#Deadspin

[frozendakeri]

Are we incapable of leaving kids alone and out of politics?

We all know I'm not a Chiefs fan in the slightest, but this is ridiculous. I highly HIGHLY doubt him and his parents said "Yeah let's put on this outfit so we can be racist and ruin our lives later!" 😑😑😑 they fail to show the left side of his face is painted red. They could have had an argument if his entire face was painted black. People have also come forward and said his grandfather is the BUSINESS COMMITTEE MEMBER of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. HELLO????

I sent this article to a good friend of mine who lives on a reservation in Texas. He replied "Why are they so mad? He looks dope!"

Whatever happened to keeping the kids out of "grown folk talk"?

#this is dumb #kansas city chiefs #chiefs kid #deadspin #twitter is outrageous

[mywifeleftme]

222: Metal Urbain // Les hommes mort sont dangereux

Les hommes mort sont dangereux Metal Urbain 1981, Celluloid

This past summer I listened to a bunch of archived John Peel radio show broadcasts from 1978. Aside from the considerable pleasures of soaking in Peel’s dry, sardonic point of view, there was something voyeuristically thrilling about hearing how familiar punk anthems first hit the airwaves. Whether it be listening to Peel enjoy the Undertones’ “Teenage Kicks” so much he’s compelled to play it twice in a row; hearing the introduction of Los Angeles’s X to UK audiences; or even realizing that in the heart of the punk era he was still playing Van Der Graaf Generator and the Albion Band right alongside the new wavers, the exercise offered a context to the songs and era that experiencing the tracks as discrete works lacks.

It was also a reminder of just how fertile the scene was, the programmes studied with (mostly) forgotten bands who disappeared after making a handful of miraculous seven-inches. So, let’s Remember Some Guys.

Remembering Some Guys: John Peel Discoveries Edition

Llygod Ffyrnig: An incredible Welsh punk band (trans. The Ferocious Mice) with one three-track single that everyone should hear this instant: “N.C.B.”

Radio Stars: English New Wave band by one of the other guys in Sparks. They made a song about Baffin Island (called “Baffin Island”)!

pragVEC: Cool London post-punk band with synth contributions from Jim Thirlwell: “Nervous”

La Peste: Boston punk band and authors of one ink black perfect single called “Better Off Dead”

Snakefinger: Okay, the Residents aren’t a discovery, but the Snakefinger solo track “The Spot” sure was to me! It’s so good!

Tyla Gang: Pub rock that kicks the unsuspected crotch that joins Johnny Thunders with the J. Geils Band, they have at least one track that I could carve on my heart: “No Roses”

Automatics: “When the Tanks Roll Over Poland Again” was a new wave number one track in 1978! I ain’t never had heard of it neither. C’est parfait.

Fabulous Poodles: Probably should’ve found them sooner! The Who/Kinks-y rock, let’s hear “Mirror Star” again why don’t we?

Strangeways: “Show Her You Care” is pure shake & pop heaven, feels so giddy it might shake itself and you to pieces.

The Desperate Bicycles: DIY never had a truer troupe of champions and were it not for their refusal to reissue their material in any form, they might be known as punk’s Beat Happening. Try “Smokescreen”!

Skids: Art punks from Dunfermline, Scotland, they’re heavy enough to be a NWOBHM band, but with all sorts a weird skittering going on. Six times? “Six Times”!

Metal Urbain, about which more below.

Metal Urbain were one of France’s first punk bands and a Peel fav that skipped right over a few stages of evolution and hatched fully formed with 1977’s “Paris Maquis” (a reference to the WWII French Resistance) single as a “synth punk” band in the same year the Damned and the Pistols were just getting off the blocks. (The same year, incidentally, that Suicide’s first LP dropped on the other side of the Atlanic.) Employing a cheapo drum machine in place of a human percussionist, Metal Urbain were nasty, snarling anti-everything punks with a laudable hatred for fascists and some rather less laudable hatred toward women (the grotesque shocker “Crève Salope,” or “Die Bitch”). The drum machine gives their simple songs a jerking, pitiless momentum, and if most of their songs sound pretty samey, at least they’re all playing the same pretty great punk song. Singer Eric Débris sounds kinda like a harsher Joe Strummer (plus that sort of wet, venomous quality French speakers get when they snarl), and they consistently find riffs that feel like exposed switchblades.

Still, they do have a hair more range than most retrospectives grant them. The skulking “Snuff Movie” finds them traipsing onto Suicide’s streets, while “Pop Poubelle” (“Pop Trash”) pulls the archetypal punk move of dolling out a super catchy surf-inspired lick on the song about how catchy pop music sucks and is bad. 1981’s Les hommes morts song dangereux (Dead Men Are Dangerous) compilation rounds up nearly everything they did during their original run, and makes for a convincing statement: every punk fan should hear the likes of “Futurama,” “Panik,” and “Hystérie connective”—so what’s stopping ya?

222/365 

#metal urbain #remember some guys #guy remembering #'70s music #'80s music #punk #synth punk #french punk #defector #deadspin #music review #vinyl record

[birchwoodrain]

An examination of tenderness in film, by me. Originally published on my now-deactivated art account (cerise.annette on IG) in my sophomore year of high school as a personal project. I have always been interested in the way love languages have been portrayed in media as well as the transition from often violent/tragic love to softness (in terms of queer relationships). But! that kind of analysis will be saved for later, hopefully when I get around to reviewing The Handmaiden (2016). As for now, please enjoy!

#aesthetic #filmedit #film #short film #video #video post #misc #movie review #cinema #cinephile #portrait of a lady on fire #pride and prejudice #pride & prejudice #maurice #maurice 1987 #dead poets society #deadspin #the edge of love #tenderness #erik satie #gymnopedie #birchwoodrain

[deevsnetwork]

EA making big changes to Madden 24 but I have my doubts

  Madden builders should be shitting their britches properly now. Regardless of being the third-best-selling game of 2022 within the U.S., the Madden builders are lastly doing one thing they’ve by no means finished earlier than — placing effort into their product.   I’ve long been a Madden hater. I can’t bear in mind the final time I performed an objectively good Madden recreation. 2008? 2004? I…

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[rollsandrolexs-stuff]

If someone burns to death do they get a discount at Crematorium

🤔

#dead poets society #deadspin #discount #tumblrpost #dark humor

[munispeaks]

D.J. Uiagalelei bailed out Clemson’s defense this time around

D.J. Uiagalelei bailed out Clemson’s defense this time around

D.J. Uiagalelei threw for 371 yards and 5 touchdowns against Wake ForestImage: Getty Images Clemson fans finally got the game from D.J. Uiagalelei that they’ve been waiting for, finishing with 371 yards passing and five touchdowns. You’d figure that kind of day would lead to a blowout of No. 21 Wake Forest with the defense we’re accustomed to seeing from the Tigers. After two overtimes and more…

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[persimmonlions]

thinking about the slow destruction of deadspin (sports news site now becoming an ad site for online sports betting) and kotaku (gaming news site becoming “game guides” seo spam) is also relevant to what’s happening in music journalism (see slate’s oral history of pitchfork) — where investigative journalism is slowly subsumed by corporate advertising interests and hollowed out into a shell of itself

#journalism #kotaku #deadspin #pitchfork

[randomazznews]

Deadspin Is Dead … Again. Good Grief.

via Slate.com

#slate #deadspin #random azz news #journalism #g/o media #private equity

[hasanabiouttakes]

#Hasanabi #Hasan Piker #2011 #Tom Brady #Deadspin #Barstools Sports

[mywifeleftme]

154: Young Jessie // Shufflin' & Jivin'

Shufflin' & Jivin' Young Jessie 1987, Ace

Deadspin/Defector writer David Roth coined a phrase for the idle pastime of recalling also-ran baseball players: Let’s Remember Some Guys. If you’ve ever sat around with friends who share a fandom and found the conversation pleasantly degenerating into taking turns naming Guys (e.g. “Oh man, Skeet Ulrich!”) and reacting (“Oh shit, I remember him!”), you’ve had the pleasure of Remembering a Guy. (I’ve uh homaged this bit a few times in this series already.)

Roth draws a distinction here between Guys and Dudes. A Dude is someone who had a respectable degree of success at the highest levels of their practice (made an all-star team; did an album the average stepdad has worn out multiple copies of), whereas a Guy is someone who was more of a workaday stiff who has become lodged in your mind for personal, arbitrary, or outright mysterious reasons.

To whit:

Soccer player Megan Rapinoe is unequivocally a Dude. Former Arsenal player Ray Parlour is a Guy.

The Pokemon Pidgeotto is a Guy. Bulbasaur is clearly a Dude.

Ex-porn star Carter Cruise is a Dude. Scarlit Scandal is currently a Guy with Dude potential.

Guy. The wrestler Duke “The Dumpster” Droese is a Guy. AEW’s Britt Baker is a Dude.

Basketball player Detlef Schrempf is a Dude. Christian Wood is a Guy and it’s no one’s fault but his.

Dude.

The talking doorknockers from Labyrinth are Guys. Ludo is an absolute Dude.

Border collies are a Dude breed of dog. Drevers are Guys.

I trust these carefully chosen exemplars have helped you calibrate your Remembering devices. So, based on what you know about the rules of Guy Remembering, would you say Young Jessie was a Guy or a Dude based on the stats below?

Active between 1953 and 2020, but best known for a short run of rock ‘n’ roll singles in the first decade of his career, some of them featuring guitarist Mickey Baker (among sidemen a definite Dude, otherwise technically a Guy?) and saxophonist Sam “The Man” Taylor (same)

Briefly a member of The Flairs (Guys) and The Coasters (Dudes)

Writer of the song “Mary Lou,” later covered by Bob Seger (Dude), Steve Miller (Dude), Frank Zappa (Dude), and The Oblivians (Dudes, within their specific niche)

Performed and recorded sporadically (mostly jazz) over the ensuing decades

Pencils down. What do you say?

Yeah, Young Jessie is obviously a Guy, but he’s a great example of the worthiness of humble Guydom, and the joys of Remembering Guys. There was a huge glut of talent working during rock ‘n’ roll’s first decade, and despite the public’s insatiable appetite for the new sound there wasn’t enough limelight, enough studio time, enough capital for most singers to get even a single whack at the pinata. To his credit, Young Jessie had enough onstage electricity, and enough craft in his pen, to cut thirteen singles between 1954 and 1963, including some work with the legendary songwriting duo Lieber & Stoller (Dudes).

The concept of an independent (or alternative) class of recording artists didn’t really exist in Jessie’s prime—studio time meant somebody somewhere was willing to risk money on you in the hopes you might have the decency to reward them with a hit. There simply wasn’t as much willingness to invest in a longshot at stardom back then, and you needed, luck, fortitude, and ideally something special vocally to stand out.

Relatively few of Jessie’s peers had the juice to fill out a retrospective compilation, let alone one with the spring of Shufflin’ & Jivin’, which collects most of his work for the Modern Records label (’54 to ’57), plus a few previously unreleased tracks and a token entry from his time with vocal quartet The Flairs (the latter with Ike Turner [Dude] sitting in on guitar). These are pretty hot recordings in general, not far off the jump blues-derived sounds of Big Joe Thornton and Chubby Checker (both Dudes), and Jessie makes a good host. He’s believable when he asks a woman if she’d like seven or eight kids, and he has the strut needed to sell a hustler’s anthem like “Hit, Git & Split.” But he never managed to land a real hit, and he was ultimately the type of unflashy pro that had a more limited ceiling in his stardom-driven era.

But, for anyone who is a true fan of early rock ‘n’ roll and can’t get enough of this sound, this compilation (like Young Jessie himself) is an excellent find, and if you say his name among the right crowd, you’re sure to get an appreciative, “Hey, I remember that guy!” We should all be so lucky to leave such a fond legacy.

154/365

#young jessie #'50s music #'50s rock #rock and roll #early rock #remember some guys #defector #deadspin #david roth #this is so stupid #music review #vinyl record

[fritfilter]

I miss the old Deadspin. Mostly I kind of miss the life I used to have when the old Deadspin existed. It was different, not better, but I miss it still.

#deadspin #defector #media

[watch-all-sports]

Anthony Richardson guides Colts to win over Eagles

Aug 24, 2023; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Indianapolis Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson (5) against the Philadelphia Eagles during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field.Image: Eric Hartline-USA TODAY Sports Indianapolis rookie quarterback Anthony Richardson put up poor passing numbers, but the Colts rolled to a 27-13 win over the host Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday to complete…

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#Deadspin

[sportsspherenews]

#Deadspin

[subsidystadium]

Worcester was promised that Polar Park would pay for itself, it has not and will not

In 2018, the city council of Worcester, Massachusetts, agreed to finance a substantial portion of taxpayer money to build a brand-new ballpark. Although the city would be borrowing around $100.8 million for this project (making it the 4th most expensive minor league ballpark to be built), city leaders justified this expense by stating how the ballpark would fund itself, if not make the city money…

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#Anaheim #Anaheim Angels #Andrew Zimbalist #Ballpark #Deadspin #Economic Development #Economist #J.C. Bradbury #Los Angeles Angels #Massachusetts #Minor League Baseball #New York #New York Yankees #Polar Park #Robert Baumann #Seattle #Seattle Sonics #Tampa Bay #Tampa Bay Times #Worcester

[deevsnetwork]

MLB owners form Economic Reform Committee

  For as a lot of worship as billionaires appear to get around right here, and the runway they obtain to form our society to profit them an increasing number of, they’re a cranky bunch. There’s all the time more cash to be made, cash they’ll by no means know what to do with, there’s all the time another person to fuck over, and because it appears there’s all the time one other billionaire to…

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#Baseball #Bob Nutting #Deadspin #Evan Drellich #MLB #Reinsdorf #Rob Manfred #Salary cap #Sports #Steve Cohen #the 1994 World Series #World Series

[tularue11]

#ScottCaan #JamesCaan #ALERT #AlertMissingPersonsUnit #foxtv #AlertMPU #deadspin #linkinstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CnlaexnrJUX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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