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Apr 27, 2022

Why Is Everything a Controversy Now?

Dispatches From The Short Attention Span Theatre There have been a spate of disc golf controversies lately, the most notable being the caddying rules debacle at Champions Cup, with the Paul McBeth teepad slip heard round the world following closely on its heels. Both of these things merit discussion. There…

Disc Golf

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Why Is Everything a Controversy Now?
Why Is Everything a Controversy Now?
Disc Golf

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Apr 24, 2022

The Disc Golf Pro Tour Is Not Disc Golf

And Criticizing It Is Not Blasphemy There’s a Simpsons episode from 1994 that I think about all the time. In the episode “Bart Gets an Elephant” the Democratic and Republican conventions are shown. While the Republican banners say, “We Want What’s Worst for Everyone” and “We’re Just Plain Evil” the…

Disc Golf

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The Disc Golf Pro Tour Is Not Disc Golf
The Disc Golf Pro Tour Is Not Disc Golf
Disc Golf

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Apr 21, 2022

Is Andrew Fish the Last of a Dying Breed?

He doesn’t have to be. With Ricky Wysocki’s 250k Bitcoin bonus and Paul McBeth’s 10-million-dollar, 10 year contract still fresh on the mind, it’s easy to forget that Disc Golf is still very much in a transition period. There are more full-time touring professionals than at any time in disc…

Disc Golf

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Is Andrew Fish the Last of a Dying Breed?
Is Andrew Fish the Last of a Dying Breed?
Disc Golf

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Apr 20, 2022

A Champions Cup Post Not About Caddying Rules

By measure of online engagement, the inaugural PDGA Champions Cup was a huge success. There has been more post-tournament chatter than after any event I can remember in the last ten years. Unfortunately, the two most common topics of discussion are a round shot by the ninth-place finisher, and of…

Disc Golf

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A Champions Cup Post Not About Caddying Rules
A Champions Cup Post Not About Caddying Rules
Disc Golf

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Nov 19, 2021

The Culture Wars Have Come To Disc Golf

In his 2020 book, Why We’re Polarized, Ezra Klein tells an anecdote about the film 12 Years A Slave. He explains that a person’s political views can be mapped almost perfectly to their opinion about the film. Those with favorable views of 12 Years A Slave were considerably more likely…

Disc Golf

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The Culture Wars Have Come To Disc Golf
The Culture Wars Have Come To Disc Golf
Disc Golf

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Nov 4, 2021

Is Our House In Order?

For all its recent growth, disc golf is still a relatively small community with plenty of room for newcomers. This has led to a burgeoning discussion about growth, whether it’s always good, and how changes will affect current players. What is often lost in the discussion is not the number…

Disc Golf

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Is Our House In Order?
Is Our House In Order?
Disc Golf

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Oct 27, 2021

Faulty Default

What we leave unspoken is often most important. It’s an assumption of understanding between speaker and listener, writer and reader. Henry David Thoreau memorably makes note of what is left unsaid in the early pages of Walden: In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it…

Disc Golf

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Disc Golf

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Oct 19, 2021

Who We Should Be Talking About Instead of Brodie Smith

Whether or not you like him, Brodie Smith is talked about. And talked about. And talked about. Having seen the galleries following him at USDGC in person, his popularity and polarizing nature also flows into the real world. But I like numbers, and here are Brodie’s. In the last 12…

Disc Golf

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Who We Should Be Talking About Instead of Brodie Smith
Who We Should Be Talking About Instead of Brodie Smith
Disc Golf

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Dec 11, 2020

The Fifth Cup

I was going to write about “No Children” this week, but I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m so busy this time of year that the undertaking seemed too daunting right now. We’ll tackle that particular beast later on. For this week, I want to talk about “Elijah”. It’s the…

John Darnielle

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The Fifth Cup
The Fifth Cup
John Darnielle

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Dec 4, 2020

Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise

Stephen King really hates Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In addition to describing Kubrick’s interpretation of Wendy Torrance as “one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film” he says of the film as a whole: I think ‘The Shining’ is a beautiful film and it looks terrific and as…

Music Review

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Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise
Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise
Music Review

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