Romantic radical. Staunch iconoclast. Hot pilgrim.
Kyle Whelliston was all of these things and so much more. Over the course of thirty-one years, he wrote 2,373 articles and essays for various online and print publications, as well as some books. As per his last will and testament, all 2,928,166 of his life's words have been collected here, in one place, for eternal posterity. Keep his flame alive. This is the Whelliston Memorial Library.
Flight 1229 · JED to GIG
"This airport is my blood enemy," she said. "I fight it as best I can. But one day it will finally win. I will die here in Terminal 2E, my flesh will be unceremoniously stripped from my bones, then they will grind me up and serve me on a baguette."
The Boubacar 11/26/2007 (Supersize Edition)
BOONE, N.C. -- The problem with taking the holiday off from posting is that things happen, build up, force a gigantic Monday post. Here, then, is your long weekend in mid-major land.
Dribblings 12/16/2004 (Campfire Edition)
Lander 67, Charleston Southern 59 (story) - To get beat by a Division II team, you usually have to go to Alaska or Hawaii. But this game marked just the third time this season that a true D2 has beaten a D1 - and the first time it's happened at the big school's house. And what lore it is. Gimme a straight G, boys.
Second Round - Sunday's Games
MINNEAPOLIS -- You work in an office. It's a big office with hundreds of people. You all have hard jobs: everyone toils at their stations every day, struggling to put in efforts that will be recognized. When you get a pat on the back and a "good job," it always seems so fleeting.. nobody remembers your name the next day. You just can't seem to get ahead in the world.
The Curtain
"Rough and vicious play seems worse in women than in men," Berenson noted sadly a decade later in an essay entitled The Significance of Basket Ball For Women. "A certain amount of roughness is deemed necessary to bring out manliness in our young men. Surely rough play can have no possible excuse in our young women."