What we read while waiting for the first Chilean miner book…
- Speaking of Conan O’Brien, he had an announcement about Andy Richter’s status on his new show this week (as well as some unfortunate news about Max Weinberg). Richter talked about the new show, as well as a guest appearance of his on Will Arnett’s Running Wilde.
- The first BCS standings came out this week, and Don Borst thinks that BCS critics ought to be rooting for Boise State and TCU. Last month John S made the exact opposite argument.
- It’s posts like this that make us love Joe Posnanski (even if we sometimes disagree with him).
- Also in the world of great sports stories, ESPN breaks down the famous Fifth Down play from twenty years ago.
- In the world of not-so-great-but-not-all-that-surprising-sports-stories, a former agent details giving thousands of dollars to college athletes.
- Esquire‘s Scott Raab follows Philip Roth back to Newark, where the prodigious author says, among other things, that “life is one long BP spill.”
- A real-life version of Hans Moleman presents, “Man Getting Hit by Football.” Starring Brett Favre.
- The New York Times Magazine‘s Education Issue was a few weekends ago, but it brought back some memories of Josh and Tim’s Symposium on Handwriting (starting with Josh, on to Tim, back to Josh). One feature on the Livescribe smart pen seemed to suggest handwriting might not be dead while a second on the significance of video games in classrooms includes a teacher saying, “Handwriting? That’s a 20th-century skill.”
- Louis C.K. and Marc Maron break down their lives and careers in a two-part podcast.
- A haunting story about someone who preyed on on the suicidal and may have caused dozens of deaths. At least we know it isn’t T.I.
- Former Simpsons writer Bill Oakley has been sharing some old documents he came across via Twitter, including this early script for “$pringfield,” the first draft of the immortal luncheon between Chalmers and Skinner in “22 Short Films about Springfield” (which Tim has written, shall we say, extensively about), the original story pitch for what became “Two Bad Neighbors,” one of whom was George H.W. Bush, and finally, leftover story ideas and pitches.
- It’s officially been another year since the greatest series ever played…
Posted by Weylin Ruetten on October 18, 2010 at 7:27 AM
yeah, after watching that brett favre movie, I definitely think that it was him in the pictures…