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• Osvaldo’s Silent Dada

  

  Some performers, like Ibrahimovic, are not ensemble players—you train the spotlight on them and hope for the best. No one who knows the 26-year-old... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2012 CULTURE

• The Self-Seer: Gaizka Mendieta (Fleeting Comets #7)

  

  Like in the classic horror tale written by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), which used the ancient motif of the... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2012 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Only the Band Plays On

  

  There are enough Swiftian touches in David Pizarro to show his hatred of stupidity, greed, hypocrisy, and the rising jingoism of the day. Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2012 SOCCER, SPORTS

• The Ghost Dance of Peter Crouch

  

  As a striker, the mighty and lanky Peter Crouch could very well be cast as the Irish maid in a BBC promenade series. His address would sound like West... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2012 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Edy Reja’s 4231 Machinarium

  

  For Riccardo C. because to be eucalypts / they have to shower sometimes in Hell. —Les Murray To explain why Edoardo Reja—who was born in 1945 to Slovenian... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2012 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Escape into the Hyperborean

  

  (Illustration: Untitled, Diana Balmori, 2010)The luminous whitescape of Greenland, as Isabel Hilton tells it, is otherworldy in the sense that its endless... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Portrait of Cissé in Three Colors, All Black

  

  1 The Cissé connection. The first curve in the car race at Pau, the first ever to be called Grand Prix, is the station hairpin. After that, the road climbs on... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Benchwarmers

  

  The illustration for this piece is an adaptation from Bestiare of Canadian illustrator Stéphane Poulin. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• What It Means To Be Frimpong?

  

  The first plate is an elaboration from Wayne Pate’s amazing workshop. More on Arsenal and Wenger: The Lemur’s Tale. Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Business and Pleasure: On Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Sports Photography’

  

  The dazzling but relatively straightforward speed by which the American Grossstadt, New York City, was beginning to call for an image of agglomeration other tha... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2011 CULTURE

• Limelight: Diary of an American Soccer Night

  

  Blurred Red Car (Photograph: David Guidas)I.I made a point of watching the conclusion of the Eastern and the Western M.L.S. conferences in two obscure diners... Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• 8 Traitors. Luciano Moggi’s Plunge into Chaos

  

  There he was, Silvio Berlusconi in his velvet chair at the Lower Chamber, never some symbol or trope or a stand-in for any lofty ideal other than himself: a... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2011 CULTURE, SOCCER, SPORTS

• Footballing Out-of-Towners (A Dutch Reverie)

  

  The story of the interchange of talent and expertise in botany between England and the Dutch Republic—I am referring to the trifling, staggered folly of bulb... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Dog Fights

  

  A meditation on football and racism (with Rabelais, Newton, and Homer).Read More Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Milan’s Pitch-Pine Cone Shapes

  

  {[. . .] That hard closed cone, which defied all violent attempts to open it and could only be cut open with a knife, has thus yielded to the gentle persuasion... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2011 SCIENCE

• Fleeting Comets #6: Mario Jardel

  

  Surely his was not a meteoric career, it was certainly impressive considering the consistency of performances over the years, but just as certainly his... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Fleeting Comets #5: Darko Pancev

  

  I am very happy for this transfer. To the Champions League I will return next year, but with Inter. I know that the competition will be ruthless, but that is... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Ibrahimovic’s Crab Walk

  

  {He who enters into the viscera of the earth to see the metals, minerals, stones, and gems; who observes the plants, quadrupeds, and serpents on the surface of... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2011 CULTURE

• Letter to a Jumble of 10,673 Media Bites

  

  My Dear Reader.Idesire to be so honest and just to those who have so enthusiastically and earnestly welcomed me, that I burned the last post on Mario Balotelli ... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS

• Juventus Sonata: First Movement. A Balkan Wagtail (Scherzo)

  

  Franciszek Starowieyski, Zbuntorkiestra, 1960I am all things strange and bold. —Benjamin Britten, The Turn of the ScrewThe wintry Moscow days of Milos... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2011 SOCCER, SPORTS