http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/2006/09/01/friends-cardinals-how-we-think-the-internet/ Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:14:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/2006/09/01/friends-cardinals-how-we-think-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-14 paint the town red, or, the elation of a fan — normalblog Archive Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:06:31 +0000 http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/2006/09/01/friends-cardinals-how-we-think-the-internet/#comment-14 [...] But also, crazy, “just like me“! Like other fans, I grew out my playoff beard, or stubble in my case; I wore a St. Louis t-shirt underneath all my October layers that I didn’t take off or wash in nearly three weeks (I STANK!); and for every World Series game I wore - and never took off - a Cardinals hat that my friend Ashley Sell gave me a couple of months back when I visited my hometown and saw a couple of Cardinals games at the new Busch Stadium (did I mention they won the Championship in the first year of their new stadium? Cmon, that’s pretty fucking magical!!). [...] [...] But also, crazy, “just like me“! Like other fans, I grew out my playoff beard, or stubble in my case; I wore a St. Louis t-shirt underneath all my October layers that I didn’t take off or wash in nearly three weeks (I STANK!); and for every World Series game I wore – and never took off – a Cardinals hat that my friend Ashley Sell gave me a couple of months back when I visited my hometown and saw a couple of Cardinals games at the new Busch Stadium (did I mention they won the Championship in the first year of their new stadium? Cmon, that’s pretty fucking magical!!). [...]

]]> http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/2006/09/01/friends-cardinals-how-we-think-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-7 this weekend and beyond — normalblog Archive Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:33:42 +0000 http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/2006/09/01/friends-cardinals-how-we-think-the-internet/#comment-7 [...] Tomorrow my friends Ashley and Josh will be driving in from St. Louis. Actually they’ll be driving in from eastern Pennsylvania, where Amelie, Ashley’s sister lives and works as a preacher! She’ll be driving in with them, but she’ll only be sticking around for a day or two. Josh and Ashley will be staying for around a week, including a visit us three will be taking next Monday to Shea Stadium to see the Mets crush the Washington Nationals (not that they need to, since they’ve already clinched the NL East division!). They’re timing their trip to coincide with the opening of ‘Down the Street and Around the Corner‘, the next exhibition at Flux Factory, which I’ll have some work in, in some form or another. Ashley Sell baseball friends Josh Picker Mets [...] [...] Tomorrow my friends Ashley and Josh will be driving in from St. Louis. Actually they’ll be driving in from eastern Pennsylvania, where Amelie, Ashley’s sister lives and works as a preacher! She’ll be driving in with them, but she’ll only be sticking around for a day or two. Josh and Ashley will be staying for around a week, including a visit us three will be taking next Monday to Shea Stadium to see the Mets crush the Washington Nationals (not that they need to, since they’ve already clinched the NL East division!). They’re timing their trip to coincide with the opening of ‘Down the Street and Around the Corner‘, the next exhibition at Flux Factory, which I’ll have some work in, in some form or another. Ashley Sell baseball friends Josh Picker Mets [...]

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