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Gerald Ford Museum
Bleary-eyed, I stared at my egg-white omlette. It’s hard to eat healthy on the road, especially if you like food. But I decided to try. Figuring I would skip lunch, I opted for the bigger breakfast - besides, who wants a small cardboard box of cereal when you’re sitting in the restaurant [...]
Manny Goes to Hollywood
Manny Ramirez has signed a two-year $45 million deal with the LA Dodgers. This is a perfect signing. Come on, who’s more Hollywood than Manny Ramirez? He’s comedy (catching a fly ball while high-fiving a fan in mid-jump), drama (threatening to leave the Red Sox every year he was in Boston), tragedy (tanking it in 2008, [...]
Tommy Santana?
The optimism of Spring Training has given way to a familiar sickening feeling for Mets fans. And it’s only March 1st.
Johan Santana reported pain in his left elbow, and was due to get an MRI in New York on Sunday. Then, due to bad weather conditions in New York, the medical staff was due to [...]
The New Number Two
Ah, the number two. Not quite good enough to be number one, but better than all the rest of the numbers. Why then, does it seem to get so little respect?
Take baseball, for instance. It’s a given that you need a good leadoff man, and the number three hitter is supposed to be your best [...]
It’s Spring Training?
So I’ve been thinking. I started this blog to to write about sports. In particular, baseball. In particular, New York Mets baseball. And yet, what do we have in our first three posts? A rumination of blogging itself, a dead monkey, and a comment on an awards show that I didn’t even see.
So why haven’t [...]
Why the Oscars are Irrelevant
Editor’s Note: The author didn’t actually see the Oscars presentation last night. The author was too busy playing Call of Duty: World at War online with his fellow overgrown child friends. However, the author feels the need to comment on the awards, while claiming he doesn’t care, because, as he told me, “It’s my effing [...]
Race and Cowardice
On the occasion of black history month, our new Attorney General, Eric Holder, described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing unresolved racial issues.
The same day Holder called the United States a “nation of cowards,” always a terrific thing to say when holding a high-profile position [...]
Welcome to My World
Welcome to “The Attention Seeker” on pauljfesta.net. This is my second foray into the chaotic, comical (intentionally or otherwise), and experimental frontier of blogging.
And we truly are in the covered-wagon stage of the Blog, even though some have made high-profile inroads into news, politics and sports. We don’t really know how blogs will ultimately fit [...]