“You know, there are some words I’ve known since I was a schoolboy: ‘With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.’ Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man’s freedom is trodden on, we’re all...
Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve followed the (mis)adventures of the San Francisco Giants. My father took me to my first baseball game when I was in the first grade, about six months or so after my first San Francisco 49ers game. When I was that young, I think being able to take off from school to go do something with your dad that didn’t involve a doctor or...
To start in on Gunbuster, I’d need to talk about Ken Lau, first. Ken was someone I’d met while working at Acer America back in 1995; we both worked the grave shift in the technical support department, though he was in a smaller group that handled online requests, while I was in a larger group that handled phone calls. Anyway, we met, we hit it off, and thus began a...
In honor of pitchers and catchers reporting yesterday, I feel like putting on a baseball film festival in my home this weekend. I’m trying to figure out which films to screen on Saturday and Sunday, and I’ve come up with a partial list:
Stealing Home
It Happens Every Spring
For Love of the Game
Mr. 3000
Bull Durham
61*
The Sandlot
Mr. Destiny
Summer Catch
Mr....