Name: DK
Hometown: Owatonna, Minnesota
Town I Currently Live In: Minneapolis
Profession: Law student
Bats: Left
Throws: Right
Positions: First Base/Right Field
Greatest Career Achievement in Baseball/Softball/T-ball: I won the "gold glove" award on my junior high youth association baseball team, the last season I played organized baseball. I couldn't cut it any more after that as a hitter since I was OBPing around .380 at an age where the best guys were still putting up .700 or more. But, conversely, reliable defenders were hard to find at that level, so my ability to actually pick it and make consistent outs at 1B was appreciated.
 Hobbies: Reading cases, writing briefs, banging my head into my desk...seriously though, I haven't really had a lot of hobbies other than consuming music since I've been in the realm of higher education. I guess reading history would count as a hobby now since I don't think I'll use that aspect of my education professionally. One thing I've done the past couple of baseball seasons is do my own simple compiling of the Twins stats game-by-game. A few years ago SBG used to have recurring features on the hitters' and pitchers' stats over a certain chunk of games, like once around the rotation or so, which I believe he (understandably) discontinued around the time of Baby SBG's arrival. I always liked being able to see the trends of players' performance that way so in 2007 I started doing in myself, as well as tracking the overall season stats. It's not anything you couldn't get from any web stat source and I don't track any metrics more advanced than OPS, GPA or FIP, but I enjoy taking 5 minutes or so after a game and just updating my spreadsheets to see how things are trending for myself. If I have time this season I might try tracking a second team (probably the Rays).
What are you known for around the WGOM? Probably for boneheadedly overlooking voting for Rickey for the Hall of Fame. Otherwise, I don't really have a defined role here.
If you could have a nice, polite dinner with any 3 people - dead or alive - who and why? George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt. I have a lot of admiration for all three men and as a student of American history I'd love to be able to learn about how they went about their jobs. Plus, I tend to think Washington might not've liked a lot about how FDR (and maybe Lincoln too) approached the executive office, so that could be interesting too.
If you could pick any 3 people - again, dead or alive - to go out and party (or if you're not the party type, go for martini's or whatever it is you do) who and why? I can't just pick three attractive women, because in that scenario I'd be too nervous to actually have much fun. So, I think it'd be fun to party with Craig Finn, Patterson Hood, and Steven Page (as long as he leaves his "calcium pills" at home)
Sports Allegiances: the Twins, the Gophers, the Wild, the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Liverpool F.C., the Tampa Bay Rays (against anyone but the Twins)
Favorite Books: I've read Lord of the Rings probably a dozen times, so that. I enjoy George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, and I also like Neal Stephenson.
Favorite Music: Some of my favorite bands include Pearl Jam, Barenaked Ladies, the Hold Steady, the Drive-By Truckers, and Wilco. Generally I enjoy both more "classic" rock (Zeppelin, the Stones, latter-day Beatles, etc.) and a lot of modern alternative/indie rock.
Favorite Baseball Movie: I don't like the majority of baseball movies, but probably Field of Dreams or Bull Durham.
Favorite Non-baseball Movie: the LotR trilogy.
Favorite Food & Drink: Italian food, and Newcastle or Sam Adams beer.
Favorite TV Shows: Battlestar Galactica (the modern, not the old version), Lost, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Favorite Twins Player, historically: Kirby Puckett, or maybe Johan.
Favorite Twins Player, currently: Joe Mauer, for sure.
Best Twins Memories: I'm pretty fortunate, since the first time I had enough sentience to comprehend what baseball was, my team won the World Series, but I don't "remember" specifically things like "We'll see you tomorrow night!" The past eight years, of course, have been generally pretty good as a Twins fan. I have two favorite memories that are related to the Twins in the sense that they took place at Twins events: the first is several years ago, around 1994, I think, I went to TwinsFest with my dad, and we eventually went to a tent where Harmon Killebrew was doing the autograph thing. Dick Bremer was there too (this was long before I grew a distaste for his broadcasting style) and my dad showed him a picture of when he was about my age at that time, 9 or 10 years old, with the Killer. Bremer of course recognized Harmon in the picture and ushered my dad up to him; Killebrew recognized the picture and the kid (he had known my dad's father since he umpired when Harmon played baseball as a youth in Idaho), and signed the back of the picture. That one's not really my story, but I was there for part of it, I guess, so I can tell it
My other story is from the 2002 ALCS, against the Angels; I went to one game with a bunch of guys from high school and we were all kind of wondering about Cuddyer in right field, since this was just after he'd been called up for the first time. One of the guys asks "Who is this guy, Coo-dee-eh" as if it were a French word or something; when we tell him he's saying it wrong, he says "Come on, I don't know how to pronounce all these Latino names!"
Favorite Sport to Play: Soccer
Favorite Sport to Watch: Baseball
If I could live anywhere in the world, I'd live in: I'd just say Minneapolis because I like it here and I'm pretty familiar with it, but there's plenty of places I'd move to if the opportunity was right. I'd like to live in the Pacific Northwest someday.
If I was commissioner for a day, I'd: Admit and accept responsibility and culpability for the PED disaster, and then resign.
If I had Terry Ryan s job for a day, I'd: What does TR do any more, scout? If I had Billy Smith's job, I'd look for a time machine and go back and not make the Delmon-Garza trade. Failing that, I'd probably just cut Delmon, and then I'd start to plan my approach for attempting to extend Joe Mauer.
Favorite Ballpark: I haven't been to a whole lot of ballparks, and I don't want to say Fenway, so I'll go with Kauffman. I'm planning on trying to visit a few more in the summer of 2010 after I take the bar.
Favorite blogs: The WGOM, Gleeman, the Fangraphs blog, and I like the Yahoo Sports blogs a lot too, especially the Kelly Dwyer stuff on their NBA blog, which is about the only place I go to read NBA stuff any more. There are some other blogs I like too which fall outside the subject matter jurisdiction of the WGOM.
Is the picture of your dad and Killebrew framed? If so, which side is showing - picture or autograph? It is framed, with the picture showing. It's just a small photograph, so I believe my dad keeps in on his dresser. He certainly doesn't display it as prominently as his autographed (on the front) and framed picture of a 13-year-old me with Tom Osborne. I guess that's pretty representative of what's important to my dad in a couple ways.
Do you prefer Starbuck, Athena, or Number 6? Character-wise, Athena; she's one of the few characters who understands who she is and who she wants to be. (I'm going to get lawyerish and note you didn't ask about "the Eights", since I couldn't say Boomer knows who she wants to be at all.) Aesthetically speaking, I'd probably also go with Athena, but that's a lot more difficult to call.
What area of law are you looking to go into? Someone once told me the appropriate answer to this would be "food law", in that I'm looking to go into whatever area will put food on the table. I've done the most focusing in school so far in intellectual property and criminal law.
Isn't it sad that Johan is now listed under "Favorite Twins, Former"? Yeah, it is, but I came to terms with it a while ago. I can still appreciate his greatness as a baseball player and the Twins are still going to be competitive.
I'd probably just cut Delmon...
Man, you Klingons are reactionaries.
Yeah, it wouldn't really be a good, rational decision. I'm just saying, if I had the power, that's what I'd do.
Your verdict on LOST season 5?
You know, once you resign, we'd just be right back with Bud as commissioner again?
I guess I'd better stay in the job for the good of baseball then...
My verdict on season 5 is probably somewhere around a B grade. It kind of feels like it's spinning it's wheels right now; even as they move things along by getting (almost) everyone back to the island they have to set up a dozen other pointless mysteries about how everyone besides Jack decided to go back. And I'm pretty sick of the Jack-Kate melodrama period. And as much as I like the actor Said Taghmaoui, I'm not really interested in the adventures of a second band of redshirt plane survivors. That said, the stuff on the island with Faraday, Sawyer, etc. were pretty engaging and I hope they focus on those characters some more soon.
I love the fact that they know when the show is ending, but it allowed the second-to-last season to be all about buildup with little payoff. It's good, but yeah...it feels like they're killing time to get to the stories they really want to tell.
Season 5 started out with a bang, but you're right, it's just making time currently. Jack/Kate has been a waste since day one, but yeah, the Farraday bunch rocks. And I hope Smokey wipes out the 2nd set of plane survivors -- we're already spread too thin.
The Jack/Kate problem is that it serves a very specific audience subset that can't deal with a show unless a romantic angle is tacked on. I'm betting the writers are less interested in that storyline that just about anything, but they do it so as not to alienate that bunch.
Same issue (as well as a couple others) killed Twin Peaks.
Twin Peaks also didn't help itself by failing to pay off their first mystery for well over a year. I'm all for long-term storylines, but if you never pay off the first one your show faces, people will get frustrated.
Lost continues to endure in part because, while many important storylines continue to burn without answers, other answers are given in the meantime. Lost also has a rule that any time one of their main mysteries is visited, something new must happen. For instance, every time the smoke monster is seen, the audience has to learn something new about it. That's a good way to keep people interested.
I loved Twin Peaks, but there were episodes here and there where Laura Palmer wasn't even mentioned. What were they thinking?!
yeah, you touched on the "as well as a couple others"
I was a huge Twin Peaks fan, but I can only let Lynch & Frost string me along for so long before I stop cutting them slack.
Oh, what a town, ah. Another Big-9 Citizen.
Just as long as there aren't any Mayo cake-eaters around!
g--d d--n cake eaters.
always room for an Injun in the Nation, DK. Now can you get that Mankato guy off my back?
I actually reserve my deepest joke-hatred for natives of Faribault.
(I gotta say though Doc, I'm too young to have ever considered myself an Indian. I was always a Husky, and I was always pretty amused about the attachment some people in town seemed to have to the old nickname.)
So I'm the guy who moved _to_ Owatonna when you moved away! (Or close to it, anyway.)
I just started watching DS9. I never got into it as a kid, probably because I was looking for the constant action that TNG and Voyager provided. I'm almost through season one, and while I find it watchable, there's only been a couple episodes that have really grabbed my attention. Still most series start out slow while the actors and writers try to figure everything out. Would you say it gets better?
The lack of action was a big complaint early on. Later seasons the writers gave the cast the ability to leave DS9 for "away missions" and the action picked up a bit. I'd lost interest by then, though.
There are a few things I like about DS9 which set it apart for me among Treks:
1) The producers/writers made an effort to tell long-term story arcs in which actions at one point had lasting effects and consequences down the line (the Bajoran politics, Sisko-as-Emissary, Klingon-Federation relations, and of course the Dominion War) rather than being an episodic "procedural-in-space" like TNG feels like most of the time.
2) The writers also made an effort to portray the individual characters, and the Federation as a whole, as more complex and nuanced than just "Federation perfectly good, Dominion/Cardassians/etc evil".
I'm a big fan of serialized television, like Lost and BSG, and while DS9 is a lot less serialized than those shows, it's a lot more serialized than any other Trek show. To answer your specific question, I do think it gets better around the 3rd/4th seasons when the Dominion really enters the picture, but there's a lot I like about the first couple seasons too. (I've always liked TNG to an extent, but there's a lot that frustrates me about it too. I've always disliked Voyager though.)
I can think of 7 of 9 reasons I liked Voyager...
I think what really made DS9 was Captain Sisko. Easily my favorite Star Trek character of all time. Avery Brooks just brought such a different attitude and feel than any other actor on any of the shows. I'm not going to say he's a better actor than Patrick Stewart, but I personally found him more engaging.
I think a lot of Trek fans were somewhat polarized over Brooks' acting back when DS9 was on. Some, like myself and you, loved his acting, and I think some fans couldn't stand it. He did bring, I think, a real essence of theatricality to the role, which makes sense given his extensive stage background (although Brooks is certainly very different in style than Stewart, who of course has his own extensive stage background.)
Brooks was an acquired taste for me. He, the cast and the scripts got much stronger as the series went on (and they got a ship!).
So what's your opinion of how BSG is wrapping up? I blow hot and cold and hope these last 3 episodes kick frackin' ass. I couldn't believe how Boomer just played Tryol last week -- that was cold. I think they've lost a bit of the religious aspect with the Cylons being monotheists, it seems like there were some cool directions they were going that just dried up.
I was on the edge of my seat during the mutiny episodes pulling for Adama and co. to take the ship back (even as I recognize that a lot of the problems Gaeta had with Adama's actions made sense). I felt like I should've been taking notes during the Ellen/Anders exposition dump. The last episode was pretty powerful, I thought, although I'm a little annoyed that we still don't have any idea what Starbuck's deal is. (I can guess, though.)
I wrote that bit above about Athena/Boomer before this episode, but it seems pretty fitting still. One of my favorite scenes of the first half of the season was when Baltar was proselytizing to the Centurion on the baseship, so yeah, I'm a little disappointed that it seems like the religious aspect has kind of dropped out altogether.
Oh, one other thing: Hottest LOTRer:
Goldberry
Rosie Cotton
Eoywn
Arwen
Galadriel
Goldberry and Galadriel may be a little freaky, fun for a weekend. Long term I'd go with Eowyn.
I'd go with Eowyn. Galadriel would be a little intimidating.
Where's the map?
I wish I'd visited Kauffman prior to the most recent renovation, though from what I understand it was mostly a beautification process that added a few amenities and slightly reduced the seating capacity (in other words, no significant changes that effect the game on the field). The Royals claimed they essentially got a brand new ballpark for about $250 million (and a 15-year lease extension), which sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
I went there in April last season, during the renovation process, so most of the grounds past the outfield fence were torn up. I hope I'll be able to get down there again once it's finished. I just haven't been to that many ballparks, sadly.
Which law school are you enjoying?
The U of M, named after the best candidate to ever lose a senatorial election to Norm Coleman.
I'm not going to read the BSG discussion going on above because I'm only a few episodes into season 4 and I don't want any spoilers, but I will say that I have spent the past three weeks watching nothing else. It's really a fantastic show. But I have to say I am not looking forward to running out of episodes. I don't want it to stop!
Any thoughts on the show Firefly? Outstanding sci-fi, cut down before its prime.
Yeah, as much as I'm looking forward to a hopefully-awesome BSG finale, I'm pretty sad my favorite show is going to end soon.
I liked Firefly when it was on, but it didn't really last long enough for me to develop into a serious fan of its world. It is pretty much the only Joss Whedon project I've ever liked, though.
It is pretty much the only Joss Whedon project I've ever liked, though.
Grrr! Arrgh! Mutant enemies will eat you for that.
*sigh* Firefly RIP
I never watched it when it was on (a couple minutes here-or-there), but after watching the series on a friends DVDs, I felt how someone might who's favorite pitcher was traded to a Dusty Baker-led team.
That's a good analogy!
Fox Network = Dusty Baker
Firefly = Mark Prior
I never watched it when it was on, either, and hadn't even heard of it until Serenity came about. But then I picked that up on a whim, really liked it, and bought the series. I was hooked immediately, then sad after finishing the DVDs and realized it was canceled.
We need spoiler alerts on here! I'm about 3 years behind normal society on television shows. I'm on season 1 of BSG and just finally finished The Wire this past weekend.
I can't even read any of these comments because I'm afraid of what will be revealed.
I'm sorry. I think I kept my comments on BSG relatively broad, but there are still indications within of where things are at by season 4. So I'd recommend avoiding the discussion between freealonzo and I above.
Don't worry. I skipped over all the comments so I didn't read any spoilers (or non-spoilers). I just had to skip the rest of the discussion too.
Fair enough as I am mid-way through season 3 of the Wire. However I always wonder what the statute of limitations is for spoilers. I remember a few years back people were complaining about LOTR spoilers, even though the books had been out for 50 years!
I'm reading the Bible right now, and I don't want any spoilers.
It just has to end happily, right?
As a matter of fact, it does.
Spoiler alert: It doesn't end well for Judas.
or Jesus. (or does it?)
This is a minor point that has been discussed from time to time over the years.
The Devil did it.
The boat sinks.
Rosebud is a fucking sled.
I still have to watch that movie. I even own it. I just never seem to get around to it.
It's the Bruce Springsteen of movies. I don't get what the fuss is all about.
Citizen Kane is boss.
It's the Bruce Springsteen of movies. I don't get what the fuss is all about.
I'm going to have to strongly disagree with that one. Orson Welles' wrote, starred, and directed at the age of 26, and his direction and filmwork were totally ground breaking -- most of which is so common place now that it no longer appears very special. And it tackled a subject so politically hot, that it was blackballed from winning all the Oscars that it deserved.
Do you remember that Rosebud was a sled? That was stupid.
The whole movie was a quest for the meaning of Kane's last word. With all the successes that Kane had in life, his dying thought was of the simplicity of life when he was a child. The sled was a brilliant metaphor.
You're killing me here, Boss. "a f#$^(&# sled". Waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!
Sorry Boss, great movie. Rhu Ru is right, the movie was groundbreaking in terms of cinematography at the time. Camera angles, lighting, etc. All taken for granted now. Also, would you have been happier if "rosebud" was a woman, a horse, a bike... what? He died yearning for the sweet innocence of youth. Of course, I had the advantage of watching this during a theater class in college, so it was sort of spelled out for me.
BTW, favorite film of that class was Raising Arizona. This was shortly after it was released, and immediately it was recognized as a groundbreaking film by the Coen Brothers.
Raising Arizona was funny as heck, but what makes it "groundbreaking"?? (a real question re: the artsy sh!t involved)
I'll back the boss up somewhat on this one. Not that I hated Citizen Kane or anything but I watched it in the 1990's. Nothing seemed groundbreaking to me in the 1990's. It would be like watching a dunk contest from the 1960's in 2009.
If I'm going to watch a fake documentary, it's going to be This is Spinal Tap or Best in Show! (Now that should annoy some people with better taste than me.)
I'm not qualified to talk about whether this movie was a breakthrough movie in terms of cinematography. Perhaps it was. So was Birth of a Nation.
But really, is the plot that outstanding? I say no. No it's not. Maybe it was shocking in 1941, but I don't know. GWTW was released two years earlier and it was a fantastic story. As I recall, you've got a titan of industry whose last word is a mystery. His life story is told in flashback. He's an ambitious, cold hearted prick. Despite all of his accomplishments, his happiest moment is sledding when he's six. That's it? That's the storyline? That's the theme? Having lived 44 years myself, I find that an unbelievable perspective.
It seems to me that if the highlight of your life is sledding as a six year old, you haven't really progressed much emotionally or psychologically. Sure, I had fun when I was a kid, but I was a kid -- there were all kinds of things that I didn't understand or appreciate about life then. I derive a lot more enjoyment out of life as an adult than I did as a kid. So, I don't relate. I'd much rather be an adult, raising my own children than go back and be a kid again. Sure the idea of having a lot more years is appealing, but the innocence of youth isn't something that I want to relive. I'd much rather enjoy today and my existence now, with all of the colors of experience that have become a part of my life than go back to the blank slate. To me, such longing is a sign of a life poorly lived.
That to me seems to be what Wells is saying. CFKane was a miserable wretch who lived a miserable life. His best moment was as a six year old. It was all down hill from there. What a miserable life. And Wells took three hours to tell us about it.
Not that I hated Citizen Kane or anything but I watched it in the 1990's. Nothing seemed groundbreaking to me in the 1990's
That is the point. LOOONNNGGG before the 90's, directors and cinematographers had adopted his techniques. We're talking Babe Ruth teaching the world to love the long ball.
That to me seems to be what Wells is saying. CFKane was a miserable wretch who lived a miserable life. His best moment was as a six year old. It was all down hill from there. What a miserable life. And Wells took three hours to tell us about it.
Truthfully, Kane wasn't so much wanting to be a six-year-old again as wanting his life to take another path than it did at that critical point, when he was taken away and adopted. Did he grow up to be a prick? Oh, absolutely! Now you know why William Randolph Hearst had the film and Welles blackballed.
It seems to me that if the highlight of your life is sledding as a six year old, you haven't really progressed much emotionally or psychologically.
or juuuust mebbe, he was circling back, coming to self-knowledge just when it was too late. I dunno. I thought it was a pretty interesting storytelling device.
I hear what you are saying Boss, but I do sometimes miss the innocence of youth. You know, you could go
days,weeks, years without having to fire someone. No pressure, other than "when will I be able to hit the ball over the tennis court fence in left?!?"Don't get me wrong, I love my adult life, my wife, my kids, and wouldn't trade it in for the world. However, you nailed it above.... CFK spent his whole life chasing down a dream of money, power, and influence. It wasn't until his life was spent that he realizes "shit! I wasted my life chasing the wrong dreams!" That is the point. Also, he used the camera/lighting to enhance the story. Prior to him, film making was more about acting itself.
We're talking Babe Ruth teaching the world to love the long ball.
If I watched Babe Ruth play ball now, I'd think he was a fat, slow alcoholic.
So was Birth of a Nation.
Birth of a Nation is also regarded amongst film critics as one of the best/most important/influential films of all time. Kane is just held in even higher regard. Hell, Ebert even brings up Birth in his rundown of Kane.
This is not to say that what critics hold in high regard is what consumers should hold in high regard, but there are legitimate reasons that Citizen Kane has been held in such high esteem for this many years.
If I watched Babe Ruth play ball now, I'd think he was a fat, slow alcoholic.
Does that mean we should remove him from the Hall of Fame?
If I watched Babe Ruth play ball now, he'd prolly be my favorite player.
If I'm going to watch a fake documentary, it's going to be This is Spinal Tap or Best in Show! (Now that should annoy some people with better taste than me.)
Even amongst critics, Spinal Tap is a pretty highly regarded movie. This meta-list of various critics' lists has Tap at 458, which is pretty damned high if you consider the pool of choices to be every movie put on film.
I think that There Will Be Blood is a pretty comparable film to Citizen Kane. I can see why it might not be on the top of people's "to watch" list, but I thought that it was great. And for almost everyone I know, I would recommend There Will Be Blood over Kane but if we're talking about placement in a movie Hall of Fame, Kane would rank higher because when rating movies across eras, I think it makes the most sense to consider them in the context in which they were released, just as it makes the most sense to compare players against their peers when considering them for Hall induction.
Do you guys 'member when this was a joke about spoiling the ending of the Bible? That sure escalated in a hurry.
I suggest all you Welles bashers check out A Touch of Evil. It's a phenomenal film with one of the greatest opening shots in cinema history.
Do you guys 'member when this was a joke about spoiling the ending of the Bible? That sure escalated in a hurry.
All part of a day at The WGOM.
I think what's funniest is that this is a thread about me and I've never seen Citizen Kane. And I've only seen parts of Birth of a Nation.
but if we're talking about placement in a movie Hall of Fame, Kane would rank higher because when rating movies across eras, I think it makes the most sense to consider them in the context in which they were released, just as it makes the most sense to compare players against their peers when considering them for Hall induction.
Right on. We need an Oscars Above Replacement level (OARs) or theater-adjusted Oscars Plus Golden Globes (OPGG+) measuring stick!
Did I miss something? When did enjoying watching a movie become a question of whether it belongs in the movie hall of fame? I'm sure the first "talkie" deserves to be in the hall of fame but that doesn't mean I want to watch it.
What? You don't like Jolson?
heh.
Algonad, FTW.
Did I miss something? When did enjoying watching a movie become a question of whether it belongs in the movie hall of fame? I'm sure the first "talkie" deserves to be in the hall of fame but that doesn't mean I want to watch it.
When did enjoying a baseball game have anything to do with how good the players are?
To go back to something I said earlier:
This is not to say that what critics hold in high regard is what consumers should hold in high regard, but there are legitimate reasons that Citizen Kane has been held in such high esteem for this many years.
I absolutely 100% believe that people should watch the movies that they want to watch and not necessarily the movies that critics tell them they should watch. Some people will be happy with the opposite of what critics enjoy and some people will be happy with exactly what the critics enjoy. There's nothing wrong with that and I think it's perfectly healthy.
Similarly, some people enjoy minor league baseball. Some people even claim to like it more than major league baseball. That's fine. But just as any expert on film is going to tell you that Citizen Kane is a better film than Best in Show, any expert on baseball is going to tell you that major league baseball is better than minor league baseball. This doesn't mean that people who enjoy it should stop watching minor league baseball and it doesn't mean that anyone should stop watching Best in Show, but it doesn't mean that the experts are wrong, either.
To claim that "Rosebud is a fucking sled" is the same as claiming that Joe Mauer is fucking singles-hitting pussy who wears pajamas to work. It's like claiming that the Pope is just another Catholic, that Newton was just a physicist, that Darwin was just a biologist, or that Adolf Hitler was just a dictator. It's dismissive, wrong-headed, and misses the point entirely.
Godwin's Law hits the WGOM.
Can I take this thread back to spoiling niche TV shows now? I'm a bit nonplussed about how this turned out...
Hey DK, I see you like A Song of Ice and Fire. I haven't met a whole lot of fans, but I'm glad to see them out there. Are you as tired of this delay for Dance with Dragons? I've already read through it a second time. I don't want to have to do it again.
Yeah, I agree that the continual postponement of the release date has been a little frustrating. I read the first four books while I was in undergrad and had lots of time (and appetite) for leisure reading; since I've been in law school the last two years, I probably haven't found the delays as annoying as I otherwise would.
I can confirm that you are probably 100% accurate about the not minding the delays as much. I've got loads of leisure reading time, and its driving me nuts. Its worse knowing that Dance of Dragons is going to focus on most of my favorite characters.
ok, DK, back to the basics: Jadzia Dax
or Ezri Dax?
this is an easy one for me. Jadzia in a New York Minute.
I'm sure it's clear who my avatar would pick.
I always thought Ezri was pretty cute, and that Jadzia was a little overrated by most DS9 fans. However, I was annoyed that so much of the last season was spent establishing Ezri's character at the expense of focusing on Dominion War stories. So it's a close call in Jadzia's favor for me.
More importantly, Buffy
(The definition of win-win.)
or Faith?