New talent Shamir walks the streets of Brooklyn in a somber Take Away Show.
26 Mar 2015
Oh man, it's another upside down guitar player. Also, don't take this video as fully representative of Shamir's style. This kid wears a lot of different hats.
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Loading... February 23, 2016, will mark twenty years since Infinite Jest was first loosed upon the world.* A new edition is coming out with a brand-new cloudless cover (designed by a fan!) and a foreword by Tom Bissell**.
The title of this post comes from the book Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing***. David Foster Wallace says:
Reading is a very strange thing. We get talked to about it and talk explicitly about it in first grade and second grade and third grade, and then it all devolves into interpretation. But if you think about what’s going on when you read, you’re processing information at an incredible rate.
I'm not sure my own rate is all that incredible, but I made it past page 100 of IJ on the bus this morning, so that feels like some sort of progress.
The New York Times today has a piece adapted from the new foreword. I hate reading forewords in actual books, but I might just read this.
So what are you reading?
*Random Yeats reference included for no good reason other than that I like it.
**I have no idea who he is, but I assume I should. He's a journalist, critic, and fiction writer.
***More on the story behind this particular book, which was published posthumously, here.
Date: Sunday, August 15 (Game 2 of doubleheader).
Batting stars: Tony Oliva was 3-for-4 with a double and a walk, scoring once and driving in one. Rich Rollins was 2-for-4 with a double and a run. Jerry Kindall was 1-for-4 with a home run, his sixth.
Pitching star: Dick Stigman pitched seven innings, giving up one run an five hits and two walks with three strikeouts.
Opposition stars: Rocky Colavito was 2-for-5 with a home run (his twenty-third) and a double. Larry Brown was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, scoring twice. Leon Wagner was 1-for-1 with a two-run homer, his twenty-second.
The game: Had the pennant race been closer, this one would've really hurt. Don Mincher singled in a run in the first and the Twins scored again in the second to go up 2-0. Colavito homered in the bottom of the second to make it 2-1, which is where the score stayed through six. Oliva singled in a run in the seventh to make it 3-1, which was the score going to the bottom of the ninth. With two out in the ninth, Brown singled and Max Alvis hit a pinch-hit two-run homer to tie it at three and send the game to extra innings. Kindall homered in the eleventh to make it 4-3 and it looked like all's well that ends well. In the bottom of the eleventh, however, Chico Salmon singled and Brown doubled to put men on second and third with none out. A balk was called on Bill Pleis to tie the score, and Wagner hit a pinch-hit two-run homer to win the game for Cleveland.
Of note: Zoilo Versalles was 1-for-5 with a double. Sandy Valdespino was 1-for-5 with a double and a run. Don Mincher was 1-for-5 with an RBI. Jimmie Hall was 1-for-4.
Record: The loss made the Twins 75-43. Detroit won the second game of its doubleheader, so the Tigers and Indians were now tied for second, eight games back.
Notes: Oliva took over the team batting lead at .310. Earl Battey was used as a pinch-hitter and dropped to .309. Hall fell to an even .300...In addition to Jerry Zimmerman playing in place of Battey, Valdespino started in left in place of Bob Allison. Allison was also used as a pinch-hitter...The Indians used two former Twins as relief pitchers, Lee Stange and Jack Kralick...It has to be pretty unusual for a team to hit a two-run homer to tie the game in the ninth and then hit another two-run homer to win the game in extra innings. It has to be even more unusual for both home run hitters to be pinch-hitters.
My mom is visiting starting tomorrow, and she may even catch us in a state other than debilitating sickness.
Billy Sullivan (1875)
Rosey Rowswell (1884)
Candy Jim Taylor (1884)
Frank Lane (1896)
Carl Reynolds (1903)
Paul Blair (1944)
Danny Thompson (1947)
Mark Souza (1954)
Ernie Camacho (1955)
Cecilio Guante (1960)
Tim Naehring (1967)
Kent Mercker (1968)
Rich Becker (1972)
Rosey Rowswell was a broadcaster for Pittsburgh from 1936-1954. Bob Prince considered Rowswell his mentor.
Candy Jim Taylor was a star player and manager in the Negro Leagues for many years.
Frank Lane was the general manager of the White Sox (1948-55), St. Louis (1956-57), Cleveland (1958-60), Kansas City (1961), and Milwaukee (1971-72).
Let's begin the march.
31 Jan 2012
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