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Crab camp

( Family and Food and Geography and Sports )

The Question: How has a mild-mannered boy like me, never prone to guns or fishing or traditional masculine sport in general, wound up each summer on the hunt for crabs near the San Juan Islands on the Washington coast? That’s what I love to do come mid-August, and have done half a dozen times since [...]

I have measured out my life with Dodger Dogs

( Life and Sports )

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a thing for baseball. I grew up in Cooperstown, also known as “The Home of Baseball.” However disputed the origins of the game actually are, enough people in a position to judge were sufficiently convinced of a very sketchy story to credit the town [...]

Rising up through the talons of the tiger

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or to the challenge of arrival
or to the challenge of our rivals.
Whatever. 
 
Bryan at 2:20 am:  “2006 is my bitch, yall!!”
 
Happy New Year from Rocky Balboa and the Garden State Chorale, Inc.

And from all your best friends at The Great Whatsit.

Stella at the races

( Geography and Sports )

Escaping the humid Washington summer, Stella had occasion to visit Saratoga Springs for a day at the races earlier this month. A couple of years ago, she had developed an interesting betting scheme that was yielding a 15-20% return. The system consisted of betting to win or place on three horses per race, two favorites [...]

Hot news flashes

( Politics and Sex and Sports )

Extra! Extra! In the spirit of that dead-tree medium I love so well, but by means of this here “new media” vehicle, I hereby offer the Hot News Flashes of the day:
1. Oprah is not gay. In this month’s O magazine, Oprah informs a breathless public that she and her best friend Gayle King are [...]