Someone Who is Around to be Loved: Sandy Koufax (and also Don Drysdale)

With the baseball season right around the corner and the Dodgers recently coming to a record contract agreement with a reigning Cy Young winner, this is a great time to look back on the efforts Sandy Koufax (Judaism in Big Lebowski Walter’s estimation encompases “3,000 years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Koufax”) underwentContinue reading “Someone Who is Around to be Loved: Sandy Koufax (and also Don Drysdale)”

A Song That is Around to be Loved: John Prine’s “Christmas in Prison”

It was Christmas in Prison And the food was real good We had turkey and pistols Carved out of wood In my estimation, this song off 1973’s “Sweet Revenge” album is the tune that best summarizes what made 2020 specifically shitty. Like many Prine classics, it is a seemingly straightforward, blue-collar story that rewards greaterContinue reading “A Song That is Around to be Loved: John Prine’s “Christmas in Prison””