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Tag Archives: Tom Wolfe
Marlins Stadium Article Mentions 2 Think Good Blog
I could feel that something odd was happening to my blog for the past few days. Sure enough, a review of my site stats confirmed it, readers! The two-day triple-digit deluge of visitors were sent over by a generous mention … Continue reading
Posted in 2TG Favorites, Marlins Ballpark & Finances
Tagged Field of Schemes, Forbes MLB, Tim Elfrink, Tom Wolfe
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Striding Out With A Dionysian Yea-Saying
Over at one of my favorite blogs, Marginal Revolution, they draw a contrast between the strutting of a Red-capped Manakin vs that of Indian and Pakistani border closing displays. Silly walks vs. moon walks. Manakin vs. Manichaeism. Before I laugh … Continue reading
Shudder Island
Spoiler alert – I recommend you watch [and even pay for] the movie Shutter Island, but this blog post will give away parts of the story. I am a fan of Martin Scorsese’s movies. So it has been disconcerting over … Continue reading
1965: Good Ol’ Boys and Tom Wolfe
Esquire recently selected what it considered to be the 7 greatest articles they ever published. One of them was by Tom Wolfe in March 1965. The article was about stock car racing and Junior Johnson. An excerpt: The first lap … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Reading
Tagged Esquire, The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!, Tom Wolfe
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Whose Struggle Are You Getting Involved With?
UPDATED: Please visit the 26th Parallel blog which also had a post on this issue. In addition, Robert provided some very useful links to sites which address the issue of Priestly celibacy. If the answer to the title post is … Continue reading
Carl Hiaasen & The LSD-PL Syndrome
Carl Hiaasen is a great novelist. So sayeth Tom Wolfe, which is good enough for me. Hiaasen is also a long-time South Florida resident who has left of center political views and airs those views as a regular columnist for … Continue reading
When ‘Baaaa Means No’
See this is what Tom Wolfe is talking about when he writes about the need for writers to ‘plunge into the irresistibly lurid carnival of American life today.’ One of Wolfe’s favorite writers, Carl Hiaasen, has some fun in his … Continue reading
John Updike Reporting on Ted Williams as Recommended by the Great Tom Wolfe
John Updike was a great American writer who died very recently. Ted Williams was a great American baseball player who died not so recently. In reading about Updike, I discovered that he had written an essay on Ted Williams last … Continue reading
Tagged John Updike, Ted Williams, Tom Wolfe
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Tom Wolfe on Cuban-Americans in the US
Aside from telling great stories, Tom Wolfe tells those stories through the prism of how he believes people view themselves and their overall place in society, namely their ‘status.’ Wolfe has written often about the influence German sociologist Max Weber … Continue reading
Tom Wolfe in Miami, Cooooññño
Tom Wolfe! The other day it hit me, one of the great American writers ever is in the process of researching and writing a book, Back to Blood, based in our town. The book’s topic is immigration and it’s focus … Continue reading
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Tagged Back to Blood, But Your Soul Just Died, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sorry, Teilhard de Chardin, Tom Wolfe
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