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Author Archives: fromabrooklynbasement
My Completely Uninformative, Nonsensical World Cup Knockout Round Preview
I don’t know anything about soccer, but I freakin’ love the World Cup. The games are exciting, with thrilling shifts in momentum (see: USA-Portugal), and the fans at the stadiums and the players on the fields both act completely insane … Continue reading
The Best Show on Television
As anyone who follows me on social media knows, I’m pretty obsessed with Game of Thrones. Since I’ve never written about the show on this blog, and since its epic fourth season just ended, I figured now’s the time. I … Continue reading
An Artist I Love: Hurray for the Riff Raff
Meet Alynda Lee Segarra: Segarra is a 26-year-old Puerto Rican girl who was born and raised in the Bronx. At the age of 17, though, she skipped out on the Big Apple and spent some time riding trains around the … Continue reading
Dubs 2013-2014 Season (and Mark Jackson) Postmortem
Here we are, a few days after the Dubs’ season sadly ended after a hard-fought Game 7 loss to the L.A. Clippers. Last year, after the Spurs ended Steph Curry & Co.’s Cinderella playoff run, I wrote a series of … Continue reading
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May 6
On May 6, 2011, I was in the Intensive Care Unit at Stanford Hospital when Lara Borowski died. She was surrounded by friends. Tom Petty was playing on the radio. I drove back to my Mom’s house, about an hour … Continue reading
NBA Playoffs Round One Review
Holy shit, you guys. I mean, seriously, the last two weeks have basically just melted my brain with the awesomeness that has been the 2014 NBA Playoffs. We’ve had back-and-forth games, buzzer-beating shots, a racist owner getting booted out of … Continue reading
2014 NBA Playoff Preview
It is sometimes said that April is the cruelest month, but the guy who coined that phrase obviously wasn’t a sports fan. The fourth month of the year is one of my favorites, because it brings an awesome confluence in … Continue reading
My Off the Cuff, Completely Uninformed MLB 2014 Season Preview
BASEBALL IS BACK!!! SPRING IS FINALLY HERE!!! Well, that last part might be a bit of an exaggeration, given that it was still in the 30s and snowing last week in NYC (God, this winter has been awful). But Opening … Continue reading
SXSW: Echoes of Attias
South by Southwest made national headlines last week, but not because of the unveiling of a new tech gadget or the sudden rise to fame of an indie band. Rather, SXSW became the backdrop for tragedy, as 21-year-old Rashad Charjuan … Continue reading
The Best of From a Brooklyn Basement
Today marks the one year anniversary of my first post on From a Brooklyn Basement. I’m not writing as much as I was at this site’s storied conception, but I’m still weirdly proud of the content I’ve produced in the … Continue reading
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