January 2011
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Old Time Family Baseball: Team Recap: Chicago... →
oldtimefamilybaseball: For previous recaps, click here. Record: 88-74, 2nd Place in the AL Central Offensive Leaders: Paul Konerko .977 OPS, 4.2 WAR Pitching Leaders: John Danks 3.72 ERA, John Danks/Gavin Floyd 4.3 WAR (Edwin Jackson had a 3.24 ERA and 2.0 WAR in 11 starts with the team.) Surprise: After… Looking ahead to April
Jan 31st
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WatchWatch
So Football Outsiders and Hulu are counting down the Top Ten Super Bowls. Each one comes with a sweet preview and an even sweeter feature segment. Of course, I’m shilling for Denver. 1997. Elway, Farve, Davis. 12-point underdogs.
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“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t...”
– John Waters (via tulletulle)
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Julian Assange hearts the double space →
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The many walks of many people →
Jan 14th
Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews: "The Whitsun... →
lazybookreviews: (Larkin, my special little misanthropic genius, in a completely uncharacteristic show of fellowship with humankind.) That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about One-twenty on the sunlit Saturday Did my three-quarters-empty train pull out, All windows down, all cushions hot, all… Philip Larkin’s “The Whitsun Weddings”
Jan 13th
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All the et ceteras. →
Kelefa Sanneh on Jay-Z’s “Decoded” and the anthological perils of enjambment in hip-hop.
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Where the Rainbow Ends
Dan Torop Where The Rainbow Ends by Robert Lowell I saw the sky descending, black and white, Not blue, on Boston where the winters wore The skulls to jack-o’-lanterns on the slates, And Hunger’s skin-and-bone retrievers tore The chickadee and shrike.  The thorn tree waits Its victim and tonight The worms will eat the deadwood to the foot Of Ararat: the scythers, Time and...
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