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Niners Week Four Awards: The I Am Confused By This Team Edition

Posted on September 29, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

A day later and after having read pretty much every recap on the internet (Note: that second part definitely isn’t true—the internet is big), I still don’t really understand what happened on Sunday. At no point during that game did … Continue reading →

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Niners Week Three Awards: The Our-Team-Might-Not-Be-Good Edition

Posted on September 22, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

Ugh. I don’t even have to say that wasn’t fun, because Jesus, anybody that watched the Niners get outscored 17-0 in the second half (making the aggregate score of our second halves so far this season a fan-fucking-tastic 52-3) knows … Continue reading →

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Niners Week Two Awards: The Shitshow Edition

Posted on September 16, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

That was a lot less fun than Week One. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that the second half of that game was the least fun half of Niners football since the first half of Super Bowl … Continue reading →

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Niners Week One Awards: Las Vegas Edition

Posted on September 9, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

The moment the NFL released its 2014 schedule and I saw that my beloved San Francisco 49ers were opening the season in Dallas against the team I hate most in all of sports, the Cowboys, I knew I was going … Continue reading →

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2014 NFL Season Preview

Posted on September 4, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

I got my Niners preview out of the way on Tuesday, so now, with the Packers and Seabitches set to kick off the season tonight, it’s time to take a look at the rest of the league. Will Seattle repeat? … Continue reading →

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2014 San Francisco 49ers Preview

Posted on September 2, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

Hooooooo boy, here we are. This week I’m drafting fantasy teams, putting together an office suicide pool, and prepping an opening weekend trip to Vegas. So how do we feel about the return of football, Jesse Pinkman? And yet, as … Continue reading →

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On Tom Waits and Robin Williams

Posted on August 12, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

For a while now, I’ve been wanting to write something about the Tom Waits song Come On Up to the House. I dearly love the song, and it has one of the best music videos I’ve ever seen. At first … Continue reading →

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An Album I Love: Tape Deck Heart

Posted on July 28, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

Punk has never really been my thing. And I really can’t stand pop-friendly punk (I distinctly remember back in the ’90s wishing that Blink 182 would die in a fire). Beyond that, it also feels like I shouldn’t like the … Continue reading →

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The Silliest of NBA Silly Seasons

Posted on July 15, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

Generally speaking, you don’t get cell phone reception on subway trains or in stations in New York. One of the exceptions to this rule is on the F line in Brooklyn, where the train comes above ground for two stops … Continue reading →

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A Midseason Bay Area Baseball Review

Posted on July 8, 2014 by fromabrooklynbasement

What with the NBA Playoffs (and Silly Season, which I’ll be writing about soon, I promise) and the advent of this awesome thing called the World Cup, I haven’t gotten around to writing report cards for my beloved Bay Area … Continue reading →

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