Tom Brady is the human I love the most.
And though I will be sad to see Ray Lewis go,
The Patriots will win, but it will be close.New England’s offense has a lot to boast.
Even with Gronkowski and Woodhead laid low.
But Tom Brady is the human I love most.Joe Flacco might make the Pats D look like toast.
He plays with confidence and he can throw.
The Patriots will win, but it will be close.
Villanelles and football predictions go together surprisingly well.
In the science fiction and fantasy worlds, there are acclaimed and famous and award-winning writers that aren’t really famous in the slightest. (It’s like “famous blogger” or “famous literary critic”; nobody has really heard of those jerks either.) Going deep in the world of SF creates a delightful, soothing feeling in a reading writer; it makes you forget all about what a small group of people think is the “real” world. In the SF world, when they refer to a writer as just “Egan,” they still mean Greg, not Jennifer (or, I suppose, Timothy!).
Each year, there are multiple “Best Of” collections. The Year’s Best Science Fiction, edited by Gardner Dozois, put out its 29th annual this year. The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2012 is the fourth annual. And Year’s Best SF is up to number 17, having started in 1996.
Over the last few years, as an attempt at an education, I have read nearly all of these collections.
Choire Sicha of The Awl’s Year in Reading.
‘From the sidelines’ is a sports term. ‘Cheering from the sidelines’ can be a nice phrase. It means ‘I am rooting you on while watching you play.’ If we are not clothed in rags and eating from dumpsters on Sunday, we will be cheering on New York Marathon runners from the ‘sidelines,’ perhaps as they hop downed power lines along the shore after they cross the Verrazano.
Choire Sicha does a number on a popular phrase.
When I completed The Moviegoer for the first time, I was at a loss to explain the significance of the 242 pages I’d just traversed, but I knew they had been important. I felt the novel working on me in strange ways, like a slow-release drug.
Jim Santel, in “Living out the day: The Moviegoer Turns Fifty” which was selected as one of The Awl’s top 25 long reads of 2011.
Source: themillions.com
