just two quick things

I. I Didn't Write This
A writer for Deadspin ended his "Why Your Team Sucks" yearly gimmick on the Broncos with a tirade my most cynical (ironical) self could have penned.

As for Denver itself, it is now the Promontory Point of High-End Douchebaggery: a place where all the worst people from the West Coast and all the worst people from the East Coast have converged. It’s nothing but tech bros, tech bros disguised as nature bros, and junior Lance Armstrongs. [...]

All of its cities suck now.[...] Boulder is like if you took Berkeley but also made it Disneyland. Colorado Springs is a bad mix of weirdo running freaks and meth heads and angry military guys. Fort Collins is a bum-f*** farm town. Pueblo is the meth capital of the entire g**damn world and is routinely overrun by locusts, and yet is somehow the most tolerable city in the state. It’s a g**damn tragedy, is what it is. The state with the most amazing natural beauty in America is otherwise defined by 15,000-seat megachurches where a guy in shorts encourages people to “think of Jesus as your workout buddy.”

I love Colorado. Please leave Colorado.

II. Stephen King Books Are Too Long
I hate to quote Matthew Walther - a writer for The Week - but he has it covered on Stephen King:

King's instincts are often excellent, but his editors have frequently done him a disservice by not insisting on cuts — and, frankly, by allowing him to write too much about sex. 

I only bring up that quotation (previously linked in a different newsletter), because my friend Bill Coberly and I released another podcast. It's on King's The Stand, and we successfully admonish King for his loquacious impudence by discussing everything we can think of for two-and-a-half hours. Props to Bill as always - he puts his points so precisely and is annoyingly quick with evidence. We're working hard to disagree on more in the future.

The next book we'll read for the podcast is Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. A travelogue through Yugoslavia, it's regularly venerated as one of the best books of the mid-20th century. Hopefully that's true because it's very long.

Okay. I'm done. I'm out.

All love to you and yours.