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Nov
Posted by Tim in Unabated to the Quarterback. Tagged: andre agassi, crystal meth, dave wannstedt, jom zorn, kansas city chiefs, marijuana, miami dolphins, new york jets, open, ricky williams, ron dayne, ronnie brown, tiki barber, todd haley, uniforms!, washington redskins. Leave a Comment
Over at Deadspin, Will Leitch recently made a list of people who had had a particularly bad decade, or as Leitch put it, “reputations that were devastated by the last 10 years.” This list included Ricky Williams.
That list no longer has any credibility.
Sure, when Ricky Williams graduated from Texas in 1998, he was college football’s [...]
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22
Nov
Posted by Tim in Literature, Sunday Book Review. Tagged: a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, abdulrahman zeitoun, Dave Eggers, fema, george w. bush, hurricane katrina, new orleans, understatement, voice of the generation, zeitoun. Leave a Comment
Note to all potential readers of Zeitoun: It is located in the Biography section at Barnes & Noble, not, as one who has read Dave Eggers’ other more-or-less-based-on-real-life-if-slightly-fictionalized works might suspect, in the Fiction/Literature section. Furthermore, remember that, in the Biography section, it is alphabetized by subject and not author; this is because people don’t [...]
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20
Nov
Posted by Tim in Sports. Tagged: alabama, bane of college sports!, Boise State, c.j. spiller, cincinnati, colt mccoy, dan lefevour, florida, heisman, official incompetence, Oklahoma, oregon, sam bradford, tcu, texas, thaddeus lewis, the bcs, the fall of the big 12, the fall of the sec, the new jersey gubernatorial race, tim tebow, zach collaros. 4 Comments
Perhaps we all should have seen this coming from the start. I found myself unusually excited for this college football season (likely due to the misery surrounding the Mets’ baseball season) and, for the first time ever, actually tuned in to the season-opening Thursday night game between South Carolina and North Carolina State. It was [...]
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18
Nov
Posted by Tim in Unabated to the Quarterback. Tagged: 4th-and-2, albert camus, bill belichick, cincinnati bengals, indianapolis colts, jay cutler, josh freeman, kevin faulk, maurice jones-drew, minnesota vikings, new england patriots, new orleans saints, peyton manning, reggie bush, rodney harrison, tedy bruschi, the idea of "respect" and its effects. 2 Comments
“I recognized no equals. I always considered myself more intelligent than everyone else, as I’ve told you, but also more sensitive and more skillful, a crack shot, an incomparable driver, a better lover.”
—Albert Camus, The Fall
Truth be told, I didn’t watch the Sunday Night game between the Patriots and Colts; I had “better [...]
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15
Nov
Posted by Tim in Literature, Sunday Book Review. Tagged: the brothers karamazov, fyodor dostoevsky, the eternal husband, notes from underground, crime and punishment, the double, the gambler, demons, the adolescent, pavel pavlovich trusotsky, alexei ivanovich velchaninov. Leave a Comment
The Eternal Husband is the kind of novel I imagine Fyodor Dostoevsky came up with in a weekend. It could even work as a one-act play with its three basic steps: Take a wife who cheats on her husband, kill her off (before the start of the novel of course), and put the husband in [...]
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14
Nov
Posted by Tim in Mere Anachrony, On the Long Side, TV. Tagged: anna karenina, bart, bart the general, bart the genius, call of the simpsons, dr. marvin monroe, homer, homer's night out, homer's odyssey, jacques, krusty gets busted, leo tolstoy, life on the fast lane, lisa, local boob, maggie, marge, moaning lisa, review of the simpsons, season one of the simpsons, sideshow bob, simpsons roasting on an open fire, some enchanted evening, the crepes of wrath, The Simpsons, the telltale head, there's no disgrace like home. Leave a Comment
“Sometimes I think we’re the worst family in town.”
“Maybe we should move to a bigger community.”
“Dad, the sad truth is all families are like this.”
This short conversation among Homer, Marge, and Lisa Simpson is, in so much as the longest-running comedy series in television history has one, The Simpsons’ thesis statement. In fact, the episode [...]
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13
Nov
Posted by Tim in Sports. Tagged: college basketball, dick enberg, west virginia, john beilein, gus johnson, bill raftery, sean mcdonough, duke, jon scheyer, kyle singler, north carolina, kansas, verne lundquist, big east, butler, gordon hayward. 2 Comments
As we draw toward the unexciting close of what can only be described as a woeful college football season, it’s high time we shifted our sights to the only flawless sport left in America: college basketball. Oh sure, the naysayers point out a deterioration in the quality of play, the untenability [...]
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11
Nov
Posted by Tim in Stuck in a Poor Equilibrium. Tagged: Slate, homer simpson, john dickerson, to-do lists, google tasks, google chat, iphone apps, omninote, ineffectiveness. 2 Comments
Recently, Slate’s John Dickerson solicited readers’ advice in how to most effectively and efficiently follow a to-do list. I did not send in my own counsel regarding to-do lists, reproduced below.
1. Every night, write down everything that you can conceivably accomplish the next day in a large, ringed notebook kept on your nightstand. Included on [...]
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11
Nov
Posted by Tim in The Top 173 Things in World History. Tagged: adolf hitler, armistice day, david lloyd george, georges clemanceau, germany, historical hyperbole, november 11, numerology, the allies, the fourteen points, the great war, veterans' day, woodrow wilson, world war I, world war II. 3 Comments
I will admit that I am liable to overstate things in these History posts: calling the Hyksos the inventors of war, hypothesizing that Sweden was a Charles XII compromise away from becoming the secondary European power of the 18th century, and outright stating that November 9, 1989 was the best day of David Hasselhoff’s life.
Here’s [...]
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10
Nov
Posted by Tim in Unabated to the Quarterback. Tagged: baltimore ravens, brad childress, brett favre, cedric benson, chad pennington, chris johnson, cincinnati bengals, edgerrin james, indianapolis colts, intricacies of scheduling byes, jamarcus russell, jim brown, joe flacco, josh freeman, kansas city chiefs, ken whisenhunt, larry johnson, matt forte, miami dolphins, minnesota vikings, new york jets, prepositional wordplay, ray rice, san diego chargers, steve smith, tampa bay bucs, todd haley, tom coughlin, Unabated to the Quarterback, vince young, washington redskins, yards per carry. Leave a Comment
Every time it seems to me that I’ve grasped the deep meaning of the world, it is its simplicity that always overwhelms me…. Everything simple is beyond us. What is blue, and how do we think “blue”?
—Albert Camus
Three seasons ago, the NFL peaked in terms of its own scheduling. Every team had enjoyed its [...]
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