LARGETONY Blog

You’ve probably heard about the ongoing dispute over the gold medal awarded to (I didn’t say won by) Olympic gymnast Paul Hamm. You remember how it all went down. In the all-around competition, Hamm blows his vault landing and ends up rolling in a ball across the platform and literally onto the judge’s table like [...]

I’ve had a few responses through e-mail and through blog comments about my entry the other day about Fate’s Hand. The ironic thing about it all was that it was an entry where I was grumbling about doing thing in life only to have those things met with non-response or indifference.
I think people thought I [...]

The older you get, the more you realize that fate doesn’t always deliver the results you want or even expect, for that matter. But still it’s always frustrating when the universe basically says “tell it to the hand.” It’s like when the little girl innocently gives Frankenstein’s monster the flower. Rather than bringing a touched [...]