| Peter David.net

Spent the majority of the day at Mets opening day, courtesy of a last minute invite from convention guy Jon Manzo. The festivities were all great, and Citibank Park is coming along nicely. The only thing disappointing about the day was the Mets’ level of play as they dropped the final Shea home opener 5-2 to the Phillies. It’s bad enough when a team plays well and they’re outplayed by a better team. But the Phillies were thunderingly unimpressive, with dinky, unimpressive seeing eye hits. What won them the game was the Mets bullpen, handing bases to them courtesy of hit batsmen (well, one batsman, Utley, who kept getting plunked. Who the hëll did he pìšš øff, anyway?), walks, and sloppy fielding that, in one instance, turned a potential inning-ending double play ball into an error that resulted in a run scored and everyone safe. When you hand a team five outs per inning, you’re going to lose. Feh.
More cheerful was the evening spent at the screening of the Harlan Ellison documentary, “Dreams with Sharp Teeth” at Lincoln center. Present were Harlan, the doc’s director, Erik Nelson, as well as such luminaries as Josh Olson, Norman Spinrad, and others (as well as Kathleen, who met up with me in the city and looked QUITE fetching, I have to say). Harlan and Erik did a Q&A afterwards that easily could have done another hour if they hadn’t kicked us out. Good times.
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