I’ve been going all Ryan Lochte at the neighborhood pool. Giant chains. Monster tires. Ice grill. I even tried to trademark “Pah-shhh!” In Lochte fashion, I can also swim four 25 meter laps. In a row. Without stopping. Well, maybe one stop. But, very short. And a nap. With only one snack. And I might […]
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The Flight of the Sciuridae
So “bars” are everything to an emcee. Musicians call them measures. 4 beats. One and two and three and four and . . . . For the rapper, it’s like a private, inescapable metronome. Ringing in your head, quantizing every activity of life. And, certainly in hip hop, bars universally come in pairs. A typical […]
“Have You Hugged Your Foot Today?”
I was watching this memorable moment in Olympic history and I noticed the old school Nike shirt. That’s what sport is about right there. Romancing your gear. I can remember fighting sleep pillow-talking my Air Revolutions in the bed next to me. I won’t repeat what I said. But, let’s just say it was pretty […]
Reading Between the Lines
You do this long enough and your mind starts conjuring those paranoid murals of irrationality out of news articles, linked by pushpins and colored string and collaged clipped phrases, indicating that surely all the world’s events are connected. Gibson in Conspiracy Theory or Crowe in A Beautiful Mind. The Heat won the Championship. Deadly Colorado […]
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