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VIDEO: The Reno wildfire, up close and extremely personal

Here’s what the guy that shot this video wrote: “I woke up to a power outage and and an orange glow outside my window at 2:30am. Accross the canyon from me the mountain was on fire and a few homes were in flames. Less than an hour later it had reached my balcony.” The guy, Andrew Lee George (who got out safe), was one of 9,500 people who had to leave their homes as a result of the quickly-growing fire, which has already injured a handful of people and destroyed 20 homes. Yikes. source

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“I woke up to a power outage and and an orange glow outside my window at 2:30am.”

We want losing 4-0 against a rival to sting, not scar.

“People who don’t understand this decision have never been part of a team, never been with a group of men, blood and sweat, going through some of the things that those guys go through with each other,’’ Williams said. “If you’ve ever been a part of that, you understand that decision. It’s an easy one.’’

Spare me, Mr. Yale football coach.

How Germany Found Itself, Lost Itself, and Found Itself Again →

I wrote something about spending four weeks in a Volvo.

BEN COHEN: I spent the last few months working on a long profile of Mike... →

bzcohen:

I spent the last few months working on a long profile of Mike Krzyzewski, now the all-time winningest coach in college basketball history, and it was released today as a Kindle Single in the Kindle Store.

What’s the Single about?

Coach K.

OK, but what about Coach K?

It’s a story…

There are plenty of worse ways to spend 99 cents…

This is such a good opening paragraph

James Wolcott is a carefully absent presence in his memoir of writing his way through the ’70s, despite the trademark right-in-your-ear chattiness of his writing style. The acerbic critic—now best known as a blogger for Graydon Carter’s luxe Vanity Fair—reports in his recollections of New York when it was allegedly fun that he always seemed underdressed for the uptown ballet, overdressed for downtown at CBGB. He was half wanderer-in, half walker-on, and sometimes the guy on the wall watching everyone dirtying the pretty things.

I love this dirty town

Too much of this country is too big to fail.

Assassin of Secrets: Not a Hoax, Just a Strange Tale of A Failed Writer Cheating →

johncarney:

It’s all a bit sad when you read it, really.

"Gosh I wish I could do it all over."

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

chrisjames03:

Brilliant.

Yes, what Chris said.

Woody Paige as voice of reason

Only in the show’s final moments did someone — host Tony Reali — make a direct reference to the victims. That was a contrast to Monday’s “Around the Horn,” during which an emotional Woody Paige had demanded to know: “What’s going on with our national institutions — our churches, our schools, where you have people [in positions] of trust? We’ve got to stop it right now. And the way you stop it is the people involved here at Penn State must go away.”

For example, if we got into a nuclear war with China or something, survivors of the Holocaust would probably place rebuilding the Dolphins way down on their to-do list.

"You are a factory of sadness."

"Sleeper 1972" Manchester Orchestra