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Category Archives: Columns
The Man Who Never Quit, Finally Decides to Give Up: Should we do the same?
Late in the evening of August 24th the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced it would sanction American cyclist Lance Armstrong for using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) and orchestrating a team-wide doping scheme during the course of his career. A consequence of this sanction is the stripping of his unprecedented seven Tour de France titles Read more [...]
Posted in Columns, Ezra, Sport
Tagged armstrong, cycling, Doping, Lance, Lance Armstrong, Tour de France, USADA
Broken Rules
An old saying is that “Rules are meant to be broken,” but that’s really not the case. Whatever the particular motivation behind any given rule may be, though, the rationale is never that the rule gets broken. Despite that fact, rules are frequently broken, and today, for a certain class of third graders, one particular rule was about to be just that. Broken. Read more [...] Comments Off on Broken Rules
Posted in Creative Writing, Josh, Miscellaneous
Tagged chocolate milk, commons, elementary school, fight, fisticuffs, hot fries, lunch ladies, ogres, pokemon, recess, rules, swing, third grade, tire, tragedy
Lost in the Woods
The following is an individual’s opinion and reflection to try and answer the question with which every man, woman and child struggle to throughout their life: what the fuck am I doing, and why? You see, my answer to this may vary slightly day to day depending on a multitude of things like if I’m tired, hungry, sad, just got laid, or drunk. Read more [...]
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Posted in Mark, Philosophy
Stumbling off Olympus
Earlier this morning I was flipping through the channels when I came across the Olympics. The event? Women's 20 kilometer "race walk." It's a type of foot race in which, apparently, you have to move as fast as possible while having at least one foot on the ground at all times (which you don't when you run). Here is a video of some race walking:
The Read more [...] Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco-Smoker
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote this blogcat, which acts as a sort of a preface to this column. If you have not yet read it, I recommend you do so. In brief, it discusses some cultural and literary allusions to cigarettes and cigarette smoking. The purpose of this essay is to extend my ruminations on the subject towards a logical conclusion. The Read more [...] Posted in Columns, Creative Writing, Philosophy, Ryan
Tagged addict, cigarette, identity, psychology, society
Step into Bobcat Territory
This is the first official weekly column of the Bobcat Territory website. It is written by an individual author but holds aspects of a brief welcome letter on behalf of all of the site's contributors.
When my dad was nineteen, the summer after his sophomore year in college, he went camping with some friends in Upstate New York. That’s Read more [...] The Ringer
I hate alarm clocks. Waking up to them is absolutely infuriating, and not only because it's a horribly jarring way to part with sleep - though that has something to do with it, for sure.
I always use my phone as my alarm clock, and every time I get a new phone I change the ring I use as my alarm, and I'm pretty sure I've grown to despise every Read more [...] Eminem: A Theory of Value
My friend Jake Johnson, an alumnus of both Lafayette College and my Niskayuna High School Varsity soccer team, asked me a provocative question a while back: “run rabbit run might be eminem's best song, yay or nay?”
Now, anyone who has known me for over 39.5 minutes is painfully aware that: (1) I’m of the opinion that Eminem is the second Read more [...] Country Roads, Take Me Home
This post is a reprint of something I wrote for a different blog, so sorry if you've already read it, but honestly if you have, you probably want to read it again. As before, the story is based loosely on actual or rumored experiences and the lyrics to the DKE Rho anthem "Country Roads" by John Denver. To make it easier for everyone, regular print Read more [...] Comments Off on Country Roads, Take Me Home
Posted in Columns, Creative Writing, Josh
Tagged college, country roads, dke, john denver, lafayette
Slow Train Comin’
“Look like you and me both tryin to make sense of this game.” Russell Bell Read more [...]