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We will have so much winning that you might get bored with winning: HBO’s “Winning Time,” Phil Mickelson and the Nauseating Prospect of Success at Any Cost

By Elizabeth Nelson

In General

On May 26, 2022

Hello! Got a couple news items for ya, in case you missed them: Over at the New York Times Magazine I wrote about HBO’s highly entertaining “Winning Time,” the ethical dilemma posed by its depiction of Jerry West and the contemporary vogue for prefabricated narratives...

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Recent Game of Thrones posts on “Second Sons” & “The Rains of Castamere”

By SEK

On June 10, 2013

A few newer readers were having difficulty finding the Game of Thrones specific information posted of late, and since our "tag" categories work as well as tagging "categories" does, I.

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