Monday, July 03, 2006
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Sports, music, narratives: Dispatches from the Midwest
Albums on repeat
- Constantines - Kensington Heights
- Best Coast - Crazy For You
- Wild Flag - Wild Flag
- R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
- Paul Simon - Graceland
- Ride - Nowhere
Currently reading
- Graham Greene - The Power And The Glory
- Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood
Read in '11
- Michael Chabon - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
- Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase
- Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Story Of A Part-Time Indian
- Willa Cather - My Antonia
- Chad Harbauch - The Art Of Fielding
- Walker Percy - The Moviegoer
- Tina Fey - Bossypants
- Joe McGinnis - The Miracle of Castel di Sangro
- David Goldblatt - The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
- Greg Kot - Wilco: Learning How To Die
- Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of A Game
- Sarah Vowell - Assassination Vacation
- Grant Wahl - The Beckham Experiment
- Patton Oswalt - Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
- Philip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle
- Robert Palmer - Deep Blues
- Greil Marcus - Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock'n'Roll Music
Read in '10
- Larry Tye - Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
- Sherman Alexie - War Dances
- Vladimir Nabakov - Lolita
- Chuck Klosterman - Downtown Owl
- Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
- Will Leitch - Are We Winning?
- Stefan Fatsis - A Few Seconds of Panic
- Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures With Extremeists
- Thomas Frank - What's the Matter with Kansas?
- Joe Posnanski - The Machine: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
- Greg Kot - Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
- Jon Krakauer - Under the Banner of Heaven
- Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover
- David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
- David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
- Harvey Pekar - The Beats: A Graphic History
- Steve Bloomfield - Africa United: Soccer, Passion, Politics and the World Cup in Africa
- Ron Hansen - Nebraska
- Tom Wolfe - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
- Lester Bangs - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
- The Rules of the Game: The Best Sportswriting from Harpers Magazine
- Sarah Vowell - The Wordy Shipmates
- Seth Davis - When March Went Mad: The Game That Changed College Basketball
- John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
- Chuck Klosterman - Eating the Dinosaur
- Sherman Alexie - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Read in '09
- Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
- Chuck Klosterman - IV
- Michael Chabon - Maps & Legends
- Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried
- Chuck Klosterman - Fargo Rock City
- Bill Buford - Among the Thugs
- Michael Lewis - Moneyball
- Ira Glass - The New Kings of Nonfiction
- Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation
- Bill Bryson - The Mother Tongue
- John Darnielle - Master of Reality
- Carl Wilson - Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste
Jack
- JHitts
- Central Illinois resident, Michigan native. I watch a lot of sports, write a lot of articles, listen to a lot of music and read a lot books. The first two are my job, the last two simply make me a nerd.
5 comments:
Where'd you get this? it seems very...fake.
Woah, Luke, fake? You kidding me? I never woulda guessed...
Sorry, my bad. I didn't mean to comment on the actual realness of the poster, but rather I meant to question the skill with which said fake poster was constructed. Being that the goal of a parody poster is to be real enough to be believed on one level (in order for the viewer to place the object in it's "proper" context (timeframe, genre, etc))
This poster, on the other hand, seems to have been designed so carelessly that something as simple as a font change would have given it that little contextual adherence needed to keep the average layman from staring at it thinking, "What, wait, what?"
I actually asked where you got it because it seemed so shoddily cobbled that I thought you might have made it.
Seeing as I have no skill on Photoshop or any such program whatsoever, no, I did not construct the poster. But at the same time, yes, I can understand how, with a few tweaks, it could look more "authentic" (as much as one of these things can look). Maybe black and white rather than color, a font change, or even one of those effects to make it look older, like crumpling it up and burning off the edges like in 6th grade when people have to do the project where they make a newspaper from like 1776 or something and make it look real.
Regardless, I still thought it was humorous, so quit being an asshole and let me have my fun.
You guys are so boring.
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