…some thoughts on things that have been bouncing around my head but can’t find a full post.

• I’m extraordinarily pleased that Cal Ripken was elected to the Hall of Fame. For a stretch of my formative baseball-watching years, Ripken was my favorite player; he played the game the right way and always proved to be a positive role model for the game. More than that, his accomplishments on the field certainly warrant his induction. I can’t quite get the right words out, so you should stop by Swing and A Miss to see Tom G’s take on things. Well said, TG.
• I’m still not sure what to make of Children of Men. Shot beautifully , directed with an eerily realistic eye on the dystopian London, and acted quite well (especially by Clive Owen and Michael Caine), it should have me jumping to join the list of people it has wooed. But I just…didn’t care about what was happening on screen. There didn’t seem to be a side to root for (not that there has to be), and in the absence of that, there wasn’t a sense of importance that Owen’s character was protecting a newborn in a fertile world. I realize that the movie was well made, but I couldn’t get me interested.

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