Monthly Archives: September 2007

Movies To Watch, Homework To Do, Teams To Pray For

It’s weird how some pop­corn movies go well with some and not for oth­ers. This is espe­cially true with movies directed by Michael Bay. I’ve heard some call him a hack direc­tor, while oth­ers can’t get enough of his flicks. I will say that his films are always well-made. With his last film Trans­form­ers I heard equally mixed reac­tions. It’s cer­tainly enter­tain­ing, but there were two glar­ing issurs I had with it.

Funny Face (50th Anniversary Edition) (1957)

“Ban­ish the black, burn the blue, and bury the beige.” – Mag­gie Prescott, Qual­ity Mag­a­zine editor

San Diego Padres + New York Mets Might Not Play In October

Lead­ing their respec­tive divi­sions for much of the sea­son mat­ters lit­tle since their rivals played bet­ter than they did in Sep­tem­ber. If you com­bine the add the days that both the Padres and Mets led their divi­sions over the course of the sea­son, you’d prob­a­bly get a full year’s worth.

Ichiro Suzuki Is A Hit Machine

Ichiro is the first player since 1900 to have 230 or more hits in three dif­fer­ent sea­sons. He had 242 hits in 2001, 262 in 2004 and has 234 this sea­son. Freddy Lind­strom (1928, 1930) and Rogers Hornsby (1921–22) were the only play­ers who’d reached 230 hits in a sea­son more than once in the mod­ern era. — Seat­tle P-I

Face/Off (Special Collector’s Edition) (1997)

The movie cli­mate has changed much in the last ten years. One of the casu­al­ties, some might argue, is the action film – the guy flick (don’t even ask me about the state of sci­ence fic­tion). When was the last time Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger had a hit movie? Granted he’s been away for polit­i­cal rea­sons, but his brand of action film seems to be lost to mod­ern audiences.

Manny Ramirez Is Back In The BoSox Lineup

Reac­tion: The Red Sox staff must be cau­tiously opti­mistic about get­ting Ramirez back.” — Buster Olney’s reac­tion to Manny’s return to the Boston Red Sox lineup after what seems like forever.

Eisley + Mute Math = Great Concert

Last night’s con­cert was great. I can’t say the same thing about the venue. It was a small club located on a block cor­ner sit­u­ated to the east of an auto deal­er­ship and to the south of a trailer park. Make your assumptions.