"I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies, this is the dawning of the rest of our lives......."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FREtPqxQe40
Holiday by Green Day
Today is a lazy day after a couple days of fun. Friday night we were out celebrating a couple of friends birthdays. Things have got busier here in town with the usual influx of September students. We were at Molly's before 10 and I think we managed to make it close to the end of the night. Since there were a dozen or so of us, we made a little area of our own and proceeded to have fun.
Saturday a couple of us headed to Toronto for the Blue Jays game. It was a cool and breezy day, which was nice because of our hungover state. The game itself was very good, with the Jays winning 7-4 in the bottom of the 13th inning on a walk off grand slam by Greg Zaun of all people. It was Toronto's 7th win in a row and it is nice to beat the first place Rays. There would be a measure of relieve for Blue Jays fans should the Rays stumble in September and miss the playoffs. We can accept Boston or New York not making the playoffs but the Rays or the Orioles would be demoralizing for us. It was nice being in Toronto because of the city's buzz created by their annual film festival along with the Jays, the soccer team and the Foo Fighters playing on the island with other bands.
Yesterday the Taliban executed another suicide bombing inside Pakistan, the number of dead are around 50. The region is so complicated, understanding it is very difficult. As a westerner, all we can do is continue reading and gaining knowledge about it. There is a link below to a lengthy article from the New York Times magazine about Pakistan, the Taliban, Afghanistan and the dynamics of the region.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07pakistan-t.html?hp
Whenever you attend sporting events, music is used to pump up the crowd, one of the those songs used yesterday at the Rogers Centre was Green Day's Holiday. The anti-war song worked and it seemed much of the diverse crowd knew the lyrics or were at least tapping hands or feet to it. Therefore its use in the blog today.
The sun has finally arrived this afternoon after a Sunday morning of rain. At times I wish I could spin the light around my finger and reflect it in the eyes of beautiful girl.
jr.