Q: I know that one of your favorite player was Kobe and now like Kobe you have a lot of haters...do you take it personally and that gives you an extra motivation?
Shai: "Nah not really. Just because it's me is no different. I expect that from them and I honestly like it. It makes the game more interesting and more fun and more exciting"
At 11.40pm last night, a monster positive lightning bolt lit up the sky just East of Norman, Oklahoma.
And I was in Texas with my camera pointed above that storm, and captured the giant red sprite it produced.
Never in my life did I think I’d tune into an ESPN pod & it’d be one big propaganda show for OKC as a city.
They literally shouted out everything from Cattleman’s to Lake Hefner to the new arena to the future tallest building in America AND the Olympics.
This is a fever dream.
unfortunately for my husband, I am once again firing up the janky cold war-era claymation christmas specials that shaped my psyche
my children will inherit this burden
guy who reads 1984 and thinks that the vague and contradictory information given to the reader about the world outside oceania is just the author being an idiot
Maybe I'm just being reactionary but I feel like it used to be more of a common aspiration to be "well read." In the sense of having read a good amount of the commonly agreed "canon" that everyone should be familiar with, in addition to pursuing your private reading interests
I once heard a Tocqueville scholar characterize 19th c. westward expansion as a kind of "pressure release valve" for unsettled young men with democratic souls. With the closing of the west, we have lost this outlet. This is where Greenland comes in. In this essay, I will...