october 26 dcm

I wrote something pretty good (that is accessible to you even if you are not a sports fan) over at the Rocker Step. This is part of it: I’m not a Thunder fan — Raptors ‘til I die, baybee — but as a team and as a group of young men, I have long found them impressive and compelling. They are a remorseless killing machine on the court, but off of it they do not conform to an old-school, recalcitrant, emotionally constipated brand of masculinity represented by the worst sports fans you know. They hurt. They cry. They talk about it. In a way they remind me of the 2025 Toronto Blue Jays, a team that rode the power of friendship to an inch of winning the World Series.Or, rather, the Jays reminded me of them. Here's a link to the full thing if you want to read it. If you like it, I hope you subscribe to our humble little publication. #Also also also: I'm happy to announce that my friend Diana Chan McNally won her race for city council. I volunteered on this campaign, including today, so I'm…