So I’m feeling a really good journalism high right now. Why? Because a story I wrote for Deadspin, THE PARAGRAPH: THE FALLOUT FROM SPORTSWRITING’S FILTHIEST FUCK-UP, is up to 308,000 reads in two days. Now, I usually don’t pay that much attention to the metrics of online media. I mean,
So as I noted in two earlier posts, yesterday I took my son to watch the Chargers’ first Los Angeles-based home game. It was an expensive-yet-fun evening, mainly because the magic of a kid beholding something big and colorful and loud and thrilling never grows old. Emmett is an NFL fan,
So back when I was a kid of, oh, eight or nine years, I stumbled upon this 1981 Topps baseball card … At that moment, Ken Griffey became my favorite professional athlete. Why? Because look how insanely smooth the guy is. Hat hanging back on a sick Afro; thick sideburns that scream,
So as they begin their first season in Los Angeles (OK, not the first, per se. They played in the city one year, in 1960), the San Diego Chargers have adopted the slogan, “Fight for LA.” The son and I saw the three words, oh, 200 times tonight as we
The above image comes from the pages of my old college newspaper, the University of Delaware’s Review. It dates back to 1993, when the KKK (or a bunch of idiots referring to themselves as the KKK) held a march in Newark, Delaware. The whole day was typical. Klansmen paraded down Main Street,
The three most important questions to ask a rabbi: 1. Why am I so bored during services? 2. Why don’t you believe in a supernatural God? 3. How do you feel about Lil Uzi Vert?
… it’s me—John Stevens. I’m the boss as the feed warehouse where that guy on the left works. … and it’s me—Randy Ott. I’m the boss at the accounting firm where that guy in the middle works. … and it’s me—Malik Lewis. I’m the boss at the pharmacy where that
My dad, the great Stanley Pearlman, recently watched The Day the Earth Stood Still for the first time in eons. Here’s his take on a classic … I finally got around to writing this movie review after 66 years. No problem. Things have not changed much. The film is the
My son Emmett and I are engaged in a summer-long shitty movie marathon, which has taken us from “From Justin to Kelly” to “Batman and Robin” to “Catwoman” to “The Day the Earth Stood Still” to, most recently, “Wild Wild West.” Of all the films, “Wild Wild West” was—hands down—the
In case you missed this awful story, earlier today a high school football player on Long Island, N.Y. died when a log hit him in the head during practice. Read that again: A log hit him in the head. His name is Joshua Mileto. He is 16, an 11th grader at