Posts tagged as:
I’m currently reading Small Vices, by the (regrettably) recently-deceased Robert B. Parker. I’m pretty sure, 250 pages in, that I have already read this book; but (a) I can’t remember how it ends and (b) every Spenser novel I’ve ever read is so completely brilliantly wonderful that I still enjoy them even after repeated consumption. [...]
{ 0 comments }
If you enjoy reading things which are awesome, I highly suggest grabbing a copy of Sonic Boom: Globalization at Mach Speed, by Gregg Easterbrook. It took less than two pages for my jaw to drop, but that wasn’t unexpected; I’ve loved every Easterbrook article, haiku, and book I’ve ever read. The man is a genius. [...]
{ 0 comments }
With the possible exceptions of my father and (maybe-not-so-strangely-coincidentally) my father-in-law, I don’t know anyone who is as voracious a reader as I am. I also seem to consume an outlandish amount of television and there is rarely a moment in my life in which there isn’t music playing. Oh, and I love movies. Yet, [...]
{ 1 comment }
“Sometimes I get distracted by food; but mostly all I think about is women and baseball.” – Robert B. Parker’s Spenser My favorite author died on Monday, January 18, and he took with him my favorite fictional character. I was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. My dad, though — who lives in Rhode Island now [...]
{ 1 comment }
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” Twice in the last week I’ve heard references to this Hunter S. Thompson quote on the radio. (Both times an ESPNRadio host was using [...]
{ 1 comment }
As I get older I find it increasingly difficult to explain my love of football. You’d think that the opposite would be true, that I would find it easier to tell people how wonderful it is as I understand the game more. But that is simply not the case. I follow Stewart Mandel on Twitter [...]
{ 1 comment }
I just finished reading Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin. My mom and dad were both big Steve Martin fans when I was a kid and we had a few of his concerts on cassette. I thought they were great and remember trying to mimic his “Let’s Get Small” routine for my classmates long before [...]
{ 1 comment }
