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Everton In America
2008-05-31 15:15:00
According to the Liverpool Daily Post "EVERTON are heading back to the USA this summer for a two-match tour.David Moyes?s side will face two Major League Soccer opponents in the shape of Chicago Fire on Wednesday July 30 and Colorado Rapids on Sunday August 3.Before flying out, Everton face away friendlies at Cambridge United, Preston North End and Nottingham Forest.It will be the club?s fourth playing trip to the United States since 2004 when the bonding which was achieved on tour was credited as a major factor in turning around the side?s fortunes around."Lets hope they are more succesful this time around. I know it's only pre-season but even our reserve team should be able to beat any MLS Team and last year, 'case we forget, we were beaten 2-0 by Real Salt Lake.Unfortunately I will again not be able to attend either game this year but will scour the papers to bring you the news as it happens. Perhaps by then we will have secured the services of our own "Torres", (arguably the b...
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Gardening Leave: Chris Bower
2008-05-30 23:43:00
How often have you wished you could start fresh; have a new life? We all have at some point in our lives. This is a story of a forced start over. Unlike a straight redundancy ?gardening leave? is a quaint English expression that takes being laid off to a new level. As a Department Manager in a large Financial Establishment Chris Bower ?s narrator is told to take six months gardening leave meaning he is on call if they should ever need him but they are not going to pay his salary except as a lump sum settlement at the end of the rest period. As a Manager he gets to keep the perks of the job, the company car for instance until the final severance.Bower?s book is written in the first person narration making it feel autobiographical and so we share in the recovery from the heart attack, the despair of being unemployed, the joy of discovering a lost hobby that becomes a salvation and the road to recovery. We laugh at the transition from Mercedes to Mini and feel the elation of new found l...
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Umbro England Home Jersey 07-08
2008-05-25 22:02:00
Lets talk for a moment about why I am telling you about SoccerPro.com's products. The great folks at SoccerPro.com approached me to test a choice of products on their behalf and post the results to this blog in order to give you, their buying public, a better idea of what their on-line store stocks. As an Englishman I have followed football (soccer) since I can remember, getting heavily involved from ten years old on. When I emigrated to America as a student in East Texas I was the goalkeeper on the Ambassador College Big Sandy student team. My college studies were in journalism and broadcasting and although I never followed up on either of these subjects for a profession I have dabbled in both over the years. Living in Oklahoma City I coached my three sons in soccer, my middle son Brian actually went to England to try out for the English national school boy team. His chances of being picked as one of the final 23 out of 6,000 entrants were slim, but to my knowledge he still remain...
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influential soccer website
2008-05-13 20:35:00
Bollocks has been declared an "influential soccer website" by Soccer Pro.com, a top online soccer retailer based out of Kansas City MO http://www.soccerpro.com/. They market European and MLS based team gear and supply all the apparel and equipment to get everyone from your youth team to Over-40's teams in smart looking uniforms that are durable and dependable.I have been chosen to partner with them and sample their product and write a review to keep you my audience up to date on how well a variety of merchandise performs under game like conditions.I look forward to providing you with a review of the equipment once I get my first shipment (which I am assured is en route to me today). Watch this space.
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Happy Birthday to You!
2008-05-07 08:08:00
I find myself approaching my 52nd birthday (May 19) and for most of the day I have been pondering the celebrations of my life. I mean why drag up all the past; let?s just look at what made me feel good over the years past. I don?t want to drag on my childhood or teen angst; God they where ghastly for all of us so why do I find myself so happy now? Let me share with you the wonderful times and people that I have had the pleasure of brushing shoulders with that make my life special, celebrated and memorial.It? always fun to have a brush with the stars. I have had my share. During my years in Oklahoma City while involved with Charlis Higginbotham, an advertising rep at a local radio station, I found myself hanging out at the Classen Grill on many an occasion; a media hang out for the local radio and TV stars. Even had a brush with Sting at the Skirvin Hotel, as he and The Police where hanging out in the restaurant while I was eating dinner. Not long after, when I had married Paula, I m...
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Inspirational Poems
2008-05-06 17:11:00
Poetry to me is a many wondrous thing. How poets just sit and write ditty after ditty is amazing. I have to be so emotionally attached to my thoughts, and let my pen have it's way with me, totally submerged in a spiritual presence to write poetry that it is mentally and physically draining. To be honest it is almost like having a being inside, inhabiting, possessing, moving the pen as words spew and explore the page in front of you.I experimented with poetry during my college years, and after, during times of loss of love when my heart was aching, but nothing quite like the only poem I ever wrote that was published.The subject was my best friend. What is a best friend? In my estimation that is one that will put aside all of their problems and troubles long enough to pay attention to yours. Someone that will honestly tell you that your full of shit and make you pay attention to where your head and heart should be focusing, to the point of being brash, honest to a point, and in your ...
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End of the Line
2008-04-19 20:40:00
Everton's season is over. Since our last well played game against Fiorentina at Goodison, only to get beaten on penalties we have looked decidedly jaded. A rash of injuries through the midfield and forward line has forced several players outof position and the ones that have played looked like they have given up. We should have put six past Derby County and barely escaped with three points thanks to Leon Osman, my Player of the Year nominee. Only losing to Chelsea by one was still a loss and without Manuel Fernandes stamping his mark on the game inMikel Arteta's absence, it might have been worse.Fifth place is our to lose and the way we are playing either Portsmouth or Aston Villa could usurp us if we are not careful. With the Chelsea loss fourth place is out of the question, so UEFA Cup prospects are all we can hope for again. I admit it's better than no Europe but the Champions League just sounds better doesn't it. We have Aston Villa and Newcastle at Goodison with an away mat...
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Welcome, pull up a chair and read Past Posts
2008-04-09 20:57:00
I see you Sahuarita! You sneaking into my blog and thinking you don?t leave a trace. And yes I can track you through Cox.net I feel your presence again. You are coming in checking me out at 11:45 at night and 2 am in the morning. You must be really bored when you can?t sleep. Funny thing is I don?t know that I know anyone in Sahuarita so your curiosity gets my attention. The polite thing to do would be to leave a message on the site explaining why you are there, or commenting on what you are reading. Be polite when you look at blogs.Blogs are there to be read, no doubt. That?s why we bloggers take the time to write them. Now if someone in Europe or Asia say was taking the time to look at 9 pages of my blog and expressing interest in who I am and what I do I would not feel harassed or threatened. I would actually be pretty chuffed that someone found my writing worth reading. However when someone takes an interest in a creepy way (I can tell what pages you look at Sahuarita, so I know...
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Personal training at Better Bodies Tucson
2008-04-03 04:32:00
At the beginning of the year I laid it on the line about my goals to lose weight. I want to get down to a minimum of 220 lbs by my birthday, May 19, and now I hope to be down to 200 if not 190 by the end of the year. Here for the first time I will admit I am harboring ideas of running the Tucson Half Marathon in December.I have faithfully kept up my gym appearances at Bally s Fitness , 2-3 times a week, since January and kept up a steady stream of walking for cardio excerise. I have had one or two set backs since making the commitment, but these seem to be age and weight related. For instance I tweaked a knee ligament and had to have physical therapy, that sidelined me from any walking or running for two weeks. It appears that I over did it on the treadmill. My body is used to road running and the continuous movement at the same pace on the treadmill caused problems. That I have 40 lbs of unwanted jelly hanging over my shorts contributed to the wearing on the cartilage too. Catch 22; ...
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My Review of Fool Star
2008-03-21 13:47:00
Fool Star personifies the age old adage that sex, drugs and rock and roll forms the backbeat from what the audience sees on stage and suspects is happening behind. Tony, the drummer and heartbeat of Fool Star, a likeable Yankee joins up with a group of guys from Florida and together, along with their on again off again girlfriends, groupies and minions tour the Southern states spreading their infectious style of Southern rock.Author J.A. Landry takes us behind the scenes as Tony struggles with his advancing schizophrenia that seems to be kept in check only as the bands success is reached. As the band unravels so does Tony, and when alcohol, guns are thrown into the mix the desperate end is in sight. As the band struggles we hang in there with them wondering how long before it all falls apart. When Tony falls apart so does the band and suddenly no one is safe including his own relationship with girlfriend Pression.As the stucco of the band peels back to reveal the veneer behind Landr...
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The Tarnishing of the F A Cup
2008-03-09 21:25:00
For the uninformed the F. A. Cup is the equivalent of the Super Bowl in the States, a very prestigious honour. The first game was in the 1871-2 season; the Wanderers won, beating a team from the Royal Engineers 1-0. In 1923 Wembley Stadium was completed as the showcase of English football, and to celebrate the occasion Bolton beat West Ham 2-0. Since Wembley was destroyed, (and rebuilt to host this year's Cup final) and the final played at other locations there seems to have a insignificance given to this oldest of competitions. I believe the glory years are gone from the F.A. Cup, which is unfortunate as it is truly the only significant English competition left.Managers do not seem to appreciate the history of the cup, and now we find them using it, as they do the Football League Cup, to field experimental weaker teams. (The League Cup is a competition limited to teams just within the four professional leagues of England, 72 teams, while the F A Cup's initial rounds are also ope...
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American Idol - Like a Moth to a Flame
2008-02-27 19:12:00
I just can?t help myself. It?s like being caught in a centrifugal wheel that keeps turning so you can?t get off even if you wanted too.Idol 2007 http://www.americanidol.com/ pissed me off so badly I stopped watching after Melinda Doolittle http://www.myspace.com/melindadoolittle was voted off. I mean what was America thinking. She was the most professional and talented singer they had. I swore after that awful decision I would never watch the show again abut here I am tuned in three times a week (even recording Survivor http://www.survivorfever.net/ , my all time favorite reality TV) to watch these singers be put through their paces. Let?s face it; it?s all about Simon Cowell. I find myself agreeing with him so often though I don?t think I could be quite so awful as my fellow Brit in expressing how badly each contestant sucked. Having watched the show since its US conception I know when the judges are going to grade the singing as karaoke or theatrical etc. It?s just about a give...
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Kicking and Screaming I Become Green in Tucson
2008-02-11 13:24:00
It has become almost impossible to turn on the television, or pick up a periodical, without reading or hearing about our frail eco-system, and what we should do as a nation to turn it around before we all melt into a little puddle as the ozone layer disappears and the sun finally just fries us.As much as dislike being told what to do, especially by someone who appears as pompous as Al Gore, I must admit he has bought to the forefront a lot of the problems we face with global emissions. I hate to see the North Pole disappearing, the smog produced by none caring Eastern European and Chinese companies that still use lead and dyes that America attempted to ban years ago, and thousands of pounds of waste being left literally on our doorstep in Arizona by illegal aliens poring over our borders. It almost seems like the poor depressed people of the world not only don?t care about the problems of disposing of their trash and poisonous gasses and debris but they want to burden us in America...
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Scoliosis Challenges My Faith
2008-01-25 21:16:00
When a young couple who are madly in love have that first wonderful baby child together they do everything right. Parenting classes, pre-natal vitamins, exercise and when that little baby makes it's (her's since we are talking about my grand-daughter) first appearance the couple count the toes and fingers, and be sure they are all intact and that the baby is healthy. With three older brothers (from Mom's prior marriage) young Chebri, the light of her parent's life, tries to keep up with the boys, climbing running. I visited with them all right after this last Christmas and all seemed perfect. I have a beautiful grandchild and a very happy son.Last night he called me with the news that the slight bump they have found on Chebri's back and the peculiar way that she runs around on tiptoes rather than using her full foot has been diagnosed initially as scoliosis! Now I knew that that meant the problem was with the curvature of the back but after a little research on WebMD last night...
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JOHN CLEESE'S LETTER TO AMERICA
2008-01-20 14:42:00
To the citizens of the United States of America :In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories (excepting Kansas, which she does not fancy).Your new prime minister, Tony Blair , will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium," and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in wo...
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Forward Progress....
2008-01-12 16:08:00
Well I must admit I have not worked out as much as I would have liked to this week, and probably eaten one too many left over Christmas treats that some hapless bastard at work keeps leaving in the break room at work, however I did think about going to the gym a lot! In actual fact I did make gym http://west.ballyfitness.com/ twice this week. I use the machine weights upstairs so I don't have to compete with all the muscle bound boys in the weight room. As I have a ten dollars a month for life membership (courtesy of an ex-wife's brother from years ago) I really should use it. I pay for it on my credit card every month. I would love to cycle in place but it is so boring! I would probably benefit from a personal trainer but that is currently outside of my financial wherewithal. When I was in training for the Tucson marathon's I competed in a few years ago working out was fun, now that I have to do it I don't like it nearly as much!Talking of marathons I actually got up at six thi...
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2008
2008-01-04 22:56:00
With sweat still stinging my eyes I write this first piece for the new year. I sweat from walking hard. I just took a three mile turn around the neighborhood in an effort to shed those pounds that doggedly attached themselves to me quietly over the last couple of years. The instant I walked in the door I mounted the scales to record the repulsive 235lbs in this missive so now everyone knows what a fat hog I have become. I need to shame myself in to doing something about it because I have become tired and bored with myself. I am ashamed every time I look in a mirror, or walk past a window and cast a glance to see the fat fool that I no longer recognize looking back. Hell, I can balance a glass on the shelf my stomach makes when I sit! Age itself has cast a pall on me too with wrinkles and pains that I fight daily. I am so depressed over the way I am aging that I think I just threw in the towel last year. This year must be about fighting back. I?m tired of feeling down, bitter, tired ...
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Netflix: The Next Crack Cocaine!
2007-11-18 17:17:00
It?s so addictive I can?t stop! I just opened the site to use a reference to write this blog, and started rating movies in their referral window only to find a reference to Morgan Freeman and of course I had to click on his name and that led to rating at least five more movies... (sorry I just left and came back as I remembered another movie I wanted to see if they had), Whistle Down the Wind; I want to share that with my wife. It is an early Hayley Mills film done in black and white and co-stars the cute little boy from Mary Poppins . It is not on DVD release yet but with Netflix I can Save it right now so I get it the week it?s released (if it ever is). This bought me to the name Alan Bates so while I saved the movie I looked his name up. I figured an obscure British actor, probably never did anything else; I mean I?ve never heard of him and wow, there are over 40 other movies or TV shows he has performed in. Who new? That?s why Netflix gets you. If you have only a vague interest i...
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Yes, I am fully aware!
2007-11-11 19:23:00
I know that one of the reasons that I started this blog was to help express my views on my favorite soccer team, Everton and to give the fellow Toffee supporters around the world another opinion to read.This year I have been reluctant to give too much of my penny's worth as the club seems to be doing reasonably well in all faces of competition and I have not wanted to jinx the wonderful start to the season.We just came off a 1-1 tie away to Chelsinski, always a monumental task, because, they are more of a threat in my opinion than Arsenal or Manchester United. They had a little hiccup losing what was without a doubt one of the finest managers in the business at the start of the season but they will definitely be there within the top two come season end. Tiny Tim Cahill pulled off his magic again (boy have we missed his contributions due to a pre-season injury) scoring the goal of the year not just for Everton but in the whole EPL. The boy must have taken private lessons from Pele.W...
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Copper Mines
2007-10-14 01:31:00
By the time I parked my car at the trailhead at Finger Rock the sun was starting to rise. I headed up the trail and turned right on to Pontotoc Trail. It was still barren ground out here then. The multi-million dollar homes that grace the route now had not been built at the time. I had on black running shorts and a canary yellow singlet, Adidas trail shoes and I carried a bottle of water. If I could summit in a couple of hours, I could be home by noon. I had heard that there were some abandoned copper mines at the trail end and thought I would rest up and explore them before heading home. I like to incorporate a trail run into my marathon training, sup the monotony of road racing. It was late March and as I took off at a steady trot I brushed up against the yellow flowers on the Palo Verde and breathed in the same pollen that had my wife?s eyes weeping with allergies. Today?s five miles would be a solo climb. Running had become my meditation, my mantra. I was safe. I had...
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My First Writer's Workshop
2007-10-09 02:12:00
The first week that my evening class was held a flyer was past around describing several workshops that would available during the Fall term. One in particular caught my eye. It was to be taught by a Colorado based author, Laura Hendrie, who Pima College was bringing in for the occasion. The cost of these workshops was a little more than I was willing to or able to spend (my wife still thinks this writing thing is an expensive hobby) so when it was mentioned that if anyone was willing to volunteer to drive Hendrie for the weekend they could attend the workshop gratis I was definitely willing to do so.I had never read any of Hendrie?s work (a collection of short stories, Stygo or her novel Remember Me), so I thought I should at least take a moment to read one of them just to get an idea of how and what she writes. Stygo won the American Academy of Arts & Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award and the Mountains & Plains Regional Booksellers' Award. It was also a finalist for the ...
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What's Up With Depression Today?
2007-10-08 04:25:00
I have not been watching Ken Burns new series The War on PBS, although I have heard several people mention it as definitely a "one of a kind", "not to be missed" artistic view point. I managed to catch a portion of one episode tonight. In typical Ken Burns fashion rather than tell everything he zeros in on one particular set of circumstances and expresses a view point of just that particular picture, one that helps makes up the whole story.Many of the interviews with survivors of the war in tonight's episodes recalled the tragic tales of the the Bataan Death March, of compadres that did not make it back, the angst their families went through the horror of the recollections that even today these brave few experience when having to deal with thinking of what happened over seventy years ago.They told tales of how they managed to deal with the horrific images, the dealing with why they were perhaps the only survivor of their unit, or even why they were the only one to come home to the ...
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Fluff and Nonsense
2007-09-09 01:01:00
I have been accused of being a fluff and nonsense type of writer,at least in my blog, and I must say that for the most part I would agree. Nothing in my life is truly exceptional (in the literacy sense), and I write about what I know. I really don't attempt to spice things up in my life, as I am liking the way my life's role is listing currently. I do like to write about it. Stuff and nonsense has it's place. If it didn't all these magazines and TV shows that highlight the goings on it Hollywood would go out of business. But that's all stuff and nonsense with money so people care more.I have my tediously boring day time job that I wish I could withdraw from and write for six hours a day but I have to pay the bills some how. I have my writer's workshop that I read my works at every Monday night and my Advanced Writer's class that I am taking at Pima Community College once a week to fuel my desires. I have a couple of writer acquaintances that think for me to finish a book in n...
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Suga
2007-08-21 14:05:00
There is a rumour that we have a mountain lion in the area. That is if you believe the old lady across the street. Don't know who told her, but she likes to pass on the neighbourhood gossip. I have seen an occasional coyote prowling the streets of our condominium complex, and have talked previously on this blog about how the javelina attack the trash cans when food is scarce, so a mountain lion? Anything is possible. I know I have heard soft lopping footfalls across my flat roof late at night like a large animal running and leaping from condo to condo and I had put this down to cats, the domestic kind, running around, but perhaps they are a little larger. I have never stuck my head out to check. Why bother, I'm in bed, the doors are locked, so they can't get me anyhow. It would be a cruel fate to be caught by such a feline in my own private back courtyard and mauled. Anyway I digress. The reason for the concern with the large cats is that at four thirty every morning this week I ...

How To Be More Popular
2007-08-17 02:19:00
Let's face it if you have a blog it's because you like for people to read what you write. You put on a show, give it all you got hoping that someone will enjoy your opinion, or gathering of thoughts, or just the facts Jack! Whichever!I get what I consider a decent amount of hits a day. Somewhere around 8-14 give or take a hit or two. Most hits are the occasional fan or friend coming to see what wacky or though provoking idea I have spawned most recently. However I have been hit with a rash of people from England that just Google bollocks! They find my site, hang around for less than 10 seconds and high tail it out of here! I figured they must be juveniles that think it is fun to Google a dirty word. I bet if i called my site vaginal juices or penisbreath I would get the same juvenile searches.This let me to think how can I get more hits. The more hits you get the better chances of having someone stick around to be entertained. That's why I'm here, for your entertainment. I want ...
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Good Deeds That Are Never Forgotten
2007-08-15 03:41:00
In the bleak and dreary days of divorce, somewhere between wife #1 and #2 I found myself in a situation where I had a three bedroom house, but only a roll away bed in the corner, a lamp and a couple of dishes to eat out of. I was lucky enough to have a job. I still worked for the now defunct Retail Merchants Collection Service at the corner of 6th and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma City. A young gentleman, Jon Lopes, had recently moved to Oklahoma to stay with his brother, Chris, who was starting up a fledgling clothing business, came to work as a bill collector. Jon and I became fast friends. He introduced me to his brother and we got on fabulously. Chris had recently gotten out of the U S air force and married. To give the newly weds some space Jon stayed over at my place and hung out.Chris was specializing in silk suits and shirts, and since this was still a pre-Penn Square Bank Oklahoma City there was money to be had in the service industry. Chris would go to the offices o...
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Making Lemonade from Lemons
2007-07-28 18:47:00
This summer has not exactly gone as planned! Some months ago my thirteen year-old son Trevor, who lives in Oklahoma City and I had planned for him to come and stay with us in Tucson for six weeks. It was the first time he had been away from his Mom for more than two weeks at a time. We planned all the wonderful things we would do from the opening night of the latest Harry Potter movie to a trio to the Pointe South Hotel in Phoenix http://www.pointesouthmtn.com/ , home of three eight-story water slides. I had made arrangements to have him in summer school http://www.lpatucson.org/ for four of the six weeks while I was at work and they had planned visits to Skate County, Old Tucson http://www.oldtucson.com/ , International Wildlife Museum http://www.thewildlifemuseum.org/ and lots of swimming.At the same time my wife's daughter decided to come live with us . She is a twenty two year old Prozac drama queen from hell, and in the middle of a divorce with nowhere else to turn. One makes ...
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CONCAF Gold Cup Finals
2007-06-24 23:04:00
I cannot think of a game that a team should be so ashamed to be winners of since Argentina beat England with the "Hand of God" goal. The USA beat Mexico 2-1 today in an absolutely pathetic show of soccer. Now my Foxsports channel seems to be non-operational so I had to watch the entire game on Univision, which only broadcasts in Spanish, so my comments are purely my own; I have not been influenced by the commentators at all! There was not a player on the U.S. team that I would have ranked over a 5 out of 10. Howard, the U.S. 'keeper, was put under pressure continuously by the team's porous defense from the opening minutes and had more trouble contending with bad back passes (three of them) from his own players than from the Mexican offense. The one save he had to make should have been caught but he gave away the corner instead. Where did they find Carlos Bocanegra? He looks like and plays like the old rhino, David Unsworth, and as much as Everton fans love our players none would e...
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Sweating to Death in Tucson!
2007-06-15 02:21:00
I promise I will write I have just been so busy, with family and work. Soccer season is over and Everton ended up in sixth place to claim their attempt at European glory next season. I have been pulling my hair out due to their inability to sign any new playes. We have "Dithering Dave" as a manager. I miss writing in here everyday but I have spent a lot of time on by book. I am 163 pages into it now and need a couple of momths to wrap it up, or at least the first take. Bear with me and come back. I'll try to writre even if only to fill you in on the new colon cleansing supplements I am taking. See www.DrNatura.com for all the fum filled details and check out the photo gallery! I am in day three (3) so far and nothing to report except headaches as the ready stored toxins in my fat has been re-released on my unsuspecting body. Stay tuned.
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First childhood memories
2007-05-26 20:31:00
As I work on my first novel I have been reading several books on how to write. I just finished reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott and so far can say this is the most inspirational and instructional narrative yet. Perhaps, because she is an active teacher of writing rather just a novelist who tells how they do it, I feel I have received more practical advise on filling out my characters and their dialogue from her advice than any of the others. I now have to sit and let that happen; sit with an empty writing tablet and let my characters tell me who they are and what their dreams and aspirations are, and then pull from my experiences as I write the book. Talking of the book I am 83 pages into it already and have a goal of reaching at least 100 over this long Memo rial Day weekend.Lamott?s strategy to help the creative juices flow is to start by going back into you earliest memories and write about them. I guess it helps you see how your life was formulated so I am going to give that a...
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