I’m glad it won’t ever stop, because I don’t want it to ever stop.

I love wooden coat hangers.

Caressed a lot of plywood over the past half-dozen years. Never thought to make a movie about it. I have to live with that. (via BuzzFeed, which was via Metafilter, which got it from somewhere, all last week)

In case I’m not the only deadbeat who hasn’t read most of the stories nominated for ASMEs. There’s a good chance this link collection already exists somewhere else. It’s cool.

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REPORTING

The Atlantic for “Our Man in Kandahar,” November

Los Angeles for “What Happened to Mitrice Richardson?” September

The New Yorker for “The Apostate,” February 14 & 21

The New Yorker for “Getting bin Laden,” August 8

Vanity Fair for “Echoes From a Distant Battlefield,” December

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FEATURE WRITING
Esquire for “Heavenly Father!” October

GQ for “The Man Who Sailed His House,” October

The New York Times Magazine for “You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!” June 12

The New Yorker for “A Murder Foretold,” April 4

Rolling Stone for “Arms and the Dudes,” March 31

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PROFILE WRITING
D Magazine for “He Is Anonymous,” April

ESPN The Magazine for “Game of Her Life,” January 10

Men’s Journal for “The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See,” March

Rolling Stone for “Santiago’s Brain,” December 8

Sports Illustrated for “Dewayne Dedmon’s Leap of Faith,” November 14

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ESSAYS AND CRITICISM
Esquire for “The Loading Dock Manifesto,” May

GQ for “Too Much Information,” May iPad Edition

New York for “Paper Tigers,” May 16

The New Yorker for “The Aquarium,” June 13 & 20

Slate for “The Stutterer: How He Makes His Voice Heard,” February 22

12angrymascots:

NEW VIDEO: JOHN AXFORD’S AX MUSTACHE SPRAY 
As YouTube user dsm92eclipsegsx13 put it, “Noiiiiiice! Better actors and this could be on tv.” In other words, we over-achieved.

Signed, a proud sub-par actor

One of these skittering across a windy cross-street would single-handedly bump the Homeland Security advisory level a shade or two.

How To Create a Microsoft Word Macro for the Phrase “Rich Harden Was Injured”

ESPN asked 12 Angry Mascots to make a demo video for its Get Me To The World Cup contest. So one enchanted evening, Hilary, Ballard and I cobbled this Hamlet homage together. And I got some lacy lady-stockings for keeps.

12angrymascots:

We participated in a shoot for Baruch College’s Dollars & Sense on Wednesday. As evidenced: Crushed it.