The Runner
Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on January 6, 2009 – 12:02 AM4 Comments
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“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
From Norman Mailer to Wendy Pepper — everything on film, TV, books, music, and snacks (shut up, raisins), plus the Girls’ Bike Club.
Helping public schools, winning prizes, sending a crazy lady in a tomato costume out in public.
Monologues, travelogues, fiction, and fart humor. And hens. Don’t forget the hens.
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I’ve (re-)discovered a few things over the course of the recent Days Of Rage. Some of them are great!
I found it while researching a murder (…this is a sentence I have more frequent use for than most), the true story of a neighborhood legend from my childhood. I grew up in a leafy, …
“Accepting my ticket to an Ivy League college made me a willing participant in the greater fraud of a meritocracy in which some were ordained more equal than others.” Fucker, please. If you don’t like your money & privilege, you don’t have to keep it – share it with someone who will be grateful for it. This may be the flip side of Jack & the can of tomatoes, this “I sneer at my advantages” crap.
You nailed it, Sars. GO SARS!!!
Nice piece over at NPR. And you’re right, as usual.
I have to wonder why he did it twice if it was such an agony for him the first time.
Look, I liked Princeton, but the institution does have serious issues, and Samuels is welcome — nay, encouraged — to talk shit about the place. I might even read it; he’s got chops. I just didn’t care about it in this context, and I couldn’t understand why his editor didn’t yank really hard on the reins once he started galloping into what was obviously Projectionville.
Apropos of very little, but I’m totally with you on Ann Rule; I loved her coverage of the Diane Downs case but repeatedly cringed at her “wordsmithing.”