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Welcome, I'm new around here myself and it's been great so far!

I hope you're right, obviously I want Kone to work out, but in watching some of his play, I wasn't too impressed (but I do feel bad that he's injured).

Personally, it's a shame RM spent 6 mil on Kone...I've never been too impressed with his play. And his current injury makes it unlikely that they can recoup what they paid for him at a later date.

A classy and thoughtful message. Best of luck to him.

 

Personally, I'd like to see us look overseas. Martinez has strong ties with the Spanish market so I'd like to see us make a signing from La Liga. How about Carlos Vela from Sociedad?

I've been watching Vela when I get the chance. I'm impressed with him. He'd be a great addition but I doubt RS will let him go.

Nooooooooo!...I don't even like this as a rumor. Not deserving to wear the jersey in my opinion.

 

As a matter of interest, what subject do you teach?

I feel lucky (and sometimes embarrassed) to say that I study anthropology, and specifically I focus on studying lemurs in Madagascar. I teach classes on Human genetics and evolution, primate behavior, biological anthropology, and evolutionary psychology. Basically, I'm a zoologist who studies humans and non-human primates.

I arrived at this crazy job if only because when I was in high school I wanted a career that involved three things: teaching, animals, and travel. I travel to Madagascar every summer (click on my avatar and you can find a link to my webpage, to see the creatures I study)

And yes, JMU's soccer coach is a really cool guy. I've had a few brief chats with him. He seems well liked by all the players. They have a great soccer team here, but they are unfortunately dumping way too much money into football (as many US schools do).

Despite being a college professor, my favorite saying is "Never let schoolwork get in the way of your education"

I'm pretty sure it's Mark Twain.

Was reading about the Wounded Knee massacre yesterday (current issues about the land)....always been interested in Native American stuff so I just ordered this.

 

Along those lines, you might check out "Empire of the Summer Moon" which traces the rise and fall of the Comanches (those mo-fos were wicked--they used to sew an animal skin around their enemies and leave them in the desert, hence the sun would slowly constrict the skin around them--but I digress), the story also documents how the Comanches kidnapped a white girl and brought her into the tribe; years later her mixed blood son, half comanche/half white Texan, went on to become the last great leader of the Comanches.

 

MIKE O, If the book you are talking about is BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE its brilliant.

 

Also a fantastic book called INTO THE HEART OF THE SEA BY NATHANIEL PHILBRICK

 

A true story about and old whaling ship sank by an angry bull sperm whale, the survivors taking to the small boats

their battle to survive and even having to draw lots to see who would be killed to feed the other men, all the men who

died of starvation had already been eaten.. An amazing true survival story.

 

Agreed, Into the Heart of the Sea is amazing. Really compelling.

Another amazing, true story of survival is "unbroken" the story of Louis Zamperini: college track runner, olympic runner, WWII bomber pilot shot down, spent 40 some days on a life raft in the Pacific eating birds fish, then spent 2 years in a horrible Japanese prison camp...and on it goes. The title "unbroken" is wholly apt.

Reading "Where'd you go Bernadette" and I just finished "The No Where Men"

This past summer I had a bum leg--injured because I was playing football [soccer] as a 43 year old, thinking I was still 20--so I read quite a bit as I healed.

I highly recommend the following fiction:

The Dog Stars (a post-apocalypse book that is very well done, kinda like "the road" but less dreary)

The Orphan Master's Son (an amazing work of fiction about North Korea)

Butcher's Crossing (a great portrayal of the american west)

The Family Fang (great satire about performance art)

One day this will all be as irrelevant as it should be... Gonna need a few more to come out first.

So true...being gay and then having the guts to speak about it somehow stirs up quite the psuedo-controversy.

 

Incidentally, I visit a customer about once a month in Waynesboro. Not sure how far that is from your home town.

 

 

Very small world then...I live about 20 minutes north of Waynesboro, outside of a town called "Grottoes"

I teach at James Madison University, which is located in Harrisonburg, another 20 minutes north of me.

Touch for touch, I always thought Distin was pretty consistent and having wisdom in the back is always good.

Great set of interviews here. Martinez always struck me as an honest, stand-up fella who was wise beyond his years with respect to the game. Incidentally, I thought he was a great analyst when some US network picked him up to do some analysis of the world cup in 2010.

Hi all,

New member here, and I'm happy to have found this site. I wish I could say that I had a long legacy of following Everton but in fact it was fairly arbitrary. I spent some of my youth in Mexico and thus when I returned home the American boys were all playing baseball and (American) football. I only knew how to play "soccer." And I've since followed and played the game every chance I get (one of my favorite teams is UNAM Pumas, a Mexican 1st division team). Back in the late 90s, when I was in grad school I had friend who one day said to me, "You should follow Everton." And so it was. And I've supported them on and off since then. More recently, I was in the DC airport with my girlfriend, getting ready to fly to Madagascar. In the bar we met some Evertonians who had flown over to see the blues play DC United. Since that experience I was further committed to the team based on their loyal and friendly fans' infectious commitment.

And so here I am, based in western Virginia, tethered to Everton by NBC sports network.

cheers,

Rich