Thursday YouTube Sesh
I’ve told this story before, but I’m going to tell it one more time. I can still remember the first time I heard about YouTube. It was 2006 — it must have been late January — and I was a freshman in...
View ArticleThe story of Self
LAWRENCE | The story begins here, on Naismith Drive on a bitterly cold December night. Start here, on the sidewalk, with a college freshman decked out in a blue T-shirt. Can you see him? He’s walking...
View ArticleGoing to Kansas City…
So here it is, the first week of March, the temperature has climbed into the 50s, the sun is shining, joggers have hit the pavement in T-shirts and shorts, and Kansas City… my hometown… is coming...
View ArticleDancing in the dark
Editor’s note: It does feel like we’ve been pretty heavy on the college basketball lately. Then again, it’s March. So without further adu… The story starts under the night sky. You leave work late on a...
View Article25.
Here is a story. A few months back, a few weeks before my 25th birthday, I went to go see the Arcade Fire at Starlight Theater. The opening band went on at 7:30. We got their late. I had to finish up...
View ArticleDeShawn Stevenson was (sort of) KU’s first Andrew Wiggins
I wonder if Andrew Wiggins will be as good for KU as I hoped DeShawn Stevenson would be. That sentence should not make any sense to sane individuals, even sane individuals who followed Kansas...
View ArticleSo exactly which KU football game is Clark Kent watching in Man of Steel?
I saw “Man of Steel” last night. It was an OK movie by regular standards. By “holy shit they mention Kansas like 13 times” standards, it was spectacular. As many people have noted since Friday, Clark...
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