Tag: featured
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City Club of Portland’s Friday Forum asks “Are Big-Time College Sports Worth It?”
Are big-time college sports worth it? Depends? Unless you got $95 million to throw around. And then definitely.
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Newsletter: Nostalgia’s a hell of a drug
An excerpt from this week’s newsletter (subscribe) on college football, loving uncles and warm memories: “What I wasn’t expecting was that it would make me homesick. But it did. It happened when he talked about saving his money to go into Moe’s Sports Shopand buy Michigan gear. His childhood was set in the same world […]
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“You give them the best, and the world takes care of the rest” (Or: Thanks again)
Happy New Year, friends. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love a good sunset, and if I had to pick one day from 2014 to take with me into the new year, it’d be a perfect evening at the beach with a bonfire, and great friends and family. If I had to take two days, […]
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Office hours: Come get books signed, hang out
See that guy right there? That’s the fantastic Redray Frazier. Fantastic singer. Fantastic writer. Above all, fantastic human. And I say that not just because he sent me that photo via text from the coast just before Thanksgiving. He’d be all those things even if he hadn’t bought a copy of the book. Go check […]
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The Grinch 2.0
So the grumpy green guy comes down from on high, tries to steal every last piece of Christmas, has a heart-enlarging change of heart, returns all the trappings and trimmings and gets invited to dinner by very people he robbed? I have never – not for one second – believed the Whos were actually cool […]
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Just to buy you some shoes …
I saw a local media outlet promoting a reporter whose job it is today to help the dear readers sort out the Black Friday chaos–as if Americans needed help buying stuff. It’s just about all we do well these days, and of course we’ve fetishized it and commoditized the oddest hours of the day. It’s […]
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Speaking Freely with Sheila Hamilton on KINK FM
It was a strange and fun thing to hear–myself sounding not completely stupid on the radio, a lead-in to “Trapped.” It was nice to hear “Trapped.”
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One day in the Pacific during WWII
There’s an old photo album tucked away in a box in my parents’ basement. Before last summer, when I dug it out on a trip home, I’d seen it once before. My grandfather had shown it to me one day when I was working on a college history project. I’d never known my grandpa to be […]
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One night at the Euphoria (1975)
It was freezing for Gainesville. On TV, there was a full-on freak out over frost. I zipped up my jacket and went in search of a library which, all jock factory jokes aside, is a very nice library. Libraries, actually. The George A. Smathers Libraries. And within them is the The Department of Special & Area Studies […]
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My Little Brony
Excerpted from last week’s Ryan White & Associates newsletter. Give or take, it goes out every week. The associates (there are no associates) are playing catch up after a fantastic Sunday night. To sign up for the newsletter, click. I’m Shining Armor. Sometimes the kiddo is Cadance. Other times she’s Princess Celestia, or Twilight Sparkle. But […]
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