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. ©…
Tag: Diversion
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…
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…
Sunday diversion / Lady Liberty birthday edition
my country, ’tis of theeYou may have seen that this week marked the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. (Stuff on that is all over the inter-tubes, including here; that h/t goes…
Sunday diversion / one man + camera + helicopter
staying away from baseball today (way up, up, up and away)How many times have you heard “New York as you’ve never seen it”? Maybe it is true in all cases; maybe not. Unless you are in the habit of hanging…
weekend diversion / baseball in the dark ages (1986!)
oh frabjous day!On this afternoon before the AL rep takes a 2-1 World Series lead, here is a fun post from a real baseball fan remembering A Big Baseball Day from 25 years ago. (My … how we have aged!)…
Saturday diversion / Soho as “Hell's Hundred Acres” (Tribeca too!)
(pre-A.I.R., no less)Did you know that the New York Public Library staff blogs? I didn’t, either. This is from an April 22, 2011 post, A Helluva Town: The Origins of New York’s Hellish Place Names: (h/t @NabeWise on Twittter; someone…
out-of-season Sunday diversion / “football” in a baseball weekend
it is not really about footballOn a crisp fall day like today, the time is right for … post-season baseball. Two NL games today, and I believe that the Tigers are also playing somebody today. So today’s diversion comes (well)…
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