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12:42 am EDT 63°F (17°C) in Dearborn, MI
Calendar of Updates | Rod Allen’s struggles with the English language are the stuff of legend, I tell you. During a July 3 telecast of a game against the Cleveland Indians, Allen told us that legendary former Tigers radio voice Ernie Harwell would “narwate” a series of between-inning pieces about patriotism during the July 4 game. (He should have said narrate, of course, and I would bet he probably had the text for that promo right in front of him.) A few days later, he referred to the team’s website as “Tigers dot gom,” apparently inventing a new top-level Internet domain in the process. What else can you expect, though, from a former player whose greatest career moment was chasing a Japanese pitcher who had just hit him with a pitch all the way into the outfield? We’ll now move from dumbass baseball announcers to Christofascist terrorists. Three such terrorists were put in jail — where they belong — Thursday morning, after shouting down a Hindu chaplain who was trying to give the daily prayer in the U.S. Senate. This just goes to prove exactly what I said about so-called “fundamentalist ‘Christians’” in my June 25 entry: that their mantra is “freedom of religion for me, but not for thee.” Thankfully, so-called “Christians” seem to be busy making attacks among themselves lately, what with “fundamentalists” asserting that Catholics aren’t Christian and Pope Benedict XVI retorting that non-Catholic churches “suffer from defects”; at least the rest of us normal people might get a break from their anything-but-Christian behaviors for a while. All that aside, it looks as though today will be the day I will move into an apartment in preparation for my new job, which will start a week from this Monday (July 23). I am going down there to sign the lease, get the keys, and begin moving in later today; additionally, I will have to be there for Comcast to install my new cable TV, high-speed internet, and phone service. The actual moving of my stuff from my parents’ house to the apartment will probably come later, maybe Sunday or Monday. I spent a good bit of yesterday preparing for this move. Two things I had to do before they would even print up a lease contract were obtain renters’ insurance and set up electric utility service in my name; both of those are now done, with the renters’ insurance having cost me a mere $137 for a year. Also, I have all the various cashier’s checks for move-in and Comcast installation ready to go; it’s just a matter of handing those to the appropriate people later today. I have to be up early to take care of all this shit, so I’d better be going for now. |
