Posts Tagged ‘dad’
Fruit Smashing Day 2011
by Matt Taylor on November 9, 2011 at 12:29 amIt’s that time of the year again. It’s time to gather all your useless fruit. It is time to smash it authoritatively. I recommend starting with a few good oranges. Perhaps you have an orange tree that is overproducing fruit that is deemed inedible. Or perhaps you have some skunky ones growing some mold and hanging out in [...]
This is baseball. It’s not just a game played between a set of white chalk lines on a field. It’s not just a player throwing a ball, or another swinging a bat. It’s history. It’s community. It’s family. It’s generations. In 1987 I watched my first baseball game with my father. As a transplant to [...]
Fruit Smashing Day 2009
by Matt Taylor on November 4, 2009 at 12:00 amFruit Smashing Day 2007
by Matt Taylor on November 9, 2007 at 12:00 am11/9/2007 Here’s to another angry “Useless Fruit Smashing Day.” May your fruit and pumpkins splatter mightily. We miss you Dad. Halloween was a huge success. As promised, my haunted house made kids cry and adults scream. It was great. New holiday decorations soon. 10/28/2007 Whoo! Halloween is this week! I made the coolest haunted house! [...]