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Faith and Fear Downtown

G-Fafif Mar 01 2007 04:27 PM

One and y'all are invited to Varsity Letters, a downtown sports/literary program that runs monthly, on Wednesday March 7, 8-10 pm. Jason and I will be part of a panel discussing online sports writing, blogging and suching. Other sites represented will include Deadspin, the Dugout, With Leather, True Hoop and Dan Shanoff. We'll be reading aloud and answering questions and, presumably, drinking. The place is the Happy Ending Lounge on Broome St. All the info, with directions, is here: http://www.gelfmagazine.com/gelflog/archives/march_7_varsity_letters_reading_series.php If you're in something approaching the neighborhood, we look forward to seeing you.

SteveJRogers Mar 01 2007 06:47 PM

Damn, thats the night my copy-editing class starts at Iona. Greg, you MUST provide a full recap in the Blog! Sounds like it'd be an fun evening. BTW, just wrapped up Media Law And Ethics and did a paper on bloggers as journalists coincidentatly enough.

OlerudOwned Mar 01 2007 07:31 PM

Argh. Wednesday. No way I can make it. You guys, Leitch, Ufford, Abbot, the Dugout guys, Shanoff. Missing this sucks.

Johnny Dickshot Mar 01 2007 08:06 PM

Maybe I need to care more about ESPN announcers or something, but I dont get Deadspin, or all the love for it.

seawolf17 Mar 01 2007 08:15 PM

Faith & Fear and The Dugout all in one place? My head might explode. That's very cool.

OlerudOwned Mar 01 2007 08:56 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Maybe I need to care more about ESPN announcers or something, but I dont get Deadspin, or all the love for it. It's just some good, clean, dirty fun in a wide world of sports that seems to take itself a bit too seriously.

G-Fafif Mar 03 2007 11:44 AM

More unseemly self-promotion related to the Varsity Letters event: Jason and I are interviewed here by Gelf Magazine, the publication that runs the sports/literary program which is coming up Wednesday night 3/7: http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/mets_bloggers_who_cant_wait_for_next_year.php Only one of those shakes in that first picture is mine. Again, info if you'd liike to stop by: http://www.gelfmagazine.com/gelflog/archives/march_7_varsity_letters_reading_series.php

ScarletKnight41 Mar 03 2007 02:18 PM

G-Fafif wrote: More unseemly self-promotion related to the Varsity Letters event: Jason and I are interviewed here by Gelf Magazine, the publication that runs the sports/literary program which is coming up Wednesday night 3/7: http://www.gelfmagazine.com/archives/mets_bloggers_who_cant_wait_for_next_year.php Only one of those shakes in that first picture is mine. Again, info if you'd liike to stop by: http://www.gelfmagazine.com/gelflog/archives/march_7_varsity_letters_reading_series.php ]Also, I'd fire Steve Phillips from ESPN, hire him for Sports Illustrated, and then fire him from there. I hated Steve Phillips as Mets GM for his rare mix of ineptitude and arrogance. Seeing him play the role of baseball expert on television undermines the credibility of the sport, the medium, and the concept of expertise. ROFL - great stuff Greg :)

G-Fafif Mar 08 2007 10:22 AM

Just to square the self-promotional circle, the Varsity Letters event was last night and a great deal of fun, albeit in a setting a little out of my demographic (or, more accurately, psychographic) league. A recap from the Met perspective: http://faithandfear.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2007/3/8/2790411.html And some pix, including one of yours truly, second from right at the end of the fourth row (and with blog partner at the far right...spatially if not politically). http://flickr.com/photos/kefadur/sets/72157594576648696/ There's an alternate-reality meaning to my t-shirt which you may not be able to make out from its (if not my) wrinkles.

Johnny Dickshot Mar 08 2007 10:34 AM

Sorry I couldn't make it and old up the place a little. I hope someone suggested to the dugout guys that their best stuff is short -- less than 10 panels please!