Comments | petitio: bring the pain hardcore to the BRAIN.

petitio

bring the pain hardcore to the BRAIN.

Aug 17, 2004 22:09

petitio: Let us not discuss what you would do to have had Kevin Brown in his prime pitching for Texas.
ghostrunner: :|
ghostrunner: Many many terrible awful degrading things.

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bananaquit August 18 2004, 11:35:51 UTC

I love Baltimore too, but I haven't been there in forever. I went to a music camp in the summer and practically all the kids there were students at the Peabody School of Music, and I'd go visit them during the year. I really want to go to Camden Yards someday.

Yeah, there's something about the Mid-Atlantic coast, isn't there? It sticks with you. And yum: steamed crabs.

petitio August 18 2004, 17:00:31 UTC

Oh, man, steamed crabs. They make me feel incredibly guilty when I eat them because of the whole cooking alive, environmental impact, etc, etc, but so, so, so good with Bay seasoning with a little vinegar and, also, potato salad or corn-on-the-cob.

What did you go to music camp for, if don't mind me asking?

bananaquit August 18 2004, 18:30:51 UTC

I don't mind at all! It was (is, it still exists) a camp for "young composers" in New Hampshire. So we spent five weeks living at a boarding school that was closed for the summer, hiking on the weekends, learning music theory and writing music. There were 35 of us, aged from 9-18. I still haven't had any summers as good as those summers were even though I feel sort of like a dork saying that about summer camp when I'm 31.

What I really miss about the east coast, apart from the history, is the topography. The midwest is so flat. I love all those hills in northern Delaware and those twisty back roads where the wealthy people live.

petitio August 18 2004, 19:20:14 UTC

God. Have you ever been to Garden Valley Park? It's up near Wilmington-way, and from what I understand, it used to be a DuPont private estate, so it's set right in the heart of those twisty back roads and hills. Narrow little snake-shaped park set between a pair of hills, winding path through tulip trees, a set of ornamental ponds, and then a hop over the highway to this reservoir that is, I think, the most beautiful place on Earth during the fall.

It's nice, by the way, to have somebody to talk about Delaware and the EC with. Most of the people I know at school are from, say, Oklahoma or Texas, so they are totally baffled when they talk about the awful slopes and hiking around campus, then point out little speed bumps and get offended when I say THOSE ARE NOT HILLS, YOU FUCKING WUSSIES.

galilei August 18 2004, 16:43:28 UTC

The Orioles are my one sincere (if oft forgotten) baseball loyalty outside of the Cubs, too. When I was a kid, we used to accompany my dad's best friend Randall to Comiskey when Baltimore was in town. Randall is crazy about the Orioles in ways that no man living in Iowa has any business being, and because of him, I can't help but be a little fond, too.

Another thing I can't help is being delighted to have at least one baseball opinion in common with you. I was beginning to despair of ever agreeing with you on anything except Posada and possibly, maybe but I'm not 100% sure, Kerry Wood. <3

petitio August 18 2004, 17:06:00 UTC

It's easy to forget the Orioles. They are not a big splashy team these days, and their players, with the exception of Javy and maybe Sidney Ponson, are all so workmanlike and quiet.

My affection for Kerry Wood is true and genuine, actually. I saw Game 7 of the NLCS last year, and oh, man. His was the first HR I have ever seen a pitcher hit, and man, the look on his face when he was taken out of that game. It broke my heart, and the stories that Hirsch told me this winter about how he has had to lay off his signature pitch since coming back from surgery -- I really do love him.

Do Cubs fans really love Prior more than they love Wood, or does it just feel that way?

galilei August 18 2004, 18:20:42 UTC

I am exactly the wrong Cub fan to ask about Mark Prior, as I have a somewhat violent resentment of him grounded mainly in my wild and crazy love for Kerry Wood. When this comes up with fellow Cub fans, though, I get blank stares and then hesitant, "You don't like Prior? Why? I mean, he's the savior, yeah?"s. Which really only upsets me all the more. I don't want a shiny new whizkid upon whom the future of the franchise rests. I mean, we already have one of those.

I have never been the most rational of fans.

But yeah. It might just be because Prior is new and exciting and ostensibly better, but Cub fans get quite a bit more worked up about him than they do Kerry. Though not so much lately; Prior has not been Prior since getting off the DL ( ... )

bananaquit August 18 2004, 18:27:45 UTC

Prior...well, I liked when you described him as a "cold, grim thing." I'd never heard that interview with Kerry Wood -- that question about "what would you do if you weren't" is my favorite; maybe because I'm envious of somebody who's so much a part of what they do that they are baffled at the thought of not doing it. If I had to pick a Cub player that I like it would probably be Wood -- although I have affection for Sammy Sosa. Nice to see you. ;)

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bananaquit August 28 2004, 14:51:32 UTC

Petitio:
I wanted to let you know I'm deleting my livejournal account for various reasons. But I will still read your journal and I would be glad to stay in touch if you're willing. My email address is nightjar at comcast dot net. I'll let you know if I start over with a new name and everything.

Viva Delaware!
Meredith