What we read while going undrafted once again…
- Alex Rodriguez is “clutch” now, so we have to come up with new crimes for him to commit, like violating the age-old rule about not stepping on Dallas Braden’s mound. This inspired The New York Times to revisit all of A-Rod’s old sins. John S was going to respond to this nonsense, but Joe Posnanski, as usual, said all there is to say.
- Speaking of things that anger John S, Joni Mitchell blasts Bob Dylan in this interview with The Los Angeles Times.
- Josh doesn’t really like cupcakes, but maybe if he ate them here he’d be more amenable to persuasion that he does.
- Alicia Parlette, the copy-editor who detailed her battle with cancer for the San Francisco Chronicle, died last week at 28.
- Sometimes, it’s funny to look back at poor predictions, like Tim’s that the Celtics would be crushed by the Heat, or The Awl‘s that differentiated Ke$ha from Lady Gaga by writing, “Ke$ha, on the other hand, is a version of Gaga-lite, but in a good way. She is sort of edgy in that she puts on weird eye makeup, but she also just wears vintage-looking t-shirts and jeans when performing on national television. As opposed to donning some weird Gareth Pugh leotard while standing on top of a blood-draped ladder that’s in a coffin set on fire, or something.” Yeah, I don’t think David Cho can stand by that paragraph after last Saturday night. Sorry, Dave. (P.S. NPR did something on Ke$ha a while back that referred to her “near-perfect SAT scores,” which really makes us wonder what NPR’s standard for “near perfect” is these days.)
- Yeah, we see them more as a Wild Card team than a division winner.
- Headline of the week: Overwhelmed by Law School, 2L Declares for NBA Draft (he’s probably just testing the waters, though). At least he doesn’t have to worry about the logistical issues of the just-completed NFL Draft.
- Speaking of the law, here’s the best profile we’ve seen of Supreme Court short-lister Diane Wood. Wood, at 59, is the oldest candidate on the short-list, but older may actually be better.
Posted by doc on April 26, 2010 at 10:37 AM
To some degree, Joni Mitchell is right about Bob Dylan truthfulness in his lack of self in his songs, as I noted earlier in one of my comments on a John post. Dylan’s a wonderful poet and songwriter, but there’s no truth about the guy either in his voice or words. There’s truth in what he says, but there is nothing revealing about who he is as a person. On the other hand, I picked up Joni’s “Miles of Aisles” a couple of weeks back, a great live album with “enhanced sound” (i.e. it sounds great) that has all of her big hits when her voice was at it’s peak, circa 1976 or so. She also has been hugely influential, writes beautiful, meaningful songs, and her whole being is in them. And she’s also in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So, I really do understand her criticism of Dylan. Dylan actually can have a nice singing voice, – check out “Lay, Lady, Lay” – he actually sounds like a singer. He developed that whiny, nasal voice imitating the beat poets of the late 50′s, early 60′s, one in particular whose name escapes me, but I am sure John knows who it is.