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Stephen Mejias  |  Aug 01, 2007  |  0 comments
When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to become a professional baseball player. I loved playing ball, and all of the adult men in my family seemed to respect it, too. When I wasn't playing ball, I'd be in my room, listening to the radio, and drawing up my own baseball cards. Collecting cards, too, was a wonderful hobby. The photographs on the fronts were nice, but I was more interested in the information on the backs. Even when UpperDeck came out with their glossy, action photos, Topps cards remained, in my mind, the absolute best. Topps cards listed all of the stats for every single season of a ballplayer's career, even going back at times to his minor league years. How can you beat that?
Stephen Mejias  |  Aug 01, 2007  |  0 comments
"Come As You Are" came to an end, and Billy Joel took its place. I lifted myself slowly, studied the radio, and pressed the button marked "Band." Just as ever, like magic, an AM station came through, covered in static and fuzz. It took me only a few moments to find the familiar voice and the catchy jingle, "Let's go Mets! F – A – N!"
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 01, 2007  |  0 comments
That's ECM, in case you didn't know. Geoff Dyer tells us how a label changed the way he listened to music.
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 01, 2007  |  1 comments
Didn't they back up Ziggy Stardust?
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 01, 2007  |  0 comments
Russell Baker's essay in the NYRB is ostensibly a review of two new books bemoaning the current state of journalism. The real pleasure, of course, is reading Russell Baker's take on the subject. Gosh, I miss him.
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 01, 2007  |  0 comments
Nope, not politics—physics.
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 31, 2007  |  0 comments
It's the compound that makes wine smell peppery. One scientist said, "If you can measure something, you can understand its behaviour and how to control it." Hmmm, that sounds oddly familiar.
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 31, 2007  |  0 comments
Cory Doctorow has a new column in The Guardian Unlimited, which in itself is great news. Even better, he hits one out of the park first time out, with a comparison of DRM and ideologically comforting junk science.
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 31, 2007  |  0 comments
Junior (John L. Doughty, Jr.) is a Mississippi Delta cultural anthropologist who documents juke joint culture. That means he gets to hang out in jukes and talk to people (and photograph it all). What a great job.
Corey Greenberg  |  Jul 30, 2007  |  First Published: Jun 01, 1992  |  1 comments
Nirvana: Nevermind
Geffen/Sub Pop DGCD-24425 (CD only). Butch Vig, Nirvana, prods. AAD. TT: 59:22

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