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Shake It
Speaking of The Third Man, man, you've got to check out this version of the movie's theme by the crazy-gifted Juan Garcia Esquivel. (Crank this one up, maybe put on headphones to get the full stereo effect.)...
The Shrine of Eternals
Nice piece on the Baseball Reliquary by David Davis over at Sports on Earth:...
Visions Of Light: Movie Love
Here's Martin Scorsese writing about movies in the New York Review of Books:...
S'Long Holly
Carol Reed's movie The Third Man, based on one of Graham Greene's "entertainments," is a favorite....
“Source? <em>I'm</em> Your Fucking Source!” Dick Young, As He Really Was
To round off our Dick Young tribute/roast, please enjoy this excerpt from Keepers of the Game: When the Baseball Beat Was The Best Job On The Paper, a new oral history compiled by Dennis D’Agostino in the tradition of Jerome Holtzman’s No Cheering in the Press Box. Dennis was good enough to let me ...
Sucking In The Seventies
Over at the great site, In Focus, Alan Taylor takes a look at America in the 1970s. Check out what he's got so far......
And It Happens Every Day
Over at Narrative, dig David Thomson on The Long Goodbye—...
Puttin’ Heads To Bed
On this day in 1989, EPMD and the Beastie Boys dropped their sophomore albums: "Unfinished Business" and "Paul's Boutique."...
Kolton Houston Cleared By NCAA After Three-Year Drug Test Ordeal
Georgia lineman Kolton Houston failed an NCAA drug test during his freshman season in 2010. He then failed dozens more in the three years since. Now, finally, Houston's been cleared to play by the NCAA....
J.J. Redick Posting On Watch Collector Message Boards Is Adorable
We've learned some pretty unpleasant stuff about J.J. Redick in the last couple of days, but a clever reader was able to track down a not-totally-unpleasant tidbit about him by googling an email address we posted earlier. As it turns out, Redick is a "Risti," an admirer of Panerai-brand watches and...
I'll Tumblr Fuh Ya
The tumblr site of the week is my man's Pele Out Of Context:...
American Summer: Before Air-Conditioning
Dig this short essay by Arthur Miller. It appeared in the New Yorker back in 1998:...
After The Fall: The Story Of Zola Budd
From Runner's World, Steven Friedman's 2009 story on Zola Budd:...
Declawed. <em>The Wolverine</em>, Reviewed.
The Wolverine feels less like a blockbuster than a well-turned piece of brand management. Everything in the film has been made with care, a certain amount of taste and intelligence, and such bland competence that what's most striking about it is how safe it is. The filmmakers have taken one of the m...
Idiot On The Field Gets A Knee To The Neck And A Face Full Of Dirt
I'm not sure if these San Francisco bros had a clear plan in mind when they rushed the field at last night's Reds-Giants game, but if they did I don't think it involved eating the warning track....
Plucked Her Eyebrows On The Way
Found this Guardian reprint of an old Lester Bangs column on Lou Reed over at Longform last week. ...