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Trombone Champ Is a Perfect Game

newsletters.theatlantic.com

It’s late in the evening, and I am watching along on my computer as a jovial-looking cartoon man named Beezerly lives out many peoples’ worst nightmare, confidently honking for a crowd on a brass inst

2 years ago

Plan A | By Shaquem Griffin

theplayerstribune.com

Shaquem Griffin Aug 24, 2022 So, I’m at a brunch at this fancy hotel in Los Angeles during Super Bowl week having a conversation with Roger Goodell, and that’s where I have to stop the story before I

2 years ago

The bleak spectacle of the Amber Heard-Johnny Depp trial

readthepresentage.com

In a first for The Present Age, today’s edition will be a guest post. Michael Hobbes co-hosts Maintenance Phase , a podcast debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams, and nonsensic

2 years ago

Nicolas Cage Can Explain It All

gq.com

Fifteen minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, into a tranquil gated community, up a red-brick driveway, past the palm trees that touch the Mojave Desert sky, through the veil that separates the astral pla

2 years ago

With LeBron James Jr. Nearly Grown, Could Dad’s Preposterous NBA Dream Become Reality?

theringer.com

Getty Images/Ringer illustration It’s the time of the year when grainy videos of teenagers playing basketball creep across the Twitter feeds of basketball fans, like young hooping Sasquatches. And one

2 years ago

Nathan Fielder Is Out of His Mind (and Inside Yours)

vulture.com

Photo: Zachary Scott In 2009, when the comedian Nathan Fielder first moved to L.A., he learned to tell his managers not to send him to meetings. Why bother? If the point was to charm people into givin

2 years ago

I Tried 21 Flavors of Mountain Dew For Some Reason.

everywhereist.com

Explaining why I embarked on a quest to consume as many different flavors of Mountain Dew as possible is not an easy task. Why am I voluntarily drinking a beverage whose ad campaigns seem to vaguely s

2 years ago

Elon’s Out

bloomberg.com

Programming note: Ugh, here we are again, huh? Oh Elon I think it is helpful to start with the big picture. Elon Musk is the richest person in the world, and, like many other rich people, he has some

2 years ago

Hit or Myst?

Cyan’s struggle to make the sequel; the inside story of RIVEN By Jon Carroll, WIRED Magazine, September 1997 On my last evening in Spokane, after I had wandered Riven’s caves and forests, after I had turned a dozen animated valves and seen a dozen Mysterious thrones and eaten of the five-lobed…

2 years ago

Tom Hanks Explains It All

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Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times There are some artists, and Tom Hanks is one, who go beyond mere popularity and instead come to embody some part of our shared American story. Ever since the ac

2 years ago

How OXO Conquered the American Kitchen

slate.com

f Of all the things that surprised me at OXO headquarters, the Tiffany box had to be at the top of the list. The kitchenware company’s head engineer, Mack Mor, had dug through the archives to find som

2 years ago

Rays’ Brett Phillips wants to remind MLB that baseball is fun

si.com

The Rays have won more than any other team in the American League over the last three seasons. But in the event that they do find themselves losing—if they find

2 years ago

Is Tom Cruise good at running? A super-scientific exploration

espn.com

IN 2018 , TOM CRUISE finally joined Instagram, and fans sure felt the need for speed: He picked up 550,000 followers in less than an hour. Now he's up to 6.5 million followers, and they're greeted by

2 years ago

NBA playoffs 2022: Why the Celtics-Heat series is so ugly -- and so good

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If I am being honest with myself, I probably do not love beautiful basketball as much as I've convinced myself I do over the past handful of my adult years. Of course, what registers as beautiful is s

2 years ago

Pebble founder: it’s your "last chance" to make a small Android phone happen

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Eric Migicovsky’s dream: an iPhone Mini but with Android. Image: Eric Migicovsky Eric Migicovsky, who founded and helmed the Pebble smartwatch company and who’s working on a chat app that will bring i

2 years ago

The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin

nytimes.com

Nearly 14 years after his death, his provocative humor has been embraced by people across the political spectrum. What happens when comedy outlasts the era it was made for? Send any friend a story As

2 years ago

Why Celebs Risk It All Eating Spicy Wings on the ‘Hot Ones’ Talk Show

eater.com

A ccording According to Kevin Hart, “your clothes are a clear virsitation of who you are.” That’s the closest I could translate from his interview on First We Feast’s Hot Ones in 2016, after host Sean

2 years ago

On the Internet, We’re Always Famous

newyorker.com

The fennec fox is the smallest fox on earth and cute as a button. It has mischievous dark eyes, a small black nose, and impish six-inch ears—each several times larger than its head. The fennec is nati

2 years ago

Stephan Jenkins Is Not Here to Talk About the Past

theringer.com

I I met Stephan Jenkins at a chocolateria. Not the Willy Wonka kind, or even the kind that smells like candy at all. It was like a gift shop attached to a conference room, or the informational parts o

2 years ago

The 8-year process behind Playdate’s glorious crank

polygon.com

Image: Panic S ince Since the introduction of portable gaming, each new handheld has been designed to stand out from the crowd — which has often meant more power, but also unique features that some mi

2 years ago

Ben McKenzie Would Like a Word With the Crypto Bros

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The actor, best known for his starring role in “The O.C.,” has become an outspoken critic of a volatile market driven by speculation. Who’s listening? Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have

2 years ago

Chuck Klosterman Lived Through This

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The Nineties: A Book , by Chuck Klosterman, is out now. Chuck Klosterman, center. Photo-Illustration: Max-o-matic; Photos by Alamy, Shutterstock and Getty Images This article was featured in One Great

2 years ago

The complicated case of Threes, 2048, and the giants that ripped everyone off in the end

theverge.com

G abriele Gabriele Cirulli was 19 years old when he made 2048 . At the time, in early 2014, he didn’t realize two things: first, that something as simple as a web game could go so intensely viral for

2 years ago

Johnny Knoxville on the Past, Present, and Future of 'Jackass'

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2 years ago

The Scam My Fellow Celebrities Should Stop Promoting

slate.com

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by André François McKenzie/Unsplash, Executium/Unsplash, Lars Niki/Getty Images for WSJ. Magazine Innovators Awards, James Gourley/Getty Images, and Mike Ehrmann/Ge

2 years ago

In Times of Trouble, We Turn to Johnny Knoxville Getting Gored by a Bull

theringer.com

Paramount Pictures/Ringer illustration Jackass Forever opens with a set piece featuring familiar faces, explosions, a snapping turtle, Johnny Knoxville

2 years ago

Jackass Forever: ★★★★

rogerebert.com

Reviews February 02, 2022 Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch Yes, really: four stars for "Jackass Forever," a film in which people are blasted to

2 years ago

Why ‘Jackass’ Is Forever

theringer.com

O f Of all the ways they put their penises in danger, the swarm of bees was the worst. While shooting a Jackass Forever stunt, a butt-naked Stephen “Steve-O” Glover hung a tiny box holding a hive’s qu

2 years ago

The Tao of Wee Man

nytimes.com

Jason Acuña. Credit... Chris Buck for The New York Times The Great Read His world was radically altered by “Jackass.” But now, Jason Acuña has harnessed his fame to live the life of his dreams. Jason

2 years ago

The Sublime Beauty of My Friend Bob Saget’s Filthy Comedy

nytimes.com

Guest Essay The Sublime Beauty of My Friend Bob Saget’s Filthy Comedy Jan. 15, 2022, 11:00 a.m. ET Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift…

2 years ago

What I'll Remember About Ben Roethlisberger

defector.com

I knew exactly what I was getting on Sunday morning. I woke up, made myself breakfast, drank a glass of water, and settled in on my couch for hours of football

2 years ago

Johnny Knoxville’s ‘Jackass’ Growing Pains

variety.com

As the star of “ Jackass ,” the MTV series born in 2000 that turned into a blockbuster movie franchise, Johnny Knoxville has badly injured every part of his

2 years ago

A Trucker Stuck for 14-Plus Hours on a Virginia Highway Explains What It’s Like—and How She’s Peeing

slate.com

Share Comment On Monday, there were enough snowstorm-related accidents to fully block traffic on I-95 in Virginia just south of Washington, stranding hundreds of drivers in below-freezing temperatures

2 years ago

This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished.

inputmag.com

Paul the Ghost floats across the office to his colleague. “hey rachel,” he says. “i, um… i died about an hour ago.” Traffic accident. Why the sheet? “well, i don’t have to, but i wanted to look ghostl

2 years ago

John Madden Was America’s Greatest Football Teacher

theringer.com

Getty Images/AP/Ringer illustration One of the coolest things about John Madden is that he was an academic. It was a brief run, but still. In 1979, after Madden quit as head coach of the Oakland Raide

2 years ago

Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.

nytimes.com

Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old creator of the Birds Aren't Real movement, with his van in Fayetteville, Ark. Credit... Rana Young for The New York Times The Great Read Peter McIndoe, the 23-year-old c

3 years ago

What It's Like to Be the Lone Caretaker of an Island in San Francisco Bay

atlasobscura.com

And yet it's only half a mile from the mainland. Britta Shoot Matt Allen is sitting on the dock of the bay with his three-year-old pit bull, Honey, by his side, his fishing line bobbing in the cold, g

3 years ago

The Genius Behind the Weirdest Show on TV

nytimes.com

Credit... Illustration by Nicolás Romero Escalada In the second season of “How To With John Wilson,” the documentary filmmaker shows off his penchant for mutating the mundane into the vivid and extrao

3 years ago

Well I Guess This Is Growing Up

gq.com

It was another perfect spa-blue morning in Beverly Hills when Mark Hoppus, a pop-punk legend, accidentally told the world that he had cancer. This was back in

3 years ago

Notes on Web3

society.robinsloan.com

From: Robin Sloan To: The Media Lab Sent: November 2021 Kvindedansen i Megara, 1888-1889, Niels Skovgaard It’s possible you have, in recent months, seen people writing with excitement (or curiosi

3 years ago

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