Kevin Love: The New Big Fundamental

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Jeffrey Pillow| Leave a comment

When Kevin Love declared for the NBA Draft in April 2008, I shook my head. Like Tyler Hansbrough, who was dominating college basketball at the time, I thought of Love as only a college player. He didn’t have what it would take to muster a valid career in the NBA. He would average 10 and 5 for a few years, find himself caught in the middle of a packaged three team deal, then slink to the end of the bench on a non-contender and disappear, never to be seen or heard from again. I was wrong…

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David Robinson Spotted at 3:23

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Jeffrey Pillow| 1 Comment


Former San Antonio Spurs great David Robinson has been spotted getting his dance on (3:23). The retro 80s box top cannot be mistaken for anyone else’s but The Admiral’s. Robinson finished his career with averages of 21.1 ppg, 3.1 bpg, and 11.0 rpg. Accolades include:

  • 1986-87 Naismith Men’s College Player of the Year
  • 1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship
  • 1989-90 NBA Rookie of the Year
  • 1991-92 NBA Defensive Player of the Year
  • The Hakeem Olajuwon 1994-95 NBA MVP

 

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In Search of the Man Chair; or, Was that Billy Corgan?

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Jeffrey Pillow| Leave a comment

THE VOICE WAS UNMISTAKABLE. Sharp and high-pitched as it pushed its way from the ceiling down to the floor. I listened more attentively trying to peg the voice. Then it hit me.

“Is that that Billy Corgan?” I asked my wife.  We were walking into a popular clothing store. Continue reading →

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President Obama Channels His Inner Al Green

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Jeffrey Pillow| Leave a comment

While Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich were crowing about in South Carolina, President Obama unleashed a little soul

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Shit Nobody Says

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Jeffrey Pillow| Leave a comment

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Good Books

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Jeffrey Pillow| Leave a comment

2012 Reading List
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr (NF)
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (NF)

2011 Reading List
Borowski, Tadeusz – This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentleman (SS)
Boyle, TC – My Pain is Worse Than Your Pain (SS)
Cheever, John – Reunion (SS)
DeLillo, Don – Baader-Meinhof (SS)
DeLillo, Don – Mao II (F)
DeLillo, Don – White Noise (F)
Downey, Peter – So You’re Going to be a Dad (NF) Continue reading →

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The Lady Next Door

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Jeffrey Pillow| Leave a comment

THE LADY NEXT DOOR was a thin figure slightly gaunt in stature and form from the years to which her body had accumulated. Her height was nothing profound through the eyes of a small child—the pinnacle to her highest point no greater than 5’4” tall. This comparison may be slightly off for many years have passed since young eyes stared upward to gaze upon the lady next door. Thus, the only contrast to which my childish eyes can relate lay in my great grandfather, Charlie Marion, a man of Native American descent who stood at 6’7” with legs that stretched for miles and miles as if trying to touch eternity with the tip of his boot. Continue reading →

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Rabbit, Run

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Jeffrey Pillow| 2 Comments

John Updike’s novel Rabbit, Run (1960) was written, according to the author, then 28, as a response to Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, “depict[ing] what happens when a young American family man goes on the road . . . [it is] the people left behind [who] get hurt.”

There, behind the Brewer, Pennsylvania ice plant, a backboard and hoop have been nailed to a telephone pole. A group of young boys gather, a game of basketball having sprouted from the cracks of the concrete slab like bracts of green grass and yellow weeds too long festering. Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom stands there watching the children play, a cigarette dangling from his lip. Though he is not, he cannot help but wonder if the boys infer him a deviant of some sort, a sexual pervert ogling at them in their common game. Continue reading →

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Goodbye, Joomla!

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Jeffrey Pillow| Leave a comment

Perhaps you have noticed that this website has changed — again; well, you would not be amiss. For various reasons, I have jumped platforms three different times this year (from an out of the box web design kit to a blogging website to a full-blown CMS, and now to a hybrid of the two), but this will be last stop. The look of this site may change in the coming weeks while I tinker; however, you won’t see a complete metamorphosis like has been the case twice already this year. So get comfortable, kick your feet up, and get ready to read. Now that I’m on WordPress I plan to do less code fiddling and more actual writing and posting on a timely, consistent basis — something my site has been sorely lacking for quite some time.

(I’ll go into specifics in this post later. For now, it’s serving as a placeholder until the new site gets underway.)

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