I recall

The band setting up at Rocky's
Free drinks, working the door
Jameson and Camel Filters
Collecting $3.00 covers
Costume contest winner: Magnum P.I.
German techno dance party upstairs
Paris porch, this memory's getting hazy

Go Phillies
Happy Halloween

Game one

The Fightin's handled New York brilliantly in Game One, delivering a 6-1 win with aplomb. Starting pitchter Cliff Lee meticulously disarmed the Bronx Bombers' offense with 10 strikeouts; A-Rod sat down shaking his head three times. Phillies batters put in six runs, including two solo-shots by Chase Utley off Yankee ace CC Sabathia.

Cliff Lee hurls a spike curveball. He pitched all nine innings, zero earned runs.

Carlos Ruiz waits while the umps deliberate over a potential double play.

Chase Utley watches his second homer fly. All Photos: Chang Lee/New York Times

Sustainability

Floating Skull, Damien Hirst (2006)

Urban agriculture

October thrill

Bottom of the ninth, Phillies trail the Dodgers by one run.
Ibañez grounds to the secondbaseman.
One out.
Matt Stairs pinch-hits for Feliz, drawing a walk.
Carlos Ruiz is hit by the first pitch he faces.
Bruntlett (running for Stairs) is on second, Chooch at first.
Dobbs stubs one into the glove of Dodger thirdbaseman.
Two outs.
Runners still at first and second.
Jimmy Rollins to the plate.

What the what

Have you met the Interrobang:‽


"Might we describe our current cultural zeitgeist as surprise superimposed over curiosity, mixed together with attitude? Is the interrobang a 1960s, type-based version of WTF?"

Harvest haze

Haystacks, from a series by Claude Monet

Carnivorous

Photo: Mitchell Feinberg for The New York Times

From article linked above:

According to reports by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. and others, factory farming has made animal agriculture the No. 1 contributor to global warming (it is significantly more destructive than transportation alone), and one of the Top 2 or 3 causes of all of the most serious environmental problems, both global and local: air and water pollution, deforestation, loss of biodiversity...Eating factory-farmed animals — which is to say virtually every piece of meat sold in supermarkets and prepared in restaurants — is almost certainly the single worst thing that humans do to the environment.

Every factory-farmed animal is, as a practice, treated in ways that would be illegal if it were a dog or a cat. Turkeys have been so genetically modified they are incapable of natural reproduction. To acknowledge that these things matter is not sentimental. It is a confrontation with the facts about animals and ourselves. We know these things matter.

The wall, continued

Here's the front corner retaining wall, a bit behind schedule but finally finished.




Planting: Azaleas, Euonymus fortunei, Nandina domestica

When the world wearies
and society ceases to satisfy
there is always the garden.

Pinstripes

I ordered a custom baseball jersey today, Phillies home uniform.
Number: 51 Name: C H O O C H

Playoffs start today in Philadelphia, 2:37PM.
Bam! Big win sets tone for 2009.
Phils 5, Rockies 1

Crump and me holding it down in section 143. Thanks, buddy - what a game.

Typical

MuteMath drummer Darren King, photo: DVD

Rocking show last week, as usual. Setlist:

The Nerve
Backfire
Chaos
Clipping
Electrify
Stare at the Sun/Obsolete
Plan B
Noticed
Armistice
Burden
Typical
- - - - -
Pins and Needles
Spotlight
Reset
Break the Same