Head Games takes a look at the contradictions in our love for sports, and the contradictions therein.
Admittedly, when No Impact Man: The Documentary first popped up on Netflix, my first instinct was to watch it with the sole purpose of tearing it apart. Why? I’m not really sure. Perhaps I wanted to expose Colin Beaven as an advantageous entrepreneur whose desire to become an activist for a year better served his need to […]
Mar16
Confession of a Superhero – I’d Be Green Lantern to Make My Love of Rings More Socially Acceptable
Working for many years as a waiter and bartend in high-end Manhattan restaurants, I found myself wearing standard-issue ties by designers who turned on customers but left me indifferent. The required color schemes and brands sent me to various stores from Calvin Klein to Nautica, searching for the appropriate shade of blue that created an innocuous, harmless […]
Jan09
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters — Perhaps You Could Have This Record for a Few Quarters More
In 1982, a mustachioed, mulletted kid set the high-score record on one of the Golden Age of Arcade Games’ Donkey Kong; in addition, this prestidigitation prodigy also achieved a record high score in Donkey Kong Jr. and was the first player to ever record a perfect game in Pac Man, wherein the player kills all enemies and […]
While the big-bellied graybeards in both major political parities argue over who is more wrong and who is less right, the average American shrugs her shoulders insouciantly. Janey may or may not own a gun, but she is certainly weary of the sniping her elected leaders like to engage in. She is even less interested in what […]