If you remember reading this post, well, here’s the sequel, which I’ll call “Honor The Dead, But It’ll Cost You II: Wordhawk Flies Again.”
The following quote comes from Robert Knilands’ Web site comes this post, which I had to dig a little to find (Robert, good design isn’t about decoration, but about functionality — dude, you need some design work done over at Wenalway!).
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(After some contemplation, I realized I wrote the original post without a whole lot of thought. So allow me to come back to this post, and please find it a bit more fulfilling than my previous edition.)
After breakfast in one of our hotel’s restaurants, Angie and I walked to Fenway Park.
Fenway was packed. In fact, it was another game in what has become the second-longest sellout streak in the majors. (The longest goes to my Cleveland Indians, who sold 455 straight in the 1990s.) If the July 4 crowd is typical for Fenway, here are a few observations:
1. If anyone was on his or her cell phone, I didn’t see it.
2. The fans were actually paying attention to the game.
3. Fenway Franks aren’t too shabby.
4. Almost without exception, if someone bumped into you, they said, “excuse me.”
I was impressed. And frankly, I’d love to go back.
Continue reading ‘July 4 in Boston — once more, with feeling’
What better place to spend America’s commemoration of independence than one of the places the Republic was born? Happy Independence Day from all of me to all of you.
(Actually, I’m here for a Red Sox game. My girlfriend surprised me for my birthday in May with this trip, so here we are, off Copley Square, hanging out before the July 4 game against Tampa Bay. I’m still floored by the whole thing!)
So I draft Roger Clemens into my VisualEditors.com league team, “Ink-Stained Wretches,” and when he comes back to the bigs, I forget to activate him? For several weeks?
I don’t deserve a fantasy league team.
There’s been a disturbing trend in newspapers for the last, say, decade or so, and there may be no turning back.
The “paid obituary” is now part of the American journalism landscape. Newspapers are digging themselves into a miry hole they’ll have a hard time getting out of, should they ever want to, all in the name of adding new revenue streams.
In my undergraduate news writing courses, we learned obituaries are the last news story ever written about most people. They were always treated as news stories, and most followed a template, including an order for surviving relatives and precedents to be listed.
No longer.
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