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Used to write for lots of places. Now mostly at Flaming Hydra, a co-op newsletter: https://flaminghydra.com/contributor/colin-mcgowan/
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Mee-sa hit the step-back hesi jimbo. Mee-sa unguardable.
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As ever, shit is broadly Not Going Well but I live within walking distance of Wrigley and have enough scratch to buy a decent seat once every few weeks. It's these sorts of things that sustain you.
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I don't like anybody in this series except Rick Carlisle. Because I respect coaches who have a Saul Bellow "oh right, I guess I have kids and a wife"-type relationship with everything that is not ball. So this is an easy one for me.
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A friend of Morgan's mother, who lived in Wrigleyville in the 80s and lives in a Chicago exurb now, once expressed deep concern when I told her I take the bus a lot of places. "You don't worry about getting stabbed or whatever?" I don't know what to do with these people.
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Yeah, he's a consummate "baseball guy" with a really easy bearing. (Even if I do think of him as a Twin, not a Cub.) Also bet he would, for a nominal fee, open the shit out of a new Binny's location.
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Prince and the baby from Eraserhead had a child and it's beautiful.
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I'm 99 percent sure I'll never sell what I'm working on. But I do need the fuel to complete it.
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There's a greystone down the street from us that hangs a new (usually quite obscure) flag from their porch every couple of weeks. They've been in the neighborhood for like a decade and I hope they never move.
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There are serial killers who have generated fewer headlines than this man did in his first week. www.cbssports.com/nba/news/a-t...
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This is the true Dirty Sprite.
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Complete and Total EXONERATION. Not Retarded!
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I'm glad they're not coordinating, but that's the only positive to draw from this. I agree that nothing else means anything.
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Yeah, agreed. It sounds like something President Mayor Pete would try to do and get talked out of. I'd bet Trump has a typically insane reason. Like he's kind of offended by the penny. It "feels poor" and so we have to get rid of it.
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I'm sure Mussolini had a couple policies that had people doing the Alonzo Mourning gif.
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I re-read it every year. Its moral force is one thing; its prescience is downright spooky.
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"...with a new introduction by Ryen Russillo" bookshop.org/p/books/hey-...
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Wow, the quotes in that piece are really impressive. Righteous, empathetic, thoughtful, pragmatic. Dude's not pretending; he knows what he's talking about.
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It is a good hashtag.
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I was a committed, one-album-review-a-week music critic at the time. Did mostly rap crit but our internal message boards at Cokemachineglow were constantly lit up with interesting stuff. Much more than we could cover.
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I didn't listen to what I consider the second iteration of the podcast, when it essentially became the Charlie Rose of its era. But at that time I desperately needed to hear dispatches from broadly miserable road dog comics, and about all the relationships Maron had ruined in his wilder days.
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"One imagines Sylvester Stallone watching Douglas Sirk films and taking rigorous notes in crayon" is very good.
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Hey, shut up.