I don't blog much anymore. (Twitter's where the fun stuff is: @Nmamatas.) When I do need to blog, or share a link to publications, I probably will use this space anyway. Come and get me, Putin!

I spent the last week in Florida, and it was all right. In Tampa, I visited with my uncle, who watches MSNBC on his TV while double-checking with CNN on his phone, and my poor grandmother who in her dementia knows enough to talk about how she needs to die very soon. On the plus side, I did eat at the very nice Ulele restaurant and have a drink in ( Read more... )

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Remember that Saint Patrick was not Irish; he was Anglo-Roman, who brought enlightenment to the island and defeated the pagan darkness at great risk to himself. He also chose the shamrock as a way to represent the Holy Trinity to the unlettered. This is why he is venerated among the Orthodox as well as the Romans.


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Did you know that Legacy.com commissions original feature essays? I didn't either, till last week, when they commissioned me to discuss the deaths of George "The Animal" Steele, Ivan Koloff, and Chavo Guerrero Sr.

Rest In Peace, Wrestlers.

I Am Providence is now a two-narrator audiobook on Audible.com. So if you like books but dislike reading, get to clicking.

Statement: After careful consideration @simonschuster and its @threshold_books have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos
- (((Adam Rothberg))) (@AdamRothberg) February 20, 2017

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Well, today I am forty-five. Clearly I should have thought of a better name for my blog back when I was twenty-nine.

As it is my birthday, let me encourage you, as I do annually, to buy yourself a a present.

I first saw professional wrestling thanks to a religious obligation-Good Friday's midnight liturgy. To stay up for the trip to church, my sister and I had the TV on and clicked around the channels till we found wrestling, and watched it. This was before Hulkamania, before wrestling was a morning show in the New York market. It was pretty compelling ( Read more... )