While watching the Patriots lose badly last night I hatched a genius marketing scheme. Last month, we here at fly into the mystery had our most traffic ever. To encourage your obsessive interest in my blog, I am giving away cookies. This is a bit unfair, as Bethany has already won this week’s contest. These [...]
Archive for the ‘football’ Category
How did I miss this?
Posted in football, tagged buddhism on November 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Football and uh, dogfighting
Posted in football on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Malcolm Gladwell breaks it down in the latest New Yorker. Playing football, even on a high school level, leads to measurable brain damage. He makes an extremely uncomfortable comparison between dogs’ desire to please their masters leading them to suicidal behavior in the ring, and football players’ drive to play the game through all injuries [...]
NFL
Posted in football, tagged chiefs, fedex field, redskins on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Salem Willows Amusement Park
Posted in football, tagged dating on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Real John Henry and Michael Vick
Posted in book review, football, tagged Ain't Nothing But a Man, book review, Scott Reynolds Nelson on May 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One in thirty-one adult US citizens is either in prison, parole or on probation. This is absolutely fucking crazy. Some of my colleagues back in Brooklyn are doing amazing work with prisoners, in juvenile detention centers, even doing storytime on Riker’s Island. But, as was pointed out in an excellent training session we had- Everyone [...]