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# Picture Monday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5540/
- Published: 2007-06-11T10:53:02.000Z
- Updated: 2007-06-11T10:53:02.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

Not a lot of time for blogging today. I watched the final episode of *The Sopranos* last night. It stunk. [This blogger (widely considered one of the most insightful of *Soprano* experts) liked it](http://blog.nj.com/ledgerentertainment/2007/06/dont%5Fstop%5Fbelieving.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), but I thought it was a tremendous let down:

> Chase has to do what he loves to do more than any other man in show business: completely mess with his viewers' expectations (and their heads). I don't consider it a cliffhanger, something to set up a movie, as I doubt there will ever be a movie (and if there is, it'll be set in the past). He did it because he hates the conventions of TV series narrative in general, and putting a bow on things in particular.

That's fine: mess with viewers' heads. But that way? Simply stopping the show and going to a black screen? It was lazy. The final episode resolved nearly nothing. Chase could've messed with viewers' heads just as creatively by announcing at the beginning of the show: "There will be no *Sopranos* tonight. Thanks for a great run."  
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Active weekend. Here are a few pictures from the Tigers/Mets game on Saturday:

Marie and children getting ready to ride the Comerica Park ferris wheel:

![06-09-07_1454.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/06-09-07_1454.jpg)

Pigeons invaded the outfield early in the game. I'm guessing there were 15-30 at any one time. This picture isn't very good, but the dots (pigeons) convey the situation:

![06-09-07_1633.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/06-09-07_1633.jpg)

The beer drinker's bane:

![06-09-07_1707.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/06-09-07_1707.jpg)

I took Tess to the playground Friday afternoon:

![06-08-07_1433.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/06-08-07_1433.jpg)

I also took Max out to look for biker babes Friday:

![06-08-07_0902.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/06-08-07_0902.jpg)

  
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Where on Earth was Middle Earth? [This guy thinks he has it figured out](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/121-where-on-earth-was-middle-earth/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> Ӣ The Shire is in the South-West of England, which further north is also home to the Old Forest (Yorkshire?), the Barrow Downs (north of England), the city of Bree (at or near Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and Amon Sul (Scottish Highlands).  
> Ӣ The Grey Havens are situated in Ireland.  
> Ӣ Eriador corresponds with Brittany.  
> Ӣ Helm's Deep is near the Franco-German-Swiss border tripoint, close to the city of Basel.  
> Ӣ The mountain chain of Ered Nimrais is the Alps.  
> Ӣ Gondor corresponds with the northern Italian plains, extended towards the unsubmerged Adriatic Sea.  
> Ӣ Mordor is situated in Transylvania, with Mount Doom in Romania (probably), Minas Morgul in Hungary (approximately) and Minas Tirith in Austria (sort of).  
> Ӣ Rohan is in southern Germany, with Edoras at the foot of the Bavarian Alps. Also in Germany, but to the north, near present-day Hamburg, is Isengard. Close by is the forest of Fangorn.  
> ”¢ To the north is Mirkwood, further east are Rhovanion and the wastes of Rhûn, close to the Ural mountains.  
> ”¢ The Sea of Rhûn corresponds to the Black Sea.  
> Ӣ Khand is Turkey  
> Ӣ Haradwaith is the eastern part of North Africa, Umbar corresponds with the Maghreb, the western part of North Africa.  
> Ӣ The Bay of Belfalas is the western part of the Mediterranean.

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[A shot-fun approach to the history of dirty words](http://www.slate.com/id/2167992?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) (very incomplete account, but entertaining). Warning: Lots of dirty f'in words. Excerpt: "F\_\_\_ and s\_\_\_ account for half the swearing that goes on in public."