Fall Sports, "The Lost Symbol"

Hello,

Happy Constitution Day! What is Constitution Day you ask. According to the Ludingtion Daily News: "Constitution Day commemorates the vote taken on Sept. 17, 1787 by the delegates to the Constitutional Convention to approve the adoption of the United States Constitution". (Thanks to the Ludington Daily News.)

I love Fall, it's one of the best times of the year for both sports and weather. The weather has been cool but not too cool. Pro football just started and college football is in full swing. In MLB the pennant races are in full swing. With only about 20 games in the season remaining, all the pennant races are pretty much wrapped up. Last night I watched the last third of the amazing Red Sox-Angels game. Boston defeated the Angels 9-8 in historic Fenway Park on a bloop single by Alex Gonzalez in the bottom of the ninth. I was chewing my fingernails last night, which is a sign I'm very nervous. This is probably a playoff review, these two teams are very likely to play each other in the first round of the playoffs. This was a game with big pitches, big hits, rallies (the Angels scored 7 of their 8 runs with two outs), lead changes, intensity and a bit of controversy. An amazing game especially since both teams pretty much have their playoff positions already decided.

What the hell is up with pancreatic cancer? Patrick Swayze died a couple of days ago. Yesterday Myles Brand, President of the NCAA, passed away of pancreatic cancer. Other celebrities who died of pancreatic cancer include Randy Pausch, Fred Gwynne (Herman Munster), Michael Landon, Jack Benny, Donna Reed, Rex Harrison and Richard Crenna. Also Steve Jobs has fought a very public battle with pancreatic cancer. Although Jobs and Apple have tried to limit the publicity as much as possible.

I was going to show a recent Pearl Jam set list, I went to pearljam.com and their last concert was August 28th. They are currently taking a break and their next concert isn't until September 21st. They play two shows in the band's hometown Seattle, play in Vancouver on September 25th, Portland on September 26th. Then two days later they'll play Salt Lake City. Thanks for visiting, I hope your visit is a pleasant one.

Books: Jon Krakauer's new book, "Where Men Win Glory : The Odyssey of Pat Tillman" is in at the library for me to pick up. Whoo hoo! However I'm 212th position for Dan Brown's new book, "The Lost Symbol". Both books were released on Tuesday. For "The Lost Symbol's" first days of sales, it sold over a million copies. I've seen one review for this book so far. It's from the New York Times and it's a rave. (Thank goodness I was worried this book might have been a clunker.) When one has a project that was as successful as "The Davinci Code", almost everything that follows it pales in comparison. I hope "Symbol" is as intense as "The Danvnci Code". My only fear is that the whole book takes place in 12 hours. Just like "The DaVinci Code", there probably will be too many things happening in to short of a time to be realistic. Other than that I look forward to reading the 528 page behemoth.

Pink opened her concert tour a couple of days ago in Seattle. (Seattle is getting a lot of great concerts right now. As my kids would say, "Lucky".) Her 20 song set comes with costume changes, elaborate sets and many of her own great songs. She also does covers of songs by Queen ("Bohemian Rhapsody"), Led Zeppelin ("Babe I'm Gonna Leave You") and AC/DC ("Highway to Hell"). I saw her in concert when she was just starting out and she was pretty good and had a lot of energy. Check her out if you can afford it in this tough economy.

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