№ CCCIV - The Basilicas (old & new) of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City.
The Victors
bye week
2-2, Big Ten 0-0
The valiant Wolverines had a bye this Saturday, & absent the conqu'ring heroes of the Maize & Blue I found myself in possession of almost no interest in the college football goings-on. I caught a few glimpses of the Nebraska-Wisconsin game, or what the television commentators claimed was the Nebraska-Wisconsin game; I remain skeptical, as the squad they called Wisconsin were not wearing the pesky Badgers' uniforms & the squad they called Nebraska were not wearing the unwelcome Cornhuskers' uniforms. As if it wasn't bad enough when Michigan & Notre Dame pretended to be different clubs when they met in '11's night game, now even as non-historical, no-big-deal games as Wisconsin v. Nebraska require "special" uniforms? College football's goose is cooked. The enterprise is doomed, doomed, doomed.
Go Blue!
Project PANDORA
Miss Mozart continues to initiate contact: last week, she sent text messages; today, she sent an e-mail through the FaceSpace. Either my radio silence has not communicated its intended message (disinterest on my part) or the message has been received & she's decided to persist in the hope of reigniting my interest. In the words of Winnie the Pooh, "Oh, bother." As silence has not spoken as loudly as had been hoped, some manner of confrontation must be in the offing.
Why? Why am I so irresistible?
The Queue
Okay, one more Showcase Presents—returning to a previously-read volume—, & then back to our regularly scheduled literature. What can I say? I'm a sucker for Metamorpho, the Element Man!
Recently
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Robert Kanigher & Ross Andru, Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman, Vol. 1
Mike W. Barr & Jim Aparo, Showcase Presents: Batman and the Outsiders, Vol. 1
Currently
Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars ***postponed***
Bob Haney, Ramona Fradon, & Sal Trapani, et al., Showcase Presents: Metamorpho, Vol. 1
Presently
Rich Thomaselli, I Love Michigan: Personal Stories about the World's Greatest Team, Fans, and Traditions/I Hate Ohio State: Personal Stories about the Absolute Worst Team, Fans, and Traditions
Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Master Mind of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Fighting Man of Mars
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Swords of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Synthetic Men of Mars
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, The Arabian Nights (specifically, "Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves")
The Rebel Black Dot Song of the Day
The Hold Steady, "Girls Like Status" from Boys and Girls in America (T.L.A.M.)
2 comments:
Oh my.
She's clearly learned *zero* dating rules from her early 20s/general pop-culture/friends ... coming off pretty crazypants, there.
2 texts/calls and then you bow out. And you don't take it personally, because that person doesn't know you! Even if they thought you were a mouth-breathing moron, so what? What do they know about your life?
Oy.
Oy, indeed. However, even "crazypants" provides data useful for the honing of my romantic methods & procedures, for the ultimate triumph of Project PANDORA.
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