September 23, 2005  Friday

Reports from Houston

My mom has been home sick with a nasty virus for several weeks. Her voice is shot, so she's communicating with family by email about their preparations for Hurricane Rita. She gave me permission to post those emails here, but...

September 20, 2005  Tuesday

Shoehorn with Teeth - Analysis

I looked at TMBG's site to see what had been written about this song by the fans who were trying to interpret it. I expected this to be dismissed as mostly obvious, but instead found that none of the commenters...

Potshots at Small Minds

My random music selection strikes again. In the context of having recently finished listening to Sinclair Lewis' "Elmer Gantry," and begun listening to radio shows from the eighties featuring Ole Anthony, these two songs played from my computer's speakers this...

September 19, 2005  Monday

Kevin 4 - 1 Penguins

Our first game of the season, against the Lightning Bolts, was pretty even. I don't know what the score was since I honestly wasn't keeping track, but there were multiple goals scored by both sides. On this Saturday, we were...

September 6, 2005  Tuesday

We're In!

Caught the second half of the US-Mexico match on ESPN Classic on Saturday night. Ralston and Beasley's goals clinched our ticket to Germany. And Kasey Keller is now at 507 minutes of clean sheet play for World Cup qualifying games....