bill simmons IS bill simmons IN the book of BASKETBALL

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmhb7goxVB1qa9bmvo1_400.png

smh

Looks like einstein

hahahaha they punctuated carles hahahahaha

why did anyone think this was a good idea whyyyyyyy

THEY TYPED "MAIN BRO" ON THE FRONT PAGE

JUST A VERY COOL & EDGY WEBSITE

NOT THAT I DON'T <3 CARLES BUT

okay that carles article really isn't working for me.

just, like, domesticated carles is no carles at all.

yeah this is just... no

carles poems on the playoffs or no carles at all

That Carles article reminds me of Steve Martin when he wants to be a Serious Writer bro.

i will say--they are putting up more stuff per day than i have time for, and i love to kill time at work.

o what did they do to my carles

http://s0.2mdn.net/3234998/Klondike-Logo-Grantland.png

its like a fucking geocities site

wheres the counter in the footer http://www.d-s-t.com.au/_vti_bin/fpcount.exe/?Page=data/outsourced/Dual_PassiveRadaiator/index.htm|Image=4

he went to college and came back with all these crazy ideas in his head

xpost

I want a hit counter but also midi music playing while I read

I liked the Carles article. It's fun to see him try to class it up slightly.

id be funny if carles slowly morphed into a 'serious writer' w/a 'real career'

guys this website sux stop liking it :(((

lol

yeah i don't really get the fascination. bunch of shitty writers congealing around bill simmons of all people, whoop-tee-doo.

well a bunch of shitty writers and carles.

I like a lot of the writers I guess.

i like carles and molly lambert and sometimes simmons on the nba and prob some of the other writers not totally sure whos who, but mostly i think were approaching this from an 'amateur media criticism and rubbernecking' pov

i get what you're saying there but i think mostly it's like the last thing i want from simmons et al is a reason for them to take themselves really seriously, and this site seems to indulge in that and oh man, no thanks on that.

just write about the nba, bill! i'll take a thousand terrible gm summits to whatever this endeavor is.

it def has the potential to be horribly awful!

i mean there is no way in hell im reading dave eggers on wrigley field or two separate articles on some defunct sports newspaper

i will however agree check out the piece on baldwins twitter :/

oh christ of course eggers is writing for them i mean duh of course

theyre puttying out a quarterly journal w/mcsweeneys lmao

i mean there is no way in hell im reading dave eggers on wrigley field

oh man i thought this was a joke but no

hahahaha they punctuated carles hahahahaha

why did anyone think this was a good idea whyyyyyyy

― J0rdan S., Friday, June 10, 2011 3:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

have you looked at HRO lately? he's punctuating himself

Thought Pierce's article on the National was pretty interesting, maybe only because I have vague memories of reading my dad's copy every day when it was out.

heh, i think deadspin is just gonna make scocca their full-time grantland assassin

http://deadspin.com/5811438/

grantland's footnotes are killing me. i don't know how these articles look on a regular computer, but on my iPhone and iPad you can't hit the "back" button and go to the original spot in the article you were just at. nope, it takes you all the way to the top of the page and you have to scroll all the way down to where you were reading. and you have to do that over and over again. what a piece of shit website.

Rock VORP
By Chuck Klosterman
How important is Albert Hammond Jr. to the Strokes? Grantland does the math.

the day we all feared

lolll

baaaaaarf

shit that looks like an Onion article but isn't

it really is awful

omg

By Chuck Klosterman

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmhb7goxVB1qa9bmvo1_400.png

a ronald thomas clontle reference!

god that is just the worst article written by the worst person with the worst taste

http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/intel/08/03/07_chuckklosterman_lgl.jpg

"I give props to my ninjas and kudos to my serfs."

i can't stand klosterman but actually sort of enjoyed his first couple grantland things....was giving me hope...that hope has been cruelly snatched away.

people who listen strictly to rock music should not write about music

it's the vh1-ification of music

unless you're writing about metal

i've never knowingly read him before thank god...he is an astonishingly bad writer - maybe it's my age and i've read way too much writing like this from my peers, this terrible semi-ironic style where every other word is some sort of terrible in-joke or reference, like they're trying desperately, pathetically hard for a laugh - simmons obviously is on this spectrum but at his best he's smart enough and funny enough to the point where the signal drowns out the noise

i mean it's a difficult balance to pull off - for every chuck klosterman there's a peak-era bill simmons, or a gabe from videogum (i don't check this site anymore unless my little brother makes me read something but even he grates on me now a little too)

this is such a shit idea for an article & he's not even remotely close to being an interesting enough writer for it not to be one of the most boring things i've tried to read in a long ass time

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6625899/three-man-weave

this was cool tho. maybe he should stick to reporting because the one thing he is not is witty, tho he really thinks he is.