All You Already Knew About The Dwarf -- And MORE!

[Ben_Hecht]

http://www.slate.com/id/2150535/

Patience, please . . . their servers are JAMMED . . . wonder why?

 

[slappy4428]

Oh please, tell me what I'm missing. The "Document contains no data" message is too easy.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Keep trying . . . operators are standing by . . .

 

[slappy4428]

Got through and have tears in my eyes.... I am moved. I am touched. I am not making this up...

" Albom is literally a teller of fables, a peddler of shallow morality tales for the masses."

"In For One More Day, Chick celebrates his extra day with Mom by feasting on her home cooking, reminiscing about Halloween costumes, and, of course, reliving his childhood traumas. What advice does Mom impart to set things right? "Forgive." Forgive who? "Yourself," says Mom. At which point Chick awakens very much alive. My first thought was that this was dreadfully shallow. My second thought was that this Albomian koan seemed awfully familiar. And, sure enough, there it was, on Page 166 of Tuesdays With Morrie. "It's not just other people we need to forgive, Mitch," Morrie says. "We also need to forgive ourselves."

 

[Starman]

"If you build it, she will come."

"Ease her pain."

"Go the distance."

"Mom, wanna have a catch?"

 

[slappy4428]

And yet, the housewifes and lemmings keep coming back to the sea.
I weep.
They don't know when they're being suckered, being taken advantage of by an insincere sincerity.
I weep.

 

[Ace]

"Mom, wanna have a catch?"

That's terribly mean. Congrats. ;D

 

[Columbo]

"If you build it, she will come."

****.... is that the secret?

Let me try that.

Thanks.

 

[Frank_Ridgeway]

If we were to take to task every sports writer's transparent, superficial, moralizing, gloppy attempts to manipulate readers' emotions by finding deeper meanings in stupid games played by mostly stupid people, this thread would never ****ing end.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Well stroked.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Yes, but Dwarfie has a monopoly on the current Ladies Home Journal niche

 

[Shaggy]

Two great works of fiction with the same lesson within its pages...oopsie.

 

[slappy4428]

Two great works of fiction with the same lesson within its pages...oopsie.

But as every great writer knows, the best work is in a trilogy.... can't wait for the next morality play

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Well, Dreams Deferred will soon be under everyone's tree.

 

[slappy4428]

Well, Dreams Deferred will soon be under everyone's tree.

Better be a small tree. He only writes two a contest Christmas season now... so he can justify "dreams" plural instead of "dream"

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Mitchie will go to an inner city soup kitchen and provide a menagerie of stories to make up for it.

I am sure you of all people, slap, remember the soup kitchen column he wrote where he was approached by a weeping old lady who told him that his columns changed her life's perspective. (And, being Mitchie, he included that in his narrative).

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Hey, he found a niche he can stripmine.

Don't begrudge him, that.

But when he starts playing all-knowing moral arbiter on Sports Reporters, with playmate Loopy,
it's time to go to the water closet . . . and flush.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Can you strip-mine a niche?

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I think there's a misunderstanding here. No one can write stuff like that unless he or she actually believes it. Mitch is SINCERELY sentimental. Millions of people would like to write best-selling books, me especially, but you can't fake the feelings that make his stories work with people like, say, my wife's friends. Mitch is in tune with his audience and I respect him for that. My question about him is why he bothers still writing for the Free Press in the first place. He doesn't need it, and he isn't really that interested in sports as far as I can tell.

 

[slappy4428]

Mitchie will go to an inner city soup kitchen and provide a menagerie of stories to make up for it.

I am sure you of all people, slap, remember the soup kitchen column he wrote where he was approached by a weeping old lady who told him that his columns changed her life's perspective. (And, being Mitchie, he included that in his narrative).

Mitch's kickoff for the book was a night with himself, Hank Azaria, Tony Bennett and Joe Dumars (sure to make the Dwarf see things objectively for the Dumars'-run Pistons). The Benefit was for Mitch's pet project at the soup kitchen.