i still like isiah thomas....

...and finally someone else has the balls to agree and write about it.

sean penn on the m.i.c.

sean penn got the christopher reeve first amendment award last night, and i think his acceptance speech is worth reading.

11/10/75

a huge thunderstorm blew through holland last night- november 10- and i was reminded, as i always am on november 10- of the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald on lake superior in 1975. it had to be a night like last night- high winds, clashing cold and warm fronts, and huge waves in the middle of lake.

rally 'round....

i've gotten back into confessions of a guilty bystander by merton again- this is probably my third time through it, and it's still good. there is a lot to his rambling style in this collection, and it's pretty cool to think about his logic in putting it together. the loose threads that tie the small pieces together are often big, important things, that are brushed on in sometimes really small strokes- but always (almost) profound.

iraq

i ran across this story today and it adds good perspective to the middle east situation. israel v. lebannon/hezbollah is hot, but iraq is hotter....

knicks

isiah thomas for larry brown? i don't know about this one. thomas was my favorite player growing up, but his moves are a little off the wall as a president of the knicks....now he's the coach. i just don't know.

hoops

in the name of all that is good and right in basketball, and so that we don't have to see mark cuban's face until next october- go heat. the sun rises in the east.

when i was in kalamazoo, new york and, to a lesser extent, chicago, staying up all night and seeing the sunrise was always a difficult thing. usually it meant i was up to no good, and the sunrise was kind of a trigger for guilt--although i saw my share during those times, i never really embraced that aspect of partying- it always felt out of place. i think of that these days that i see the sunrise sitting up with isaiah in the hospital, and seeing the sun come up on lincoln park isn't a bad thing now. it's been a while since i've seen a night through til the morning, but i've come a long way. isaiah has come a long way too.