Paragraph Line Books has a blog now! It’s at paragraphline.com/blog. The hope is to publish news items there, and then it’s easier to put them in other places with RSS. Right now, on the zine page, I have this hand-edited mess that takes forever to edit. This is much easier, and I can also get other people to guest-blog an entry, like all of the authors in the zine or books. So it should be fun – adjust your bookmarks accordingly, or for more fun, get some kind of RSS client and drop in the feed address. (I wish every single thing in the world had an RSS feed. So like, if I was sitting here and wondering what the tire pressure in my car was, I could go to a feed and find updates.)
I am back in town, by the way. Very busy, many things to do. TGIF but it will be a long Friday.
Baseball news – we are going to a Brewers/Dodgers game when Sarah’s sister is in town. The tickets just showed up yesterday – the most expensive ones I could afford, and $60 seats will be 20% shittier than $21 seats in Coors Field. But the Brewers seem to be bouncing back (8 wins straight since the break), and I’m not sure what’s happening with the Dodgers. They haven’t pulled the trigger on a lot of high-profile trades, and the rumor is that the front office is pissed about attendance this year and doesn’t want to spend a dime on anything else. But aside from Arizona, they are the only other contender in the NL West (unless the Rockies win the next 21 in a row again) and are only a game back. So it could get really good or really ugly.
I am also trying to get to an Angels game, and I might try to catch the Mariners down in Anaheim next month. Seattle is an incredible 24 games back from the Angels at 38-63. If it weren’t for San Diego’s 38-65 record, they would be dead last in the majors. But I really want to see an Angels game, an even better if it’s on a run for to the playoffs. And I never saw the Mariners the whole time I was in Seattle. I never saw them play in the Kingdome either, even though the view out of my window was the Kingdome, and now it’s gone. I don’t care about the NBA, but now the Seattle Supersonics are the Oklahoma Sonics, which is also a mind-blower.
Sarah’s going to be in Seattle that week, and we talked about making it another trip for me, but I am not sure about it. I haven’t been back to Seattle since I left in 1999, and I think I would get that weird nostalgia mindfuck I had in Denver this week, but times four. I’m not even sure who’s still in Seattle, or what’s in Seattle. I’d like to make the trip, but maybe not this year. I’d also like to time the trip so I could see a game at Safeco Field, before they tear that down and move the Mariners to Vancouver or Kentucky or whatever.
Also my internet connection has been fucked. Maybe 1 out of 9 connections stalls and times out, but then a second later it works. It’s annoying. Between this and all of the cable TV problems, moving to my ranch and living in a teepee is sounding more and more enticing.
Speaking of cable snafus, I’ve gotta go to Fry’s and spend money I shouldn’t need to spend on some cables and crap to get our new cable box to play nice with our DVD player. Fucking savages.
