Over on TrekBBS, there was some discussion last night and today about John Hurt’s tenure as the Doctor. A poster by the handle of Newspaper Taxi kicked it off: I don’t really see a lot of people talk about the Hurt serials that ran from ’01 to ’05. I really felt that the show tookContinue reading “Appreciating John Hurt’s Tenure as The Doctor”
A Wet Night For Baseball
Saturday night I attended my first York Revolution game in about a month. The Revs were playing the Sugar Land Skeeters. The York Revolution are my local profession baseball team. The Harrisburg Senators, Washington’s AA affiliate, are my closest affiliated team, but they’re a good forty minute drive from my apartment. Sovereign Bank Stadium, theContinue reading “A Wet Night For Baseball”
On Not Being a Nationals Blogger
On Twitter two days ago, I was called “a Nationals blogger.” By Nationals, meaning the Washington Nationals, of course. I am not a Nationals blogger. Don’t think of myself that way at all. But I was also thrilled that someone else would think of me in that way. Nationals blogger. I have, however, made someContinue reading “On Not Being a Nationals Blogger”
Hey Senators!
Monday was Stephen Strasburg Bobblehead Night at Metro Bank Park in Harrisburg. I had pencilled this game on my schedule long ago, after my second trip to see the Senators play on Bryce Harper Bobblehead Night. Then, before I could buy tickets to the game (as I was hoping to get some friends in theContinue reading “Hey Senators!”
An Oasis of Natitude Along the Banks of the Susquehanna
On Tuesday I attended my second Harrisburg Senators game. I was taking a vacation day at the office to attend to some personal matters and get in a day of downtime between my publication cycles at work. Over the weekend I decided that since the Senators were at home I could attend the game asContinue reading “An Oasis of Natitude Along the Banks of the Susquehanna”
The Radio Free Albemuth Kickstarter
When I was in college, I did a “binge read” of Philip K. Dick. A “binge read” involved taking an author and, for a semester, reading as much of his work as I could get my hands on. One semester I did a binge read of Larry Niven. The next semester was Orson Scott Card.Continue reading “The Radio Free Albemuth Kickstarter”
My First Harrisburg Senators Game
Last night I attended my first Harrisburg Senators game. I moved to the York area a few months ago; I needed a new place to live, housing in Baltimore (where I still work, as a copywriter) is stupidly expensive, and southern Pennsylvania had the advantages of being inexpensive and commutable. In the last month-plus, I’veContinue reading “My First Harrisburg Senators Game”
Passchendaele
I have always been fascinated by World War I. World War II has more things going for it — tank battles, bombing campaigns, the Normandy invasions, the Pacific theater — but World War I interests me more. Perhaps it’s the trenches. Perhaps the poetry. It may even be the futility and the waste. I haveContinue reading “Passchendaele”
Madame Vastra and Doctor Who Spin-Offs
After last night’s Doctor Who, the clamor for a spin-off series starring Madame Vastra, Jenny, and Strax the Sontaran has resumed. We met these characters in the sixth season in “A Good Man Goes to War.” Vastra is a Silurian who was awoken from her aeons-long slumber in Victorian London and set herself up aContinue reading “Madame Vastra and Doctor Who Spin-Offs”
On Gun Manufacturers and Criminal Prosecution
The story of the 2 year-old girl in Kentucky, who was shot and killed by her 5 year-old brother with a rifle he was given as a present, has been preying on my mind much of the week. I think about the little girl, I imagine that just a few days ago she was aContinue reading “On Gun Manufacturers and Criminal Prosecution”