It’s been less than a year, but what happened next is already the stuff of lore. “You have to understand,” noted foosball aficionado George F. Will told me recently over a steaming mug of chai caramel latte at McDonald’s. “Of the three major American sports, one, snooker, is primary mental, and another, lawn bowls, is primarily physical. In either, it’s possible to come back from a losing position simply by applying a quality the game typically neglects. The reason foosball is beloved by so many writers is that it’s mental and physical. There’s a classic link between table soccer and the American ideals of pragmatism and self-reliance. On the mean sticks, as Grantland Rice famously called them, mere survival takes everything a man has. Which is simply a long-winded way of saying that you don’t come back from match point often. Not against an SEC school.”
Time Square, 1958, by Pete Turner
Illustration by Luciano Lozano
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Adam Harvey’s recitation of a passage from Finnegans Wake is delightful — but also a reminder of how profoundly textual and typographical Joyce’s last masterpiece is. To listen is to have one’s experience of the Wake enriched in so many ways — and, oddly, impoverished in others. This curious animation-with-subtitles of Joyce’s own reading of a section gives us a sense of the complications.
Merce Cunningham [at Black Mountain College], 1952, photo by Robert Rauschenberg (via MONDOBLOGO: the menfolk of black mountain college)
WORK + STUDY, September 1945: “A two-sided graphic depiction of the farming program at Black Mountain College” [See inside.]
Hiroshi Yoshida: Kasuga sandô (Way to the Kasuga Shrine), 1938. Via John Resig’s ukiyo-e.org.
The photo that spawned a dumb tumblelog. But still my favorite Morrissey picture.
Close-up of typography by Phil Baines, via Eye magazine’s photo stream