Quotations 
Teixeira’s cocoon
“Like every election, it’s the economy…In tough times, disposable income may not be there.” -New York Yankees star Mark Teixeira, who signed a $180 million, eight-year contract in the offseason. Though you might not think it by the way teams like the New York Yankees are spending money, the No. 1 concern of Major League […]
Average Andy
It seems likely that Richter’s averageness is the font of both his artistic successes and his commercial failures. Too square to be hip, too well-kempt for slob comedy, and too principled to pander, Richter exudes a normalness that renders him a misfit. But, though as wholesome as Garrison Keillor on the surface, he is as […]
6-year-old cell phone hater
“Get off your f**kin’ cell phone…Get off your f**king cell phone NOW!!!!” -A 6-year-old girl I encountered walking and talking on my cell phone on Bardstown Road in Louisville yesterday.
A blog story, I guess
It was a newspaper story that … it wasn’t a newspaper, I’m sorry. It was a blog story that appeared, I guess, in something I probably can’t get a hold of, which is Yahoo! And very simply my comments are what I said. -Jim Calhoun, responding to a six-month investigation by two award-winning sportswriters into […]
Mass media’s end
Mass media reaches its natural end-state when we broadcast our lives rather than live them. –Nicholas Carr
Traffic fix
People see traffic congestion as a “problem” that needs to get “fixed” – but fixed is defined in the narrowest of terms. In other words, for too many people, the only way congestion can be appropriately corrected is if everyone can still live in the suburbs, can still commute 20 miles each way to work, […]
SXSW feed lot
I hadn’t given much thought to SXSW before arriving, and didn’t have many expectations. My first experience of the place was waiting in line for ‘registration’ with hundreds, maybe thousands of other musicians. It was the most bedraggled, poverty stricken, drugged out, greasy bunch of insecure losers I have ever stood in a line with, […]
Missing Cinderella
So was it just bad luck that the little guys fell shy of knocking off Goliath this year? Or is there something different about this year’s tournament that made an upset less likely? Watching the Siena and East Tennessee games, it was hard not to wonder whether the endlessly hyped mythology of the Cinderella has […]