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Typewriter Love
I know writers who still use a typewriter. One close pal whose neighborhood experiences power outages several times a year recently wrote a story on a portable. He wanted to get comfortable with it case he loses power and can't use his electric machine. ...
Tyrone Williams Rents A Citi Bike
Kottke delivers. So what else is new?...
Sean Penn Would Have Been A Great Ty Cobb
It's fun to recast movies. After watching Mystic River I wished it could start again with the leads exchanging roles. Harry Dean Stanton would have made a great Billy Martin if The Bronx is Burning was made 15 years earlier. If I could have one wish it would be to see Art Carney reprise his stage pe...
Elaine de Kooning: Baseball Fan
Baseball Players by Elaine de Kooning. Ink Wash on Paper (1956)....
She's Leaving Home
Mournful cover by Syreeta Wright, Stevie Wonder's ex-wife and collaborator. ...
Memories Of Terror
I lived in Brooklyn from the fall of '95 to the summer of 2000 and was in my Bronx apartment on the morning of September 11, 2001. But I still had a lot of friends in Brooklyn like my pal who was in his Carroll Gardens apartment. When the second plane hit he walked to his roof to see what was happen...
Vanity Fair Turns 100
Slide on over to Vanity Fair and dig their 100th Anniversary site. ...
The Greatest Comic Book Of 'Em All: Superman Vs. Muhammad Ali
One of the juiciest pop culture sports books ever made is this 1978 gem with art by Neal Adams. ...
Photographs From the Set of Raging Bull
Time's Lightbox has a photo gallery of Brian Hamill's pictures from Raging Bull. ...
America's Game
Baseball Card Vandals is killin' it for the start of the NFL season. ...
Down, Set...Hike
Looking through some old papers this weekend I found these two drawings I did when I was a teenager. Copied from Sports Illustrated. Not sure the year but must have been 1984-85. ...
Just Put Your Lips Together And Blow
Our man Eric Nusbaum has a fun piece on the Lucha Libre star wrestler Maximo over at ESPN:...
Bruce Weber's Broken Noses
Before Let's Get Lost, Bruce Weber made Broken Noses. ...
Payback Is A Bitch
Friend of mine in London sent me the following. Taken from Maiden Speech by Eleanor Brown, published by Bloodaxe in 1996:...