I was talking to one of our trainers, just chatting. It hit me like a baseball bat….
Derek Bridges
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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.
Sensitivities were high enough that in the season opener for Columbia [High School in 1970] after [Walter] Payton scored on two long touchdown runs, two white men approached Boston. They wanted to know if Payton raising his index finger the final few yards of those runs signified the black power sign.
Errol Morris has another great series of postings on his New York Times blog Zoom. He picks…
Maybe we also need a national memorial and a national holiday to commemorate the 9/12 Tea Party…