Imagination stuck? Imagine you’re in California. (If you’re in California, imagine you’re in New Orleans). From Scientific…
I was talking to one of our trainers, just chatting. It hit me like a baseball bat….
David Shields has a new book coming out called Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. I saw Shields read…
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home May 1945 to let family know he was still alive (h/t 3quarksdaily): Under…
A couple years ago when the Saints played the Bears in the NFC championship game there was…
In honor of our expiring New Yorker subscription, this nugget from a profile of director James “Mij”…
I’m starting to get the feeling that at least part of Senator David Vitter’s motivation for frequenting…
Parts sound like a Fall song.
I can be a little paranoid about groups and the things groups do, but I’ve (almost) always…
Source: THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY Volume LXXII, No. 4, November 2006 Author: TED TUNNELL, Professor of…
Stan Mikita introduced the curved hockey stick, but Jacques Plante made an equally important innovation: the goalie mask. Imagine playing goalie in the NHL without a hockey mask. They used to (squeamish beware on that link).
Rangers forward Andy Bathgate played a key role in this historical development: Peeved at Plante for causing an earlier injury, he took a wrist shot at Plante’s face.
