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On Internet fame, authenticity and Mac Lethal
His name is Mac Lethal, a rapper. He writes fast little rhymes. He posts them on YouTube. Sometimes, they go viral. It happened again this week. On Tuesday, Mac Lethal published his latest creation, a...
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Bill Walton on Boris Diaw is still a call for the ages
Bill Walton served as the color commentator for the Missouri-UCLA game on ESPN on Friday night. It was Walton’s first time on air in some time — he’s apparently been battling health issues — and it...
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Diary of a Bad Movie Volume Three: New Year’s Eve
It’s been a while since our last Diary of a Bad Movie. Blame it on my lack of cable in State College. In Dallas, I could choose, on demand, from a list of nauseating mediocrity. I’m not so lucky in...
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Music and 2012
I hate many things about year-end lists. For one, I hate the phrase you see when you encounter a list — “It’s that time of the year” — which is really code for “OK, here’s a list because we need to...
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What Is Required
Sometimes it gets bad and goes wrong and the walls press in close. The air is cold in spite of the sun and the wind whips through three long-sleeve layers. What is it you require? *** Ride south on a...
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My Dark, Twisted, Beautiful Work Mix
A long time ago in yuppie years, I sat in a coffee shop in Dallas, uninspired on a Friday afternoon to complete something or anything that could be considered productive. In moments like this, I reach....
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Prospect
I stared down your hollow hall. Lined with what looked like static stars in a sky divided into fourths. Your beams spending summer swelling, spitting beads of sweat from bubbles, an uneven topography....
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You Mad at the World, Bro?
World Basketball Project Defeating the world is not as hard as it sounds, particularly in March. In this awesome month of green beer, spring break and college basketball, the world becomes an opponent...
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Boston, sorrow and leisure
Thomas McDermott won the first Boston Marathon, back in 1897. He suffered from cramps and blisters most of the way and by the end could peel some of the skin off the soles of his feet. He vowed to...
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DeShawn Stevenson was (sort of) KU’s first Andrew Wiggins
I wonder if Andrew Wiggins will be as good for KU as I hoped DeShawn Stevenson would be. That sentence should not make any sense to sane individuals, even sane individuals who followed Kansas...
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Subway or No Way
All Subway “sandwich artists” employ one of two very precise techniques for slathering mayonnaise (NOT Miracle Whip) on their god-awful sandwiches. Their choice is dependent on the utensils available...
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So exactly which KU football game is Clark Kent watching in Man of Steel?
I saw “Man of Steel” last night. It was an OK movie by regular standards. By “holy shit they mention Kansas like 13 times” standards, it was spectacular. As many people have noted since Friday, Clark...
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Kansas City in the Summertime
I was in the Crossroads on Thursday night. Drove down there from Johnson County with my dad. Thunder clouds hung overhead, gray but not entirely threatening, and summer’s humidity snuck through the...
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Coming to the (late) realization that “Garden State” really sucked
In the summer of 2004, a few months before I entered my senior year of high school, I saw the movie Garden State for the first time. This is almost 10 years ago now. Dubya was still in the process of...
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The last match of James Blake
Source: AOL I bought so many headbands in the fall of 2005. Not the 90s fashionable kind for women, mind you, the athletic kind. I bought a black headband and a Carolina blue headband with the white...
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Stuff…and not having any of it
For two weeks this summer I had to be a drifter. This transformation of lifestyle was driven not by choice but rather inconvenience as the lease at my old place ended on July 31, a full two weeks...
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Best of 2013*: The List
So every December, for the last couple years anyway, I’ve been compiling a list of my favorite songs from the previous 12 months: My year-end mixtape, so to say. Now before we go forward, my list is a...
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Being in India
The car accident was actually the perfect welcome to India. About ten or fifteen of us, fresh off the plane and jetlagged from twenty hours of travel, boarded a bus for a ninety minute ride from the...
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My most reliable rebounder
For as long as I can remember, my dad always answered the phone the same way: “Frank Dodd!” It was his signature, the emphasis always put on the second syllable. “Frank-DODD!” From rotary phone (our...
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An ode to bad beers
The bar’s shipment of PBR had not arrived, and I really didn’t know what to order. And they didn’t have Coors Original, either. So the top two beers I am most likely to drink were not options.* *I...
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