It's long (and wrong), but this is the original piece. I suppose it's worth reading to see what "out of touch" looks like in print:   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=4

I don't even know where to begin with this thing. The idea the piece is exploring is the differences in behavorial patterns of 20- ( Read more... )

Rarely has any book spoken to me (and about me) like The Game, written by Ken Dryden after his final season with the Montreal Canadiens in 1978-79. For one thing, the first time I read it in high school, it illustrated that an athlete is also allowed to have a brain. It kind of allowed me to reconcile those two parts of my personality. Also, it was ( Read more... )

This will appear in my usual rant space in the October newsletter for my company.

…And Furthermore

by Sean Swift

How much is an hour of your time worth? When you consider the vast multitude of useful and/or enjoyable things that can be accomplished in just 60 minutes, one has to think that there is a significant dollar value that can be associated ( Read more... )

Why can’t we just admit it?

Why can’t we just admit it?

We won’t give pause until the blood is flowing…

Neither the brave nor the bold,

Nor brightest of stories told,

We won’t give pause until the blood is flowing…

I need to watch things die from a good safe distance,

Vicariously I live while the whole world dies…

You all feel the same so why can’t we ( Read more... )

So, I saw the Wrestler today. I haven't seen the inside of a movie theater in over a year (didn't even make it out to see The Dark Knight), but on a whim I decided to head out and see if the Oscar hype about Mickey Rourke was true or not. As it turns out, the flick was great in a Saving Private Ryan kind of way: I'm very happy I've seen it, but I  ( Read more... )

I don't use Myspace that much, but I was so bored at work today that I was finally forced to go there too and see if anything interesting was up. On my brother's page, he had blogged about fearing about the world he has brought his daughter into, and was really down on humanity as a whole. Since I just spent 1500 words in my rebuttal to him (shit, ( Read more... )

I have played soccer off and on for about 10 years. In that span, it pretty much breaks down like this ( Read more... )

And Furthermore…

by Sean Swift

When I was a wee lad, I was a huge fan of Denis Leary’s stand-up comedy albums. You know, before I discovered that he was a thief and poser of the highest order (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, go home and Youtube Bill Hicks…you’ll thank me for it later). When ranting about something mundane, he once ( Read more... )

I wanted to give it a day or two before I put my thoughts down on (virtual) paper, but not so long that I forget what the moment was really like. So yeah, three guesses what this is about, and the first two don't count.

Anyway, I spent Tuesday night with friends at one of their apartments in Chelsea. Oddly enough, that was the venue since it's our ( Read more... )

We're going to win ( Read more... )