January 2010
90 posts
Some Songs Considered: "Let's Not Shit Ourselves... →
Over at his brilliantly simple, must-follow Some Songs Considered project (in which he writes something, anything, about one song, every day), old friend Brian Wall simultaneously bids adieu to the late J.D. Salinger and dusts off the epic, rollicking, wide-ranging and kinetic 10-minute closer from Bright Eyes’ 2002 release, Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground.
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A RESPONSE BY AN ASPIRING SCREENWRITER WHOSE...
youmightfindyourself:
Dear Paramount Pictures,
Thank you for considering my screenplay. While I appreciate your comments, I feel I must clarify a few things in regards to similarities you feel my screenplay has with this Robocop movie you brought up repeatedly.
First, my screenplay, Cyber Policeman: Operation CrimeKill, is not just about some robot cop. It is about a cyborg policeman caught...
Build a better journalism career by shifting your... →
Source: Robert Niles, OJR: The Online Journalism Review.
I know this kind of stuff is going to matter increasingly as journalism-as-a-field becomes more decentralized, old models continue to erode and as-yet-amorphous replacements rise, but I kind of hate the proliferation of marketingspeak taking hold by purveyors of New Journalism. I’m aware that a lot of this theory has been around for...
Watchnbaoffseason:
cityplanning:
BLACK MAGIC which originally aired on ESPN in 2008 is finally available on DVD. It’s the story of basketball at historically black colleges, the coaches who lead these programs, and the players who played for them. Some, such as Winston Salem State star Earl “The Pearl” Monroe and Grambling’s Willis Reed would find fame in the NBA, but most languished in...
Things that Explain Me Fairly Well in A Sentence,...
bwall05:
I saw someone on Facebook became a fan of “Coach” and thought they were pledging allegiance to the early 1990s sitcom Coach without considering the possibility that it was the people who made purses.
Miss u, Dawber.
Overheard
bwall05:
One of my students to another, about a friend: “He doesn’t listen to death metal… he listens to Genesis.”
Seems like a pretty chill bro that doesn’t require jackets to attend his functions.
T-minus three hours until I see a time traveler...
Pretty excited/hopeful. Crossing my fingers that it’s not some crazy nonsense Donnie Darko-style time travel, where he walks down the street following a hadoken coming out of his chest listening to “Under the Milky Way Tonight.”
Disaster Michael Cera
fuckingbookdeal:
Snippet of an Instant Messenger conversation I...
Co-worker: That’s the beauty of working for [REDACTED] — flexibility. So long as you don’t take advantage of it, which you never would. Me: I’m enough of a nerd that the thought of getting in trouble for doing something like that scares me straight Me: Which, I suppose, is the best kind of nerd Me: Outside of the ones that play the electric violin, like Poindexter in...
BDL Book Review: 'Doc: The Rise and Rise of Julius... →
New BDL book review went live while I was in a company meeting yesterday — nothing quite like tuning out sales projections while wondering if Skeets had any problem with me referencing how dope Piper’s Pit was. (Like any editor worth his salt, he left it in.) Feedback, as always, would be appreciated.
Appreciating The Basketball Jones (via Ball Don't... →
bwall05:
I’m woefully behind in watching The Basketball Jones, so I decided today to cut my losses and start fresh with their 500th episode celebration. I’m glad I did.
Without exaggeration, TBJ is the reason I have more than a passing interest in the NBA for the first time since the late 1990s. It’s such a well done, enjoyable show made by fans (in the best sense of the term). I wish more...
TBJ 500: Live From Toronto
thebasketballjones:
Check out the basketball extravaganza 500 episodes in the making …
Find out J.E. Skeets’ real name! See Tas Melas get punk’d! Hear JD speak! All that, plus The Basketball Jones’ failed podcasts, bloopers, classic moments, song, dance and never-before-seen videos. (Note: PG-13 language.)
Do not watch if you want to hear about last night’s games.
Do watch if you want to...
WatchAndy Richter’s better at what he does than I will ever be at anything I do. (Thanks, MaximumFun.org!)
Bring the Monsters of Podcasting to Boston
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We’re talking about You Look Nice Today and Jordan, Jesse, Go! here, gang. There’s no time to fuck around — Chicago’s already crushing us. Stand up, Beantown, and draw free-form podcast comedy tightly to your bosom.
“(410): She said she didn’t want to have sex because she was so torn up...”
– I recognize that Texts from Last Night has been pretty well dried up for a while now, but it can still crank out a winner or two from time to time.
Embrace the gold standard*, people
The Basketball Jones celebrates its 500th episode tonight with a live episode/party at The Drake Underground in Toronto. (If you’re in the neighborhood, buy a ticket. If, like me, you’re not, donate to support something amazing.)
The show encapsulates all of the best elements of being a sports fan — ecstatic love of the league, its players and personalities (except Mike Bibby);...
WatchYeah, this is rough, but it’s Will Arnett being amazing, so it’s fine.
