Considering that we all play by the same rules, it is staggering how the game differs around the world. If anybody needs conclusive proof on this fact, try watching a Mexican League game sometime and compare it to MLS. The pace is considerably slower, the ball tends to spend almost the whole game on the floor, and the focus is very much on skill ( Read more... )

short version: do you think we could get a good starting XI or a line-up out of people with visible facial scarring? Probably yes, I would think. I would not be on these squads, but I always thought I was awkward about this scar, and it doesn't matter in any direction any longer.

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The Bloom is on the Rye ( Read more... )

<3 Matt Cain! Edmonton South, good job! Nonetheless, I played SPORTS: A FEMINIST GAME during Game Six and was dismayed. It's a great game, it'll make you cry: work to one hundred points. You get 10 points for every female voice on the broadcast; we don't count male voices because a. it's fun to say that (HOW YOU LIKE IT NOW, Patriarchy?) and b. we ( Read more... )

Thin Stutter of Heat
2010 Mets: Niese, Pelfrey and Maine.
Notes: the way to get people to read your stories is to write gen about a team that no one likes because they suck. The game is this May 5th game, a 5-4 loss to the Reds. Title and so from J Michael Yates' "The Great Bear Lake Meditations." Edited by faded-lilac and much better for it ( Read more... )

"Well, it's not like I care that you two are sworn enemies or something ridiculous like that. I don't ( Read more... )

Hills Like Red Wings
LADIES, 1998-99 and 2009-10 Stars: Modano and Hull
Notes: LADIES, which I have at least talked up here. Hemingway, here is a text of the story, Hills Like White Elephants. There are a few lines which I lifted (including the cut-text) and this story is a structural interpretation of that one. But about hockey, not abortion ( Read more... )

cut off a motorcycle-riding cop today, but my pleading "oh my goodness, officer! I was just trying to get away from a creepy guy" went over well. Okay, when in reality yes, I was getting away from a creepy guy who reached at my open windows but I was also coming up with some STERLING plot ideas. My half-cross-country drive later this week will be ( Read more... )

Twenty-thousand words of exams. Now working through the Patrick Melrose novels. I mean, I like parts of them, well enough to try and finish the set (I have the first four: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk.) St Aubyn can really write. Look at this:

As Patrick approached the house, climbing as usual the right-hand flight of the double ( Read more... )

it's almost exams, and indeed I have hot study dates for getting heavy with fee tails and rules for criminal attempt the rest of the week. It beats chez the Patriarchy, but they're letting me live here next year, so I didn't even say anything when they were going round for round on how great the British Empire was; great/so great/no the greatest/ ( Read more... )