From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Remember this kind of joy?

October 28, 2006

After the Cardinals won the World Series a few hours ago, my wife said:
“Right there… that’s why I love baseball. Every one of those guys is acting like he did when he was 10-years-old. No other sport’s champions look that way when they win it all. Football players and basketball players look like men. [...]

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The high cost of giving up

October 27, 2006

My buddy Lou Schuler at Male Pattern Fitness tells the story today of Dave Karaff, the scout who signed Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols (who’s arguably the best player in baseball today). Now, the guy’s stocking shelves at Wal-Mart after getting canned by the team—in an organizational shake-up—a couple of years ago.
Lou wrote all of [...]

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Should I be bothered that I most closely resemble Stephanie Seymour?

October 18, 2006

I suppose if I have to look like a celebrity, then the celeb might as well be beautiful.
I popped to this site called MyHeritage—after checking out Brian Sack’s latest—and these are the eight famous people I most closely resemble:

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Man… have I been busy

October 13, 2006

Not that anyone but me cares all that much, but the last ten working days have been jammed up with deadlines tighter than an ant’s ass. Trying to get some reading and writing done has been a nightmare. I have managed both.
Somehow.
On the upside, the opportunities I alluded to in this post have begun [...]

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I think I’m a hypocrite

October 3, 2006

After writing my previous post, the one about making time to write, I remembered that I’ve yet to write a review for Greg Iles’ 24 Hours.
It’s coming.
Mea culpa.

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No time to write? Whatever.

October 3, 2006

I was recently talking to a writer friend of mine who claimed he hadn’t been doing anything lately because he didn’t have time to write.
Uh huh. Keep telling yourself that.

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