DGC: Take The Skinheads Bowling

We arrived in Boston to a heavy drizzle and I wished I had a warmer coat with me. It had been late summer last week and now it was seacoast New England autumn. Watt met us at the airport with his hatchback and Christian retrieved his van from the long term parking lot. None of…

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Circlet 100 Fundraising Effort Going Strong!

As of Friday night (April 30th) Circlet Press has reached $1,850 in our campaign to try to raise $5,000 by March 15th, to enable us to print Best Erotic Fantasy. W00t! The “Circlet 100” campaign has garnered mentions in Publishers Weekly and Teleread.org, and was retweeted over 50 times. The fundraising will continue until May…

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2003 Women's Baseball Diary Repost

Starting later today I will begin at WHY I LIKE BASEBALL to re-post my diary entries from the 2003 season, when I was cut from playing part-time in the New England Women’s Baseball League and took up full-time with the Pawtucket Slaterettes, then capped off the season with the 24 Hours for Africa women’s baseball…

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Working for the Weekend

No one from BNC called that morning. I found out later why, when we were nosing around the performance hall, and a guy in jeans and a corduroy jacket came in carrying a briefcase. “You must be Daron,” he said when he saw me. “Yes.” I took the hand he was offering and shook it….

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Today's Game/Baseball in Tweets

A-Rod infield hit and a triple tonight. But the eyes are all on Hughes. #nyy # Aww, dammit. Hughes gets hit with a comebacker that ends up an infield hit. His parents are in the stands, though, must be proud. # So I guess this kind of quiets the arguments about how Hughes should've stayed…

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DGC: Pour Some Sugar on Me

Mirrored from the latest entry in Daron’s Guitar Chronicles. The buses pulled in to our hotel at about 7 a.m. and we were shuttled into rooms where we went immediately back to sleep. At ten a.m. the phone rang and I noticed that the message light was on. John was asking if I was awake…

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Jeter the leader

I’ve been feeling very spoiled lately watching Derek Jeter and thinking about how much we’re going to miss him when he’s gone. He’s be “The Man” for so long, it’s hard to remember what it was like in the days before he arrived, since when he arrived in 1996 he and Joe Torre and a…

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Act now for really cool icon art!

So Tod, of Art by Tod, does something he calls Icon Day every so often. For about 24 hours he takes requests for LJ icons (100×100 pixels) and then spends 1-2 months fulfilling all the requests. You can make a paypal donation to his tip jar to guarantee an icon, and other incentives, as described…

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