For me, no World Series will ever top the Phillies in 1980. Of course, this has something to do with the fact that I was thirteen and it was my city's team, my hometown for three generations back, but at least the Sox had won before, even if it was 1918. The Phils never had. They were founded somewhere in the 1890s, so if it wasn't 86 years, it was damn close. Still, whoohoooo! I'm very glad the Red Sox won - not only do I somehow feel that, as a Philadelphian I need to league with Boston againt New Yrok, but also, what a story. Baseball is all about its stories, somehow more so than any other pro sport. Except maybe cricket.....
We didn't see much of the game for one reason and another, but caught a little of it when we took Papersky and her son out for some food. It's fairly amusing to watch a Series game with someone who keeps making comments about cricket.
Speaking of Papersky, or rather her reasons for being here, my big decision for the weekend is whether to go to the World Fantasy Con. In favor of going: it's right here (walking distance from where I row) and attendees include Ellen Datlow, Charles de Lint, Tom Doherty, Steven R. Donaldson, David Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Joe Haldeman, Barbara Hambly, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Laurie R. King, Patricia McKillip, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Fred Saberhagen, Charles Vess, Janny Wurts, and of course Jo Walton. And lots of others, of course, but those are the ones I know enough about to be interested in hearing them speak. The major factor against going is that it costs a big heaping pile of dollars to go ($160) and I'd only have time to go for part of it. Also, most of the panels seem to be along the lines of "How to write about _____". (Makes sense since this is a writers' convention.) Of course I'll find that sort of thing interesting, especially the ones on mythology and language, but since I'm a reader rather than a writer it's more of an interesting look through someone else's eyes for me rather than a primary interesting in honing my tools. I may just call and see if they have a one-day pass for less money.
Tangential to the topic of mythology, the thing that most intrigued me about the "hobbit-sized" hominids found on Indonesia is the mention of legends of small people existing on islands to the east. Eighteen thousand year old legends....somehow that stirs my brainstem.
Posted by dichroic at October 28, 2004 03:40 PM