May 2011
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Later on My Tumblr
-A list of every pill I took today -All the injuries that have left some discernible mark on my body, and how I got them
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UNIFORM | Charlotte Rampling →
LOVE LOVE LOVE
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Watch Wiseman's San Diego Chicken Stripper
At the top, here. Please, please do. Sorry I couldn’t figure out how to embed. It kept shrinking and I don’t know enough about code to fix.
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Too easy, I know. But funny, and damn good.
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I DID NOT CALL LARRY BIRD A NAZI!
In this week’s SportsFeat column, I marvel at the internal contradictions of the Bird/Dirk comparisons, then say some stuff about German identity. Though @thatkidiacrus may be right—hard to say that Serbs don’t have as much, if not more, to work through. And they are all over the NBA, being called soft.
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"You Only Need To Watch The Last Five Minutes"
Do these people still exist? If so, what do they make of the Heat and Mavericks this past week? I suppose you could have just tuned in to see them dismantle a late lead. The better teams won and all that; the youngsters collapsed, there was an air of inevitability about it, and everything that came before was rendered irrelevant. Except what if you care about process, context, or narrative, or...
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Advice For Young Writers
Take this, young writers! I like how I didn’t name names, like it’s an organized crime memoir. Thanks to all the unidentified souls who make appearances in it. I wouldn’t be who I am without you.
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“As with the Rays and their unlikely journey from worst-to-first, the...”
– Jonah Keri, for GQ.com, on why the Celtics made the right move with Kendrick Perkins.
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Henry Threadgill Knows Everything
The Recluse has been tweeting Ethan Iverson’s interview with Threadgill all day, line-by-line. But you should just go read it yourself when you can.
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It's Come To This
I feel like I have to write a think-piece defending the fact that I wrote an Odd Future think-piece, or scan in the Clipse think-piece I wrote for the Philadelphia Independent when “Grindin’” was first on the radio in 2002. Wait, that won’t work.
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“The only rap producers who ever cared about...
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In Honor Of The Latest NBA/Holocaust Controversy
I invite you all to revisit the list Eric Freeman and I made of Holocaust film recommendations for the Phoenix Suns, who visited the DC Museum this winter. Do so very, very solemnly.
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“I would also remind you that the greatest German player ever is the favorite...”
– Marc Tracy, referencing this Tablet interview with Dolph Schayes.
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Undisputed Guide Reviewed in Harper's
In this month’s Harper’s, Charles Bock (Beautiful Children) takes on FreeDarko’s Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History, George Dohrmann’s Play Their Hearts Out, and the entire landscape of sports journalism. We’re accused of “revisionism and hagiography”, and “tripping over our own ambitions”, but Bock suspects we may be fully aware of...
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Philly’s Most Wanted...
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