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LINKS: Some Links

If you only knew how many times I’ve intended to post this links round-up and gotten distracted! It is twice! Twice I have meant to do so! Then time went on, and I didn’t post them, and everything was and is chaos. You know! You know how it is. So now here it is, a month since my last links round-up, and I have a crazy number of links, but that’s just how we’re going to have to live our lives now. Like if I told you how many times I have eaten popcorn for dinner in the last month,…

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The Future of Football: A Links Round-Up

IT IS FRIDAY. Every week is a thousand years long, and I have a weird SF video thing to share with you first: What will football look like in the future (the far, far future)? SB Nation has a go at figuring it out. Following the death of Otto Wambier, journalist and Korea expert Suki Kim argues that tourism to North Korea serves no legitimate purpose. Some people get very mad when JK Rowling says stuff about Harry Potter. My pal Ben Lindbergh argues at The Ringer that there’s no point being mad about it. This movie review is magical.…

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Demand the Hurston-Hughes Road Trip Movie We All Deserve: A Links Round-Up

Happy Friday, everyone! How to cull your books: The Awl guide. Let me tell you my method, team. Take all the books. Line them up on the floor, right to left, by how much you love them. Then draw a line somewhere in the middle of that long line of books and cull everything to the left of your line. Boom. Done. More on fan entitlement (and a bit of side-eye for Steven Moffat, which I am never not here for) from The Mary Sue. I’m really digging Maddie Myers’s work on The Mary Sue these days, y’all! Go follow…

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Reading the End Bookcast, Ep.62 – The Only Rule Is It Has to Work

It’s baseball season! And we’re celebrating by welcoming our friend Ben Lindbergh to the podcast to talk about his new book (coauthored with Sam Miller), The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team. You can listen to the podcast in the embedded player below or download the file directly to take with you on the go! Episode 62 Listen to Ben and Sam’s interview with Stompers alum Santos Saldovar on their podcast Effectively Wild. This is Lil Sebastian West. I’m calling him that because he lives in the western part of…

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