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Kaufman & Spry and Other Notes… 25 Jun 2013 | 12:54 am
Well, I haven’t been on here much. Mostly just to push stuff for The Barnstormer. I’d like to be here more, like I was last year, but I’m busy with other projects, like working on my next book and doi...
New Collage Series by Chantal Lefebvre 23 May 2013 | 12:35 am
The lovely and talented artist Chantal Lefebvre has begun a new series of illustrations, and I was fortunate enough to be her first subject. She made me look good, despite my obvious aesthetic disabil...
According to Fangraphs, You Don’t Understand Love 19 Feb 2013 | 11:41 pm
The ritual of baseball’s spring training marks the true beginning of the year; a time for reflection, for pause, to consider the errors of years passed, and to be hopeful for a season not yet written....
Judging Torii Hunter: Tolerance in Sport (from The Barnstormer) 3 Jan 2013 | 01:22 am
Torii Hunter is an asshole — a vicious, ignorant, weak, and righteous asshole. If I was a Detroit Tiger, I would find it difficult, as a Christian, to have an asshole like Torii Hunter in my clubhouse...
Complicit in the NHL’s Demise: How the NHL & its players hate hockey, and how the fan is at fault (from The Barnstormer) 18 Sep 2012 | 01:33 am
In June, I wrote an op-ed piece called “Hockey’s Worst Year” about the sport’s complicity in tragic events like the suicides of three enforcers, the abuse of young players by coaches in positions of p...
The Return of Dodger Blue (from The Barnstormer) 31 Aug 2012 | 04:33 am
LATE LAST FRIDAY NIGHT, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Boston Red Sox made what is perhaps the largest trade in baseball history, in terms of the contractual obligations involved and the status of th...
A Message to Olympians: Get a Job (from The Barnstormer) 15 Aug 2012 | 01:51 am
As the Spice Girls reminded us why the ‘90s were a wasteland of contrived “music” and The Who belted out CSI theme songs, we bid adieu to the Games of the 30th Olympiad. The Olympic flag was lowered a...
18 Holes. 18 Years. (from The Barnstormer) 1 Aug 2012 | 10:52 pm
I WAS NEVER what you would call a “skilled” or “competent” or “sober” hacky sack player. But, for a good chunk of my 20s my friends and I played with a ferocious regularity. We were not the shirtless,...
Radio Free Montréal (from The Barnstormer) 18 Jul 2012 | 11:41 pm
THERE ARE FEW THINGS I love as I love Montréal. My family. My friends. August and September of 2005. The Silver Jews third and fourth albums, American Water andBright Flight. The second ‘l’ in ‘llama’...
The Barnstormer: Hate Between the Lines 29 Jun 2012 | 03:53 am
The following can be found in its entirety at The Barnstormer. Link below. Racism, Sexism, and Prejudice in Sports I don’t hate. Simple as that. It’s too strong a word, too violent an emotion to ind...
