Comments on: Where do we go now? (To your local newsstand.)

by: sonnysiebert

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:38:59 +0000

Maybe Axl Rose is available to play for the Red Sox tonight. Surely he could only be as stupefyingly bad as most of the current players lately and at least it would be entertaining, pretty much in that grotesque, can you believe this is really happening way that the games already are now.

Not sure when I could get to GQ as I just picked up the September edition of Vanity Fair, which I mainly read for Hitchens so I hope he’s in it. Hmmm…oh, yeah, and if there’s anything in it by the writer of this blog, I’ll be sure to take a look at that. [Rarified company, indeed, sharing the pages with Christopher Hitchens, who writes the way I’m sure we all could if we’d only been born British.]

And since another poster made a book recommendation, I’ll add “Dirt” by Sean Doolittle. Just finished it and it is very funny.

by: zoowah

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:20:59 +0000

Dept. of Diversions

Try the short stories of Philip Dick if you’ve never gotten around to them. Ignore the sci fi label (they’re much more than that).

Creepiest/coolest one I’ve found so far: “Service Call”

Another recommendation: “Manhunt” re the 12 day hunt for Lincoln’s assassins. Couldn’t put it down.

by: soxfannyc

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:31:59 +0000

The series vs Seattle was even more depressing than the series vs the Yankees and a week ago I never would have thought that was possible. It was horrible losing five games vs the Yanks, but the Yanks clearly have a better team. The Mariners, on the other hand, are one of the worst teams in baseball and the Sox flat out stunk. Injuries or no injuries, they were AWFUL. It was like watching the Bad News Bears this weekend. I almost feel badly for Francona because the veterans are starting to pack it in and he has no real bench right now but why, oh why, does he continue to let Timlin pitch in key situations? And Timlim’s comments after the game are downright scary. Said Timlin “I threw the ball exceptionally well. I can look at myself in the mirror and know I did exactly what I wanted and I got beat.” If giving up the tying and winning runs on six straight hard hit balls up in the zone is doing what you wanted to do, then I could be pitching relief for the Sox right now. Folks, this season is over. At least the Pats look good so far (even though they dont have a decent player at WR).

by: Mr. Furious

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:46:23 +0000

It's nice to hear that GQ still has that kind of article. I'm a magazine Art Director, and over the years have probably accumulated just as many recycling piles as you... 7-10 years ago, Esquire and GQ were routinely putting out terrific issues filled with great writing (and design). Now, I cannot handle the Maxim-ization and shallow crap bulging out of those books. There are older issues of Esquire that I've moved multiple times and still cannot bear to throw out. I haven't seen anything like that in a lonnng time.