Poetic pragmatism, neo-transcendentalism, bikes, burritos, basketball.
You might have noticed that I wrote a basketball-related post last week, but I’m actually trying to separate my obsessing about sports from ... well, real stuff. So I posted this year’s bracket at Turrible, which is intended to be my online man cave. Of sorts. Anyway, don’t assume that I posted it elsewhere because, [...]
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Journalist Mikal Gilmore discusses the research of his Rolling Stone cover article, “Why the Beatles Broke Up.” What I found most troubling, most tragic, in all of this was two things: Both Lennon and Harrison (Lennon, clearly, in particular) did their best to sabotage the Beatles from mid-1968 onward, and when it all came irrevocably apart, [...]
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Excellent Deadspin post about the undisciplined and occasionally crooked world of NBA scorekeeping. It’s based on the story of a guy named Alex who once kept score for the Grizzlies, and it includes this gem about how Nick Van Exel (who wasn’t known for his passing, let’s say) racked up 23 assists one night: A little [...]
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Before he created Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels used to send jokes to Woody Allen ... A sample: He was obsessed with the notion that, somewhere in the world, there is a person having exactly the same thought he was at exactly the same moment. He decided to call that person, but the line was [...]
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Dateline: A Mexican discotheque in the early 1970s. “Rickey [Henderson] had a pair of heels on that were about four inches high. Everything was fine until these people came in yelling that they had guns. Then they started shooting” ... Henderson ducked under a table as gunfire strafed the room. When the shooting ended, Henderson [...]
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“The name just popped into my head one day ... I just don’t feel like I had a past, and I couldn’t relate to anything other than what I was doing at the present time. And, it didn’t really matter to me what I said. Still doesn’t, really.”
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Continuing the discussion of interesting and inspirational grant-writing examples, here’s a piece from photographer Garry Winogrand’s Guggenheim fellowship application, 1963: I look at the pictures I have done up to now, and they make me feel that who we are and how we feel and what is to become of us just doesn’t matter. Our [...]
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“If that were a hammer in his hand he would drive the nail in one or two hard fast perfect strokes, but not usually careful. There wd be a hammer mark in the wood and the boards wd be joined forever.” — Walker Evans, about Robert Frank
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Remember when Robert Johnson met the devil at the crossroads and returned with a whole new kind of blues? Last night, we watched “Notorious,” the Biggie Smalls biopic, and there’s a similar moment. The movie sort of glosses over where Biggie’s style came from, implying that it began on the street, but that Biggie really [...]
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My name is Doug LeMoine. I work both on, and for, the Internet. You can find more about me in the About Me page that I wrote about me.
