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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Soccermetrics: Let the Data … Squeak?
{My opening salvo drew what is–for me–a much, much wider audience than almost anything else I’ve written. So that’s great, but it also ups the pressure for this second post. We’ll see if I’m up to it. I am trying … Continue reading
Posted in Football/Soccer
Tagged Bill James, Dave Smith, Honus Wagner, Juan Mata, Marouane Fellaini, Soccermetrics, Tom Ruane
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Reading Well: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven is delightful and complicated and a well-needed antidote to the brutal banality of much post-apocalyptic fiction. Emily St. John Mandel has posited a world where a horrifically virulent disease has wiped out something like 499 of every 500 people. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Writing
Tagged Emily St. John Mandel, Reading Well, Station Eleven
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@The Movies with PopPop: The Lone Ranger (What?)
You may not believe this, but I’m recommending you see The Lone Ranger, a 2013 release, with Johnny Depp as in incredible Tonto. When it was first released, I had a very negative reaction to what I understood about it. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged @TheMovies, Django Unchained, Johnny Depp, Mel Brooks, The Lone Ranger
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Soccermetrics: An Opening Salvo
{This is the first in what I think will be occasional discussions of trying to analyze soccer. There’s a lot here, and a lot churning in my head about it, but this piece tries to lay out some of the … Continue reading
Posted in Football/Soccer
Tagged Bill James, César Azpilicueta, David Silva, Frank White, Juan Mata, Lionel Messi, Romelu Lukaku, Soccermetrics, Willie Randolph
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@The Movies with PopPop: Winter Sleep
Winter Sleep is a first rate 2014 Turkish film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, (also directed 2011’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia which I remember seeing and enjoying), loosely adapted from the Chekhov short story The Wife. The film … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged @TheMovies, Anton Chekov, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, The Wife, Turkey, Winter Sleep
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