David Given Schwarm

Win at All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception by Matt Hart My rating: 2 of 5 stars I really struggled with this book. It reads like a hatchet job with no real awareness of the world in which it operates. There is a smug tone as the author destroys Salazar with…

Pastoral Forrest Gander Together,youstandingbefore me beforethe picturewindow, my armsaround you, oureyes pitchedbeyond ourreflections into— (“into,” I’dwritten, asthough thereswung at the endof a tunnel,a passage dottedwith endlesspoints ofarrival, asthough our gazestarted just outsideour faces andcorkscrewed its waytoward the horizon,processual, as if lookingtook time to happenand weren’tinstantaneous,offered whole inone gesturebefore weask, before ourwill, as if the farSonoma mountainsweren’t equally readyto be…

Head to a prison where a crazy drunkard told us the Arcane Brotherhood leader is in jail after starting the Rime. Or something. The panopticon is a disciplinary concept brought to life in the form of a central observation tower placed within a circle of prison cells Warden says we can beat him if he does not…

Pineapple Pizza Over the Hedge Ska (Madness & Specials) and DMX

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.-Winston Churchil