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03.11.10Escaping steam
Coachean Life Comments OffSo last night we did TVFT with CP, and I think it went swimmingly. When you throw the four of us together, you’ve got an awful lot of tournament direction in one place. The material is probably interesting enough on its own merits; for those who run or are contemplating running tournaments, it’s probably even valuable. Send money directly to my house, if you agree. I’ll split it with the other guys. Really.I am feeling that sense of the steam slipping out of me, as far as the season is concerned. For a lot of the year I start up ...
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03.10.10This is how the year ends
Coachean Life Comments OffI think we’re done for the year meeting-wise, aside from prepping for CatNats after the rez comes out. It’s hard to scare up much of a Sailor quorum these days, and other than Lakeland coming up, and Districts, the season is about done. Not with a bang but with a whimper… Next on the agenda is organizing the CatNatting Sailors—SuperSquirrel and the Panivore—both of whom are traveling en mere, as the Frenchies might say if that were actually a French idiom. Since I can’t go, they’re keeping it all in the family. I’ve got my own family thing that weekend, ...
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03.09.10This post has more labels than content. Modernism forever!
Coachean Life Comments OffTVFT fans rejoice! CP is joining us this week (he says). We’re still on the tournament-running kick, and since he runs a lot of the biggest, he’s the perfect victim guest. I gather he’s a little disappointed that we don’t do video, though. I guess he’s never seen Cruz, Bietz or me in person. In another piece of interesting podcastian news, I was given this week off by Jules and the Mite so that a special guest star could do the job. I gather they’re coming out with episode 6½, not only not narrated by me but not written by ...
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03.08.10Why I don’t write Nostrum: I don’t have to!
Coachean Life Comments OffThere’s the Panivore, and now there’s the Little Ruffian (a Speecho-American). Who knew that he too was panivorous. I had talked to him in the past, and he intimated that by comparison to his famous sibling, he would eat anything that wasn’t nailed down. So after CFL Grands Saturday, we all went together to a team dinner at India House, our usual haunt.Let me put this in the simplest terms: the details of the Little Ruffian’s omnivore nature had been greatly exaggerated. I had already decided what the Paniovore would be up to. A mango lassi and a poori would ...
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03.05.10Yes, we always do talk about you when you’re not there. What did you expect?
Coachean Life Comments OffA nice Catholic dinner last night. We gossiped about everyone, including you. A fine time was had by all.We’ve definitely settled into the three-judge mode for tomorrow at Grands. So hard. Judges splitting flights and going from room to room, judging the same people on different sides, everything on cards, with the computer doing little more than nodding its approval. Yucch! We usually don’t finish up till the cows go home. And I hear it’s going to be a nice day. The good news that I’ll be back in the city Sunday, for lunch with Kate and whatnot. It’ll cover ...
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03.04.10Manhattan Lodestone closes. Thousands of students sent out to the street to sell pencils.
Coachean Life Comments OffWe TVFTed last night. I thought CP might join us, but he was apparently too busy making money at his day job (and also trying to convince Jules that the authors of Nostrum couldn’t possibly have been lost in the snowstorm in which they were lost because the snowstorm didn’t exist—this is over at the Nostrum Nation blog—which is sort of like Richard Dawkins lecturing at the Vatican, but that’s another thing altogether) so it was just the usual suspects. But it was interesting. We attacked tournament management, and in 45 minutes barely got started. Rather than do a 3NR-type ...
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03.03.10Department of Clarification
Coachean Life Comments OffFor about the millionth time…Last night we chezzed it up in Sailorville, and the subject of Nostrum arose. The usual belief that Jules and the Nostrumite are not the authors of this series was yet again refuted by yours truly. I mean, Jules has a blog, and a life, and whatever, that has nothing to do with me. I am the speaker of the words; that does not automatically make me their creator. Think about it. Let’s say that last night you watched “24” on TV. Do you really think that Kiefer Sutherland made up all his own lines? Jeesh.By ...
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03.02.10Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss
Coachean Life Comments OffI do not like DI, you ham!I do not like emoting spam.I do not like it, NFL:I say that it can go to hell.And Declamation is the pits.It gives me pains, it gives me fits.I do not like it, CFL:I say that it can go to hell.PF is cool, except the flip,And focuses, with all that lip.Why can’t they all be calm and niceInstead of being nasty mice?I do like Pol, but not the speeds.I cannot flow when my brain bleeds.OOers make me cry and moan.They whine and mope, grovel and groan.I do not like them, not at all:Not when ...
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03.01.10The season continues, beaten down but not bowed
Coachean Life Comments OffSo now we settle down into sorting things out.O’C and Stefan had a long correspondence about the combining of Lakeland and the MHL Grand Championships, most of which sort of flew by me. Mostly Lakeland will be Lakeland, with some MHL froufrou. It’s going to be fun to have a summary two-day event to mark the end of the season, even though from Stefan’s point of view, a summary two-day event to mark the end of February would have been more desirable. I know what it’s like to cancel a tournament. At least he did so for the storm of ...
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02.28.10Uncharacteristic weekend post
Coachean Life Comments OffThis weekend was the worst. I won't bore you with tales of true debate coach adventure, how I survived the cold and the lack of electricity and the lack of internet because it's too boring, but it was also boring going through it. And cold. And to think: I coulda been at Lakeland. Anyhow, much returns to normal, and Lakeland will live on, on the weekend previously owned by the MHL Grand Championships. We will combine the two. Since Lakeland is already free, and we were only going to charge a small trophy fee for the MHLGC, it seems to ...
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