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NFL Films Taught Us How To Watch Football
Rich Cohen's great portrait of Ed and Steve Sabol:...

Deck Us All With Boston Charlie
From the great Walt Kelly (circa 1948). ...

A Christmas Carol For White Sox Fans
Christmas Carols always bring to mind an old family friend who passed away a few years ago. Sam was a long-suffering Cubs fan—is there any other kind?—who used to sing a variation of "Adeste Fideles" that paid tribute to the Go-Go White Sox. ...

Eddie Layton On The Keys
You've gotta have…Eddie Layton....

Let's Get Small
Vincent Bousserez gets…really small....

The Painted Screens Of Baltimore
Rafael Alvarez has more about Elaine Eff's book in the Baltimore City Paper. ...

The NFL+Phish=Bad Vibes
Phish meets the NFL. Dogs and cats, living together. Two of Peter Richmond's favorite things collide and he doesn't dig it:...

The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks
Daisuke Inoue tells all over at The Appendix:...

Aaron Dana's Sports Illustrated
It's a Long Season is a killer tumblr site for you baseball junkies. This morning I saw a post featuring Aaron Dana's work. ...

Broadway Danny Rose: It's A Beautiful Thing
We're getting into a definite type of situation here......

Funny As Fuck: Buddy Hackett
Because...well, you need a because for Buddy?...

Peter Sellers in Lolita > Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove
Claire Quilty: I get the impression that you want to leave but you don't like to because you think I think it looks suspicious, me being a policeman and all. You don't have to think that because I haven't got a suspicious mind at all. A lot of people think I'm suspicious, especially when I stand on...

Classic College Football Programs With Character
So in case you don't know from A Continuous Lean do yourself a favor and check it out. It's a consistently smart, stylish, and elegant place. ...

R. Crumb: It's Hard Being Hooked
R Crumb: The Paris Review Interview:...

The Time Junior Barnes Hit Bill Cosby In The Side Of The Face With A Slushball
It's snowing here in New York. Nothing's sticking yet but it made me think of this famous Cosby routine....

Woody: All Schoolyard
I was always interested in gangsters and people don't associate me with that because of their image of me on the screen. They think I'm more intellectual than I am, because I wear glasses and I'm built slightly.But the truth is I came from the streets of Brooklyn. I'm not educated—I mean I was throw...

Second Batter Up 'Cause The First Got Served
Via Craig Robinson....

Now Let Me Taka A Trip Down Memory Lane
The album version of Nas' mournful 1994 song "Memory Lane" is rightfully considered a classic. ...
