No doubt, the single greatest thing ever associated with Deadspin. Take a victory lap, internet.
Will Leitch
williamfleitch
The answer to this question is the “Rule 1: Be funny. Rule 2: Do not not be funny” era. Read more
Who designed that awesome picture on top and does he sell tshirts at http://www.twoeightnine.com still? Read more
“years before you likely started reading this website...” Read more
It was actually THIS close. I loved just about every second of it. Honestly, my main problem with it was that it was too short.
Read more
In a way, “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood” sort of embodies that first paragraph. There were so many “black” movies at the time, you could actually have enough source material for a decent parody. I can’t imagine cobbling together more than a handful of similar movies today,… Read more
Checking in. Read more
I’m your huckleberry. Read more
From what I’ve read, he hides the traffic numbers from his writers and never has them focus on any of that stuff, and actually removed facebook comments from Grantland. I’m sure the Facebook thing was to keep criticism away from him as well, but he seems like a guy protective of his writers. Read more
I always feel like I should note the tally each time we have an A. So here are the A’s I’ve personally given since Grierson & Leitch started here ... lord, has it really been more than three years? I’ve been reviewing movie for Deadspin longer than I *ran* Deadspin. Read more
That is a photo of Tim Marchman. Read more
I mean, I don't know about sexy, but we tried to convince him to pull it and run it over here. It probably speaks well of Draper's character that my claim that he should do it in solidarity with Leon Wieseltier was ignored. Read more
My biggest problem with it is that Ridley also included some very basic modern scientific explanation for things, like low tide at the Red Sea and an extended monologue about how the ten plagues could be explained away biologically. It's as if he didn't want to offend religious folk or skeptics but it comes off more… Read more
Mason's life is only beginning. Everyone's always is. Read more
True story: I beat Tyson as a kid. I was playing at the neighbor's house with their two kids and we were doing the typical 10-year old thing - playing video games all night until our eyes bleed. It was about midnight (Saturday) before I worked my way up to Tyson. I had faced him before and, like most people, got curb… Read more
I have less of a problem with it; they have a little schtick going and have all year with this sort of "Bill is sort of a kid and we like to roll our eyes at him" thing, and it's something he may have just been kind of inadvertently over-playing to and, when mixed with actually being kind of pissed off (and… Read more
This is Will's "Just admit that you're Grady Olivier" post Read more