Game 3: Columbia vs. Princeton
The Game, in One Word: Fumbled. The Game, in Four Words: Columbia 6, Princeton 38. Was It At Least A Nice Day For A Football Game? Emphatically, no. The heavy rain started well before kickoff and...
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The Game, in One Word: Preposterous. The Game, in Four Words: Columbia 27, Cornell 30. Was It At Least A Good Day For A Football Game? “Football weather” is really an ambiguous term, if you think about...
View ArticleThe music in Age Of Ultron is really bad
It’s rare to enjoy a movie, actively, for almost the duration of its running time, and yet walk out of the theater feeling a little cold. But that’s how I felt about Avengers: Age of Ultron, the most...
View ArticleHire me, Jeffrey Lurie
Pictured: me, age 10, drafting some passing plays. There is, truthfully, only one job I’ve ever wanted — to be the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. When I was six or seven, the Eagles were very...
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The Columbia football team should wear Columbia blue uniforms
As any longtime reader will know, this blog is pretty much exclusively limited to topics that are so myopic that they are only interesting to me. This particular post is probably the ultimate example...
View ArticleVery brief reviews of the books I read at the beach
I recently returned from Rehoboth Beach, where I spent five days lounging with my family and reading books. Here are my brief reviews of the eight books I read. Note: Reviews are based on the grading...
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on Dunkirk, a masterpiece
I saw Dunkirk last night, in IMAX — the way you, too, should see it. Because it is one of the best movies I have ever seen, and it deserves to be seen at the proper scale. Christopher Nolan’s greatest...
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The Columbia football team should wear Columbia blue uniforms, 2017 edition
One of the primary perks of obtaining a bachelor’s degree is the right to complain wildly about the decisions, big or small, that your alma mater makes long after you’ve graduated. With great power, as...
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The Columbia football team should wear Columbia blue uniforms, 2018 edition
I almost didn’t have it in me this year. After three full seasons without the Columbia football team wearing Columbia blue uniforms — the color named after the school — and me writing two separate...
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Let’s talk about “Spectre”
Daniel Craig, seen here in something much better. Over the weekend I found myself squeezed into the middle seat of an airplane watching 2015’s Spectre — the fourth of five James Bond films starring...
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