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I just got my copy of Galley Friend and Superstar Foodie Sherri Eisenberg's book about Brooklyn restaurants, The Food Lovers' Guide to Brooklyn.If you live in (or visit) New York a lot, I highly...
View ArticleFrom the Vault
Was talking with someone about the (criminally underrated) Minority Report the other day and immediately thought of Peter Stormare's crazy, off-kilter performance in it, which is pleasantly unsettles...
View ArticleTom Bissell
Elsewhere I have a review of Tom Bissell's very interesting new book Extra Lives. Extra Lives is something new, I think: a travel book about video games. If you're interested in games qua games, I...
View ArticleThe Ritual Attack of the Soccer Scolds
It's happening again.The most puzzling part of anti-American soccer obsession is that it's not like Americans don't like the game of soccer. We all play it at the youth level and--for the most...
View ArticleGeeks Gone Wild
Galley Reader M.C. sends along this fantastic story about how the Rube Goldberg contraption in the instant-classic OK Go video was built. Turns out, it was partly some NASA scientists geeking out in...
View ArticleJoin me, and together we will . . .
And you think I take Star Wars too seriously? Galley Friend T.J. sends notice that a team of French psychiatrists have released a study concluding that Darth Vader was mentally ill.their report, which...
View Article"Nothing that a good set of leggings can't cover."
Arrested Development is back in the saddle, thanks to Orbit.It's not selling out if it's funny.
View ArticleChris Nolan Speaks
AICN has the transcript. Some interesting stuff. Most tantalizing insight:He doesn’t have email or cell phone. “It gives me a little more time to think.”Makes you love him all the more. Also, he has...
View ArticleTop Gun
Caught a large chunk of Top Gun in Glorious High-Definition over the weekend, and a few thoughts occur to me:* You could argue that the movie would not have succeeded without the brilliant second-unit...
View ArticleManute Bol, RIP
I note with sadness the passing of Manute Bol, one of the great characters of the NBA. More importantly, he was the sport's most courageous humanitarian. His life serves as something of an indictment...
View ArticleContra Walter Russell Mead
WRM has a typically incisive post on Brazil's retreat from its Iranian indiscretion. However, he includes this strange note:[t]he light and casual way in which the world’s pundits (many of them utterly...
View ArticleIn-Game Alert: Isner vs. Mahut
If you're able, go find some Wimbledon coverage. Jon Isner is all knotted up at 43-43 against Nicolas Mahut in the fifth.You read that right.Match time approaching 8 hours. Isner has 85 aces and is 73...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Soccer Scold
Pursuant to this post from last week, Santino sends along the following to posts from Nation writer Dave Zirin. I'll let Santino do the talking:Zirin on June 14: Conservatives should love soccer but...
View ArticleRon Fournier Is Andrew Sullivan's New Boss--Updated
Galley Friend P.G. sends word that Fournier has been named "editor in chief" of the National Journal Group. Who knows what that title implies in terms of org chart authority.What we do know is that two...
View ArticleDavid Weigel, Journolist, and the Washington Post
There's so much to say, but let's start with this little dare from Weigel in his self-congratulatory, "I shall return" essay for Big Government:No serious journalist has defended the leak of my private...
View ArticleA Live-Action Star Blazers
Fire up the wave-motion cannon, Wildstar.And . . . I'm spent.
View ArticleIn Praise of Axis & Allies
I'd give just about anything to sit across the board from Niall Ferguson.
View ArticleSoccer and Diversity
Another reason to object to World Cup soccer: Its appalling lack of diversity!Steve Sailer has a fantastic post about the SWPL-ness of the World Cup:At the highest levels of global soccer, about 75...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: World's Worst Colleague?
He's giving Andrew Sullivan a run for his money with this blog entry today:But there’s something else in David’s column, which I see a lot: the argument that because a lot of important people believe...
View ArticleThe Bron-Bron Train Derails?
Czabe has some thoughts on LeBron to Miami:In a span of 27 eyeball glazing minutes on ESPN, LeBron James morphed himself from potentially "The Greatest Player of All Time" into a jezebel Scottie...
View ArticlePSA
Galley Slaves is going to be closed for a couple days while I work out some changes. By next week there should be some site news. In the meantime, I've shut down comment threads to keep the spam out.
View ArticleJonathanLast.com
So that's the big announcement. After years of mild frustration with Blogger I've finally moved over to a better platform. You can continue to follow Galley Slaves at JonathanLast.com.See you there.
View ArticleTotally Fucked
Yup. In case you've wandered over here from the new site--or rather, the site formerly known as JonathanLast.com--basically what happened is this: A Kurdish hacker hit the site and a combination of...
View ArticleNon-Triumphant Return
The new site, JonathanLast.com, is slowly coming back online. It's now safe to return.
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