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friday, july 26 12:43:09 AM posted by Blake Stuchin softball tonight was a little different than usual... last week my HM '00 boys were challenged by some punks from our year who went to columbia prep and stuyvesant. they spent all week talking about how badly they were gonna beat us and how they were such a better team than us, which is funny because we went in tonight and beat them 23-3. i took a no-hitter into the 5th finishing with this final line: 8 1/3 IP, 2 R, 0 ER, 2 H. at the plate: 3-5, 2R, RBI. we beat them so badly that they were clearly embarassed and upset, it was great. # Comments [] 12:54:05 AM posted by Blake Stuchin thing i love about new york #13,852: every thursday night when we play softball, there's a guy who rides around the park selling heinekens (illegally, of course) from a cooler attached to the back of his bike. # Comments [] thursday, july 25 12:17:52 AM posted by Blake Stuchin went to the see the new york philharmonic tonight in central park as part of the free show series and it was just one of those perfect summer nights that will remain long after other memories fade. it was a perfect night - 75 degrees with a clear, red sunset, followed by two beautiful hours of the world's best orchestra. wonderful. just wonderful. # Comments [] 11:06:50 AM posted by Blake Stuchin "a result of the pcp in eucalyptus koalas are high all of the time." -lauren, writing on her experiences thus far in australia # Comments [] wednesday, july 24 1:04:56 AM posted by Blake Stuchin "good friends, eh? if they're not gonna do it, i almost like it better when they fight and swear in the end." -chris hardwick, host of shipmates # Comments [] 1:19:07 AM posted by Blake Stuchin as i think about whether or not jim thome (the bomb, thank you keshav) will be traded, i've made this short list of players who have passed through Cleveland since 1997: Manny Ramirez, Brian Giles, Richie Sexson, Juan Gonzalez, Roberto Alomar, Bartolo Colon, Sean Casey, Kenny Lofton, David Justice, Jeromy Burnitz, Matt Williams, David Segui, Russell Branyan, Albert Belle all of these guys have been all-stars (except branyan, who has the potential to be one, and segui, who has put up solid numbers) and at least 4 of them (ramirez, giles, sexson, alomar) are franchise players. so this gets me thinking: if cleveland trades thome (the only superstar left on a team that has had more talent in 5 years than kansas city has produced since 1975), they may have dethroned montreal as the only team in baseball to successfully destroy fantastic scouting. i'm also wondering why the hell these guys haven't won a world series since 1948. # Comments [] 6:00:19 PM posted by Blake Stuchin Thoughts from riding Amtrak this morning en route to Philly: Why is it that all Amtrak conductors act like they're old friends when they collect your ticket? It's never like "Hello, ticket please." It's always "Hey man, how's it going? Philly today, alright then." As if it's ever anything else? And it's not just one dude, it's all of 'em. I ride Amtrak 4 times per week and I swear every one of these guys is the same way. Note to Amtrak: I do not know your conductors. Please stop incorporating colloquialism into your training programs. My ride home is always much more entertaining than the one there (probably because I'm awake by the time I'm going home, and because people riding Amtrak midweek at 1:57 pm tend to be far more interesting - or at least more talkative - than those commuting at 8:05 am). Today I met a girl who is transferring from Western Connecticut to University of Delaware because she wants to be a broadcast reporter and apparently Delaware has a good Comm department. She told me that in her ideal world, she'd attend college for six years and transfer every year, eventually winding up in California. Strange idea, but interesting nonetheless. # Comments [] 6:20:13 PM posted by Blake Stuchin mallory's article is on the front page of the New York Observer. the front fucking page! i'm so proud, i could gush like a jewish grandma. # Comments [] tuesday, july 23 2:32:35 AM posted by Blake Stuchin minivans are funny. I had a vision the other day of James Bond (wearing a suit or tux depending on his mood) running away from a bad guy. Bond dodges the villain's gunfire (as all good guys always do despite the seemingly excellent training of the bad dudes, but i'm not gonna touch that one) and makes toward his car and it's not a BMW, not an Aston Martin, not even an Alfa Romeo. No, this Bondmobile is a green Plymouth minivan.* Bond reaches for his keys and a quick button-push unleashes a squeaking noise that can be transcribed only as "dut dut." He dives into his car and does some aggressive driving maneuever in the car built to move soccer moms' children, eventually evading the evil do'ers and making the world safe for citizens of the crown and other non-russian peoples. minivans are funny. * i just remembered that they did a bit about minivans in the Travolta/Devito/Hackman/Russo movie Get Shorty. From what I remember, the movie was very funny. # Comments [] 12:22:18 PM posted by Blake Stuchin i just found out that my sister's story for the New York Observer is gonna run front page. I am so proud, this further proves my theory that my sister is much cooler than me. # Comments [] 12:47:42 PM posted by Blake Stuchin so i'm going to vassar on thursday to deal with my housing. i'm about to go visit the place where i'll be spending my next six months and i've never been there. i'm excited, kinda scared, kinda frightened by how my mother will react. thank god school's not in session yet. more on this as it develops... # Comments [] 2:59:38 PM posted by Blake Stuchin just got back from lunch with lily at benihana. nothing like an asian man dropping an egg on a table and in a thick accent saying "egg-WOLL" to brighten your day. As NYC lunches go, that's $20 well spent. # Comments [] 3:41:39 PM posted by Blake Stuchin Can't someone at CreditSights find work for keshav to do? Dapadapa: in the long run life is measured by only one thing Dapadapa: either your sons boys want to nail your wife cause shes a milf or they dont RitersBlok: and that's all that life is measured by? Dapadapa: yes # Comments [] monday, july 22 8:28:57 PM posted by Blake Stuchin This is my first post. It's been a long time since I felt really dorky, but now it's all coming back. woop. # Comments [] 8:29:06 PM posted by Blake Stuchin I have a paper due tomorrow for my comparative history of genocide class. I read today about german extermination of a southwest african tribe called the Hereros, who lost 3/4 of their people to german annihilation in a two-year period from 1904-1906. So that's pretty awful... # Comments [] 10:37:05 PM posted by Blake Stuchin news of the moment: OASIS hasn't had a hit in the U.S. in nearly a decade, but that doesn't stop guitarist/songwriter Noel Gallagher from bashing his betters. "The Rolling Stones made one good album, which was 'Let It Bleed,' " Gallagher declares in the latest issue of Maxim. "But the rest of them, I just can't sit through all that nonsense. They should just call it a day. I would like to say to them, 'Have you got anything better to do?' I mean, surely to God." The rocker then further displayed his tin ear by blasting Ozzfest headliners System of a Down. "After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band ever. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around." -New York Post, PageSix # Comments [] 10:47:58 PM posted by Blake Stuchin There's a guy in England who thinks he is Robin Hood with a broom. "Far from being a criminal, Kettering's 'phantom street-cleaner' has become a celebrity in the central English town where every night he secretly sweeps up a dirty shopping precinct." The UK is a strange place. # Comments [] |
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