the girl who loved joe ganz
Jan. 12th, 2009 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intertribalexcerpted from the Stephen King novel, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon:
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.
Just a couple football bites today:
1. Go Eagles! -- 1) Go Buckhalter, Husker pride! 2) Go Bradley, Husker pride! 3) Donovan McNabb, you are... insane. But that's okay, because at least you don't advertise cologne in a cowboy hat. Plus you say things like this about how you were told your team would qualify for the playoffs: "I was told by the janitor. We have a pretty good relationship." 4) Sorry you had a sucky day, Eli. I guess you and Peyton can watch the Super Bowl together at home? I say that with well wishes, guys - this just wasn't your year.
2. Suh is staying at Nebraska for his senior year instead of going in for the NFL draft. He was the only player that got any national recognition this year (the Seattle Times had his listed as one of the top 5 performances of the bowl season!). Lucky for us, but a smart decision by the boy named Suh too. The first reason he mentioned for coming back, though? "You can’t put a price on graduating from college." Good man.
3. Can you believe Tebow thanked his "players" after winning the national championship? Not... not teammates. He thanked his players. And not "playas" in the gangster sense either (hey! he's a good Christian boy!). Just players. His players. Wow. I am so glad he's coming back for his senior season. *googly eyes*
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.
Just a couple football bites today:
1. Go Eagles! -- 1) Go Buckhalter, Husker pride! 2) Go Bradley, Husker pride! 3) Donovan McNabb, you are... insane. But that's okay, because at least you don't advertise cologne in a cowboy hat. Plus you say things like this about how you were told your team would qualify for the playoffs: "I was told by the janitor. We have a pretty good relationship." 4) Sorry you had a sucky day, Eli. I guess you and Peyton can watch the Super Bowl together at home? I say that with well wishes, guys - this just wasn't your year.
2. Suh is staying at Nebraska for his senior year instead of going in for the NFL draft. He was the only player that got any national recognition this year (the Seattle Times had his listed as one of the top 5 performances of the bowl season!). Lucky for us, but a smart decision by the boy named Suh too. The first reason he mentioned for coming back, though? "You can’t put a price on graduating from college." Good man.
3. Can you believe Tebow thanked his "players" after winning the national championship? Not... not teammates. He thanked his players. And not "playas" in the gangster sense either (hey! he's a good Christian boy!). Just players. His players. Wow. I am so glad he's coming back for his senior season. *googly eyes*
