personal bests
Because I am my own best hypeball, here are the best things written in this space last year, some of them merely longish or long by Tumblr standards:
In more or less chronological order:
The Awful Grace (on the death of a nemesis)
An End To Breeches; Why The Literalist Casting Of Skins Is The Right Kind Of Extremism (on Skins US)
The Apple Of Rock (on Radiohead)
Lou Gehrig’s Disease: A Correction (on the fatal mythology of luck)
Who Am I To Disagree (on rhetoric and the nineties)
We All Have Bloody Thoughts (on Tyler, the Creator)
Too Much Of A Real Thing, or Google Plus Is Off Today (on Facebook)
What Do People Do All Day? (on male hipster malaise)
You Can Yell Bravo If You Want (on The Secret Lives Of Dentists)
Progress Strength & Renewal (on American Pie)
Bring My Baby Back Home (on Drive)
Single Mountain (on Penn State)
