October 2010
7 posts
The 2010 Atlanta Braves
April 2, 2010 Get ready to enjoy seeing exactly how elastic the time-tested “out with the old, in with the new” phrase really is.
LADIES BRACKET
March 26, 2010 Did you forget to fill out a women’s bracket again this year? Do you know anybody who organized an office pool for the ladies’ day-late, many dollars-short version of March Madness?
MUCK FICHIGAN
March 26, 2010...
The 2010 Atlanta Braves
Art Department Weekly
Originally published: April 2, 2010
Get ready to enjoy seeing exactly how elastic the time-tested “out with the old, in with the new” phrase really is. The programs sold at Turner Field last season featured a cover story about manager Bobby Cox’s 50 years in baseball, but then he announced that this 2010 campaign as the team’s manager after a half-century in the game will be...
FIRE PROOF
Art Department Weekly
Originally published: March 19, 2010
A poorly-placed, unattended candle claimed the lives of many paperbacks I owned early one morning about two years ago. Some were salvaged (autographed copy of David Sedaris’ “Barrel Fever” … [phew]), but about two dozen had to go into the trash. Many were assigned reading titles from college that I couldn’t really pretend to miss if I...
OSCAR RACE
Art Department Weekly
Originally published: March 5, 2010
One year after Christopher Nolan’s “Dark Knight” shattered box office records only to be snubbed in the Best Picture race, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences expanded the number of nominees to 10. Keeping in mind the last year there were that many nominees was when “Casablanca” took the top prize in 1944, the Academy...
LADIES BRACKET
Art Department Weekly
Originally published: March 26, 2010
Did you forget to fill out a women’s bracket again this year? Do you know anybody who organized an office pool for the ladies’ day-late, many dollars-short version of March Madness? Or perhaps more telling, do the brackets to the right there now make you wish you’d paid closer attention?
The, ahem, “real” version could hardly compare...
MUCK FICHIGAN
Art Department Weekly
Originally published: March 26, 2010
Players come and go every year in college athletics, so I’ve always found it difficult to work up the enthusiasm so many others seem to have for any regular season matchups in any sport. While I understand the friends or family I know that have their alma maters of their own or perhaps their parents that they’ve rooted on for as long as...