Entries from October 2008

October 28, 2008

The Storm Cloud Over This City

The Sports World and Mother Nature are in kuh-hoots to screw my beloved city of Philadephia.  I don’t understand what this city ever did to deserve it.  Philadelphia fans don’t lack for love-for-their-team or even a forgetful-love that loves year-after-year despite disappointment-after-disappointment.  What’s absolutely bewildering is the fact that Philadelphia teams aren’t actually bad, in [...]

October 24, 2008

Loom-X

The Phillies’ are in the World Series.  They’ve been different from teams in recent Philadelphia history in that they actually havn’t gone to Game 7’s to have to duke it out (where they would almost certainly lose because they’re a Philly team).  That’s been pretty exciting.  They won Game 1 of the World Series… and [...]

October 7, 2008

Lots of Words.

2008 will go down as a milestone year in my life.  Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.  The sub-prime mortgage crisis leading to the meltdown of the American economy.  Meeting her.  Coming to understand and deal with my insecurities.  Second year of law school.  Life is difficult.  Life is exciting.  Life is day-to-day.  Life is year-by-year.
I’ve had [...]