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The Face of the Watch (Grantland)
“We narrate the 27-year backdrop to Ferguson’s career as one of innovation, fracture, bizarre juxtapositions: the ancient manager who recalls working as a tradesman during his offseasons forced to deal with millennials, Twitter, and fluorescent shoes.”
“Football as Never Before
Old Trafford, 12/9/70, as a middling Manchester United beat Coventry, eight 16mm cameras were trained by a German experimental filmmaker on United’s number 11: the legendary George Best. Shot, edited and framed so that hardly any other players are visible, Best’s beauty on the pitch is captured forever. In the year of his death, surely there can be no better tribute.”
Mentioned in my Lucky Peach piece: the ad my mom took out in the local Plano, Texas newspaper circa the early 1980s.
Lost Weekend (The Daily Note)
“The closest I came was a ‘Rump Shaker’ 12-inch I saw sticking out of a wet suitcase next to a trash heap along Avenue C. I grabbed it anyway.”A Cali transplant becomes a New Yorker with help from a Williamsburg groove merchant.
Hard Knocks: Shanghai (Grantland)
“Maybe one night a kid from Shanghai named Shady lines up in the slot for some second-tier college football team, and a thousand teenagers back at home decide that it’s the coolest thing they’ve ever seen.”
The Gist, “Love at First Sight”
Hua Hsu: Wokking the Suburbs
Illustrations by Yina Kim
Four articles from Lucky Peach were nominated for James Beard awards this year. We are posting all of them this week for your reading pleasure. First was Fuchsia Dunlop on London’s Chinatown, then Richard Parks on the Cambodian-California doughnut connection. Today: Hua Hsu on the rise of suburban Chinatowns.
(From James Hughes’ reminiscence about his father John’s hockey fandom.)
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