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- January 2009 Books Read: 5:59am Jan 25
Tommy Tomlinson I have also decided to marry one or all of the Wellesley College Tupelos, sight unseen, based on their version of the Counting Crows’ “Accidentally In Love.” Yes, the Shrek song. Never cared for it. But then the Tupelos get ahold of it and the lead singers make it sexy and the harmonies are flying around in the back an...d I’m bouncing around in the car seat. It’s about 18 million times better than anything the actual Counting Crows have ever done.
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Decades pass, Iron Horse still lives, Monument was set and removed in 1954
Tommy Tomlinson My favorite radio station. I’m scrolling through a playlist right now and there’s Sly Stone, Wilco, David Byrne/Brian Eno, Radiohead, Lucinda Williams — pretty much right in my wheelhouse. What I didn’t know was how they filled airtime on weekend afternoons. What I didn’t know was that I would fall in love with college a cappella music.
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WERS is on Twitter! Follow us to stay up-to-date with upcoming live in-studio performances, events, and contests. [more]
Tommy Tomlinson Went to a seminar on careers in the humanities, and one of the speakers was the great Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins. She talked about how covering sports is really about covering the athletic heart, and how the athletic heart can tell us a lot about ourselves as human beings.
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So Michael Phelps dove headfirst into the bong water. Is anyone really surprised, after all those laps? There has always been something submerged and escapist about the world's greatest swimmer. When presented ...
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tommytomlinson.com is now live. It’s pretty basic stuff right now: Links to a bio, this blog, my Charlotte Observer blog (which I’ll resume when I finish this fellowship), my Observer column page (ditto), plus a few of my favorite stories.
I’ll be adding stuff along and along — some photos, maybe some video, some setlis...ts from concerts I’ve been to over the years. Let me know what you’d like to see, and what you think about the site now — if anything looks weird or doesn’t load right, let me know. Any mistakes are mine. All the good stuff is because of the great and wonderful Margo Posnanski, who designed the site and would love for you to go say hi on her blog.
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I'm a columnist for the Charlotte Observer, currently taking a year off on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Click thenavigation bar above and you'll find some of my stories (from ...
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Yes, I have neglected my blog for awhile because of an ear ache. And then when I finally got better, I spent the weekend line editing the first draft of a fine new sport books about the 75 Cincy Reds. (I’m sure you have all the details already. ...
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“The Wrestler” is a sad, great movie because it feels real. I know wrestling about as well as I know anything and the movie got everything right. Especially the broken-down old wrestler who can’t get through the day without hurting but can’t stay out of the ring. He’d rather die than give it up.
That’s the end of the st...ory for “The Wrestler,” and for wrestling, and even for wrestling fans. We know the whole gruesome thing is not worth loving. But at some point, back before we knew better, we cut ourselves open, and it got in our blood.
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Director Darren Aronofsky presents a powerful portrait of a battered dreamer, who despite himself and the odds stacked against him, lives to be a hero once again in the only place he considers home � inside the ring.
Tommy Tomlinson For a little more Springsteen news, check out my friend Liz Clarke, the biggest Springsteen fan I know — she is not happy about the Boss playing the Super Bowl. Bruce is one of my favorite musicians ever. I’ll be hitting Ticketmaster first thing Monday to get tickets to his show up here in April. But for 12 minutes at ...halftime of the Super Bowl, I’d rather see Gene Simmons spit blood.
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I was in Beijing when I got the e-mail from a friend back in Washington.
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Subhead: Johnny Van Zant: His brother Ronnie and Powell are "catching up on things in heaven."Priority: 1Summary: Billy Powell, a longtime keyboard player for Lynyrd Skynyrd who survived the band's 1977 plane
Atonement — Ian McEwan How Fiction Works — James Wood Taming a Sea-Horse — Robert B. Parker Bloo
Tommy Tomlinson “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” is the best book-review column I’ve ever read. Hornby writes about stuff he likes; if he doesn’t like it, he doesn’t waste your time with it. He doesn’t consider entertaining a dirty word. He freely admits to not having read whole shelves of the classics. And he reminds readers that, if a book... is dense or boring or just not our cup of tea, we have the freedom to close it and move on.
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The best description I know of what it feels like to learn to read comes in Francis Spufford’s brilliant memoir The Child That Books Built:
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