Apparently, I just lived through my first earthquake as a San Francisco resident.
I was requesting an interview.
Noah,Thanks for not overwhelming me! My mom already does that to me as it is and I don’t want to throw you in that category.
Try me again in February.
Talking about a Steph Curry assist:
"The delivery is impeccably timed perfectly."
R.W. Johnson in the London Review of Books:
Cape Town is in a state of serious dislocation because of next summer’s football World Cup. The huge new 68,000-seater stadium at Green Point is virtually complete but there are roadworks everywhere, as the city tries to fulfil its public transport plans on time. Except that there is now no hope that it will, because it has belatedly discovered that the vaunted Bus Rapid Transit system, which was supposed to cost 1.5 billion rand, will cost close to three times as much, which the city does not have, so the whole project is being rolled back up, with unforeseeable consequences for those who want to get to the stadium for the games. In one way the cancellation of the BRT is something of a relief, since the black cab associations, seeing it as unwelcome competition, had declared war on it. This is not a metaphor: judging by their previous efforts the war would have involved petrol bombing buses, drive-by shootings and occasional hand grenades thrown into bus queues.
And that’s just the first graf.
Re: Dempsey’s goal.
a) Wonderful strike. Maybe a handful of players on the U.S. team have the talent to pull that off.
b) More importantly, however, how many guys have the balls to take that shot? Landon, probably, although I’m tempted to think he’d use his speed to try to create a breakaway. Anyone else? Feilhaber?
"There could also be another first surrounding the Baker piece. Even when the Times has run magazine stories ahead of schedule, the same version always appears in print (since the magazine’s already closed). But Liberman said if there’s additional news on the terrorism front, the piece could be tweaked before Friday’s close and appear different in print."
It will be interesting to see how many corrections the Times posts on the story. There is already a (minor) one. Does this diminish the piece’s effectiveness at all?
Of course, in a sport where racers fly face-first down an ice track at speeds approaching 80 miles per hour on top of a sled with no steering or braking mechanisms, reduced visibility has its drawbacks.
MOTION PICTURE DIRECTOR SPIKE LEE JOINS TEAM TO BRING FIFA WORLD CUP TO UNITED STATES IN 2018 OR 2022
An avid sports fan known for sitting courtside at basketball games in New York City, Lee also has a passion for international soccer and the Arsenal Football Club of the English Premier League. Lee previously became the 40,000th season ticket-holder for F.C. Internazionale Milano, the perennial contender in Serie A and Europe.
I wuz robbed.
Perhaps this is unnecessarily critical, but @CKlosterman's first two tweets seem obnoxiously calculated.
This, however, is very funny.
You can produce all the stories you want, but I doubt the world is going to care what happens to South Africa and its brand new, super expensive stadiums after the final on July 11.
Also, is that Pedro Martinez at the 0:36 mark?
"I sort of wish I could Teach for America, and play this in a class full of innercity minority kids, and then experience them making fun of me for listening to it. I would have had the intention of ‘making them more cultured’, but then they would give me a swift reality check, letting me know that maybe I should assimilate to their culture, and stop living in my pseudo-relevant indie dream world."
It strikes me as though a lot of human hands touch this ball before it’s fully formed. It’s almost 2010; can’t we automate this shit?
"No one is actually listening anymore: One of the great frustrations of the lonelygirl hunt was the fact that, despite having her face plastered everywhere in media, for weeks and weeks no clue about her identity emerged. How was this possible that no one had seen her? Well, it was possible because, despite everyone on earth in one way or another seeing her face (certainly everyone who used the internet), no one was actually paying attention. It was presumed by detectives on the case that if Bree was a fake, she must have been recruited in some distant land and kept locked away in a safe house. In fact, she lived near Hollywood and was an active aspiring actress, with headshots, acting classes and all kinds of industry acquaintances. She had worked in the make-up department of King Kong, for crying out loud. When I met Jessica, I asked her if, instead of doing all the charts and hacking if I had just sat at the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf on Sunset Boulevard (the latte grounds of young Hollywood) for a couple weeks, would I have seen her there? She admitted I would have. She was right under the nose of the media but no one had put it together, or been thinking, or paying attention….”
The End of the 00s: The Hunt for lonelygirl15, by Richard Rushfield
“But the more blatant lesson of Avatar is not that American imperialism is bad, but that in fact it’s necessary. Sure there are some bad Americans—the ones with tanks ready to mercilessly kill the Na’vi population, but Jake is set up as the real embodiment of the American spirit. He learns Na’vi fighting tactics better than the Na’vi themselves, he takes the King’s daughter for his own, he becomes the only Na’vi warrior in centuries to tame this wild dragon bird thing. Even in someone else’s society the American is the chosen one. He’s going to come in, lead your army, fuck your princesses, and just generally save the day for you. Got it? This is how we do it.”
In Which We Teach James Cameron A Thing Or Two
OR: America, Fuck Yeah.
Yes, I found this while doing my job.
Gammons on the Alex Rodriguez interview.
