Monthly Archives: June 2013

Frank Miller’s run with Daredevil was the first comic book series I collected as a kid.

Recently, the cool tumblr site, Beats, Comics and Life ran all of the Miller Daredevil covers. Here are some of my favorites:

‘Nuff said.

Let’s Get Stoopit with my man, Ill Chemist.

Via Kottke, The Beastles.

Over at Messy Nessy Chic here’s more on Vivian Maier.

Can’t wait for the movie…

Over at Gothamist dig these pictures from the 2013 Mermaid Parade out in Coney Island.

[Photo Credit: Getty Images]

Rest in Peace, Sam Farber.

[Photo Via: Paleo Tumblr]

Over at Stuff Nobody Cares About, dig this 1978 fun.

“Panthère noire de face, pattes croisées” by Paul Jouve (1878-1973)

Rest in Peace, Bobby Blue Bland.

After the Old Timer’s Day festivities today, Ivan Nova returned from the DL and pitched a good game. According to Chad Jennings:

“Their guy really settled in,” [Joe] Maddon said. “I don’t understand why this guy struggles. I have never seen him bad. I don’t know — one of the best pitchers in the world as far as I’m concerned. He gets that hook over and he’s really tough on left-handers.”

Score was tied 1-1 in the seventh and there were two men out when Nova hit a batter (Desmond Jennings, elbow) and then another (Ben Zobrist, foot) and by the time the inning was over, three pitchers later, the Rays had a 2-run lead on the count of James Loney’s RBI single against Boone Logan.

A shame for sure but something had to give and after scoring a run in the first, the Yanks were blanked for the rest of the afternoon.

Final Score: Rays 3, Yanks 1.

So they settle for a split of the four-game series. Not stellar and not a disaster, pretty much like the Yankee season so far.

Old Timer’s Day at the Stadium this afternoon and then the Yanks go for the series win for the Rays.

Never mind the heat:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Photo Credit: Jose Souto]

“Interior with Book,” By Richard Diebenkorn (1959)

David Adams has walked twice in his major league career and both came in yesterday’s game. The critical one came in the 7th inning. The Yanks were down 5-3 because Wil Myers hit a grand slam off C.C. Sabathia (and threw his bat a little too eagerly after he hit it, especially considering that Brett Gardner got a glove on it and the ball just skipped over the wall).

So the Yanks load the bases with one out, Jayson Nix and Adams due up. They’d had the same scenario a few innings earlier and both Nix and Adams stuck out.

In the 7th, Nix whiffed again–95 mph heater that was off the plate. But Adams put together a tough at bat and he drew a walk driving home a run. I didn’t think he had a chance at getting a hit but getting a walk was as impressive. And then, for some luck, some magic, whatever you want to call it–divine inspiration–Vernon Wells pinch-hit and down 0-2 he hit a bases clearing double.

What.

It was enough. Sabathia pitched well other than the Myers home run, Zoilo had another good game, and David Robertson and Mariano put heads to bed late as the Yanks won, 7-5.

Satisfaction.

[Photo Credit: Kahlua Nights; AP]

It’s C.C. on a warm summer afternoon in the Bronx.

Brett Gardner CF
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Travis Hafner DH
Lyle Overbay 1B
Zoilo Almonte RF
Jayson Nix SS
David Adams 3B
Chris Stewart C

Never mind the heat:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

“Hot Fun In The Summertime” Sly and the Family Stone

[Photo Via: Film is God]

Sometimes there’s a man…

The Yanks got some much-needed pop from an unlikely source. Zoilo Almonte got three hits, including a solo home run, David Phelps and the Yankee bullpen kept the Rays in check, and the Yanks won, 6-2.

Zoilo, King for a Night, Wells, whadda ya know?

[Photo Credit: NJ Star-Ledger]

Yanks are winning tonight, dammit.

Chad Jennings has today’s notes. 

Brett Gardner CF
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Robinson Cano 2B
Travis Hafner DH
Lyle Overbay 1B
Zoilo Almonte LF
Jayson Nix SS
David Adams 3B
Austin Romine C

Never mind the change in seasons:

Let’s Go Yank-ees!

[Photo Credit: Sophie Benjamin via Film is God]

Check out this tender story by David Davis over at SB Nation Lonform: “‘She is Gone’: The Search for the Gibson Home Run and for the Answers to a Family Tragedy”:

Some 25 years later, the Dodgers have yet to win another World Series. Heck, they’ve yet to return to the World Series.

On this day, as the afternoon sun bakes the dugout, I ask Gibson if he thinks about the home run when he returns to Dodger Stadium. He nods and peers down the right-field foul line. “I walk in here and always look up at where I hit the ball,” he said. “I kind of named it myself: seat 88 for 1988.”

Gibson has probably talked about this moment a thousand times, maybe more, but he seems in no hurry. “It’s very vivid to this day,” he continued. “I was in the locker room listening to Vin [Scully] on the TV saying, ‘Kirk Gibson will not be hitting tonight,’ and I just said, ‘My ass.’ I really had no business going up there to the plate. But, you know, it’s what I live for. I felt like my teammates wanted me to do it.”

I’ve arranged to interview Gibson because I’m trying to figure out what happened to the home run ball after it disappeared into the scrum in right field. Gibson himself never saw the ball again, and no fan came forward that evening, or the next day, claiming to have recovered it.

It is gone, permanently.

But this quest, I’m beginning to realize, is also personal. I had tickets to the very section where Gibson deposited his homer, but I didn’t attend the game. I can recall exactly where I was when he hit it out — which might explain why, 25 years later, I am trying to locate a ball that will never be found.

[Featured Image: Kate Joyce]

Holy Sweet Lord. Christina Tosi’s English Muffins and Pickled Strawberry Jam.

Via NPR, Alan Lomax’s massive archive goes on line.

Here ya go.

Holy Cow, this is great news.