Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Things that have thoroughly amused me this morning:

Two quotes from "A Home at the End of the World" -

1. A bakery truck drove by, the driver singing Patsy Cline's "Crazy" in a loud off-key voice, and I sang along with him for half a block. I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason. (pp. 153)
   
2. I could have skewered his heart with a kitchen fork because he was a peripheral character promoted by circumstances to a role he was ill equipped to play. I can't deny this: I thought I deserved better (pp. 174)

And a passage -

1. The entire reveal scene when Bobby and Clare tell Jonathan they're sleeping together (pp. 175-180)

I'm clearly going to have to re-read "The Hours." Stupid Michael Cunningham making me like him.

Also, Jimmy Rollins is HI-larious. After declaring pre-season that the Phillies were the team to beat in the N.L. East, Rollins - who's team is 1-6 after losing to the Mets last night - defended his statement thusly:

Above all, Rollins was firm in his position that he'd said what he'd said for a reason, and he had no regrets.

"I don't have to defend it," he said. "If I didn't feel it, I wouldn't have said it. I try to tell it the way it is. Sometimes it needs to be said.

"It's like with your wife. If you don't tell her you love her, even though she knows it, (she) still wants to hear it. With us, the feeling is there, that, 'Hey, we are good,' but sometimes you need to hear it to really believe it."

What a guy. Jimmy Rollins, I heart your resolve. Even though I hate you because you play for the Phils, and I will thoroughly enjoy watching the Mets relegate you to the second division. Which they can't do because this isn't soccer, and there's just no way you'll be as bad as the Nats. But still.

Labels: Jimmy Rollins, Michael Cunningham, MLB