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Colin McGowan

Good Things I Have Written

I would like to argue that our truest selves manifest in our ordinary work, what we can manage when we’re typically distracted…

Apr 7, 2023

Good Things I Have Written

Apr 7, 2023

Myself In Everything Else

I have been down. This is not a new or remarkable development. A few Mondays ago I walked out on a long pier in the early evening to see…

Feb 16, 2021

Myself In Everything Else

Feb 16, 2021

The End of Eli, and Nothing Else

Most of being a sports fan is making work for yourself. Because it is not really an avocation that should take up much of your time. The…

Sep 18, 2019

The End of Eli, and Nothing Else

Sep 18, 2019

The Limits of Control

The New York Giants aren’t even good at this, but being good at it is secondary to proving a point. In a league filled with franchises…

Mar 13, 2019

The Limits of Control

Mar 13, 2019

O Let’s Do It

This is the kind of thing that can originate only from an extravagantly hungover mind. I housed eleven Old Styles last night and awoke to…

Mar 21, 2018

O Let’s Do It

Mar 21, 2018

An Incomplete Record of Sin

Here’s a discomfitingly truthful passage from Moby-Dick:

Jan 18, 2018

An Incomplete Record of Sin

Jan 18, 2018

Ben McAdoo, Accidental Comedian, Dead At 40

NFL coaches don’t visibly inspire confidence. They are kind of supposed to but always flunk that aspect of their job performance. Some…

Dec 4, 2017

Ben McAdoo, Accidental Comedian, Dead At 40

Dec 4, 2017

What You Can’t

FreeDarko had to die. Bethlehem Shoals was, maybe still is, a mythmaker at heart and the mythic boots itself from the party before anyone…

Jan 9, 2017

What You Can’t

Jan 9, 2017

Twelve Little Hours in Hell

The gods knew —

Jan 4, 2017

Jan 4, 2017

Stunting Like Dave Hickey

So, The Yonce dropped a record and it’s whatever. Aesthetically, Beyoncé is pop music’s Kubrick. She builds the most beautiful houses no…

Jan 4, 2017

Jan 4, 2017

Colin McGowan

Colin McGowan

words and jokes so that i might eat and live indoors. talk to me: colinsilasmcgowan [at] gmail [dot] com

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