Slog - Comments on On the Way To Wrigley http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle First, Seattlites: at what venue were the most NFL games played? That's right sports fans, Wrigley Field, where the Bears played from the 1920s (when Seattle was still officially in the hands of Native Americans, right? Or had the logging and whoring begun yet?) to the mid-'70s. Today I'm off to see the horrifically bad Cubs (sorry to cut your response off early, Brad, but you'll have to do better than just giving me shit for being a Cubs fan. It's like teasing someone for being left-handed or having Down's Syndrome or some other inborn trait) but managed to find... Copyright 2008 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:26:35 -0800 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:06:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Irv Lipschitz B.S. The evolution of the canon of American literature in the 20th century is nothing but subjectivity techniques co-opted from Joyce pastiched on themes derived from the nineteenth century Russian masters. And Julian Peterson is going to make sure Grossman is stuck in the pocket where Lofa can put him down.

]]> Irv Lipschitz http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470972 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470972 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:46:51 -0800 Comment by Fry Day Wasn't it a Grossman who did the most recent translation of Don Quixote?

]]> Fry Day http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470974 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470974 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:55:19 -0800 Comment by Laural By the 1920s Seattle had already had the first general strike of the USA. Way to fact-check, big-shot.

]]> Laural http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470975 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470975 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:59:12 -0800 Comment by Fry Day I agree with the first line of the Publisher's Weekly description:
There would seem to be little reason for yet another translation of Don Quixote,

http://www.amazon.com/Don-Quixote-P-S-Miguel-Cervantes/dp/0060934344

but if that's what Rex wants to do in the offseason, so be it.

]]> Fry Day http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470976 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470976 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:00:24 -0800 Comment by Gitai Don't you ever knock our whores! Our whores were the most generous whores that ever lived, and it was thanks to our whores that Dan Savage et al aren't writing from Tacoma right now. Whores are a proud part of Seattle's history and continue to be a vital part of our economy.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470977 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:02:09 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Too bad Wrigley's never hosted a major league baseball game.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470979 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470979 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:18:45 -0800 Comment by The_Pope_Of_Chili_Town Are you trying to make Seattle out to be the bad guys because it took them longer to exploit the Natives/environment? Chicago must have had us beat by about 100 years in that category.

Also, Fry Day, I think you have Grossman's latest literary undertaking wrong. He actually did a marvelous piece in the New York Times Review of Books on the homoerotic undertones in Ginsburg/Kerouac/Burrows/et. al. Fascinating.

He will also spend the entire game on his ass.

]]> The_Pope_Of_Chili_Town http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470980 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470980 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:21:25 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale And, hand off the ball to Thomas Jones with extreme caution. Jones will have to be pointing in the right direction in order to gain positive yardage, since he'll be in the process of running home crying.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470995 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c470995 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:09:17 -0800 Comment by Bill Savage Fan I love these sports posts on The Stranger by Northwestern University Professor William Savage. Why use the "Chicago Fan" moniker? Why not "William Savage Ph.D.? It makes The Stranger look better to have a Chicago University Professor writing for The Slog.


William Savage (Ph.D. Northwestern University)


teaches courses in twentieth-century American literature, with special focus on the novel and the Lost and Beat Generations. His research focuses on theories of how people read narrative in relation to aesthetics (ideas about what is or is not good art) and ideology (politics as made manifest in literature). He also writes about the relationship between popular and elite culture in the context of evolving standards for what is thought to be great literature.

]]> Bill Savage Fan http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471076 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471076 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:39:10 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale I do like The Moose, though.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471101 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471101 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:22:49 -0800 Comment by The_Pope_Of_Chili_Town Hey,
Bill Fan/Josh/Shoshanna/Kimberly/Red State/Racist Watch/Religion Sucks/Any Other Fan/Ignorant Gay Cracker/Foodie/Anne and any other I'm missing:

Doesn’t the Seattle Weekly pay you to do something beside surf the Slog and post your "sarcastic" comments?

Yes, I understand feeding you accomplishes nothing, but please, for the love of Christ, fuck off and die.

]]> The_Pope_Of_Chili_Town http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471133 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471133 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:10:06 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Yeah, fuck off ya pussie. Ya fuckin' dickwipe. Look at yourself, ya fuckin' dickhead.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471135 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471135 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:14:57 -0800 Comment by BRADLEY STEINBACHER Bill,

No more jokes about the Cubs. You're right, it's too easy.

Brad

]]> BRADLEY STEINBACHER http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471159 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471159 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:42:26 -0800 Comment by DOUG. I see the Cubs lost today, 5-2. Still, that's 2 more than the Bears are gonna score on Sunday!

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471172 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471172 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:01:58 -0800 Comment by WCAS02 I took American Lit with Bill Savage. He was tre cool.

]]> WCAS02 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471187 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471187 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:23:19 -0800 Comment by DOUG. Apparently he didn't teach French.

]]> DOUG. http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471189 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471189 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:24:59 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage I took Penthouse Magazine from Bill(y). He was not cool about it at all.

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471203 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471203 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:49:26 -0800 Comment by William Savage Fan No need to get tetchy. I love Chicago people. William Savage Phd is a nice addition to the Seattle discourse. A specialist in The Beat writers is very cool, If you've got it flaunt it I always say.

]]> William Savage Fan http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471332 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471332 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:33:26 -0800 Comment by bill Hey Laurel:

Fact check on the Slog? How about look up irony/humor/slagging. I tood the bloody Seattle Underground Tour and know damn well that they weren't whores, they were seamstresses.

Whoever WCAS02 is, hey.

As for the rest, brace yourself.

Bill

]]> bill http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471436 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/09/on_the_way_to_wrigle#c471436 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:06:09 -0800