Scooter Chronicles

This evening Marcia and I were invited over by David and Catherine on Lyric’s request to watch a movie. The choice of film was to be “Spirited Away” from the famous animation writer and director Miyazaki.

This is the second Miyazaki film that Marcia and I have seen. And like the first (“Nausicaä”), it was a wonderful movie. The animation, though very much like typical Japanese films/shows, it is very lush, and actually drawn (unlike the computer animation blitz).

The story surrounds 10 year old Chihiro, who is moving, and not looking forward to it. On the drive to their new house, her father takes a short...

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And my adopted (but still second favorite team), the Flyers, start first.

As expected, they announced they will buyout John LeClair’s and Tony Amonte’s contracts, according to this ARTICLE. Most Flyers fans will tell you that they are very sad to see LeClair going. But given the new salary cap, it is a move in the right direction. LeClair has been suffering from a bad back now for the last two seasons, and has seen limited action. And when he was on the ice, he had lost his effectiveness. As for Amonte, he was brought in to help fill the line-up with LeClair’s injuries, as well as Keith Primeau’s. What helped was that Amonte had...

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For the first time in a long time, I read a book of non-fiction for pleasure. That being “Eight Men Out” by Eliot Asinof. It is a look at the “Black Sox Scandal”, the fixing of the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. It is presented from as many different angles as possible, including the players, the gamblers, Mr. Comiskey and other baseball team owners and baseball execs, the lawyers and political officials, and the newspaper reporters that followed the scandal and trial.

It is hard not to compare this book to the movie. The scripts writer wrote it based on the information presented...

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