this is one of the best non-specialist pieces abt stan lee i've ever read:
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7906504/the-surprisingly-complicated-legacy-marvel-comics-legend-stan-lee
― pat rice memorial barbecue (Ward Fowler), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
the Greg Oden piece is really good and IMO exactly the sort of thing this site *should* be doing
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like this site, even though I find Simmons really annoying, unless he is talking about any team in the NBA except the Celtics.
Charles Pierce is excellent.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
imo the site has like a 40/60 hit/miss ratio which really isn't all that bad. i do think they've assembled a pretty good stable of writers. the pop culture stuff seems to be kinda bland but it's not offensive which is probably half the battle.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
They are at least trying to be relatively intelligent. Most of ESPN content, on all of its platforms, is written/produced by morons, for morons, so to see at least an attempt at being smart is somewhat refreshing.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's certainly better than it was! the character pieces are definitely good, especially the Amarillo Slim one
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
i really wish this wasn't the kind of thing molly lambert wrote for grantland:
http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/59116/tabloids
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 October 2012 21:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
What is an example of something she has written that isn't a complete waste of time.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 October 2012 21:34 (7 months ago) Permalink
i like her stuff from thisrecording.com:
http://thisrecording.com/today/tag/molly-lambert
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 October 2012 21:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
would much rather read about sweet celeb gossip than some stupid bullshit about telephone poles
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
i find the celeb gossip stuff really boring and i don't even get that she's doing anything interesting w/ it? idk, celeb gossip is maybe a cultural blind spot for me and maybe there are grantland readers that are like, "thank god molly lambert is finally breaking down gossip in a compelling + vital way, this was much more important than when she was writing critical theory about gender identity." seems like a waste to me.
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
mordy totally otm grantland wastes the great molly lambert :(
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 01:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
i like gossip a lot but i don't get that feature
all the hyperlinks in her thisrecording pieces drive me up the wall, because im incapable of preventing myself from hovering each one and evaluating if its worth opening in a new tab. i hate it!!!
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 5 October 2012 02:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
haha. i still read grantland, i like that there's a writer powerful and popular enough that a mega corporation would give him an entire website and staff just to keep him happy. as far as simmons toys go it's no 30 for 30 but i do appreciate that it does have some interest in longform stuff, that it's clearly guided by someone who's interested in some idea of 'good writing' as opposed to standard seo stuff. nobody w/ any familiarity w/ simmons can be surprised by the gap between it's sports coverage vs it's pop culture coverage - model for sports coverage is the national and golden age si, model for pop coverage is vulture. he's a guy who's seen almost famous a million times (and will let you know) but has little to no interest in actually reading lester bangs. feel like stuff like the lambert tabloid thing is simmons pandering to some idea of what he imagines his wife wants to read or providing cover for his sorta odd interest in stuff like reality tv, celeb gossip, etc.
― balls, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
yeah that feels about right
― call all destroyer, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
grantland is a blackhole
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:33 (7 months ago) Permalink
at the beginning of grantland she wrote more sustained celeb gossip type pieces, like a "normal" version of her stuff for thisrecording. i remember liking the one about jennifer aniston. i just don't get the almost-copying-pages-of-us-weekly-verbatim new-style lambert columns. they're unreadable!
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
yah they're pretty useless
― call all destroyer, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
she doesnt tweet v much anymore either
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:38 (7 months ago) Permalink
:(
i miss you, molly!
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:40 (7 months ago) Permalink
maybe she's working on a book? i hope so!
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:41 (7 months ago) Permalink
i would even read a whole book about goddamn mad men that she's so obsessed with.
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
i would read that book
― call all destroyer, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
they have both a good baseball writer (Jonah Keri) and a good football one (Bill Barnwell), plus every once in a while there's a neat podcast (like the Obama one), it's not exactly a great website but I kinda dig it now
― frogbs, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
okay they got Norm MacDonald writing for them now, I'm officially a fan
We were trying to come up with New Year’s resolutions. Adam, sober now for over a year but nonetheless still somewhat interesting, said, “Hey, do New Year’s resolutions always have to be good for you?” The thought had never occurred to me. It’d be a helluva lot easier to stick with a New Year's resolution if your resolution was to become a big fat guy, right?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:42 (4 months ago) Permalink
The physical Grantland books themselves are beautiful.
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:46 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/66990/jenna-maroney-an-appreciation
― Mordy, Thursday, 31 January 2013 19:58 (3 months ago) Permalink