Gandhi on the beat…
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Himanshu Suri <//////////> wrote:
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Defense: And that’s what you observed?
Witness: Yes.
Defense: You’re saying you saw it.
Witness: Yes.
Defense: You’re saying you seen it (gravity pause) with your peepers?
Prosecution: (Very annoyed) Objection! Your honor, do we have to hear this question every single time? The State concedes that if any witness in this case testifies they seen something, anything, they seen it with their peepers.
Judge: Counsel?
Defense: (At prosecution) Dammit Jerry! I don’t tell you how to do your job!
Judge: Counsel!
Defense: Apologies your honor. (Composes self) It’s just critical to my case that any witness testifying they observed the incident in question, that they think long and hard about whether they seen it with their peepers.
Judge: Objection overruled. Witness, answer the question.
Witness: I seen it. I seen it with my peepers.
Defense: Nothing further.
If I may speak for every member of the Dodger organization, our heartfelt and deepest sympathies to the mother and family of Nick Adenhart, and to every member in the Angels organization, for the untimely accident and death of young Nick last night at the tender age of twenty-two. Nick, from Maryland, had pitched six scoreless innings and was in a car with three friends, and a driver apparently went through a red light and T-boned the car, killing three of the four, including Nick, and one other member is in critical condition. And if there is one thing I’ve learned in all my years — and I haven’t learned much — but the one thing I’ve learned: Don’t even waste your time trying to figure out life.
Ground ball through for Andre Ethier, and life continues for those who still have it. And with a leadoff single, Russell Martin will be coming up.
But I would say, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take a moment and say a prayer in memory for Nick, especially for his parents. What a shock to lose a twenty-two-year-old.
Andre Ethier at first base, Russell Martin the batter, James Loney on deck, and the Dodgers try to strike in the second inning against Kevin Correia.
| — | Vin Scully, as only Vin Scully can be, simple baseball poetry. Transcribed from today’s Dodgers-Padres telecast. (via leitch) |
This segment will never last, but I thought it might be fun to write a few words about books I’ve read. By doing this I hope to (1) spend some time thinking about what I just read, (2) motivate myself to read more books, and (3) maybe introduce someone to a book they’ll enjoy. I shall call it, “I read a book!”
There are too many books. There are too many renowned authors. To combat this problem, I decided to focus on one. Having enjoyed Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, I set a vague goal to read all of his books. It has been over a decade, and I’ve managed to read three of them.
I remain upbeat in the face of my glacial progress!
So here’s the basic Dreiser deal: Starts with a poor person. Poor person gets money. Money corrupts.
I like understanding this basic idea, respecting it, and then still sort of endeavoring to obtain some money. Money is gross. Give me some.
Sister Carrie made me think about how our economy is dependent on ever-expanding markets. There always has to be more or the system breaks. Carrie, like anybody maybe, eventually manages to get something approaching what she wanted and is left unsatisfied thinking about what she doesn’t have.
Her rise is juxtaposed with the fall of an elder suitor named Hurstwood. He’s well-to-do, but ends up on the dole resenting the wealthy.
I think the point of this is that there’s an arbitrary cruelty to capitalism. Maybe. On the other hand I find that in my own life hard work gets rewarded. Maybe.
I don’t think I’ve properly digested this book yet. I’ll have think on this more.
Rating for Sister Carrie: This one was part of my “read for personal intellectual benefit” initiative. The story actually picked up and was enjoyable for the last half, but the first half was a slog. As “classics” go it was a pretty entertaining story. Still, I probably wouldn’t read this unless I had a reason.
This segment will never last, but I thought it might be fun to write a few words about books I’ve read. By doing this I hope to (1) spend some time thinking about what I just read, (2) motivate myself to read more books, and (3) maybe introduce someone to a book they’ll enjoy. I shall call it, “I read a book!”
WARNING: Minor spoilers in here. As I would recommend the shit out of this book, you could just stop reading this and go read The Passage right now.
Shout out to my wife for reading this book and telling me enough about it that I wanted to read it too.
Fact: I love post-apocalyptic books. I like them so much I once read a flaming piece of shit called Lucifer’s Hammer. And I liked it! From On the Beach to The Road to Children of Men to The Stand and The Postmortal. Seen a million faces. Rocked them all.
This segment will never last, but I thought it might be fun to write a few words about books I’ve read. By doing this I hope to (1) spend some time thinking about what I just read, (2) motivate myself to read more books, and (3) maybe introduce someone to a book they’ll enjoy. I shall call it, “I read a book!”
I read a book! It was called Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln and was written by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
DKG gets the RBG treatment from me, in that I refer to her by her tripartite initials.
If you were thinking, “Hey, didn’t you just read a book four days ago?” You’re right! (See this feed!) Obviously I front-loaded this New Year’s segment so that it wouldn’t peter out early.
In Team of Rivals, DKG achieves a fresh Lincoln biography by focusing on Lincoln’s relationships with his cabinet. The primary two in the book are Secretary of State William Seward, and Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase. Both Seward and Chase had more political cachet heading into the 1860 Republican Convention, but Lincoln out-maneuvered them to earn the nomination.
