A Building Roam

writings on culture - Literature, Sports, Music, and more

Sunday, October 30, 2016

Some Thoughts on Chess and Artists Who Love Chess

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Portrait of Chess Players - Marcel Duchamp (1911) Recently, a new employee started working at my job, a Turkish guy, and in his introd...
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

Bill Murray Providing Color Commentary for an Entire Cubs Game in '87

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Funniest thing I've seen in a while. 39 minutes of Bill Murray broadcasting a 1987 afternoon Cubs-Expos ballgame alongside Steve Stone...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

Why I Hopped Onto the Chicago Cubbies' Bandwagon

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To the general baseball enthusiast or fans of teams outside of Illinois, the Chicago Cubs have been pretty harmless for a while. They hav...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016

The Long, Occasionally Unendurable, Ultimately Redeeming Epic Novel That Was the 2016 Mets Season

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Bartolo Colon aka Big Sexy sizes up his first ever big fly. (Getty images) What stung most about the New York Mets' defeat in the W...
Sunday, October 9, 2016

Kandinksy in Stereoscope

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Alfred Imageworks. STEREOSCOPIC FOR EXHIBITION - KANDINSKY from A Productions on Vimeo . (Tip of the cap to my friend Scott for sharin...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

On the Tragic Loss of Baseball's Beloved and Joyful Young Star Jose Fernandez

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A week ago I awoke on Sunday morning and, like everyone else in the baseball universe, discovered the horrifying news that Jose Fernandez...
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Saturday, August 6, 2016

Albright, Tchelitchew, and The Geography of the Imagination

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Research for Part 2 of my book brought me to the above. Observe the dark, Fruity Pebbles-flavored phantasmagoria that is Ivan Albright...
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Monday, July 11, 2016

New Audio Interview: PQ Interviewed by Media Ecologist Gerry Fialka

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Street art in Spain by PichiAvo. Heavy Thoughts on Great Questions: Peter Quadrino interviewed by Gerry Fialka Part of the MES...
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Brother

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Was blasting this song on full volume driving through Times Square with my friend Spit during last visit to Shaolin a few weeks ago.  ...
Monday, July 4, 2016

Reviewing a Baseball Reading Odyssey: Some Thoughts on Ten Baseball Books Consumed This Year

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My baseball literature cup runneth over. Every year with the return of baseball, I indulge in a period of fairly intensive baseball readin...
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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Bloomsday '16 Recap

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Mural of Joyce's everyman Leopold Bloom at Blooms Hotel Temple Bar in Dublin. This year for Bloomsday I had the privilege of parti...
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NYC native, nomadic world traveler, food-for-thought gourmand, baseball fanatic, hip hop head, heavy reader, James Joyce enthusiast. "A Building Roam" is my vehicle for writing about all of these and more. Leave a comment or email me here.
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