Scooter Chronicles

This afternoon if finished “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini, his debut novel.

From Amazon.Com, here is part of Gisele Toueg’s description:

The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir, the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul, and Hassan, the son of Amir’s father’s servant. As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s, the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in...

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Bill Simmons’ (known as “The Sports Guy”) column appears on ESPN’s web site. I read it from time to time when I can. He usually writes once in a while just to answer email questions. And they don’t always relate to sports.

In the most recent EDITION of his column, there were some emails and/or his answers gave me a good laugh. One talked about saying to an actor or actress that you loved them in a certain film where they had a real small part, just to bring them down a notch. Like telling Kevin Costner, “I loved you in ‘The Big Chill.’”, or Matthew McConaughey, “I loved you in ‘Angels in...

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I saw this ARTICLE posted elsewhere, and can’t remember where. But here is the scenario.

The NHL decides that during the preseason games it is going to give the fans a show and let them see how shoot-out will work, regardless of the score at the end of the game. So what happens when the Phoenix Coyotes sent Brian Boucher between the pipes for this “show”? Boucher gets hurt!

As the person that posted at that other site (wish I could find that again) it makes about as much sense as NFL preseason games. Too many guys get hurt and are out for weeks (if not longer), just...

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Last night Marcia and I did something we haven’t done in a long time. We actually watched a whole movie, from beginning to end, that was broadcast on HBO. Thanks to Netflix, we haven’t done that in ages.

“Peter’s Friends” in the most basic terms is like the British version of “The Big Chill”. Though one of the friends doesn’t die, it one of their fathers. In this case, it is Stephen Fry’s character Peter. He was one of six friends that worked as a performance troupe at Oxford, and after graduation in 1982, they all headed the separate ways and didn’t see much of each other. Well,...

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