Ali
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. — Muhammad Ali By Kyle Magin Were Muhammad Ali born 50 years earlier than 1942,...
View ArticleSilicon Valley elite suing Gawker into oblivion yet another sign of...
Corporate frontmen with deeper pockets and more blood lust than the Kremlin oust Gawker’s Nick Denton — the ultimate outsider till the end. By Andrew J. Pridgen Forget for a minute that Gawker CEO and...
View ArticleLike looking back on a failed relationship, the Warriors only have themselves...
Sometimes the hardest thing to admit is that failing has everything to do with you. By Andrew J. Pridgen In the fall of 2000, I went to a Halloween party in North Beach. A couple friends had rented a...
View ArticleI wish I knew how to quit you the internet
I mean, I am gonna quit you. And I will miss you when I need to look up at 2:27 a.m. what happened to Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket in the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) hint: large animal...
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#antigunmemes
If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent this week V-8 slapping yourself in the face as the biggest collective of asshats from your high school/former job/whoever the fuck that is and how do I even...
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We got a lot: 25 incredible things about Point Break on the day of its 25th...
Special thanks to Pt. Break scholar emeritus David W. Briggs for calling this one out this a.m. By Andrew J. Pridgen If you’re expecting a link-bait piece about the amazingness of Keanu and Swayze and...
View ArticleRepublican Convention: Actual overheards from the RNC floor
…As transcribed from actual sentence fragments. By Andrew J. Pridgen “Everyone gather on the floor at approximately 6:45 p.m. we’re going to stage the largest type 2 diabetes flash mob in history!”...
View ArticleMichelle Obama’s embrace of America is exactly what we needed
…Now let’s get back to it. By Andrew J. Pridgen This campaign season has been one of the most debilitating, disheartening and grotesque in American history. Some of the unrest and rhetoric has bubbled...
View ArticleA Trump presidency: The first 100 days
How bad could it be? By Andrew J. Pridgen Day 3: Follow-up son Eric ODs on “a bunch of blow and other stuff” according to the White House press corps. while watching all five seasons of Ally McBeal in...
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Cancel these Olympics! An Oral History of all that is awful with the Games...
Part 2 of 2: Every four years, some city with a bankruptcy wish hosts a Summer Olympics, usually successfully! Every four years, somebody says it’ll fail or won’t be ready in time and should be...
View ArticleRequiem for A-Rod
The sad, quiet end of Alex Rodriguez’s career is his most endearing moment By Andrew J. Pridgen Like most baseball fans who refer to themselves as purists (purists, btw, are people who condemn others...
View ArticleGene Wilder wasn’t funny which is what made him hilarious
Gene Wilder died on Sunday night at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 83. By Andrew J. Pridgen Funny never dies. That’s the first thing that came to my mind when I heard of Gene Wilder’s death on...
View ArticleFifteen years on
I’m drunk and wearing flip-flops on Fifth Avenue. Once you’ve fallen from classical virtue. Won’t have a soul to wake up and hold you. — Rufus Wainwright By Andrew J. Pridgen Paul’s sister was a buyer...
View ArticleFor Tanya
Mother, survivor, teacher, community activist, writer and editor Tanya Canino passed away on Friday, Sept. 9. She was 55. By Andrew J. Pridgen It was no secret that Tanya Canino and I didn’t share the...
View ArticleJose Fernandez is the embodiment of a spirit we seem to have lost
“I think that what makes a player good is not out there on the field, it’s who he is as a person. I know where I came from, and I know what I want.” — Jose Fernandez, age 20 upon receiving 2013...
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The Elephant Bar is where dreams went to die were they to have known they...
RIP Elephant Bar. We will miss that dry heave-inducing Kona Kooler and Chicken Lettuce Wraps combo over a post-work drink lament on a Tuesday. By Andrew J. Pridgen I was fortunate enough to call...
View ArticleI’m with her because she’s with Joe
And that’s all there is. By Andrew J. Pridgen The last time I hung out with Joe, like really hung out, not just at a wedding or in Vegas or on a quick phone call, was when he came and visited me while...
View ArticleHow do we get back up?
Democracy is on the mat. But we need to stand up, if not together than for one another. By Andrew J. Pridgen Like the majority of Americans, today I woke up with the worst hangover of my life. And I...
View ArticleThank You, Secret Trump Supporter
…We never saw you coming. Written by Bridget Clerkin Togetherness. Unity. A shared consensus in faith. These are the final words of advice Barack Obama has used his pulpit to promote, at once a...
View ArticleIt is time to not be nice
The white guy date rapist elite are now in charge and the country is being told to be quiet and roll over and take it…it’ll all be over soon. Nope. By Andrew J. Pridgen A couple days after the election...
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