Being in Boston has its perks. One of them being that since the Red Sox just won the World Series, I was able to attend the celebration parade today. It was oh so joyous to have the crowd start throwing tennis balls and T.P. across the street followed by pencils, pens, coins, open water bottles and Boston creme donuts. One of those donuts got a guy behind me right in the face leaving behind a good amount of filling. Fortunately, the parade came along somewhat shortly after, right as the frozen chickens were being loaded into modified potato guns. As a well-established member of P.E.T.A. (People Eating Turkey Always), I was glad to see the chickens slowly lowered to the ground. Then the ducks came...
The aforementioned T.P. There was also some P.T. That's paper towels for you rookies out there. I sure hope they used Bounty, because everyone knows that's the strongest three-ply out there...
I was just outside the Park Street "T" station for you familiar with the area. This is an attempt at a shot of the crowd looking down Tremont Street with the Boston Common on the right. I was about four rows back of the barricade so I had a pretty clear vantage point.
The owner, John Henry, and others as you can see by the signs. I don't remember all of their exact positions.
Theeeeeooooo! As only the Boston faithful can put it.
Franconer. His head is very shiny. And the guy in the middle looks like he's part of the Secret Service, not the Red Sox. Smile, big guy!
Tim "Knuckleballer" Wakefield. Curt "Probably Gone" Schilling. Josh Beckett? On the other side of the duck...how disappointing. The problem? This wasn't the only time that happened.
Yooooouuuuukkkk. That sounded really cool at the parade. Click on the picture to blow it up so you can read the sign based on the Priceless MasterCard commercials. I didn't see this until I looked at the pics at home. Also, look directly right of Youkilis' butt to see a part of Pedroia's face, which is important because...
In this one, you can only see his back. Darrrr! He looked to my side only ever-so-briefly. But hold on, pard'ner, there's another hidden gem! Check out the faux movie flyer on the stick.
Dice-K was pretty excited. I never saw the grin leave his face. I'm sure you don't get this type of treatment in Japan. Or, he could have spotted the Boston creme filling on that kid's face and that made him happy...
The mobile "Black Pearl." For those of you who watched the Red Sox playoff games especially, these hooligans put up quite a challenge to the Blue Man group with their rhthyms. Again, they didn't disappoint.
This is the best I could get of Okajima. He was on the front of the flatbed truck carrying the band, Timlin and Papelbon so I had to take the shot before he got up on me. This meant shooting into the sun. That's all the way zoomed in, too. Sorry. Side note: looks like he keeps his head down in public, too.
Ellsbury looked a kid that just found $20: happy, but not quite sure what to do. The satellite shot shows Bucholz as furious. At first, I thought the guy on the left was Drew, but upon further review, the color of the hair has me thinking its Kielty.
Manny was the only one not wearing red. Manny and Kyle Snyder were the only ones to make use of the PA systems on the ducks. I felt like shouting out to Snyder, "How 'bout them Royals?" And of course, Ortiz was on the other side.
Hey, look! It's the Jordan's furniture guy! See ya next season, bud. We can count on it.
Lugo holding the hardware. He wouldn't let me take the picture with his face uncovered unless I threw some change in his hat. I was without.
This is the statehouse with a large...well, you can see what it is.
And it was over. I don't know that there was quite as large of a crowd as there was in 2004 but I'm sure that I just spent a couple of hours of my life standing with the greater part of the population of Kansas. My apologies for where my camera work came up lacking and for not catching everyone. I really wish I could have seen Papelbon dance. The only shot I really got of that truck was with a hand obstructing the view. Oh, well. Here's to next year, I suppose.
I was surfing the web today and decided to check out the trailers at apple.com. In doing so, I came across this one about two guys running a video rental store. Their tapes go blank so they're about to go out of business... Or are they? Watch and see. Looks hilarious.
Here's the link. Be Kind -- Rewind
Even if you aren't normally a fan of Jack Black, I would still take a look at it.
As I was finishing up "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis this afternoon, I came across this passage which I found humorous:
Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again; so that years later, when they were grown up they were so used to quarreling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently.
Well, it's been a while since I've really put anything substantial up here but I've got some time now to just sit down and put some old stuff up. I am back in Boston after my two+ weeks in Kansas. I'll fill you in on that some other time.
First off, the trip to New York for the White Lake Reunion. I enjoyed that weekend immensely. First of all, the actual trip on the way there was just full of exciting things. We were without an atlas (which just bothered me :]); we had to stop for a bathroom break no more than a half hour after a previous stop; it was my first time in Connecticut; we saw a dog walking across I-84 just get nailed (not a fun sight); Peter and I, while listening to Another One Bites the Dust, named the dog, Dum Dum, after the lollipops Anna had given us before we left; it was Rachel's first day of driving, so the boys' car consistently sped away from the girls' car (irony: Drive Faster by The Killers started playing); we stopped at a gas station that sold cigars and school supplies (it seemed like a mini-Wal-Mart).
And that was all just on the way there! On the way back, we stopped at a gas station that had to be the best looking one I'd ever seen. The landscaping was well done. It was clean. And the bathroom was amazing. I told everyone else that I hoped the bathroom in my future house would be that nice. It was nicely tiled. There were flowers on the top of the toilet (fake or real depending on who you talked to). There was a TV in the corner! What gas station has a TV in the bathroom! I could try and describe it more fully, but I'll just say that it was just very well done, that's all there is to it.
As for the conference, it was very good as well. I met Brad Johnston, who is the current pastor in Walton, NY, where my family used to be. We (well, at least me) had a good time talking about the current events in Walton. Brad spoke on Hell and Heaven, of which I was only able to hear about Hell. I had to miss the lecture on Heaven because I was preparing devotions for after supper, which I was assigned that afternoon after the eldest Trexler injured his shoulder, meaning that the middle Trexler had to leave. Sorry, there were Trexlers in my high school and only their first names are coming to mind right now.
The kids were good and we all had a fun time being with each other and fellowshipping. Paintball was alright, too, I guess.
Well, I'll leave you with that and hope to get back to more regularly scheduled posts. Take care, folks.
The aforementioned T.P. There was also some P.T. That's paper towels for you rookies out there. I sure hope they used Bounty, because everyone knows that's the strongest three-ply out there...
I was just outside the Park Street "T" station for you familiar with the area. This is an attempt at a shot of the crowd looking down Tremont Street with the Boston Common on the right. I was about four rows back of the barricade so I had a pretty clear vantage point.
The owner, John Henry, and others as you can see by the signs. I don't remember all of their exact positions.
Theeeeeooooo! As only the Boston faithful can put it.
Franconer. His head is very shiny. And the guy in the middle looks like he's part of the Secret Service, not the Red Sox. Smile, big guy!
Tim "Knuckleballer" Wakefield. Curt "Probably Gone" Schilling. Josh Beckett? On the other side of the duck...how disappointing. The problem? This wasn't the only time that happened.
Yooooouuuuukkkk. That sounded really cool at the parade. Click on the picture to blow it up so you can read the sign based on the Priceless MasterCard commercials. I didn't see this until I looked at the pics at home. Also, look directly right of Youkilis' butt to see a part of Pedroia's face, which is important because...
In this one, you can only see his back. Darrrr! He looked to my side only ever-so-briefly. But hold on, pard'ner, there's another hidden gem! Check out the faux movie flyer on the stick.
Dice-K was pretty excited. I never saw the grin leave his face. I'm sure you don't get this type of treatment in Japan. Or, he could have spotted the Boston creme filling on that kid's face and that made him happy...
The mobile "Black Pearl." For those of you who watched the Red Sox playoff games especially, these hooligans put up quite a challenge to the Blue Man group with their rhthyms. Again, they didn't disappoint.
This is the best I could get of Okajima. He was on the front of the flatbed truck carrying the band, Timlin and Papelbon so I had to take the shot before he got up on me. This meant shooting into the sun. That's all the way zoomed in, too. Sorry. Side note: looks like he keeps his head down in public, too.
Ellsbury looked a kid that just found $20: happy, but not quite sure what to do. The satellite shot shows Bucholz as furious. At first, I thought the guy on the left was Drew, but upon further review, the color of the hair has me thinking its Kielty.
Manny was the only one not wearing red. Manny and Kyle Snyder were the only ones to make use of the PA systems on the ducks. I felt like shouting out to Snyder, "How 'bout them Royals?" And of course, Ortiz was on the other side.
Lugo holding the hardware. He wouldn't let me take the picture with his face uncovered unless I threw some change in his hat. I was without.
This is the statehouse with a large...well, you can see what it is.
And it was over. I don't know that there was quite as large of a crowd as there was in 2004 but I'm sure that I just spent a couple of hours of my life standing with the greater part of the population of Kansas. My apologies for where my camera work came up lacking and for not catching everyone. I really wish I could have seen Papelbon dance. The only shot I really got of that truck was with a hand obstructing the view. Oh, well. Here's to next year, I suppose.
