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Polamalu looks like a huge Ronnie James Dio in that extended shampoo commercial.

Geno Stone and tackling are separate circles on the Venn diagram.

Idk. He doesn’t look overweight. 🤔

“All the money goes through the White House” is one of his thought fragments.

It’s a libertarian miracle!

I wish Diego Segui was still with us. He’d be perfect. He died back in June.

(He pitched for the Pilots and the Mariners on their respective Opening Days.)

King Félix should have the honor. Or Edgar. The Big Unit throwing to Dan Wilson would be great, too.

Missed it. We were out and about.

С Днем рождения Военно-морские силы США!

All the trade paperbacks of Stephen King’s fiction oeuvre. Not pictured: Rage and Never Flinch. These are arranged LtoR, TtoB on two tv trays and a coffee table.

The black and white cover of Rage, included in the trade paperback The Bachman Books from the 1980s.

Just finished Never Flinch. In Sep23, I decided to start at Carrie and read through all the Stephen King book length fiction in publication order.

📚💙 #booksky

Admittedly, I didn’t attempt to understand the assignment.

Uninhibited mosh pit

In the meantime, the ALCS is a battle of the 1977 expansion teams.

Ruppert Jones, Enrique Romo, Roy Howell, Jerry Garvin. During this series, it would be fun to have some of the guys from those teams back for pregame activities.

If the World Series ends up being Mariners v Brewers, expect a surge in stories and interest in the 1969 Seattle Pilots. The Ms exist because the Pilots moved to Milwaukee in 1970.

@jamesgunn.bsky.social touching talk about your father on the podcast. Made me think about my dad. Gonna miss Peacemaker.

This is unfair to both writers. I find their approaches more affectation than effective. (This likely means I’m an immature reader, I guess.)

So the winner is a Hungarian Pynchon: László Krasznahorkai. (Pynchon is an American Krasznahorkai; it’s omnidirectional.)

DeLillo? Maybe.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie would be a deserving and refreshing recipient.

Watch it be an obscure poet from Tajikistan.

Nobel for Literature:

Hmm? Atwood, Rushdie, Can Xue, Murakami, Murnane, even Atwood seem likely.

But I’m thinking Anne Carson or Louise Erdrich, or a poet from a small country.

Allende would be shocking. Pynchon would be terrible.

If the Blue Jays go on to win it all, Trump will…?

A new poetry genre: denaiku

He ain’t getting dressed until 10:30.

These SNL skits are getting too on the nose.

Man, I thought that was fixed with 802.11be. Someone should tell him.

He’s there to keep the rule of law from being an impediment.

Necessity will be determined by Miller and stated through Trump.

So the Bearcats have figured something out.

I struggled with one pitcher and that guy who actually hit that was a deadline pickup! It helps to follow the Bats.

I’ve considered The Tainted Cup for the TBR stack but I struggle with waiting on the next novel.

Idle idle.

This day and Yom Kippur are the moral and cultural opposites of everything America’s and Israel’s current political “leadership” represent.