A pretty light edition this week. (Update: have a sick kid at home for the fourth time in two weeks, so was able to read/add a couple more articles while watching Scooby Doo and Despicable Me 2.)
To begin, more love for Bill Self. I’m sharing these now since we’ll all be bashing him in a couple weeks when KU loses to a lower seed in the NCAA tournament.
The Washington Post on the perfect marriage between Alex Gordon and the Kansas City Royals.
How Alex Gordon made the Royals the Royals again
In my February Books post, I mentioned the travelogue Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote for the New York Times last year. Here are his two pieces.
This article is generally about the long-term costs of war. But its focus is fascinating: a daughter of a Civil War veteran is still receiving a monthly pension check from the US government for her father’s service. Or at least she was as of two years ago, when this article first appeared. Kottke linked to it this week and said he could find no evidence that Ms. Triplett has passed in the interim.
Still Paying For The Civil War
And last, an article about Prince and how he has worked with and against the Internet over the years to control how his music is distributed. Like all things related to music and the Internet, I don’t know what the right answer is. So I don’t know if he’s a genius or totally misguided.
Poor Lonely Computer: Prince’s Misunderstood Relationship With The Internet