the military.
The parents and I were discussing what might happen to her for these email. Mom said fired. I said, "Shoot, no. She'll probably get a medal if-uh- what's him name--" Then Dad said, "General Pace." "Yeah, Gen. Pace has a say in the matter.
This is what Gen. Pace said last month:
Speaking about the military's ban on homosexuals serving openly, Pace told the Chicago Tribune on March 12 that "homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and ... we should not condone immoral acts." He compared homosexual behavior to adultery, which is also prohibited by the military.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200703/NAT20070315e.html
Sushi Love
Oh dear heavens, I'm in love. Yes, it's true. With a lovely eat-in or take out sushi restaurant in East Milton Square, Ichiro Sushi.
Here's the story:
Yesterday, I was absolutely craving sushi. I was thinking I would head down to Fuji 1546 (waddup Dan?) in Quincy Center on my way home from work. Amanda and I got spicy tuna rolls on St Patrick's Day--actually, it was after midnight, so it was no longer St. Patrick's Day. Eating sushi on St Patrick's Day is a bit sacriledge, idden'it?--and they were soooo good.
However, before I could even make it out of Driving Hell AKA the Over Pass/One Way Street/ Traffic Light-ridden/ Double Parked-adled/ Aggressive Driver-strewn/ Calgon Take Me Away Monstrosity that is East Milton Sq., I came upon Ichiro Sushi and an empty parking spot right across from it at 6:30 PM, no less. As if God Herself were saying, "Come. Come to Ichiro."
I was like Rachel Ray's $50 a day because I got the miso soup (1.50), the spicy tuna maki (4.00) and the sweet vegi maki (4.00) and splurged on the peach Japanese soda (2.50), which provided for entertainment because one needed a PhD in Japanese soda opening to open it. Everything came to a total of 13.13.
The Red Sox game was on (I don't even want to talk about it) and I sat at the counter and read while waiting for my dinner.
It was very tasty. So tasty, I want to go again today, but that would be inappropriate, budget and palette-wise. Variety and moderation should be the watch-words of everyone's diet.
Anyway, I recommend the tiny casual dining eat-in place if you're ever in Driving Hell and want a break after enduring your fifteenth stoplight in 100 yds.
Here's the story:
Yesterday, I was absolutely craving sushi. I was thinking I would head down to Fuji 1546 (waddup Dan?) in Quincy Center on my way home from work. Amanda and I got spicy tuna rolls on St Patrick's Day--actually, it was after midnight, so it was no longer St. Patrick's Day. Eating sushi on St Patrick's Day is a bit sacriledge, idden'it?--and they were soooo good.
However, before I could even make it out of Driving Hell AKA the Over Pass/One Way Street/ Traffic Light-ridden/ Double Parked-adled/ Aggressive Driver-strewn/ Calgon Take Me Away Monstrosity that is East Milton Sq., I came upon Ichiro Sushi and an empty parking spot right across from it at 6:30 PM, no less. As if God Herself were saying, "Come. Come to Ichiro."
I was like Rachel Ray's $50 a day because I got the miso soup (1.50), the spicy tuna maki (4.00) and the sweet vegi maki (4.00) and splurged on the peach Japanese soda (2.50), which provided for entertainment because one needed a PhD in Japanese soda opening to open it. Everything came to a total of 13.13.
The Red Sox game was on (I don't even want to talk about it) and I sat at the counter and read while waiting for my dinner.
It was very tasty. So tasty, I want to go again today, but that would be inappropriate, budget and palette-wise. Variety and moderation should be the watch-words of everyone's diet.
Anyway, I recommend the tiny casual dining eat-in place if you're ever in Driving Hell and want a break after enduring your fifteenth stoplight in 100 yds.
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