February 2012
3 posts
Things Cheaper than FanGraphs+ →
Ferret baseball hats and Queer Eye for the Red Sox, y’all. Get ‘em while they last!
I’ve completely fallen off here and I apologize. I AM going to start posting again because I feel that I’m losing touch with internet-reality… It’s just that I’ve been really busy filling my cabinets in Whiterun with wheels of cheese. I love you all.
January 2012
11 posts
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Old Time Family Baseball: Read This Comic: The Ken... →
Mike FTW. Amazing!
oldtimefamilybaseball:
From the same company that released the amazing Bo Jackson comic that we looked at during the blogathon, I had high hopes for this one. It didn’t disappoint.
Starting with Jr. following his father to the Cincinnati clubhouse as a kid, we meet Pete Rose’s kid who, when paired with his…
es me and you: Esme's Summer Songs →
esmeandyou:
Pretty sure this is from 2008. I have heard a lot of “summer” themed mixes in my life and this one has been my favorite since the moment I received it. Esme embodied summertime better than anyone. <3, Summer Anne.
1. Justin Timberlake, Summer Love
2. The Undertones, Here Comes The Summer
3….
For Esme Bee
In the early morning hours of the first day of the year, Esme was killed. It’s so hard to imagine seeing this tiny beautiful woman for the first time and wanting to do anything other than hug her forever. If I try to fit the way it happened into my brain, it just stutters and stops, refusing to move forward.
I found out when I was at work, standing in the server station with a diet coke...
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I found a small audience for the things that I love to do — writing and drawing. I moved in with my boyfriend and my little apartment feels more like a home every day. I listened pretty much exclusively to R&B made 50 years ago and Kanye West. Animal Planet had a whole show on sloths. Today, I am sick and so we saw “Young Adult” and bought a new router and now we’re...
December 2011
22 posts
Today in Summer Anne
1. Mario Mendoza Hit Four Home Runs on Notgraphs.
In which I risk my rep by not being funny at all.
2. Your New Old Favorite Christmas Party Songs on The Hairpin.
In which the phrase “de-sweatering” is evoked.
WatchIrwin is a relaxation expert.
By and by, my answer to that question...
is undoubtedly Cheers — the less popular response among other people my age, I discovered. I think Seinfeld is brilliant humor-wise, but it’s missing the feelings part of the equation, which I’ve discovered I need in a TV show (see also: my disinterest in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia).
The creator of my current favorite sitcom (Michael Schur of Parks and Rec,...
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My Favorite Things Written For The Internets, 2011
Taste Has Never Met Shame: I Love You, Conor Oberst! by Ben Dolnick
“And yet: there’s no musician I love more “A Line Allows Progress…” is the kind of song that Macaulay Culkin might sing if The Good Son were ever turned into a Broadway musical, but that part at 1:05 when his voice wobbles on “stumble ‘round the neighborhood…” has been, on dozens of cold afternoons when...
Female Pop Stars, Baseballed →
I wrote this thing for Notgraphs about Britney, Beyoncé, and the rest of the gang.
It’s like the scouts who recruited her just forgot to ask whether she could dance before signing her to a fat contract. It’d be nice if she could go to an American League team and just stop trying to perform altogether, but there has been a stubborn insistence that such talents can be “learned.” Luckily for her...
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Hit Points 001! →
The debut of my sports editorial comic for The Classical. Yay!
Hot Rookies, '89-'90, A-G →
I, uh, curated this for Notgraphs today. Milt Cuyler is not strictly equal to Thom Yorke.
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November 2011
14 posts
Dessertsgiving
I made:
French toast with caramel sauce and bourbon infused whipped cream
Mini lemon cheesecakes with candied lemon peel
A buttermilk pecan pie
A pumpkin pie
Apple hand pies with cheddar grated into the pastry
Homemade butter pecan ice cream
Most thankful for the fifteen-pound cone-headed beast purring on my chest right now.
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Take Me Out To The Holodeck →
Just in case you missed it, I wrote 3000 words on one episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine because I am insane.
'Luck Big Factor In World Series' →
An article by today’s hall of famer that ran in the 1919 NYTimes.
Roberto Clemente on Every Hall of Famer →
Today was already a good day because I got to draw my favorite baseball player.
Titles for my future books
What We Talk About When We Talk About Wolf Parade
Too Many Colors Just Makes Brown
Useless Social Media Sites For Dummies
Captain Picard and the Death Penalty: A Study
How To Spend 100 Hours on a Mix Tape You’re Not Planning to Give to the Intended Recipient
SchlitterBahn-Voyage and it’s sequel, Let’s Get Schlitty
BASEBALL IS PRETTY
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy...
The last couple days...
I have been working Fun Fun Fun Fest at the backstage bar. This means: dirt in my mouth, a whole lot of looking sideways at Ryan Gosling, dirt in my eyes, highfiving friends, listening to bogus explanations for why I should bend the rules, dirt all over my shoes, explaining that drink tickets aren’t good for baby arm sized Tecates, and thinking that going out after work sounds good until...