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In a week where everyone's focusing on the brand new summer blockbusters that are out or about to come out (The Hangover Part III and Fast & Furious 6 both debut this week), guess what else happened? We got a new trailer for James Mangold's The Wolverine. And guess what else?
It seems that the North Korean military can not go a week without doing something to piss their neighbors off. Last week, I talked a little about their use of an American prisoner as a bargaining chip (a tactic they employ on a regular basis). This week, it’s yet another missile launch, albeit a smaller and more reliable one than the disasters they've had lately.
The purpose of a vacation is usually to get away from the mundane of the day-to-day and enjoy your life, but sometimes the most enjoyable things can be found in the beauty of death. I’m not talking about dropping dead, of course. What I am speaking of are the many cemeteries across the world that are, due to humanity’s desire to explain the end of our lives, collections of art. Many people don’t feel comfortable in the places of the dead, but you might be surprised as what treasures await. Since the beginning of time memorials have been made to express that mix of the beauty of a person
Over the last months, it appeared as if the majority of Asian countries were finally coming into sync where it concerns the North Korean situation. The DPRK’s continued aggression and the development of their nuclear program managed to irk pretty much everyone at once. Even
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Rauuuuuuul, Dept.
After "HR - Ibanez 2 (6)" in the Bronx on Wednesday, he went on ESPN's Quick Pitch and praised his teammates highly. "We've got a bunch of gamers and fighters, and we're enjoying playing together," he sez.
Granted, Rauuul has always been an org guy, a leader in this respect. But his statement is also accurate. The Mariners do have gamers now. Kyle Seager is a "gamer." Obviously Rauuul is. You can name your own list, and it isn't a short one.
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The average fan, like you and me, probably has no way to comprehend what it's like going from AAA to ... well, to being on ESPN, to walking out into triple-deck stadiums, to playing in front of 12 slo-mo TV's, to going up against all of the computers and scouting reports that tear a player's strike zone limb-from-limb.
It's got to be another thing entirely, to go into the city of New York and play in Yankee Stadium.
Many of us are proud to say that we’re geek to the core. Video games, role-playing games, super hero movies, comic books and other unique interests have defined the way that we grew up and turned us into the people we are today. And while some may “grow up” and leave their geek behind, others of us hold onto our love until the day we bite the dust.
Being that
If there’s one thing that
The picture above all but sums up the concept of my first novel: A work of historical fiction that depicts the Doolittle Raid of WWII in a manner best described as Thirty Seconds over Tokyo meets "Band of Brothers." The way Jimmy Doolittle and his men (along with USS Hornet captain Marc Mitscher) are posing in the shot is especially evocative of promotional pics of the cast of "Band" like the one pi
I was gonna do a series of posts about the upper and lower minors, but Spec is killin' it on MarinersTalk w/r/t that, so I figured I'd do something a little more free-form. Just the guys who've caught my eye early. It wasn't too long ago that we were looking for the Three Little Pigs down on the farm, some bacon with ANY sort of sizzle. We have a lot more sizzle now.
