CU asked me to write a bit about that, so:
I think about this shot a lot, and how a book can hope to be like that too: nerve + skill + luck. Though, with Lillard, not sure ‘luck’ comes into it at all. Dude’s just deadly. Probably the best clutch shot I can think of, and that includes Jordan and Bird, Curry and Young, Kobe, Laettner, Kawhi’s from last year—this one’s better than them all, I think. And Damien Lillard just walks away like “What else could have happened?” ThatR…
Anybody have a workaround?
Before this gets out of hand again, which it’s apt to do since I seem to be cleaning out tabs during these stay-at-home times (quite possibly I’m clicking more things INTO tabs, too…):
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-made-oldest-known-string
Honored to have a yellow book in this stack:
no rhyme, less reason — wouldn’t be social media if there were, right?
Great time was had by . . . well, by us, anyway, but presumably, hopefully, by others as well (tweetlink below).
Armed With a Book:
And, there’s always Goodreads reviews rolling in, but Bethany’s is extra special cool (as, I’m sure, is she):
Old article-thing here. It originally ran on The Cult back in . . . sometime between 2005 and 2008? But The Cult went away sometime the last year or two, so I had to dig this up from a cache, copy and paste it here to sort of save it:
—SGJ
The biggest lie I tell myself about revising is that I do it as I go. You’ve heard this, right? I don’t think I’m coming up with anything new here, anyway. And, it’s a seductive thing to believe-to want to believe, at least. And th…
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