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“I keep sliding the numbers around, and as I do, they shove each other out of the way. The people don’t all fit.” Our whole staff is fucked-up and panicking after reading this lovely, terrifying essay about the passage of time, by our old pal Tom Scocca. Go check it out on HmmDaily....

On TomTom Scocca is leaving us, after a combined six and a half years at Deadspin, Gawker, and the Special Projects Desk. Here’s how we’ll remember him....

A One-Way Ticket to PalookavilleBack in 1998, Tom Scocca wrote a good one, "The Mayor of Palookaville," for the Boston Phoenix:...

Making And Remaking History In Olympics-Addled Beijing

Adapted from Tom Scocca's Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future, available at your favorite bookseller....

Greetings From The Managing Editor

Hello, readership! Wasn't that some good sports last night? The winning athletes played the game tremendously well. The losers had some definite shortcomings, didn't they?...

Vick in Philly: Three Interpretations

Before he signed a contract, Michael Vick was just a fun little action figure for sports talkers to make pretend-play with in their living rooms....

Deadspin Very Special Guest Editor Days Are Here Again

We're almost half-way through the sweltering dread-trap that is August, so it's time to hand over the captain's ascot to someone for a day. Spinheads, meet Tom Scocca. He will be hoisting up sloop Deadspin's sail for you tomorrow....