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July 27, 2006
Sports Guy Question
Categories: Personal
I just got finished catching up with Bill Simmons on ESPN.com. Not literally, of course. I was catching up on the columns I've missed over the past month or so. I am a semi-regular reader of Simmons; I don't check his stuff every day, but I do binge and read 8-12 columns at a time when I think about checking his site. I even read the NBA draft columns, which make no sense to me whatsoever. Having caught up with The Sports Guy, I have three questions:
1. Is it possible to really be a columnest anymore, since everyone has a damnned blog and can do the same thing you are doing?
2. Is Bill Simmons just the Everyman white guy of my generation (steeped in pop-culture, loves sports, has trips to Vegas, rags on his friends) or have the white guys of my generation just adopted Simmons' style? It may just be a chicken or an egg situation, but this question bugs me.
3. Why don't my college friends and I have a weekend getaway? I blame Winston. Actually, I blame the fact that all of us went on to some sort of post-gradaute education and school and money kept us from going to Vegas or the mountains or wherever for guy time. We would all be free of that now, if Harper hadn't returned to law school. Dammit Harper! Or maybe there was guy time and I just didn't get invited. Wait a minute. . .
Posted by Nakia at July 27, 2006 12:23 PM