The Victors

(№ 15) Michigan 24-21 Connecticut
4-0, Big Ten 0-0

Abandon all hope. The valiant Wolverines are arrogant, lazy, & stupid. Twice now they have entered a game unprepared, have failed to respect their opponents, & have been all but defeated. We will fail to win the Big Ten title again this year. We do not deserve to be ranked in the Top 25, & I hope the voters concur. Back to the drawing board.

Next: A bye week, followed by the conference opener against the luckless Golden Gophers.

Go Blue!

Also, have I mentioned how much I hate night games? I hate night games like the cancer, & I say that as a man whose darling mother is what they call a cancer survivor.

The Queue
I watched the pilot of the new series Sleepy Hollow & was fully prepared to be outraged by the deviations from the father of American literature's classic tale, variations of such breadth & substance as to render the show not just an imaginative expansion of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but a cynical attempt to cash-in on the short story's enduring fame while borrowing naught but the most insignificant of details such as names & locations, & jettisoning entirely the story's spirit. Before I could be so outraged, I needed to re-read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" for the first time in twenty years or more; having done so, from a slim volume titled The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, I am now duly outraged. Unsurprised, but outraged nonetheless.

I am halfway through Bad Religion, having finished "Part I: Christianity in Crisis" & standing on the cusp of "Part II: The Age of Heresy."

Recently
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Thor Heyerdahl, translated by F. H. Lyon, Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft
Washington Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

Currently
Ross Douthat, Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics
Matthew Kelly, The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic: How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change the World ***paused***

Presently
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Swords of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Synthetic Men of Mars
Sir Ernest Shackleton, South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Llana of Gathol
Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter of Mars
Sir Richard Francis Burton, translator, "Sinbad the Sailor" from The Arabian Nights
Richard Price, Clockers
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill ***shelved***