July 2008
If you head on over to the Merge Records...
“He’s garbage, still garbage, going to die as garbage,” Guillen says...”
– ESPN has a list of Chicago White Sox Manager Ozzie Guillen’s greatest hits. I can understand how fans of every other baseball team may hate the man, but he brought my team it’s World Series Championship in nearly 100 years so he’ll always be my guy.
WatchAnd an interesting article about his time in Chicago. It’s long, but it’s a fascinating look at the birth of Obama as a politician.
Watching the Growth of Wal-Mart Across America →
“AS my fine professor of economics at Columbia, C. Lowell Harriss (who just...”
– Former Nixon speech-writer, John Hughes’ best-cast performer ever, and the kindle that started the pop-culture fire that is Jimmy Kimmel, Ben Stein wrote a wonderful article on love for The Times.
WatchChase Utley is my new favorite baseball player. When he was being introduced during the home run derby last night, the people in Yankee Stadium felt the need to boo him for some reason. He reacted like any person would, except he was mic’d up and an ESPN camera happened to be near by.
I never understood the random booing. He’s a good ball player, by all accounts a pretty decent guy,...
“People then were still inclined to form opinions more from experience than...”
– The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge, by David McCullough
Hunter S. Thompson's account of Sept 11th. Written... →
Ok… so I was a little sleepy last night when I went on my Hunter S Thompson rant. So I thought I better post a little follow up.
The film Gonzo opens with Jonny Depp reading the above passage Thompson wrote for espn.com.
Thompsons prophetic account of the Sept 11th attacks are to me a shining example of how important he was to America as an observer of politics and Patriot. From the...
“The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade....”
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Oh Hunter S. Thompson… where would we be now if you were still around? Better yet… where wouldn’t we be?
I had the pleasure of seeing Gonzo this evening with Max. I gotta say… I have not seen a documentary in a long while that gave me such hope for our fellow man, but at...
So I’m in a new band called Project...
Show and Tell: 3 Things Discovered During My...
NBC to Utilize "Billion-Dollar Lab" During the... →
I attempted to contact Allen Wurtzel about working as one of his underlings back in May. Today, he’s quoted throughout an article in the AP regarding NBC’s usage of various media streams to broadcast the Olympics. It’ll be interesting (to this blogger, anyway) to see which of them comes out as the go-to means of obtaining information.
The TAMI (Total Audience Measurement Index)...
Ew's New Classics Lists
Entertainment Weekly is doing lists of what they call new classics; movies, books, and cds that have been made in the last 25 years. I love this idea because if you look at most top 100 movie lists, (Time magazine, I’m looking at you) who has seen or even heard of “The Crowd”?
This goes back to my post a few weeks ago about watching movies or listening to music that came out...
"Me, I like the f**ker drenched in chili. Whoever...
Deadspin’s Big Daddy Drew on the perfect Fourth of July Hot Dog. Preach on brother.
List of Latin Phrases →
I’ve been obsessed with this the last few weeks.
“Two people have sent me this quote, with the subject ‘Advice on Writing...”
– http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0„2288127,00.html#article_continue
