Today’s (Random) Featured Posts
An Expression Of Gratitude, And A Few Random Observations From Tuesday Night
April 6, 2005 By Brad Zellar Leave a Comment
That was better. Much better. Thank you. I must say, I’m quite looking forward to the exciting, season-long sideburn war between Juan Rincon and Joe Mauer. Be careful with those razors, fellas, and may the most virile man win. And speaking of facial hair, did you see that whispy, demonic monstrosity dangling from Scott Spiezio’s [...]
Night Stand
January 31, 2006 By Brad Zellar Leave a Comment
We are contemptuous of transient well-being, as if there were any other kind. Routinely discounting the preponderance of evidence is not the behavior of reasonable people, nor is devaluing present experience because it may be overtaken by something worse…. Powerless people can hardly demand coherency of themselves, since they must always react to forces they [...]
Moving Day: Same Old Nonsense, New Digs
February 15, 2005 By Brad Zellar Leave a Comment
Brave new world, but in actuality not terribly brave and hardly new. At any rate: welcome to my world. I’ve crawled into a new hole, a new little closet where I’ll play my out-of-tune piano for the wee beasties in the floor boards. And for you –whether you exist or not is really no sweat [...]
The Return Of Uncle Jumbo: An Introduction
April 4, 2005 By Brad Zellar Leave a Comment
Early in my adolescence I played baseball one summer on a traveling team with this fat kid from a smaller town fifteen miles from the place where I grew up. I swear, this guy was the funniest, most bitterly cynical fourteen-year-old on the planet. He was also the best hitter I ever played with or [...]
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