no choiceIs there a bigger internet sensation this week than Jeremy Lin? And not just from the New York media. Not that I generally have my finger on the cultural pulse of the nation, but it feels inevitable that Manhattan…
Tag: Diversion
this weekend diversion is Linsane, of course
Tagged with: Basketball, Culture, Daily News, Diversion, Harvard, Internet, Jeremy Lin, Knicks, Sports Illustrated
Sunday diversion is not so super, unless …
you are a baseball fanI am reliably informed through various media that today is the last day of the football season. Finally! In honor of that, and the fact that pitchers and catchers report to spring training (officially) in two…
a super weekend diversion / getting lost in Manhattan maps
hours of fun! (this should come with a warning)Note to self: collect links to cool Manhattan stuff like old maps. Let’s begin! I tweeted a week ago a link to a source for an 1807 map of Manhattan that you…
Sunday diversion / 20 days to America's game, boy division
you’ve been counting down, right?…So you know that the first day for pitchers and catchers to report to any major league baseball spring training site is February 18, February 19 for the Yankees, and February 21 for a hoping-to-not-finish-last team…
weekend diversion / world's game, distaff edition
that was a tough match with Costa Rica, wasn’t it?Even if you did not stay up to get the late soccer result from Vancouver last night, by now you know that the United States Women’s National Team beat Costa Rica…
a diversion, but not a light one / hedge fund 'winners'
some of my best friends editionA diversion does not have to be light or frothy, does it? If you agree with me (‘no’), then you might find this Matt Yglesias piece diverting, if not downright charming. He points to and…
winter snow + sleet diversion / no football edition
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…
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,…
Tagged with: Birmingham, Birthday, Diversion, Inauguration, Inspiration, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Speech, Washington
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.…
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