Sinister: two in one day.. martin amis made me do it...

[Jeff Burke]

Yes!  and the redsox have same type metaphorical representation tho' i'd say 
that the cubs represent futility and the red sox either false hope or 
absurdity...

I had a great discussion about the redsox and arsenal with Nick hornby after 
he did a reading... ....


And i must urge everyone on the list to read everylittle word Mr. Amis has 
penned. He's brilliant... and funny. and that's not an oft-seen together 
combination...

and the LLL, as a wordsmith I must recommend Marty's dad's The King's 
English.  Kingsley takes apart the english language... and shudders at every 
mis-use :)
pretty fun read as he states which expressions and word usages should be 
banned from the language...

and thanks to everyone who wrote to encourage me to go see Arab Strap 
tonight. I will and if it's memorable i'll write up a bit of a 
evening...review


I had some strangely seasoned tofu that's left a awkward taste in my mouth..

jb

>
>the cubs represent a literary type metaphorical type absurdity.  this is
>why they are so important to me. this was actually mentioned in a book by
>martin amis, "the information" it was nice to see someone else share my
>views.  i like the cubs so much because when i was 6 years old, and
>innocent, the cubs were in last place, and i thought they were so cute,
>and cool, i loved andre dawson and rick suttcliffe, and i felt so bad for
>them that they always lost, and i thought the mets were so evil and
>stupid. so i started hard core rooting for the cubs, and then in '89 they
>won the division, and everyone thought it was becuase i liked them so
>much and wanted them to win so bad. so now i hold on to the cubs as a
>symbol of my lost youth and innocence.  with every cubs victory my
>resistance toward becoming a jaded miserable bastard increases.
>
>yours in toothpaste,
>-jer
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