June 2012
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May 2012
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“Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights...”
– Everyone knows it, but it’s still great: the ending of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
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WatchA wonderful mini-manifesto on storytelling by filmmaker Ken Burns. Well worth 5 minutes of your day.
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Tonight at the Pub
Quiz Master: What's your team name?
American: The Loud Americans.
Quiz Master: Surely that's a tautology.
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Tyson Chandler plays volleyball, too. →
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When I realize the coins in my pocket are worth...
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April 2012
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I Feel Safe Now
Boarding Plane Passenger: Am I in your way?
Flight Attendant: You're fine, ma'am. It's the captain who's not.
March 2012
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How ‘Hunger Games’ Built Up Must-See Fever →
Lionsgate tries to create a blockbuster with 1/2 the marketing budget of many major releases. I love the Twitter puzzle strategy.
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Tim Parks on Finishing Books →
When is it all right to simply stop reading a book?
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Thank MLBAM for the streaming technology behind... →
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A Reading for Madness
A reading from the Book of Naismith, Chapter 4, Verses 6-7: “And then God said: ‘Because I am a benevolent God, I shall give you the month of March, when there will be non-stop college basketball and, every few years, an NBA trade deadline. And all men on Earth shall rejoice because March will come and they will see that the Lord is good.’”
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“The whole structure, it is obvious, thinking back on any famous novel, is one of...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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February 2012
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“Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed...”
– Dylan Thomas, 1934
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January 2012
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“Well, I guess you can’t break out of prison and into society in the same...”
– Stagecoach
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“Just because it has a Q, doesn’t mean it’s a city in Canada.”
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My Fiesta Bowl Quick Reads →
I break down the thrilling 2012 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl for DailyAxe.com.
December 2011
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My Fiesta Bowl Preview →
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There Are Superheroes, But Mostly They Just Walk... →
tumblrbot asked: ROBOTS OR DINOSAURS?
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Leading Off
I have very little idea of what I’m going to put on this blog. There are a lot of blogs on the internet, and I can tell you two types of blog that this site definitely won’t be: the legitimate, journalistic, comprehensive blog that’s come into its own in the last few years and the uber-personal, essentially boring and irrelevant rant space that will never come into its own. This...