Over the years, I’ve become hopelessly addicted to memoir-type books. I’m not much for fiction-I find real life much more interesting than stories. Over the year and change we’ve been running this thing, I’ve posted reviews on solid memoir-type books by NBA journeyman Paul Shirley as well as regular dude/fellow blogger Jason Mulgrew . Both books were highly enjoyable. You can now add another book to that list-“Got Junk?”, a book by our very own Tom Acox (he also runs The Unqualified Economist . Go take a […]
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Paul Shirley's "Can I Keep My Jersey?": 4 Years in the Life of a Journeyman
Let’s face facts here. Professional athletes are not generally known for their wit or candor. Not only does being sped through school for your athletic process not generally allow for the development of any kind of analytical thinking (or the social skills required to be funny), but no one wants to mess up their next endorsement check by saying anything that might be potentially inflammatory. So, we sports fans nowadays are stuck with either entitled idiots (like, for example, Terrell […]
