February 2012
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The Promised Pujols Cartoon →
Last month, a friend asked me to draw a cartoon for a St. Louis baseball historical journal that will be published a few times this year. It has been more than a decade since I drew a cartoon for print. I’ve done a few for family as gifts, several for my son, but not one for the public since leaving college (that I can remember). I dusted off the pens and came up with this look at Albert...
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Fact-checker: “This still seems to violate about ten different rules of journalistic integrity.”
Author: “I’m not sure that matters … This is an essay, so journalistic rules don’t belong here.”
— The Lifespan of a Fact, by John D’Agata (author) and Jim Fingal (fact-checker), from page 19.
I’m settling into this book after a day at the ballpark, and these exchanges are...
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'Twas the Night Before Spring Training (or, Why I... →
“The future of books is the future.” →
From wwnorton’s Tumblr. I would argue the opposite is also true.
The books of the future are books.
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The First Burn of Spring Training →
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Bissinger: Are investors out to save newspapers or... →
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“Rabbit. Rabbit. Rabbit.”
– My ninth grade teacher on what to say first thing on the first of every month to make sure the month is a good one. Never hurts to try again.
January 2012
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No Baseballs in the White House →
A brief story about the St. Louis Cardinals’ visit to the White House last week and what the players wouldn’t be autographing after the event because VIPs couldn’t bring them in.
