After a Rain Delay You Can Meet Your Heroes

At the tail end of a weekend of music and debauchery, I made my pilgrimage to Chicago's Wrigley Field. For baseball dilettantes, Wrigley Field, as sports venues go, probably tops the list of the most iconic ballparks in the...

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"Fuck Father's Day"

I take an advanced boxing class at the gym on Sunday mornings when I have the wherewithal (read: gastrointestinal equilibrium) to make it there for the abuse. Picture fifteen gay men, four trophy wives, and me taking marching orders from...

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Colon Cancer Challenge

What compels a man to run 15K (9.3 miles) in the 32-degree starkness of a March Sunday morning? Is it the search for self? The spirit of competition? Love for his colon and others (and their colons too)? Likely...

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Eye of the Heidegger

6.2 miles in 57:41.9 Despite brisk autumnal weather, an early dying iPod, and the sufferings of a 6 A.M. wake-up call, I finished said Turkey Trot in under an hour. This placed me somewhere between old age pensioners, nascently...

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Landscape of Manhood

Me. Pre-Turkey Trot. 6:45 A.M. My mother (who fancies technology as adeptly as the U.S. Department of Defense) actually took this picture in landscape format. This, of course, is perfect because I am myself an entire landscape of manhood,...

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Turkey Trot.

I don't even know what a "Turkey Trot" is, I am leery of things that are one species/synonym away from "Goose Step", but I will be embarking on a 10K journey in Houston, Texas on Thanksgiving morning in the...

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Review of Sorts: Radiohead (In Rainbows)

You must be in a very strange place when you listen to a new Radiohead new album. I mean a very strange place in the physical sense, a locality which is not common to you, not a foreign emotional...

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The Dream Game

Baseball is not what it used to be. While dive bars and stadium stands are still (mostly) full of fans, stalking their teams with the requisite fanaticism, there is a lump in the collective throat of the baseball electorate...

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More Evidence of Greatness

I am the Joakim Noah of NCAA Bracket Selectin' As if I needed any more empirical proof to show my ubiquitous mastery over all things contained within the ambit of humanity, I entered an NCAA Tournament Pool and not...

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Always in Jeopardy

My apologies for my perforce lack of updates; I would cite excuses like I’ve been out of town, hearing back from grad schools, and having my soul bled out by the corporate system, but yeah, okay, so there are...

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The Chariot Castle

For a newcomer, the rook appears like the least formidable piece on the back row; there is the misconception that the order of pieces from center [king through queen through bishop through knight through rook and forward to pawn]...

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The Jesus of Scrabble

I was forwarded the following article by a good friend of mine and I had forgotten about it until I was playing online scrabble at my new job and the person I was in battle with drew reference to...

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It Goes Well with Turkey...

Not sleep or stuffing or even razzleberry dressing...it's TFR LOVE GRAVY... Alright, I give up. Check back on Thursday, I am sans internet until then and "Love Gravy" is the best thing I could come up with to conceal it....

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a brief respite...

See you in October......

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TFR Update

A profound apologies for any recent bad grammar and posting delays. The TFReporter has been overcoming jetlag and intense grief over the passing of the beloved Ann Richards. Check back soon for myriad updates. Hugs, TFR Staff...

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