Limping
I stepped on a fancy Hot Wheels ambulance. It had sharp tail fins. It made a dime-sized crater in the arch of my foot.
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A few recent club transfers involving Ecuadorians:
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Ecuador’ll play in Paraguay tomorrow night. We’ve qualified for the World Cup. Paraguay is on its doorstep.
So, our motivation is low, Paraguay’s is high, and Paraguay is playing better than usual (if nowhere near as well as from 1996 to 2011).
And we’ve only ever lost in Asunción.
Still, I’d wager, we’ll earn our first point there. Our defense just doesn’t let in goals.
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Current mini-book: Ed McBain’s Cop Hater (1956), the inspiration for the novels of Sjöwall & Wahlöö. Inspired by the show Dragnet, which every other cop procedural is derived from, e.g. the one that goes:
Cop Hater is set in New York, but the place names have been changed.
Wikipedia says the first edition has 166 pp. and the revised one has 236. I must be reading the text of the first edition. In my omnibus, the novel’s page count is 116.
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Current late-night viewing: Da Vinci’s Inquest (1998–2005), starring Canadians who haven’t crossed over to Hollywood. That, in itself, is refreshing. I’m also enjoying the lingo. Royal Canadian Mounted Police = RCMP = The Horsemen. I keep expecting a guy on horseback to show up and harangue the cops at the precinct in Downtown Vancouver, but no, it’s always a twerp in a suit.
Lots of autopsies are performed. The nude bits are blurred out (unlike on Britain’s Silent Witness, which uses famous guest actors to play the corpses).
Da Vinci streams, free, via various apps.
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I think the weather has started cooling for good this summer. We’re getting a nice rain tonight. The back lawn is about nine inches tall. I would’ve mowed on Saturday, but my foot had a painful gash in it.
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A few recent club transfers involving Ecuadorians:
- Pervis Estupiñán from Brighton to Milan (permanent transfer)
- Piero Hincapié from Leverkusen to Arsenal (loan with purchase option)
- Kendry Páez from Chelsea to Strasbourg (temporary loan)
- Jeremy Sarmiento, Brighton’s last remaining Ecuadorian, to Cremonese (another loan)
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Ecuador’ll play in Paraguay tomorrow night. We’ve qualified for the World Cup. Paraguay is on its doorstep.
So, our motivation is low, Paraguay’s is high, and Paraguay is playing better than usual (if nowhere near as well as from 1996 to 2011).
And we’ve only ever lost in Asunción.
Still, I’d wager, we’ll earn our first point there. Our defense just doesn’t let in goals.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Current mini-book: Ed McBain’s Cop Hater (1956), the inspiration for the novels of Sjöwall & Wahlöö. Inspired by the show Dragnet, which every other cop procedural is derived from, e.g. the one that goes:
In the criminal justice system
Sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous
In New York City
The dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies
Are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit
These are their stories
(Dun, dun)
Cop Hater is set in New York, but the place names have been changed.
Wikipedia says the first edition has 166 pp. and the revised one has 236. I must be reading the text of the first edition. In my omnibus, the novel’s page count is 116.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
Current late-night viewing: Da Vinci’s Inquest (1998–2005), starring Canadians who haven’t crossed over to Hollywood. That, in itself, is refreshing. I’m also enjoying the lingo. Royal Canadian Mounted Police = RCMP = The Horsemen. I keep expecting a guy on horseback to show up and harangue the cops at the precinct in Downtown Vancouver, but no, it’s always a twerp in a suit.
Lots of autopsies are performed. The nude bits are blurred out (unlike on Britain’s Silent Witness, which uses famous guest actors to play the corpses).
Da Vinci streams, free, via various apps.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
I think the weather has started cooling for good this summer. We’re getting a nice rain tonight. The back lawn is about nine inches tall. I would’ve mowed on Saturday, but my foot had a painful gash in it.