Read (shorter):
- The Chickens and the Bulls: The rise and incredible fall of a vicious extortion ring that preyed on prominent gay men in the 1960s. I read this last year and totally forgot about it before rediscovering the piece last week. What an ordeal these guys went through.
- Shooting the Messengers, from GQ's Ed Caesar. It begins with "The life of a war correspondent has never been cheaper..." and just escalates from there.
- The Story of a Suicide: Two college roommates, a webcam, and a tragedy. The Tyler Clementi tragedy. Sometimes I think back to the dumb things I did over the internet circa 2004 and wonder how close I veered towards serious shitbag behavior that could have ended really poorly. Even though the antagonist is reprehensible at times, this story has more to do with the naiveté that surrounds adolescence, technology, and personal relationships. We've all done shitbag things at one point or another, sadly.
- The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond: Enemy of the State, from Rolling Stone.
- The Small, Intense, Unfairly Exclusive World of Football Placekickers. Very, very interesting.
- Don't Fly During Ramadan.
- Why We Need Nomads.
- The Joy of Old Age, by Oliver Sacks.
- Fuckarounditis, from Martin. I've set a mental note to re-read this every few months.
- How Athletes Get Great. Basically a Malcolm Gladwell hit piece.
- The Leadville Trail 100. Long read, but you won't believe what some people will do for fun.
Read (longer):
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1). Finally finished the first book last week. Read it people!
- Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, by Rolf Potts. The backpacker's Bible.
- 3lau: What I Would've Played (Ezoo 2013)
- Mat Zo's India Mix.
- More good stuff (note: mostly electronic)
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