A Wrinkle in Wine
Wrinkled, Out of Time
Madeleine L'Engle, the oft-rejected C.S. Lewis wannabe and plagiarist, has died at the age of 88. Her best known work, A Wrinkle in Time, mixes science fiction, theological claptrap and childhood whimsy, and was rejected by 26 publishers before L’Engle found one desperate enough to start the presses. Opening with the line “It was a dark and stormy night…” lifted from the notorious Edward Bulward-Lytton novel Paul Clifford, the book tells the story of Meg Murray, who, with her psychic baby brother, uses time travel, ESP and love to rescue her father the scientist from a planet controlled by the Dark Thing, in a curious interpretation of Einstein’s theory of relativity and Planck’s quantum theory. On the plus side, A Wrinkle in Time has been one of the most banned books in the United States, with conservative religious reactionaries arguing the book depicted God inaccurately and encouraged an unholy belief in myth and fantasy. Wrinkle won the 1963 Newbery Medal and led to the sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters. A later series of books dealt with the nearly perfect Austin family with a daughter that communicates telepathically with dolphins. But don’t call her a children’s author.
Three Pooligans anticipated overcast skies in Ms. L’Engle’s heart: Michelle Dalton moves into 11th, Dawn’s Chris’ Cardinal Rule climbs into 22nd and my Dead Men Walking saunter into 29th. Time wasn’t on Mark’s side as he dropped Maddy after the 2005 GHI.
Falcon Crest Fallen
Or
Here Comes the Doom
Or
Simple Wyman Says Goodbye Man
Jane Wyman, who set the hollywood precedent for easy Oscar nominations for playing crips has died at the age of 93. Between 1947 and 1955, Wyman scored 4 Oscar nods in differently abled roles, as a timid woman with a limp in The Glass Menagerie, a blind widow in Magnificent Obsession, an inbred deer-killing mother in The Yearling, and an emotionally stunted woman in The Blue Veil, winning as a deaf rape victim in 1948’s Johnny Belinda. The resulting fame from that role helped complete the break with her husband, a rather limited contract actor with Warner Brothers, Ronald Reagan. She later found a second life as Angela Chase, tyrannical head of a Tuscany Valley vineyard on the Dallas with grapes soap Falcon Crest who didn’t realize that her archnemesis was the son she thought had been stillborn. Who knew that so many plane crashes, murders, drownings, explosions and sex went into making a good Chardonnay?She ended up wrecking the show, as complications from diabetes limited her availability and Angela spent most of the 1989-1990 season in a coma as Wyman recovered and the show faltered. Her last role was as Elizabeth Quinn, Medicine Woman Mother.
Three of us knew 2007 would be a good vintage for Wyman, and Michelle’s the Quick and the Dead takes 10th, my Dead Men Walking continue marching into 16th to piss me off again about my team composition and Mark’s Angels with Wrinkled Faces III: You’ll Never Draw Breath in this Town Again loses a charter member of the AWF team and pulls into 25th. Michelle Dalton gave up on Janey after the ’05 GHI, which would have been her 6th hit of the year and would have given her the lead. So sad.
If you’re like me, and I know I am, you’re starting to plan your 2007-08 squad(s). Recent events may have you thinking about a certain billionaire pilot, so here’s an explanation of the D. B. Cooper Rule: Confirmation of expiration must take place within the timeframe of the GHI. If I had selected Steve Fossett instead of that big faker Steven Hawking, I'd only collect the hit and points if his body was found or if he were to be declared legally dead by the first week of December. If a DNA test of coyote scat recovered in January reveals traces of Mr. Fossett, I would be SOL, though admittedly less so than he is. The corollary: if I select Steve Fossett in the '07-08 GHI and his well-bleached bones are found in February, again, its no match and the board goes back. The only way Steve Fossett can do anyone in the GHI any good at this point is if he is selected in the '07-'08 GHI and it is determined that he Moses-ed his way around the desert until Dec. 1 before expiring or if he emerges from the desert like Emilio Estevez in Young Guns II and re-enters society.
Madeleine L'Engle, the oft-rejected C.S. Lewis wannabe and plagiarist, has died at the age of 88. Her best known work, A Wrinkle in Time, mixes science fiction, theological claptrap and childhood whimsy, and was rejected by 26 publishers before L’Engle found one desperate enough to start the presses. Opening with the line “It was a dark and stormy night…” lifted from the notorious Edward Bulward-Lytton novel Paul Clifford, the book tells the story of Meg Murray, who, with her psychic baby brother, uses time travel, ESP and love to rescue her father the scientist from a planet controlled by the Dark Thing, in a curious interpretation of Einstein’s theory of relativity and Planck’s quantum theory. On the plus side, A Wrinkle in Time has been one of the most banned books in the United States, with conservative religious reactionaries arguing the book depicted God inaccurately and encouraged an unholy belief in myth and fantasy. Wrinkle won the 1963 Newbery Medal and led to the sequels A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters. A later series of books dealt with the nearly perfect Austin family with a daughter that communicates telepathically with dolphins. But don’t call her a children’s author.
Three Pooligans anticipated overcast skies in Ms. L’Engle’s heart: Michelle Dalton moves into 11th, Dawn’s Chris’ Cardinal Rule climbs into 22nd and my Dead Men Walking saunter into 29th. Time wasn’t on Mark’s side as he dropped Maddy after the 2005 GHI.
Falcon Crest Fallen
Or
Here Comes the Doom
Or
Simple Wyman Says Goodbye Man
Jane Wyman, who set the hollywood precedent for easy Oscar nominations for playing crips has died at the age of 93. Between 1947 and 1955, Wyman scored 4 Oscar nods in differently abled roles, as a timid woman with a limp in The Glass Menagerie, a blind widow in Magnificent Obsession, an inbred deer-killing mother in The Yearling, and an emotionally stunted woman in The Blue Veil, winning as a deaf rape victim in 1948’s Johnny Belinda. The resulting fame from that role helped complete the break with her husband, a rather limited contract actor with Warner Brothers, Ronald Reagan. She later found a second life as Angela Chase, tyrannical head of a Tuscany Valley vineyard on the Dallas with grapes soap Falcon Crest who didn’t realize that her archnemesis was the son she thought had been stillborn. Who knew that so many plane crashes, murders, drownings, explosions and sex went into making a good Chardonnay?She ended up wrecking the show, as complications from diabetes limited her availability and Angela spent most of the 1989-1990 season in a coma as Wyman recovered and the show faltered. Her last role was as Elizabeth Quinn, Medicine Woman Mother.
Three of us knew 2007 would be a good vintage for Wyman, and Michelle’s the Quick and the Dead takes 10th, my Dead Men Walking continue marching into 16th to piss me off again about my team composition and Mark’s Angels with Wrinkled Faces III: You’ll Never Draw Breath in this Town Again loses a charter member of the AWF team and pulls into 25th. Michelle Dalton gave up on Janey after the ’05 GHI, which would have been her 6th hit of the year and would have given her the lead. So sad.
If you’re like me, and I know I am, you’re starting to plan your 2007-08 squad(s). Recent events may have you thinking about a certain billionaire pilot, so here’s an explanation of the D. B. Cooper Rule: Confirmation of expiration must take place within the timeframe of the GHI. If I had selected Steve Fossett instead of that big faker Steven Hawking, I'd only collect the hit and points if his body was found or if he were to be declared legally dead by the first week of December. If a DNA test of coyote scat recovered in January reveals traces of Mr. Fossett, I would be SOL, though admittedly less so than he is. The corollary: if I select Steve Fossett in the '07-08 GHI and his well-bleached bones are found in February, again, its no match and the board goes back. The only way Steve Fossett can do anyone in the GHI any good at this point is if he is selected in the '07-'08 GHI and it is determined that he Moses-ed his way around the desert until Dec. 1 before expiring or if he emerges from the desert like Emilio Estevez in Young Guns II and re-enters society.
Labels: Jane Wyman, Madeline L'Engle, Rules clarification
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