Grantland so far

[Steak Snabler]

Oral history of the 1989 World Series earthquake:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9859539/the-1989-world-series-earthquake-oral-history

Didn't realize some whack-job geologist had predicted it, and that so many people had a "bad feeling" that day.

 

[playthrough]

Tremendous oral history. Dazzling number of sources.

 

[Glenn Stout]

I'd just driven out the day before with a friend of mine who was moving out there - we had a driveway truck. Twenty hours to the minute we were on the bridge that collapsed. Earlier that day - it was still and hot - an old man sitting on a stoop looked to us and said "Earthquake weather." When it happened I was walking though the Haight, heard a garage door rattle, then started bouncing up and down. I grabbed my friend, ran into the street, then saw everything lift up and set back down - building, road, sidewalks - like shaking a rug. Later that night, back in a friends apartment (with the floor covered with all the crap that fell down - he was DJ and had a zillion cassettes) an aftershock lifted the couch off the floor, and there were four of us sitting on it. We bought beer, went to the roof then watched the fires and smoke in the distance.

 

[Steak Snabler]

An oral history of "Swingers":

http://grantland.com/features/an-oral-history-swingers/

A fun read on one of my favorite movies. Amazing that they made it all come together (particularly the music) on that budget.

 

[sgreenwell]

An oral history of "Swingers":

http://grantland.com/features/an-oral-history-swingers/

A fun read on one of my favorite movies. Amazing that they made it all come together (particularly the music) on that budget.

heh, It's kind of surprising it took them so long to do this...

 

[Songbird]

Nothing like a 18-year anniversary.

 

[heyabbott]

An oral history of "Swingers":

http://grantland.com/features/an-oral-history-swingers/

A fun read on one of my favorite movies. Amazing that they made it all come together (particularly the music) on that budget.

heh, It's kind of surprising it took them so long to do this...

did not know Vince Vaughn was in Rudy until I read this

 

[Double J]

Yep. Small but prominent role as the asshole who lashes out at Rudy. "Last practice of the season and this asshole thinks it's the Super Bowl!!!"

 

[Batman]

ESPN Ombudsman lays the smackdown on Grantland and, specifically, Caleb Hannan. Says his story is bad and he should feel bad.

http://espn.go.com/blog/ombudsman/post/_/id/305/dr-v-story-understandable-inexcusable

Just a few moments into reading that very story recently on Grantland, it was shaping up as another one of those bloated selfies that clog the arteries of sports-lit these days.
Four graphs and I was gone.

And yet … it's a surprisingly easy editing exercise to remove that aspect of the story, which, in Hannan's hands, becomes more of a prurient sideshow than an integral piece of a puzzle. It also excises Hannan's misuse of gender pronouns, his use of the phrase "a chill actually ran up my spine" to signal his realization that Vanderbilt had once identified as a man and his outing of Vanderbilt to one of her investors. Critics maintain they prove Hannan's antagonism toward Vanderbilt and toward transgender people.

To the contrary, to me they prove he was way over his head and somehow didn't know that he had no right to out anyone, certainly not without a lot more contextual information and a confrontation with Vanderbilt. But one of those dozen editors should have known.

Grantland is a promising site, only 32 months old, with a young staff being shaped by Simmons, a talented, overextended 44-year-old with less traditional, hard-core journalism experience but considerable vision and celebrity. Grantland is a leader in so-called long-form journalism on the Web (as opposed to short-form Twitter), which is being attacked lately for being ubiquitous and trendy.

It is a treasure when it's in the right hands (see ESPN's Wright Thompson and Grantland's own Bryan Curtis, among others), mostly boring when not -- and sometimes, as we've seen, even dangerous. As are all forms.

 

[Boom_70]

Here's the money shot right here:

Grantland is a leader in so-called long-form journalism on the Web (as opposed to short-form Twitter), which is being attacked lately for being ubiquitous and trendy.

It is a treasure when it's in the right hands (see ESPN's Wright Thompson and Grantland's own Bryan Curtis, among others), mostly boring when not -- and sometimes, as we've seen, even dangerous. As are all forms.

 

[H.L. Mencken]

As far as lighter fare goes, this was hilarious.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/grantland-game-recap-completely-omits-influence-of,34893/

 

[da man]

Just a few moments into reading that very story recently on Grantland, it was shaping up as another one of those bloated selfies that clog the arteries of sports-lit these days.
Four graphs and I was gone.

I love this. I know exactly what he means.