March 2009
27 posts
WatchI’m a little embarrassed that I didn’t know Knicks broadcaster Al Trautwig did Lost broadcasts.
WatchForgive me, but I read this book about 40,000 times as a kid, am a huge Dave Eggers nerd (I - L - L!!!! I - N - I!!!!) and, well … yeah, you can see where this is going.
““Who’s that? Who’s talking to me?” Moscowitz said, still dazed by the mystical...”
– Anyone else disturbed that Woody Allen just wrote “O.M.G.”?
“And I’d like to give a shout out to both of them, especially Erin,”...”
– — Illinois junior forward Dominque Keller has it all in perspective: He only cares that President Obama and Erin Andrews picked the Illini to win tonight. That’s all I’d care about too.
Kind of love, by the way, that a backup forward is giving shoutouts to the President. I’m...
“When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are...”
– Clay Shirky is a lot smarter than you and I are. I still blame Denton!
Fake Rick Reilly Is Back →
Whew. Those were a rough few days without it.
“Sears Tower is no more. The 110-story Chicago giant, the nation’s tallest...”
– Yes. They’re renaming the Sears Tower. I’m sure I’ll call it Sears Tower the rest of my life anyway, sounding a little bit more old fogey each time I say it, each year that goes by.
“The universities that participate in these sports at the highest levels have...”
– Matthew Yglesias, CLEARLY NOT A SPORTS REPORTER, points out the madness of universities not paying their athletes. Remember: Not a single penny from any of the advertisers you’ll be watching over … and over … and over … during the NCAA Tournament is going to go to the people...
“For the past month or so, your editor at large took it upon himself to create...”
– The great Drew Magary laments Twitter’s savage destruction of his brilliant Fake Rick Reilly Twitter feed.
“I just wanna say on record… FUCK SPIN MAGAZINE!!I never ran a “hollywood set”...”
– It is a relief to know that Q-Tip hates Spin magazine even more than he hates me.
“Wallace was always agonizing over how to get his emotional and intellectual...”
– I don’t think NYMag.com articles are supposed to make me cry, but Sam Anderson just came awfully close.
Dylan Records Surprise 'Modern Times' Follow-up →
Holy crap holy crap holy crap.
“Nowadays, people can catch Leitch’s rants and raves about everything...”
– From a very sweet review in Carnegie Mellon’s student newspaper. I am going to demand that everyone at work refer to me exclusively as “Intelligencer” from now on.
