Three things, apparently unrelated except for the fact that when I reactivated the blog, I explicitly promised you cursing and beer as well as baseball: • Publisher wants to ban cursing in the newsroom At the York (PA) Daily Record, somebody is out of her fucking mind, namely publisher Sara Glines, who on Monday sent a …
Nothing to do with baseball, but after a friend showed off her Little Lebowski Urban Achievers t-shirt, I stumbled upon a UK-based website called Last Exit to Nowhere which numbers this beauty among their smartly-designed movie-inspired collection: Can’t believe I missed that one given all the times I watched Dirty Harry during my formative years. …
Malcolm McClaren, the Svengali behind the Sex Pistols, passed away on Thursday at the age of 64. McLaren’s audacious promotion helped turn the Pistols into Public Enemy Number One in England during 1976, and he certainly bears a good deal of responsibility for popularizing punk as a fashion statement via his London boutique, SEX. But …
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Jim Marshall, one of the great rock and roll photographers, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 74. Marshall photographed the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and others. His work was recently featured at a Brooklyn Museum exhibit called “Who Shot Rock and Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to …
When I first arrived in New York City back in 1995, I moved in with a friend of my downstairs neighbor in Providence, a guy who worked in film and video who had been flopping on friends’ couches in Hoboken for awhile and needed to solidify his situation with, like, a mailing address. A guy …
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So Chicago, with its history of backroom deals and corrupt politics, couldn’t land the 2016 Olympic bid by persuading the inherently corrupt International Olympic Committee, whose members are so crooked that — to borrow a wonderful phrase from the late Hunter S. Thompson — they needed servants to help them screw their pants on every morning? They …
Like everyone else, I was surprised and saddened by the death of Michael Jackson yesterday, capping a surreal day of celebrity demises that also claimed Farrah Fawcett and garage rock legend Sky Saxon. I’m old enough to remember when Thriller hit the racks and was all the rage; I didn’t have a copy, but my …
In the years before the baseball bug returned to my life, the Utah Jazz were at the center of my sports universe, and the annual attempts of the John Stockton/Karl Malone/Jerry Sloan teams to win an NBA championship were as absorbing as any Dodgers or Yankees team if not more, since they remained part of …
I’m not sure what’s going on with Blogger but when I came to check on this page several minutes ago, none of my posts from the past week were visible. The problem appears to have been taken care of with a simple republishing of a post, but I apologize for anyone experiencing temporary busted links …
“…we write for each other, for baseball is not a paragraph, and losing, I think, is no parenthesis” — Humbug.com’s “Random Diamond Notes Generator,” after e.e. cummings Waaaaay back in the day, as a regular poster on Baseball Primer, I was a fan of the mysterious Score Bard, the poet laureate of the baseball blogosphere. …