by Adam | Sunday 31 May 2009
Found this article only mere hours before shuffling off to my big sister's wedding. While greater stability is on the march in Iraq these days, it seems that spurned Iraqi men have resorted to using IEDs [improvisational explosive devices] to...
Click here to continue reading "Love is a Battlefield" »
by Adam | Saturday 30 May 2009
Not that this website has ever actually intended to serve a practical function, but...for my relatives who asked for a copy of my d'var torah from my sister's aufruf today, I offer it here: For those of you who were...
Click here to continue reading "D'var Torah" »
by Adam | Monday 18 May 2009
No more with the twisting hoops and rivulets of 1994/95, repeats of binary refrain: clutch city and the dream shake, the return of the glide and the kiss of death. It's on to what? Baseball or summer knolls, concrete...
Click here to continue reading "basketball season is over" »
by Adam | Tuesday 12 May 2009
It's likely to arouse suspicion when, days before you are set to watch a 74-year-old poet/deity perform in concert on his first tour in fifteen years, ticketmaster sends you an e-mail explaining that there is no opening act and...
Click here to continue reading "Leonard Cohen | Merriweather Post Pavillion" »
by Adam | Tuesday 5 May 2009
Before I alienate anyone whose appreciation for basketball falls somewhere along the line of my interests in professional fishing or a woman's right to choose, I want to give the following videos some context. In the first playoff game between...
Click here to continue reading "Yao in the Tunnel" »
by Adam | Monday 4 May 2009
I got to see all this at Radio City Music Hall and it was for AIDS charity. Here's a clip from the finale. You really must get 1:50 into this video to fully appreciate what happened....
Click here to continue reading "how much better was my sunday night than yours?" »
by Adam | Sunday 3 May 2009
by Adam | Sunday 3 May 2009
For those behind the times...consider yourself lucky. Barack Obama's first 100 days....
Click here to continue reading "Slate is very clever sometimes." »