Monthly Archives: July 2017
A Legend to Last a Teatime
Indiana Jones and the Hills of White Elephants
This afternoon novelist Una McCormack retweeted a link to a McSweeney’s Internet Tendency piece by Rachel Klein titled Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” from “The Girl”‘s Point of View. I don’t read McSweeney’s as often as I feel that I should, so I was glad that I read this. Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Hills LikeContinue reading “Indiana Jones and the Hills of White Elephants”
Digging into the Website
Lollipopping
Even now, an adult in his forties, when I go to the bank, I’ll pick up a lollipop. The circular ones, the cheap ones, in the plastic wrapper, with the raised edge and center. A green one. Always a green one. No other color will do. Is it because I like the taste of lime?Continue reading “Lollipopping”
Things Were Simpler Then
On Monday Warner Bros. dropped a new trailer for Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Blade Runner, starring Ryan Gosling and, reprising his role as Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford. To say that I’m looking forward to this film is an understatement. It’s quite possibly the film I am most anticipating this year, edging out even Justice League. (ForContinue reading “Things Were Simpler Then”
(Mostly) Spontaneous Baseball Road-Tripping
Inside my shirt there was a beetle. I was driving south on Route 11, somewhere between New Market and Tenth Legion, traveling fifty-ish miles an hour, when I felt it crawling on my skin. Pitch black, 10:30 at night, no lights except for the occasional home or oncoming car and the glowing letters of theContinue reading “(Mostly) Spontaneous Baseball Road-Tripping”
Did Amelia Earhart Survive?
Has a forgotten photo in the archives of Naval Intelligence answered the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance? I have no idea. Maybe it does. Maybe it doesn’t. But that’s the claim of an upcoming special on the History Channel. The reporting on the photo hasn’t made a case for believing that the photo does whatContinue reading “Did Amelia Earhart Survive?”
Scott Simon’s My Cubs
The night the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, I knew, then and there, that there was only one book on the Chicago Cubs and the 2016 season that I wanted to read — David Ross’s. One hadn’t been been announced yet, but it was inevitable, just as it was inevitable that there would beContinue reading “Scott Simon’s My Cubs”
Last Night in Stumptown
A clipping from the Stumptown Progressive… The hometown crowd witnessed something they had never before seen — the umpires examining a baseball for scuff marks and paint — when the Lake Wobegon Whippets took on rival Stumptown at Olaf Field Friday night. The drama came in the top of the seventh inning when Whippets secondContinue reading “Last Night in Stumptown”