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yep see HSC's question - and look at his average - sorry, I see no use for him whatsoever, kind of like Baltimore has

because he is an answer to Torii Hunter? A: Gary Matthew Jr. Q: what is the opposite of Torii Hunter?

damn, the new batch of crystal meth got finished today before you posted that?

Matthews stats, just now from the Orioles' site, are G Matthews BAL OF 40 160 20 32 12 1 2 20 52 7 29 0 3 .238 .325 .200 The guy is hitting 200 and he is some offensive threat? Other tha being a tab better than Rowaand coing off an injury, you guys want to put a 200 hitter out there every day? PS Murc - so did Clinton's, according to Monica Lewinsky. And he got to be president, so no big deal.

well, then that explains the cold hard fact that the Sox are 28-18 right now

That was me who spoted that - I should have been a newspaper editor - I'd like to hear more about your copy editing class and your studies - you going into journalism? I could give you hundreds of back issues of CJR, WJR, Brill's... That is a very interesting take on why he did what he did, and I appreciate the insight, so thank you. anyway there are folks like me out there who spot every editing ewrror, every poorly written story, etc. The editor of the local newspaper rents from me and he knows the minute he sees me smile that I have a new list of errors... my favorite last year from the local paper was one day that he did not work, someone else did it - there was an editorial on the anniversary of JFK's assassination, 22 November 1963, and the headline of the editorial read: "November 23: a day to remember." Or not! They did have the right date in the text of the editorial, at least. My grandmother used to write for the Trib many years ago. Maybe that is why I follow journalism as much as I do. Thanks again!

I don't even want him with his sub - he is on the DL every year for extended, extended periods and I think his time is pretty much in the past don't want him... nope

fyou.gif griff... not only no but HELL NO...we already have enough of his type here..........we need fresh and young....not old and broken down......and too costly to boot............no freakin way in hell we take on griff..........

I am hoping that yesterday's outing was a sign of things to come.

Ok, Heather, I am sorry, but I simply can't resist. The phrase is "shed some light." What one sheds, often in a dark place, is light. What one speads, often in a dark place, is, ah, something other than, ah, light.

Frank.

Steff, in your initial post in this thread I could tell suicide had hit close to home for you, which you later stated. I grieve that this has happened in your family and with friends, especially multiple times. I cannot agree that suicide is selfish. It has many causes and each situation is multi-faceted - there is never one 100% reason for anything. From chemical depression to total estrangment or pain, there is not a one-size fits all explanation that equals selfish. In some situations there is a varying percentage degree to which revenge on those left behind may apply. In my vocational and eprsonal experience, and in all the clinical research I have seen, that is a very seldom a salient issue in a particular case. To say that all problems were solvable - not to the people in pain, they do not appear solvable. Froim other people's perspectives, perhaps, but not to those in their own suffering. The escape from the insolvable is why suicide becomes an option, it grants to some the only viable solution that they can see for relief. Disagree though we may, it is valid to the person in that situation. As ar as teenagers having no problems so why should they ever be suicidal - I am far removed from ebing a teenager but above all people, those in the teen years experience an angst that can be so unbearable. Our own experiences, and so much of music and literature, is an expression of the pariticular pain that adolensence brings. If nothing else, Romeo and Juliet stands for that. From my perspective now, hell, I don't even remember the names of some of the girlkfriends in the broken relatinships that just tormented by world back then. Teenage angst is not soimething to be dismissed. Perhaps the biological anbd hormornal and physical changes coupled with the rapid emotional growth that goes in a compressed periuod with the absense of ife experience is a factor. We all know that you go through far, far, far more changes from ages 13-19 thjan say 33-39. The very parid onset and quick development of these adolesent changes - which are exactly normal - results in the high degree to which teenage angst is felt. I don;t know. But I do not dismiss as "people having no problems" any teenager who is hurting. That is the worst time of life, those years, huge changes, huge life decisions, huge leaps in pwersonal developement. Teenage suffering is real, very very real. My niece and nephew just lost their grandmother to suicide. Whatever drove her to do that was not selfishment. I suspect rather that incredible lack of self esteem, and wirth caused her to consider that she was not a good grandmother and they were btter off without her. Her reasoning was not in the range of selfish. Anger at those who commit suicide is very normal because it does leave the survivors of the deceased in vulnerable positions emotionally. Blame is one of the things that survivors grapple with - could I have prevented this, did I miss clues, is it my fault - and the need for a person who is greiving suicide to say to the dead person "how the f*** could you do this to me and leave me in such pain" is of course a part of the grief process. As with all the steps of grief, that is one we must go throuigh before we ever can find a level of acceptance with the reality of what has happened. And find acceptance we must, because to live in that anger is not healthy for the survivor. And yet the pain always lingers. The questions of why and what if. And again I grieve your encounter multiple times with this pain. I know it been hard to be buffeted so.

Good call on the scene with the French guy - it was the perfect theological monologue - also interesting link and enjoyed (agreed with) your other comments.

Alvarez knew Plath (Alvarez was a London poety critic) and the significant opening of the book is devoted to that. The book is undoubtedly inspired by Plath. I would say that Plath's suicide had nothing to do with PMS and I almost think anyone who suggested that is making an anti-feminist statement. Almost sounds Ted Hughes making that to up to deflect his own responsibility there. Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. Sylvia Plath

RPS emailed me a picture of you hitting that ball - this is it: RPS pic of CK hitting wiffle ball

I know it will sound like I am pushing one book, but as it has touched your life, do check out The Savage God. It also is a very readable tour de force on western culture, expecially things that will surprise - anyone with college in their future would absorb a lot that will pay off later on. I won't say more. When suicide has touched close to home, it has its own meaning. A few weeks ago my sister's mother in law killed herself - and as I think about what my niece and nephew (ages 9 and 3) are thinking on losing their grandmother this way is beyond comprehension, but so was her pain, to leave them. I hope they all understand.

To say that the Matrix has serious Christian theology at its root is not a claim for or against its being deep. That one could go either way. To say the Matrix has serious Christian underpinings is analagous to saying C. S. Lewis' Narnia stories has serious Christian underpinnings - pure fact. Being dismissive of the foundation of the Matrix's Christian theology because you personally reject Christian theology is to reject the intent of the authors as well as academic soundness. One can be "too cool" for one's own good. The personal and subjective projection is in rejecting major themes of a work of art because you have a pejorative view of its roots. Would you deny the Magic Flute is about Masonic thought if you didn't like the Masons? Would you deny Guernica is anti-war if you are pro-war? Wpuld you reject the Gilgamesh Epic as being Mesapotamian religious thoughst if you thought that was paganism? Would you deny the meaning of the 1812 Overture if you were Napoleonic French? Would you deny The Crime of Padre Amaro is a scathing indictment of the Church if you were a devout church person? Granting a work its own integity is the beginning of understanding. To presuppose one's own perspectives on the motives of others denies meaning. And being too hip and above it all is sometimes (often) its own prison.

Am I familar with Eddie Collins, Luke Appling, Ray Schalk, Red Faber and Ted Lyons? Am I familiar with the Apostle Paul, Freud, Luther, Galileo, Plato, and Edison? Am I familar with the sui generis of it all? Surely that was a rhetorical question...

for serious Matrix interpretation, especially in regards to its Christian theological underpinning: matrix links

I know a thing or two about it having almost been to that point myself. check out the book - it is not a self help book or any s*** like that, it really explores the subject from non judgmental understanding and anyone who has ever been there will get it - and maybe no one who hasn't been there will understand

I knew that - but you know how kids are, over estimating their powers - miles to go to even get a glimpse at the footsteps that think they can walk in...

Speak for yourself no one but Van Gogh could paint Starry Night - and no one, no one, holds a candle next to HSC regarding smart ass comments - some people have gifts -

Resivouir Dogs is a great film - but although I haven't seen City of God yet, that would not be an antecedent to City of God, as I understand it -

lol i knew what you were tryin to convey..........of course no one else did the rest of us are disciplies, mere novices, who await enlightment as we sit at your feet -

I knew that... cinemistas understand each other!