It seems Dennis Lehane is our era’s Raymond Chandler, creating dark, brooding, atmospheric crime dramas. Only instead of the damp glitz of southern California, his working-class Boston — namely Dorchester — is like the Dublin of James Joyce and Jonathan Swift: a maelstrom of the poor and the poorer, people scrabbling for power, for dignity, … Read more
Courtesy of Wolves stat guru Paul Swanson, here are the plus/minus total for the Wolves this exhibition season. 2007-08 Minnesota Timberwolves Preseason Plus/Minus Report (Final) Raw Minutes Team Opp Minutes Team Opp Net Player Plus/Minus On Floor Pts/48 Pts/48 On Bench Pts/48 Pts/48 Plus/Minus Telfair, Sebastian +25 74.3 101.4 85.2 319.7 88.4 97.9 +25.6 Ratliff, … Read more
I’m guessing this doesn’t look like your day at work.
The website for Nau, a new-fangled “green” clothing company, is winning all sorts of awards. And some of their practices — such as small-footprint stores and discounts on orders shipped directly from their warehouse — seem right. But can ecologically-aware rhetoric explain the $40 sailor’s cap?
True story. Back in the mid-90’s, my friend M. got married. I didn’t much like the guy — he was shifty and weird — and for his bachelor party, his "friends" took him to a club downtown, where an exotic dancer slid her way across the bar, presented her spangled G-string to accept his $100 … Read more
The balmy weather and the impending denoument of my favorite season sent me up to Ely and then on to the Superior Hiking Trail for a little fresh air the past two days and I thus wasn’t able to make it back for the Wolves-Bucks tilt. Here are my questions and observations simply from gleaning … Read more
Thanks to Jezebel for steering me toward this gem: Wherein Josephine Cox, the 64-year-old British author of Atonement (among other things), wonders whether she harmed a generation of young women by perpetuating the myth of malehood. To which I respond: Hell, yes, you did! Although, for me, my notion of prince charming was shaped more … Read more
It was purely coincidental. I got an e-mail as I was surfing through cable coverage of the California wildfires and caught … Fox News … asking the rhetorical and self-serving question: Might “terrorism” be behind the multiple infernos? They had no evidence of course. No more reason to shout “terrorism!?” than I do for that … Read more
The subhead on this looks like it was written by someone’s 8-year-old. But as someone who was on standby yesterday for something like 95 hours. . . .I couldn’t help but read.