Musical Selection: Morcheeba - Big Calm, Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes, Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter.
I'm going through my pile of papers and filing. I hate filing, but those papers have to go somewhere.
Saturday, September 14, 2002
My take on the Oscar De La Hoya and Fernando Vargas fight.
De La Hoya is younger, and a strategic fighter. Vargas is older, but he's also a slugger. Vargas hates De La Hoya, and in interviews has called De La Hoya a "Ricki Maritn impersonator". It's a classic case of the smart tactical boxer versus the brash angry slugger.
Like I really know boxing, but if De La Hoya fights a smart fight, he'll win by decision.
Come on, every girl's gotta have a sport take once in awhile. And I actually like watching boxing if it's done well; it's almost like watching a ballet. Besides, I've taken enough aerobic boxing classes to know that what they do in the ring is very difficult. Boxing is a strange sport, watching it is even stranger. But it's so primal. Humans have been fighting mano a mano since forever. When I watch it, I feel like I'm accessing my ancestral past, you know, those ancestral voices. The urge to fight is part of that reptilian brain that we all have. I'm not sure we'll ever be able to ever get away from the urge to fight or watch others fight.
De La Hoya is younger, and a strategic fighter. Vargas is older, but he's also a slugger. Vargas hates De La Hoya, and in interviews has called De La Hoya a "Ricki Maritn impersonator". It's a classic case of the smart tactical boxer versus the brash angry slugger.
Like I really know boxing, but if De La Hoya fights a smart fight, he'll win by decision.
Come on, every girl's gotta have a sport take once in awhile. And I actually like watching boxing if it's done well; it's almost like watching a ballet. Besides, I've taken enough aerobic boxing classes to know that what they do in the ring is very difficult. Boxing is a strange sport, watching it is even stranger. But it's so primal. Humans have been fighting mano a mano since forever. When I watch it, I feel like I'm accessing my ancestral past, you know, those ancestral voices. The urge to fight is part of that reptilian brain that we all have. I'm not sure we'll ever be able to ever get away from the urge to fight or watch others fight.
Musical selection this afternoon:Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory, Puddle of Mudd - Com Clean, Kid Rock - Devil without a Cause.
Rock on!!! Whatever happened to MTV's The Headbanger's Ball?
Excerpt from my new book, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Now Chil the Kite brings home the night that Mang the Bat sets free--
The herds are shut in byre and hut for loosed till dawn are we.
This is the hour of pride and power, talon and tush and claw.
Oh hear the call! -- Good hunting all that keep the Jungle Law?
--Night-song in the Jungle.
Rock on!!! Whatever happened to MTV's The Headbanger's Ball?
Excerpt from my new book, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Now Chil the Kite brings home the night that Mang the Bat sets free--
The herds are shut in byre and hut for loosed till dawn are we.
This is the hour of pride and power, talon and tush and claw.
Oh hear the call! -- Good hunting all that keep the Jungle Law?
--Night-song in the Jungle.
Friday, September 13, 2002
Musical selection tonight: Legends of the Scottish Fiddle. I love celtic music, especially celtic fiddle music.
Madonna is on the cover my new Vanity Fair for October, dressed in a short sleeved navy blue leather jacket, navy skirt, boots, gloves and with some kind of soldier's cap perched on her head. She looks like she's dressed for a 1940's USO tour.
There's an article on some brit named Philip Pullman, who has supposedly written the next Harry Potter type books. Pullman wrote a trilogy called "The Dark Materials", which the article said is now flying off the shelves and will be published in paperback soon. I should buy his books and read them, since some day I plan to do my own set of young adult fiction books called "The Elf Girl Chronicles."
With that thought, I printed the recommended reading list for grades 6-8 from the California Department of Education. I feel the need to read books that are recommended for the age group I want to write for. There are books on the list I'd never heard of, although I also found some of my favorites from that age like "Julie of the Wolves". I can't believe people are still reading that book.
There are pictures of scenes from the next Harry Potter movie. Kenneth Branagh will play Professor Gileroy Lockhart. He beat out Hugh Grant for the role. I can't imagine Hugh Grant playing the professor of the dark arts.
There's an article on a major Degas exhibit that will open in Detroit this month, and in Philadelphi next February. I love Degas! This maybe an opportunity for a road trip. I haven't been Philly in years! Detroit would be fun to visit also, but it's too soon.
I'm exhausted. It's been a long week. Plus it's that time of the month, which plays strange tricks with my weight. And it was the anniversary of 9/11. Talk about a double whammy square. Thankfully, I have an appointment free weekend. Other than a few errands, I have the whole weekend to myself. YEAH!!! Part of me just wants to sleep most of it away, but I have errands to run. I think it will be very cold this weekend here where I live. What happened to our indian summer? There's some huge bike race on Sunday, which Lance Armstrong will be in. For me it just means that traffic will suck on Sunday, and I should probably take the bus if I have to go anywhere. I look forwards to a restful weekend.
Madonna is on the cover my new Vanity Fair for October, dressed in a short sleeved navy blue leather jacket, navy skirt, boots, gloves and with some kind of soldier's cap perched on her head. She looks like she's dressed for a 1940's USO tour.
There's an article on some brit named Philip Pullman, who has supposedly written the next Harry Potter type books. Pullman wrote a trilogy called "The Dark Materials", which the article said is now flying off the shelves and will be published in paperback soon. I should buy his books and read them, since some day I plan to do my own set of young adult fiction books called "The Elf Girl Chronicles."
With that thought, I printed the recommended reading list for grades 6-8 from the California Department of Education. I feel the need to read books that are recommended for the age group I want to write for. There are books on the list I'd never heard of, although I also found some of my favorites from that age like "Julie of the Wolves". I can't believe people are still reading that book.
There are pictures of scenes from the next Harry Potter movie. Kenneth Branagh will play Professor Gileroy Lockhart. He beat out Hugh Grant for the role. I can't imagine Hugh Grant playing the professor of the dark arts.
There's an article on a major Degas exhibit that will open in Detroit this month, and in Philadelphi next February. I love Degas! This maybe an opportunity for a road trip. I haven't been Philly in years! Detroit would be fun to visit also, but it's too soon.
I'm exhausted. It's been a long week. Plus it's that time of the month, which plays strange tricks with my weight. And it was the anniversary of 9/11. Talk about a double whammy square. Thankfully, I have an appointment free weekend. Other than a few errands, I have the whole weekend to myself. YEAH!!! Part of me just wants to sleep most of it away, but I have errands to run. I think it will be very cold this weekend here where I live. What happened to our indian summer? There's some huge bike race on Sunday, which Lance Armstrong will be in. For me it just means that traffic will suck on Sunday, and I should probably take the bus if I have to go anywhere. I look forwards to a restful weekend.
Interesting article on marriage from the Washington Post. This couple has been married for 43 years, and they say that marriage is "very hard work". They said they're not unusual, so they've written a book called "Toward Commitment: A Dialogue about Marriage".
One thing that I found very interesting in this article, is that they said that "it was criticism that almost sank the marrriage." I think they are right, although the big three - sex, money, and religion - are right up there too.
One thing that I found very interesting in this article, is that they said that "it was criticism that almost sank the marrriage." I think they are right, although the big three - sex, money, and religion - are right up there too.
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