Sunday, June 27, 2010

What Kind of Day Has It Been

TV geeks, I mean fans, know that Aaron Sorkin called the finale episode of the first season of his three tv series—-Sports Night, The West Wing, and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip---‘What Kind of Day Has It Been.’ On The M.A. Peel Show, the final Saturday in June has been quite the day here in Gotham...
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Monday, June 21, 2010

Solstice 2010: Just a Closer Walk with Thee

Today is the longest day of the year. People have looked for cosmic connections to this distinctive day for ages.Here is one I stumbled into:Yesterday was the season finale of Treme, the exquisite HBO series about post-Katrina New Orleans from David Simon. It was a quiet series, a brilliant snapshot...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Happy Bloomsday

This is where I came in to the live reading of excerpts of the novel that changed the 20th century at Symphony Space. The sound of Joyce. There's nothing like it. Stephen Colbert made a cameo and read one of the riffs in Cyclops. And this year we have the apology from Prime Minister Dave Cameron for Bloody Sunday. I was shocked to see it yesterday. Still processing.Ulysses: Cyclops“In Innisfail there...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

World Cup (cont'd)

I am enjoying the sweep of the World Cup. The closest I got before was the final of the Qudditich World Cup scene in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Ireland vs. Bulgaria. It seemed “their” thing, the European thing. Now it feels more like something we are a part of.South Africa Vs. MexicoI watched...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

My First World Cup (a late bloomer)

The day job has drawn my attention to the World Cup in a big way. I don’t remember it being even a blip on my screen four years ago (apparently Italy won), and now it’s front and center. I like the whole idea of it: teams across the world playing each other. Kinda makes our World Series seem badly...
              

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

A New Party Game: Ludlam-Speak

Our Man in Bangkok, Tim Footman, has brought us a tantalizing literary game in a post about Christopher Hitchens’s memories of a dinner party he attended with Salman Rushdie where somebody was complaining about the epic badness of the novels of Robert Ludlum, AND their titles. Can’t you just hear the...
              

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Running Toward Something (I hope)

I am trying to liberate my inner runner (my inner child already having many outlets of its own). The last time I ran was high school track, a sprinter. I was fast, but I didn’t run distances. On New Year’s I decided this would be the year of physical fitness for me. In part, because I can, because...
              

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

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