Category: Reading

  • Bill Wyman on the Keith Richards Myth

    If you’re like me, you can’t wait to read Kei­th Richards’ mem­oir, Life. But before you do, be sure to read Bill Wyman’s fas­ci­nat­ing “Please Allow Me to Cor­rect a Few Things” at Slate first. Stop in at his blog, Hitsville, too.

  • Calling All Word Nerds

    Yes­ter­day I start­ed my new job as Com­cast’s chief blog­ger. Now I’ve had some fun with social media so far in my career and have had a real­ly great time get­ting peo­ple excit­ed about bring­ing the A’s back to Philadel­phia, but I have very lit­tle in the way of what you may call deep back­ground…

  • Tipping My Hat to Zoo With Roy

    This may be the most elo­quent, poignant piece I’ve read about Roy Hal­la­day’s no hit­ter any­where. You’re a class act, ZWR,you mag­nif­i­cent donkey. My take? What’s left to be said? He was exact­ly who we expect­ed him to be all sea­son long. He put the team on his back dur­ing the reg­u­lar sea­son and he…

  • My Problem with RSS

    I found myself shak­ing my head in agree­ment quite often with this Techcrunch post about the “death of RSS.” If RSS does­n’t make it, I’ll lay the blame at Google’s dig­i­tal feet. They came so close to so many good, plat­form-wor­thy ideas with Google Read­er. Shared items with com­ments? Tum­blr, right? Yeah, that’s what I thought,…

  • The Return of Rockism?

    Pitch­fork may have done a good job of includ­ing dance music in their top 200 tracks of the 1990s, but a cer­tain some­one was con­spic­u­ous­ly absent. Have you ever heard of a record­ing artist named Garth Brooks? How about Sha­nia Twain? Must I even men­tion Brit­ney Spears? I real­ly loved their picks, but they struck…