I won’t be satisfied until we go back into time to analyze every black and white pixel and commissioned portrait in the history of sports to determine all the real winners and losers. Why merely police the present when the past is just sitting there, riddled with mistakes and bad judgments? Maybe David was offsides…

Cop.

Yep.  Going against him every day in practice is not a solve, I don’t think.

(door flies open)

Exhibit #7,432 for why I’ll never start.

when is somebody gonna do something about that white culture?

Well, that’s certainly one way to get out of playing for the Lions.

I feel sorry for Jermaine, but honestly it feels like that whole team is Kearsed.

Gabe, the resistance cannot welcome Zlatan, Zlatan can only welcome the resistance.

That’s a really interesting thought, and I’ll have to mull it over a bit. My brother pointed out to me that this stanza is a bit of a joke on the very etymology of the word “stanza,” which comes from the word for a room or a stopping place — a place to rest. I think you’re right that a lot of his songs offer only a…

Berman was a giant. My generation’s greatest songwriter. What he and Malkmus accomplished in 1998 with American Water is something to be celebrated forever. And, of course, the recent Purple Mountains release cements his legendary status, without a doubt the AOTY. The man wrote about depression better than anyone…

I fell in love with Wowee Zowee in college and like an amoeba I grabbed every associated act, every compilation, every loose one off track. Starlight Walker marks a very particular kink in my musical evolution. It’s certainly not an accessible album but what it lacks in accessibility it doubles down with reward.…

Let me be another person to say goddamnit. I really loved so many SJ songs. At the time I was listening to a lot of them, I had just moved from Tennessee to Louisville and I found his insistence in “Tennessee” that:

I learned about the Silver Jews in the late 90s/early 2000s the way everyone else did: through people who have way better taste than I do. Later, I used to hang out at Springwater in 2003 or so and he’d just show up and just walk on stage and play, already a legend. I got to talk to him once or twice. I had sort of…

Since people are going to be linking to various songs, I’m going to be the hipster that instead links to a poem (that I hadn’t heard of before he died):

I think a “chunkier Reese Witherspoon” is called a Reese’s Witherspoon.

Ben, my tiny, tiny dude. “Just behind Brandon Jennings, and ahead of Jared Dudley” isn’t doing the work you think it’s doing.

That was delightful. 

I think 33 becomes older when you remember that it’s 28 years older than most of his hair.

I’m still angry that he’s being called “Old Man.” I understand that he’s relatively old compared to high level soccer players. And I understand that he somehow looks like Hank Hill’s father and son. And I understand that he looks like “Back to the Future 2 when they’re in 2015" version of Flea.