August 2011
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HUGE Thanks to NBA Off-Season!
nbaoffseason: Today, the team here at NBA Off Season, the self proclaimed Wu-Tang Clan of basketball blogs here on Tumblr, has a request. We’d like you, our ever-loyal readers, to help us support The Classical. For those unfamiliar, The Classical intends to be more than another sports site. It will hopefully take sports writing to great new heights. A lot of people that we love, and most likely...
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Dear Miranda July
SPOILER ALERT: I hate myself for doing this, because I really did like The Future, and I know that this was kind of the point of the whole film. But would it have been so hard to murder off those people at the end instead of that adorable metaphysical talking cat? Best, Shoals
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Watchgq:
The Classical: The New-Thing-We’re-Excited-About Of The Day
A new, user-funded Awl-esque website all about sports, brought to you in part by the Free Darko gang and featuring several of GQ’s favorite sportswriters. We will be kicking in coins to help make this happen. If you find the video primer as enticing as we did, please do the same. The fellas are calling it The Classical. Read more...
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The Most Seattle Thing Ever
A. and I go for a walk in Seward Park, typically one of the least Seattle-y places in Seattle. She makes frequent stops because 1) she’s pregnant (very Seattle) and 2) berries abound, making Seward Park prime territory for URBAN FORAGING (ultra-Seattle). Toward the end of the loop, which is taking us forever, two able-bodied dudes passing us notice A. rooting around the brambles. She is...
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Reggie Bush & Vince Young
For SportsFeat, I explain why we will never really get over them.
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A Line I Have to Use Somewhere
Don’t bother with “Shark Week jumped the shark”. That was done in 2004. However, I’m pretty sure that no one has yet proposed Shark Week as shark. It’s 24 years old, which means it has run (swam?) the in/out gauntlet and hardened into tradition, or optimized fact. Shark Week, like the beast itself, is perfect at what it does. Nothing brings together the disparate...
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