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Wednesday, May 21st
Gawker
Hi All,
So I get an email yesterday alerting me to the fact I'd showed up on Gawker. Gawker is this NY-based web-blog covering all sorts of stuff. It's ... I want to say 'tongue-in-cheek', but no, it's probably more snarky. I mean, that's sort of what it's known for. Anyway, so, that steroid piece got reprinted in The Guardian, a UK newspaper, over the weekend and Gawker got hold of it. And they did a post on the fight I had last year where I got pounded a little by Jonathan Ames, and there were lots of pictures, a lot of Fiona Apple, but anyway, I like the site and I read it weekly. I hadn't checked lately then I heard about this and I was so oddly thrilled---it's lame, yes, but I'm lame---that I emailed in a comment. But it was posted under an odd name as I'm not really going to join the site. The commenters are sort of their own cabal. I love the picture of the dog. I stopped reading the comments after I was called "pussy" and "a jackass": unsurprisingly, I was called those quite early in. If I read whatever else was posted by the commenters I'd probably go down to Fish Creek, the wildlife preserve running through the city, tie succulent beefsteaks to my shanks and lie in the bushes waiting for the wolves. Still, an odd thrill seeing it show up there:
http://gawker.com/391801/method-writer-takes-steroids-for-authenticity
All best, Craig.
Craig Davidson on 05.21.08 @ 06:10 PM EST [link]
Thursday, May 15th
Books Read Lately
Hi All,
So I've been reading a lot, lately. Since I quit the library I no longer have my 'no fines' privileges to wantonly abuse, keeping books forever and so forth, so I have to be more diligent in my reading. I've been reading short story collections, as that's what I myself am working on now, so it seems apt. Here are a couple I've really dug.
Craig Davidson on 05.15.08 @ 02:07 PM EST [more..]
Tuesday, May 6th
Basketball Jones
Hi All,
So, a month ago I joined this basketball team. I've played ball since I was a kid; my Dad always put nets up in the front of our houses wherever we lived, and the one in Saint Catharines had an adjustable rim so's we could bring it down to eight feet for dunk contests, where even my fat ass could get up and stuff one down the basket's throat. I played in highschool, though not every year: I was cut one year, and another year I was supposed to be cut but the kid who'd beaten me out ended up playing hockey, which led to the fairly embarrassing situation of me having to wear a warmup suit with "LOCKYER"---the kid's name---on the back. Eventually the coach caved and got me one with my own name. I had ample opportunity to wear it, on the bench, during every game. I was fat back then, like I said, so my main talents were setting picks and getting winded. I think my career-high was 4 points. Still, it was a good time. We went to tournaments, where I sat on many well-polished benches. There's a camaraderie to sports---traveling on the same bus, hanging out watching sports-related movies, towel-snapping each other in the locker room ... actually, the whole towel snapping stuff was sort of weird, looking back. And there was always that sonofabitch who pissed in your shampoo bottle. Or maybe that was just my horrid experience.
Craig Davidson on 05.06.08 @ 06:31 PM EST [more..]
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