...outfielding...

michiru-mochi: jasmine-blu: omfg Can I marry him? LMFAO

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:08:23 -0400

michiru-mochi:

jasmine-blu:

omfg

Can I marry him? LMFAO

intooishun: Baseball Bat Manipulations - Peter Schuyff

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:51:41 -0400

intooishun:

Baseball Bat Manipulations - Peter Schuyff

theparisreview: Writes filmmaker Tom Bean, “George’s first...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:47:52 -0400

theparisreview:

Writes filmmaker Tom Bean, “George’s first piece of ‘participatory journalism’ was to pitch in a baseball all-star game at Yankee Stadium in 1958. He wrote about his experience for Sports Illustrated and then expanded the piece into a book called Out of My League, which he got his friend and mentor Ernest Hemingway to blurb (Hemingway called the book ‘Beautifully observed and incredibly conceived’). This is the event that launched George’s career as a writer. One of our goals for the movie was to have George narrate as much of his own story as we could (cobbled together from interviews, TV appearances, and speeches), and I think this scene serves as a good illustration of that approach.”

Plimpton! opens May 22 at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center.

The Political Freakshow: alesinmsinclair replied to your post: Health update: My acute ankle...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:55:18 -0400

The Political Freakshow: alesinmsinclair replied to your post: Health update: My acute ankle...:

thepoliticalfreakshow:

alesinmsinclair replied to your post: Health update: My acute ankle sprain is much better. I am not having to wear my ankle brace now. I had two or three sprained tendons in my right ankle. It made the fifth time in my life that I have sprained my right ankle.

Seriously???????…

THE INTERNET

theparisreview: “Of course, [baseball]’s both: a sport and a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:13:46 -0400

theparisreview:

“Of course, [baseball]’s both: a sport and a pastime, to borrow from James Salter. The autograph hounds in Ivan Weiss’s trailer, the voyeurism that unsettles our photographer Kate Joyce, and that peculiar alone-in-the-crowd feeling that haunts [photographer Alec] Soth—none of that arises without the ballgames themselves. There’s a reason A Sport and a Pastime is so full of sex, described in elaborate, ritual detail: Salter understood that the strenuous, disciplined, daily exertions of love—the physical sport—enabled and ennobled the pastime of the life around it. The sex had to be closely observed and recorded.”

In the latest installment of the Bull City Summer series, Adam Sobsey on when baseball isn’t baseball.

theonion: High School Breathes Sigh Of Relief As Difficult...

Mon, 13 May 2013 13:50:56 -0400

theonion:

High School Breathes Sigh Of Relief As Difficult Teacher Ages Out Of Education System | Full Report

theparisreview: She called the white ducks with a softClucking...

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:20:46 -0400

theparisreview:

She called the white ducks with a soft
Clucking of her tongue and they came to
Her busy hands for the hard corn she shelled.
Taking a fat one up in her arms, soothing the
Down with her cheek, she cooed and sang to it,
While the eager beak bit at her palm cup.

She bowed the graceful head down to sleep
Beneath the perfect white wing and keeping
Her place on the long neck, like a finger in a
Book, she brought up the porcelain bowl to
Hold in her knees, in one motion. I can still
See the shining blade layering through the
Orderly feathers, through the sleeping veins.

Headless, featherless duck swam in clear water,
Dark blood, carrots and apples, black prunes,
Parsley, pepper, thyme until the meat fell
Away from the bone and pieces floated among the
White kluski clouds in dark brown broth. Every
Bit of the down she saved for small pillows.
When she gave them to my children she said,
“They won’t remember me, so tell them these
were from the duck feather woman.” They took them
Eagerly from her knotted fingers.

—Phil Boiarski, “Blood Soup”
Art Credit Kymia Nawabi (via)

mohandasgandhi: bostonreview: Deadspin Infographic: Is Your...

Fri, 10 May 2013 14:28:07 -0400

mohandasgandhi:

bostonreview:

Deadspin Infographic: Is Your State’s Highest-Paid Employee A Coach? (Probably)

This entire country needs to have a therapy session. We’re not doing this.

kimyadawson: doctorinternet: kimyadawson: Sometimes you have...

Fri, 10 May 2013 10:28:02 -0400

kimyadawson:

doctorinternet:

kimyadawson:

Sometimes you have to reach between your kid’s knees into the brown water to retrieve something they dropped in the toilet while pooping. Then you listen to Michael Eagle II ”Qualifiers” because you know he also knows that “shit on your hand” is part of the “parent” job description.

Solidarity.

Thanks friend. I love this song and I love laundromats.

“We the best, mostly”.

That’s the story

So good. That lyric right there. Pow.

Also…follow mikeeaglestinks He’s good peeps.

Embroidered Newspapers (by Lauren Dicioccio)

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:55:19 -0400

Embroidered Newspapers (by Lauren Dicioccio)

stringsdafistmcgee: i-will-post-eventually: he is a terrifying...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:26:59 -0400

stringsdafistmcgee:

i-will-post-eventually:

he is a terrifying looking man

Yeeesh

8-/

onlyoldphotography: Gordon Parks: Jazz trumpeter Louis...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:04:25 -0400

onlyoldphotography:

Gordon Parks: Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, posing for adult art students. Castle Hill, MA, 1955

50 Years of WWE...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:01:56 -0400

50 Years of WWE Champions

11. “Macho Man” Randy Savage

humansofnewyork: This man sat next to me on a bus to Cambridge...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:51:56 -0400

humansofnewyork:

This man sat next to me on a bus to Cambridge and immediately began a long, winding, ridiculous monologue that chronicled his world travels and ended up in a description of his Gypsy origins:

“I’m a quarter Gypsy,” he said. “Sicilian Gypsy. That’s hardcore Gypsy. We’re witch Gypsies…are you laughing at me???”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“Because you just sat next to me and started saying ridiculous things.”

“Oh, I’m sorry, I just ate a bunch of THC pills I got at the hospital.”

“How did you get the hospital to give you THC pills?”

“I have AIDS.”

via justcuzitsround

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:10:28 -0400

via justcuzitsround

"Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program...."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:50:34 -0400

“

Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking soundbites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, ‘that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about ‘The Basketball Diaries’?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machinegun?”

The obscure 1995 Leonardo DiCaprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it.

The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. “Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. Kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory.”

In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, “The NBC Nightly News” and other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them.

The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.

”

- Roger Ebert (via confusedtree)
Rip Roger.
(via bartsch)

A MICHAEL JORDAN SELECTION

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:20:15 -0400

A MICHAEL JORDAN SELECTION

afootballreport: Flipping Ronaldinho The magic of the man with...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:40:16 -0400

afootballreport:

Flipping Ronaldinho

The magic of the man with golden feet and terrible teeth has been captured in flipbook form, and we’re still stunned by what Etoilec1 has created. Ronaldinho’s finest moments in all their aesthetic brilliance have been condensed to a few sheets of paper, but the final product only blows us away just as much as the original masterpieces. You can almost hear the “Olé” as the paper skips.

nevver: Calvin and Hobbes

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:40:25 -0400

nevver:

Calvin and Hobbes

“LADIES AND GENTS YOUR DOPEST HOST PRESENTS...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:20:27 -0400

“LADIES AND GENTS YOUR DOPEST HOST PRESENTS EXTRAVAGANCE…”