the girl who loved joe ganz

excerpted from the Stephen King novel, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon:

Pete liked Mo Vaughn, and their Mom was partial to Nomar Garciaparra, but Tom Gordon was Trisha's and her Dad's favorite Red Sox player. Tom Gordon was the Red Sox closer; he came on in the eighth or ninth inning when the game was close but the Sox were still on top. Her Dad admired Gordon because he never seemed to lose his nerve -- "Flash has got icewater in his veins," Larry McFarland liked to say -- and Trisha always said the same thing, sometimes adding that she liked Gordon because he had the guts to throw a curve on three-and-oh (this was something her father had read to her in a Boston Globe column). Only to Moanie Balogna and (once) to her girlfriend, Pepsi Robichaud, had she said more. She told Pepsi she thought Tom Gordon was "pretty good-looking." To Mona she threw caution entirely to the winds, saying that Number 36 was the handsomest man alive, and if he ever touched her hand she'd faint. If he ever kissed her, even on the cheek, she thought she'd probably die.

So I introduced my mom to Battlestar Galactica tonight - we watched the three-hour miniseries, all the way through.  It was wonderful.  My mom's not a sci-fi type exactly (neither am I for that matter) but she admits she got into it.  BSG is just impossible not to get into, not to sink your teeth into.  At the end when they reveal "Sharon" to be a Cylon model she was like, "ohhh" in a sad voice.  Ha ha ha, me and my mom.  I wish I had a huge television to watch it on, though.  The battles in the miniseries are amazing, especially lined with drums.  BSG is like a war dance; I think that's why I love it.

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