pitchers, catchers applying liniment alreadyAs Sammy Cahn would say, the weather outside is frightful. Although the word on the street is that there is some football to be played tomorrow (in frightful weather of a different sort?), the real sports…
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holiday diversion / his birthday was yesterday
but his Day is todayLast year on the holiday I linked to the I Have A Dream speech from the Washington Mall, with text and video; I also linked to that text on the sad 40th anniversary of his assassination,…
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weekend diversion / into the weeds of grammar with “they” and “he or she”
“Psycho Babble”! (gotta love that)I may not always pay as much attention as I should to grammar, but I have often rewritten sentences to avoid using “he or she” with a single generic referent. (If you think that my sensitivity…
holiday Monday diversion / do some good, y'all
is it a holiday where you are? (they are not picking up trash on my block, so it is here)Let’s start the year with a tissue and a Rick Reilly piece from ESPN about the Rose Bowl parade this morning.…
hangover diversion / feel good edition
this is what Ben Smith will be doing??I (almost) never click on 7 minutes videos, but if you want (need?) to start your year off with a smile: video compilation courtesy of BuzzFeed, with a h/t to Andrew Sullivan. ©…
diversion / different kind of wonders, again unceasing
do not bet against this athleteOn their best days (and ours) athletes are sources of inspiration, instead of additional reminders that the world is populated by people with moral defects, even people with extraordinary gifts. Dutch woman Monique van der…
Sunday diversion / Wonders. Never. Cease. / Manhattan Bridge edition
never!Definitely late to the party on this, but so was my source. Good thing that good things on the inter-tubes are eternal. This prize-winning art installation from a DUMBO festival is a 5 minute “light show” on the Manhattan Bridge,…
Sunday diversion / baseball and Camus, seriously
but first, a more diverting diversionIt is better the older you are, I think. (How often do you get to say that?) Posnanski tracks major league baseball player quality by birth year. heavier stuff, but a diversion for mePart II…
holiday weekend diversion / leftovers
no, not those leftoversThese leftovers, and what Mark Bittman suggests you can do with the stuffing, potatoes, sauce and turkey that are still in your frig: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/rethinking-thanksgiving-leftovers.html?hpw And, as a bonus, an analysis of why we remember a sandwich with…
Sunday diversion / “Woody Allen & Earl Monroe” is not a buddy movie
down memory laneI came across this 1977 Sport magazine piece a month or so ago, thanks to the magic of one of the editor-thingys on Instapaper. In ‘honor’ of the doofuses running the No Basketball Anymore league, I offer it…
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