Max is back
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: In a book store near you
Topic: Cold Front Passing Hokkai

           Where has Max been for the past five years? He's had his nose to the grindstone chipping away at this Cold War novel with the odd title "Cold Front Passing Hokkaido". Here's how to pronounce it ... Ho(rhymes with show) - kai (rhymes with sky)-do (rhymes with doe, not shoe). What is a Hokkaido? It's an island - the northernmost of the Japanese home islands - Sapporo is the capitol city of Hokkaido where the 1972 winter olympics were held. It is said that on Hokkaido the skiing is magnificent. Who cares if there is a cold front passing Hokkaido? In 1955 the U.S.Airforce weather officers on the island of Okinawa cared enough to include such reports in their daily summaries and forecasts to the base commander who had the responsibility of ordering the 25 fighter-bombers loaded with hydrogen bombs to either remain lined up next to the runway, or take off and unload on the targets marked out along the Yellow River in northern China.
                In somewhere around 100,000 words, the novel unfolds with a tale of friendship between Zeng Ming Gao and George Sawyer and their wives, Chang Fong-ying and Lindsay Mae Lewis Sawyer.
                There's much more to share if anyone's interested.

       

Phillies Journal - 2007
Mood:  blue
Now Playing: The Summer Game
Topic: Baseball

What happened to the past four years? The time since my last Blog. Nobody knows. Maybe it was baseball. I know, it's nuts, but there it is. A daily limerick for all Philadelphia Phillies games. The least successful team in Major League Baseball history; closing in on 10,000 losses in the 100 or so year histroy of the team. The symbol of failure. My team.

LIEBER'S GEM

Jon Lieber pitched all nine;
his fastball and slider were fine.
He struck out eleven;
a complete game shutout: baseball heaven.
None too soon for this stalwart to shine.

Saturday, June 9, 2007. Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City, Missouri.
Philadelphia - 4, Kansas City - 0.
WP - Lieber (3-4, LP - Menche (3-6) 

Under the South Jersey Sun
Mood:  blue
Now Playing: at all Stoneshire Drive neighborhood theaters
Yesterday. November 6, 2003. I can't help but think of yesterday. It rained all day. The rain stripped away the last clinging leaves. The squirrels did not care. Today. Friday. Under the South Jersey sun and the leaveless trees. Rip Radcliff - One Tough Out is finished, but Max blue is just getting started.

A First Time for Everything
Mood:  blue
Now Playing: Mood Indigo
On a sunny Tuesday in South Jersey, late October, with leaves outside the window turning red, yellow, and a deadly brown,squirrels assaulting Liddy's birdfeeder with their scrambling, furry butts, daylight savings time a memory, Max Blue launches his first blog, entirely convinced that it will be swallowed by the hungry blue sky, and the invading white clouds.