I’m not what you’d call a patriot or a nationalist. I’m not proud of most of the things that the US has done in the name of freedom and democracy, especially lately. If I ever do celebrate and sing America, it’s in a very tempered way. I’ll quietly think to myself or remark to friends [...]
When’s the last time you thought something that was over-hyped was actually really good? It happened to me recently. It wasn’t my reaction to the new Starbucks Summer 2006 banana blend frappuccino fiasco (who green-lights this shit?) or Mission Impossible III (yeah, Lisa, wasn’t that unexpectedly fun?) or Band of Horses or Seagrams and Diet [...]
My childhood history with sports was checkered. My dad (who’d been called “Coach” my whole life) would come home, announce he was coaching fourth grade basketball, and suddenly there I was, on a team I hadn’t signed up for, passing a whole season without scoring a single point. One year he announced I’d be playing [...]