This tendency probably occurs more in baseball than in other sports, because baseball supports a stats-obsessed fanbase who participate in levels of erudition and nerdery that only the most astute academics can compete with. This statistical chicanery produces a sporting culture where the highest level of achievement is admission into the sacred “Hall of Fame,” where a player’s whole statistical body of work is canonized and stamped with a mark of superiority.
It’s hard not to note that this kind of attraction would never have taken root in the surfing-stubborn nineties, where conformity dictated that everyone at the beach rode three-finned shortboards.
The La Jolla Children’s Pool is a coastal landmark that in many ways is representative of other San Diego landmarks: it’s located on a gorgeously scenic spot and as such it generates more controversy than most other public policy issues in San Diego.
In short, a small group of radio station owners now controls most of the radio stations in the country, and they use computers to send out the playlist to every station in their group. This results in the peculiar scenario that anyone who’s driven across the country has discovered: each city has all the same radio stations as every other city and their playlists are incredibly predictable.
The xbox, in fact, is really a quite capable computer, designed and built to do a few dull and repetitive tasks: 1) respond to button-mashing, 2) display eye-catching (often busty) graphics.
Because that’s about how I feel whenever the song comes on, in part as a surprised reaction to an image of myself in a truck in the heartland as I’m driving my corn crop to the elevator that swells up in my patriotic soul. What I really want is to mellow on this feeling for [...]