World Series Begins: Game One suggests that it will be a challenging series for the Yankees, who continue to play games without a big margin of error. They eked out two runs, gave up three though one might very well have been cut off at the plate with a good throw, and thus lost the game. David Wells, after pitching to three batters on Thursday, pitched a good game (seven innings), but the Yankees missed opportunities and overall will not win like this. It was just plain tedious to watch, like one of a ton Mets games this year, but sadly not too atypical of their play at times.


Pieces of April was a little gem, which was good because I just recently watched (at same theater in fact) "Demonlover," a film I had to walk out of because it was so tiring. Nothing much really happens for most of the first half, except for some stereotypical characters (the ice queen, macho chauvinistic French guy with a few days growth on his face to prove it, cocky American who smokes pot [Gina Gershon overacting again], and so on) who spend more of the time mostly negotiating a merger. Some growingly unbelievable stuff occurs as well, but the second half must be rather good given some of the high praise given for this film.

I speak about Gregg Easterbrook's controversial column on media violence here.