And There's #findingneverland On The TV. Damn You Xfinity! Killed Another Two Hours That I Should Have
And there's #findingneverland on the TV. Damn you Xfinity! Killed another two hours that I should have been writing. #seetheshow @americanrep
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Timely with the Series starting tonight in Boston against...the Cardinals
The Red Sox-Cardinals World Series starting tonight in Boston is the fourth time the two teams have played for Major League Baseball’s championship. The first Series, in 1946, was a low point in the otherwise stellar career of Ted Williams.
Williams did not get one extra base hit in the seven-game Series won by the Cardinals, managed just five singles and struck out five times for a .200 batting average. He did reach base five more times through walks. And a combination of good defense and the shift took away several potential extra base hits on balls that Ted hit on the nose. But that was part of Cardinals Manager Eddie Dyer’s plan.
When it was all over, Ted gave St. Louis its due, singling out pitcher Harry “The Cat’’ Brecheen as the Series hero for winning two of the games. “I think his mere presence on the field inspired the Cardinals,’’ Ted said. “I had hoped my bat would do the talking for me in the Series, but it was tongue-tied by some great Cardinal pitching.”
When the writers and photographers were allowed in the clubhouse, Williams sat woefully on the bench in front of his locker, hunched over, staring at the floor, disconsolate. Pitcher Mickey Harris sat next to him and struck a similar pose, and the two were pictured in a bleak tableau in the next day’s Boston Globe.
Ted was the last player to dress and the last to leave the clubhouse. Outside the locker room door, scores of Cardinal fans were lying in wait for him, hurling invective inside. “Where’s Williams?” they screamed. “Where’s Superman?” When he finally came out, the fans had formed two raging lines on either side of the door, forcing Ted to run the gauntlet of abuse. Police stood by, watching only to make sure he was not assaulted.
Williams took the insults impassively, yearning now only for the train, and the privacy of his own compartment for the long ride back to Boston. When the team finally reached the train, Ted made his way to his room, shut the door and wept. After a time, when he looked out the window, he saw scores of people gawking at him, a mix of glee and malice in their eyes.
(Photo: Ted Williams during the 1946 World Series. Brearley Collection.)
Oh, if there only were a Circus Library. My favorite thing about libraries? That they exist and are magical. My favorite thing about circuses? That they exist and are magical.
The Book of Speculation GIVEAWAY
The tumblr community has been hugely helpful during the long walk to publication. I’d like to give something back.
I’m giving away A Box of Speculation. It contains: an Advance Reader Edition of my novel, The Book of Speculation, a complete set of antiqued tarot cards (in their own box), and a hand-bound notebook in which you might start your own novel. Neat thing: the cards were aged and stained by me. Other neat thing: I bound, aged, and gilded the notebook in the same manner as the original manuscripts of The Book of Speculation. Pretty cool, no?
To enter, reply to this post or message me with your favorite thing about libraries, or your favorite thing about circus!
A winner will be chosen at random, and will be notified via ask box on 5/23/15!
things can work out…books are not dead…well, they are dead trees, but not dead as a business.
Understood in gambling terms, Twitter is a large and popular casino. There are design features that reward you for small victories while distracting you from commensurate failures. There are no clocks in Twitter. Time is displayed differently within its walls, measured not in dates but in distance from the present. All other visible numbers are cumulative, but you are given the impression that the past does not exist. It most certainly does, permanently and yet stripped of protective context.
An explainer on Twitter, by John Herrman. (via zzzzaaaacccchhh)
love this description...
When your friends' #books are on the same shelf in a @barnesandnoble in #SantaMonica #BlackMass #MasterThieves @publicaffairsbooks
And then we saw him. Handsome boyo. @ZuluNyala
Important stuff.
Who really makes money in streaming music? This is the contract Sony doesn’t want you to see.
Just some musings and electronic gatherings of an ink-stained wretch turned social media junkie. As JADAL says: No trees were destroyed in the sending of this organic message. I do concede, however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
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