Archive: June 2008

 
  • This guy must be someone. in basketball · Jun 18, 03:09

    The guy on the left, in the black hat; the one who looks like he just stepped out of a Coen Brothers movie. He was on the floor during every game of the NBA Finals. Who the heck is he? Anyway, you gotta give him credit for breaking the mold with regard to Finals attire: [...]

  • Ideas / NBA Season Ticket, the trash-talk edition in basketball, ideas · Jun 11, 19:30

    I’ve got the killer app for the NBA television-viewing experience, something that will melt faces around the world and provide the league with yet another license to print money. (Props to Justin and Zidane who sparked this idea last night as we watched Game 3.)
    You could call it: NBA 360, or the Courtside Package, or [...]

  • RFK funeral train / A breaking up in inside art, photo, visual · Jun 10, 20:29

    The New York Times recently ran some photos that were taken from the train carrying Bobby Kennedy’s body between Washington to New York. The photos themselves are amazing documents of a nation in mourning, people from all walks of life lining the tracks, holding signs, saluting or just watching, but they’re also beautiful — saturated [...]