Month: October 2006

Post-Season Weekend

Baseball… talkin’ ’bout baseball… Yeah, Mets! NLCS, here we come. And, too bad for the Yankees. My sympathies to Yankee fans.
Missed the Pollack documentary on Frank Gehry on PBS, but this was an interesting link…

And, news on the Star Trek auction. Missed viewing the stuff, but really – if they’re selling the stuff, does that mean making new Trek just ain’t happening anytime soon and if they do make new Trek, they won’t be reusing the props anymore like they used to? I mean, good grief, they’re selling Captain Kirk’s chair from the Enterprise, not to mention Captain Picard’s and probably Captain Sisko’s baseball or Captain Janeway’s stuff.

And, then there’s this: an article on the actors who played minor Trek characters and how they too are loved. Wow – who would have thought that the actor who played Lt. Kevin Riley, the one who most memorably, on an episode of original Trek, burst out into singing an Irish tune when a virus affected the Enterprise crew, is now a professor in a Minnesota university? Cool.

Coliseum Books may close permanently. Man, that’s not fair. People – there are bookstores in this city to enjoy; please go!

The infamous Gray’s Papaya will have an increase in price.  Aww.

TGIF

Let’s Go Mets!!! Game 3 tomorrow; you gotta believe…

The passing of R.W. Apple of the NY Times – the news stunned me, because I had only recently read one of his articles on travel and food. His writing was great stuff to read and vivid. You could tell that he really enjoyed going places and eating good stuff. A nice article in Newsweek by Julia Reed, with her memories of her colleague “Johnny” Apple.

Bill Moyers on The Christian Conservatives and their relationship with the environmentalist movement – that maybe these aren’t contradictions. Nice move, Moyers!

Slate’s slide show on John Constable’s art – and how it may have influenced those abroad and Impressionism. I liked it.

And the little Mars rovers that could…

And, last but not least: the passing of Buck O’Neil, the Negro League great whose legacy is in passing on his knowledge to us and the future.  Like others, my introduction to him was through Ken Burns’ Baseball documentary, where Buck O’Neil was truly something.  Cooperstown should have him there already.