DawgDays

I'm switching to LiveJournal. I've run into enough things I want to do over there. So please change your links to http://www.livejournal.com/users/dawgdays.

I just looked at this blog in Netscape Navigator. Man, it looks TERRIBLE! Navigator doesn't understand the styles at all.

I suspect it might help if I was using something more recent than 4.7.

If you've never been to California (or even if you have), try this.

Before I saw the movie, all I knew was that Seabiscuit was a racehorse. I had no idea how the band of misfits (horse, jockey, trainer, owner) could somehow hoist the spirits of the country during the depths of the Great Depression. Tragedy, comedy, triumph - for individuals, and for the country at large.

However, it all seemed too pat, almost sappy, with everyone fighting the odds, and coming out on top. Fiction at its most convenient - but it's not fiction, it's non-fiction.

It was fun watching Gary Stevens as George Woolf. Stevens was a long-time jockey at Seattle's Longacres racetrack before he hit the big time.

I liked it. Worth seeing, definitely. Makes me want to read Laura Hillenbrand's book.

This is not a story of triumph, but of survival. It is full of heart-wrenching scenes as the Jews are sequestered in the Warsaw ghetto and brutalized by the Nazis, yet there are scenes of hope as others risk themselves to help.

It is truly horrific to realize how the Jews were treated, oppressed, and exterminated. It is frightening to see what can happen when one person thinks he or she is superior to another.