...and Shaq will high-step up and down the court
Yahoo! News headline today:
Preakness winner Bernardini to skip Belmont
http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/news;_ylt=AqZP.vztRO7QjZCt2sdSunYX47kF?slug=ap-belmont-bernardini&prov=ap&type=lgns
Uh, I think trotting, or galloping, will do the trick a whole lot better.
Rick Rain
Thursday, May 25, 2006
And Not a Single Bodice-Ripper Among Them.
Only a recent Roth reading run has boosted my "score" in the NYTimes' Best Fiction of the Past 25 Years poll.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/books/fiction-25-years.html
And, dear editors, please define these books as those written in the last 25 years. A Confederacy of Dunces, published in 1980, was written, when? the Johnson Administration? By these standards, The Bondswoman's Narrative, the nineteenth-century slave memoir that Henry Louis Gates edited and had published in 2003, would qualify (only it isn't fiction...oh, yeah...but you get the point).
Was not the same with a Mary Shelley novel and a Camus book (The Last Man?), both uncovered/published in the 1990s?
Oh, yeah, and that nutty Gospel of Judas....Didn't that just come out?
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Happy (Birth)Days, Sammy.
This year is the centennial of Samuel Beckett's birthday.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/beckett/career/
In the early-90s "The John Larroquette Show," Larroquette's character, a bus station manager in St. Louis, was a fan of Beckett, and his apartment was adorned with a poster of said Irish writer. What will YOU do to commemorate John L.'s centenary, when it comes to pass?