Happy weekend, dear readers! Have some Unrequired Reading links! Go ahead! I don’t mind!
Baseball is the only sport I enjoy on the radio.
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I forget: is Rick Jones still alive?
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The WSJ profiles the people who draw those great hedcuts in the WSJ! (and, of course, there’s a pic of an artist drawing herself as a hedcut, to get even more meta)
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Um, wow.
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A comic-book editor explains writing to Stephen King.
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I really can’t add anything to the headline “India’s red hot chili grenade“.
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I did not get to see any of this Los Angeles during my trip there last November.
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I haven’t read this Frank Deford piece in the new SI yet, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to be the best sportswriting I’ve read this year.
Have you seen the English mini-series Dead Set? Great zombie fare on a Big Brother set.