⦿ Friday Links
Some links as you waste time waiting for the weekend to begin. First, this terrific find. Jim Henson produced a series of brief TV commercials for the Wilkins Coffee company in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They were designed to run in 10-second windows for station IDs. The primaries are two creatures that resemble others we would become more…
⦿ Sunday Links
Sunday Links As I mentioned, some of these go back over a month. They are worth sharing despite not being the freshest links in the world. First up, Complex did a visual representation of the best rapper alive, by year, from 1979 to the present. I disagree with a few of their choices (Chuck D. was never #1????), and I…
Friday Link – Re:Rey
I’ll share a traditional links post over the weekend, but I wanted to devote some focused words on one link in particular. Most of you have probably heard about the Star Wars toy controversy: that Rey is almost entirely absent from the new toys released with The Force Awakens. This article lays out much of the story. Where’s Rey? Some…
⦿ Friday Links
Just a few links this week. Drew Magary has become one of my favorite writers of late. He’s hilarious. Here is his epic takedown of the Williams-Sonoma holiday catalog. The 2015 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog Scott Weiland’s ex-wife wrote a pretty powerful letter to the public in Rolling Stone. Scott Weiland’s Family: ‘Don’t Glorify This Tragedy’ Finally, I…
⦿ Friday Links
(Standard disclaimer that I’m terribly behind in sharing links, I’ll do better starting next week, yada yada yada…) Let’s kick things off with a couple baseball links that are left over from October. First, a rather fine oral history of the 1985 World Series. Which, you may recall, was the last time the Kansas City Royals won the title before…
Links Part 2: Everything Else
Now for non-Royals links. I’ve been sitting on some of these for nearly a month. I hope they’re still worth it! First, something brand new. Actor/comedian Aziz Ansari wrote in the New York Times about many issues surrounding minorities in TV and movies. It is funny and surprisingly great. Aziz Ansari on Acting, Race and Hollywood At Grantland (RIP), Mike…
Links Part 1: R’s
So, so, so far behind on sharing links. So I’ll break them into two sets. We’ll begin with articles related to YOUR WORLD CHAMPION KANSAS CITY ROYALS! A rather significant sports journalism event took place during the baseball playoffs: ESPN shut down the wonderful Grantland sports/pop-culture site. Many took that as a sign that there isn’t room in the modern,…
⦿ Friday Links
Time to finish clearing out the Links To Share queue. Kicking things off, two posts about Kansas City. First, The Midwestival traveled to KC for an epic weekend of eating and seeing the sites. Kansas City has really evolved over the past 10–15 years. Kansas City: The Paris of the Plains As a bit of a counter-point, Robert Trussell wrote…
Reading Joe
So I’m obviously way behind on sharing interesting links with all ya’ll. Thus, I’m breaking them up a bit to clear out the queue. This edition focuses on the great Joe Posnanski. Boy did I love this one. In My Favorite Year (Redux), Joe went through the entire sports calendar of 1986 and broke down, month-by-month, why it is his…
Summer ’78
I’m loving a lot of things right now, pop culturally. I took a long bike ride this morning and mentally wrote at least 10,000 words about the new Ryan Adams album. We’ll see if I can make something coherent out of those thoughts to share here. I just finished an amazing, if flawed, book that took me nearly a month…