Monthly Archive: June 2006

Jun
27

The Golden Goal

“Ribery’s Goal”:http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/match/template.html?id=56 (Click on Video Highlights, it is the second goal in) There have been quite a few beautiful goals this World Cup. Joe Cole’s chest trap and volley for England ranks in my top ten. Certainly my blood was pumping and my voice shredded as I shouted , “yes….yes…yes” like Molly Bloom in the …

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Jun
21

The rebirth of music video

This is probably the best music video ever. “Glosoli”:http://www.emichrysalis.co.uk/quicktime/sigur_ros/glosoli/index.php?version=7.110&bandwidth=150000 I am a sucker for this tune. It’s somewhat ironic to me how the visual at the peak of the song is exactly how I feel when I hear the song. I am poised at the bottom of hill on foot ready to run to the …

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Jun
20

Tail Wind

Tail Wind While she sits mired in windless doldrums in the castle of our domesticity, like Penelope weaving an endless blanket for our empty wedding bed, I beat my blades like wings in quick rythmic loops to catch the wind. To paddle downwind is to sail like shadows of cormorants before a gale at twelve …

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Jun
18

Stealing from Peter to Pay Paul in the Apostles

*Day 1* The islands of the Apostles, are not named for the compatriots of Jesus of Nazareth. Instead they bear the names of what they are, as islands often do. The names of the Apostles bear names like: Sand Island, Raspberry Island, Bear Island and so forth. Four of us paddled from Meyers beach along …

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Jun
09

World Cup Fever!!!!!!!!!!!!

Watch the TV spots, they get me all misty everytime. http://www.soccernet.com/onegame/ Curse you Bono!!!! Germany VS Costa Rica Noon.

Jun
07

Nestor

When I first got into kayaking I was thrown by how young I was compared to everyone else. I am still a young pup compared to the average age of paddlers in WMCKA. Alex Pak is probably the closest to my age and attitude towards paddling that I’ve come across. But of course Alex is …

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