It is one thing to love a person's music - quite another to try and physically resemble that person while watching them perform in concert. Chuck Klosterman on the ...
There are many things that N.B.A. players excel at doing. Running, Jumping, Selling shoes. At these specific skill sets, N.B.A. players rank among the world’s elite. But there are other things that N.B.A. players consistently struggle with, and ...
Look at the photograph on the left. This, obviously, is New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, walking with impeccably sweatered girlfriend Gisele Bundchen. I do not know where or when this picture was shot, but it was jammed into the blogosphere ...
John Hinckley Jr. tried to kill Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. It was a Monday. I was informed of this by my third grade teacher (Burna Pribula) after coming inside from morning recess. "I have some news that may shock you," she told the class. ...
I have 45 seconds to deliberate with Gilbert Arenas. Uncontainable Eccentricity Gilbert Arenas is one of the leading scorers - and characters - in N.B.A. We are standing in the locker room of the Verizon Center in Washington, 20 minutes after the ...
No one really disputes the correlation between rock music and insanity. At this point, people assume that most unconventional rock performers are either authentically crazy ( Ozzy Osbourne , Daniel Johnston), preoccupied with seeming crazy (Prince, ...
North Hollywood sounds like a place that could be glamorous or, at the very least, mildly attractive. It is not. Or at least it's not on Hinds Avenue, where dirty one-story buildings look semideserted and many of the local "beautiful people" appear ...
I was trying to eat some pizza. I was not trying to conform to the faceless puppet masters of society. Yet sometimes, if you are an automaton, that is the same thing. It was 6:50 p.m., and I was going to the bar. I had not eaten since noon, ...
At some point in the immediate to near future, someone is going to throw Barry Bonds a strike when he should be seeing a ball, and he will rake it with extreme prejudice. His propulsive, compact swing will rock the sphere toward the roof of the ...
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