Author: Alex Irvine
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A Know-Nothing Warns Us About Soccer
If you needed further proof that people can publish columns in leading professional journals on topics about which they know absolutely nothing and against which they display a demonstrable bias: search no more! I give you “How Soccer Is Ruining America: A Jeremiad.” Therein you will find more cultural stereotypes than I would have thought…
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Punk: Made in Detroit
Like every other kind of music. A picture of Death, circa 1973. Love the T-shirt on the left.
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Economist Article on ARGs
Everyone’s probably seen this already, but if you were looking for the exact moment at which you could decide that ARGs have gotten a permanent foothold in the mainstream tech- and culturescape, this is probably it. I haven’t worked on an ARG in a long time. They were fun, and I loved the sense that…
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Roman Joke Book Discovered
Per the Guardian, but I saw it at Bookninja. The funniest thing in the article, actually, is the strenuously overthought commentary by the classics scholar who found the book: But she queried whether we are finding the same things funny as the Romans would have done. Telling a joke to one of her graduate classes,…
Crooked House Fictions 