Category Archives: Pop Kultur
Country And Westerns
George Jones was a hard drinking country singer. Don Imus used to use an excerpt from “The King Is Gone (And So Are You)” as bumper music. Last night I broke the seal on a Jim Beam decanter That looks … Continue reading
Filed under Movies, Music, Pop Kultur
The Food Network Network
Bobby Flay liked to play the ponies growing up. When he became successful, he bought his own thoroughbreds. One of them won last year’s Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Fillies race. More Than Real won in an upset by two lengths at … Continue reading
Filed under baseball, beisbol, Pop Kultur, TV, Uncategorized, what the puck?
Gashouse Hillbillies
I did a piece on Joe DiMaggio and Stephen Jay Gould for the Hardball Times annual (which should be out soon.) To give their readers a taste of my stuff I also sent them Gashouse Hillbillies for their website. It … Continue reading
Filed under baseball, basketball, beisbol, Hoops, Movies, Pop Kultur, TV
WSJ: His Life Was Some Serious Books
The Wall Street Journal on Harvey Pekar. Tom Batiuk is from northeastern Ohio. I wonder how much of an influence Pekar was on him. I read “The Quitter” over two nites last week I liked it and am interested in … Continue reading
Filed under Pop Kultur, writing
Tracers: Keith Hernandez Edition
Rob Neyer would do these; even wrote a whole book of them. I was hanging out at BTF last nite (the Factory, not Backyard Tire Fire) and someone mentioned the Second Spitter Seinfeld episode. They said, ” They say the … Continue reading
Filed under baseball, beisbol, Pop Kultur, TV
BTF seeks its revenge
I saw this title and immediately thought of Baseball Think Factory instead of Backyard Tire Fire. My worlds are colliding!
Filed under comic strips, Pop Kultur
Schrodinger’s Funk
Is Funky Winkerbean dead, alive, or somewhere in between?
Filed under comic strips, Pop Kultur
I Propose A New Word
Punice: A play on a name using a stone Age pun a la The Flinstones. I was reading the Whiskeypedia entry for Jabberjaw and that cartoon did the same thing with watery puns like Aqualaska. Never you mind why I … Continue reading
Filed under baseball, beisbol, Pop Kultur, TV
It’s Like Watching A Carwreck
Buzz Bissinger on his membership in the Twitterati.
Filed under Other sports, Pop Kultur
Fire Tom Batiuk
Today’s Crankshaft is funny if taken together with yesterday’s strip. But reading the funnies shouldn’t be this much work. You’re supposed to look at three panels and laugh. It isn’t like this is a graphic novel where you can read … Continue reading
Filed under comic strips, Pop Kultur
