And what a weak week it was in Weequahic. Also, in the Dream Antilles. Your bloguero’s seasonal affective grouchiness (SAG) kicked into high gear as Old Man Winter continued to torture the inhabitants of the Northeast with inclemency and frigidity . Meanwhile, the radio station was broadcasting the Mets from sunny Port Saint Lucie in Florida. It did not help your bloguero’s disposition at all that Luis Castillo was playing second and Ollie Perez was on the mound. These two guys, who should have been traded or fired at the end of last season, still get paid 8 figures to do nothing. Your bloguero would be willing to do nothing for low 6 figures, and he’ll negotiate. You know where to send the offers.
The week ended with Bloguer@s: Play the Game Right, a meta discussion of recent flameouts at Port Writers Alliance blogs. The post spares you the details but notes that most of the hostilities are provoked by uncontrolled ego and ego’s stepchild, defensiveness. Your bloguero asks, “Can’t we play the game right?”
In Obama: Get Our Your Comfortable Shoes you will find a video of President Obama on the campaign trail in 2007 telling workers in South Carolina how he’ll put shoe leather to the pavement and walk the pick line with them if they have to strike. Right. Get out your Guccis. And Wisconsin? No, he’s not going there. Nope. He’s not even going to give a sternly worded letter to the Governor. Posts like this heighten the contradictions, as if they needed heightening.
The Times had an article explaining how books were going to be sold in odd locations like clothing stores. Books And Non Books notes in passing that the “books” being sold aren’t literary gems, they’re non-books. Put another way, the publishers are going to foist a lot of paper junk on shoppers in the vain hope of keeping themselves above water. News like this makes your bloguero think about withholding the life preserver.
Duke Snider, RIP notes the passing of a childhood hero, Brooklyn Dodger outfielder Duke Snider. Your bloguero didn’t think Snider was better than Mays or Mantle, the other iconic New York outfielders of the era, but he loved the Dodgers, and Duke was a part of that team.
Thank You For Supporting Wisconsin’s Workers thanks readers of The Dream Antilles for going to demonstrations on Solidarity Saturday and for buying pizza for Wisconsin’s demonstrators.
Your bloguero notes in passing that this Digest is a weekly feature of the Port Writers Alliance and is supposed to be posted early Sunday morning. Well, things happen. The best laid plans of mice, etc. See you next week if the creek don’t rise on Sunday early.
