Articles by Tristan Rodman
20 articles found.
Week in Companions
Dogs Good Almost every week, there is a new Dog Study. These reports, compiled by some of the finest researchers in …
Week in Phantasms
Ladies’ Night There are those who would argue that the ’80s were a day-glo cultural vacuum best left unremembered. But it …
Week in Roads
No Beef Let me paint you a quick portrait of modern India. In my neighborhood there’s a housing colony that has …
Week in Flesh
MISSING BRAINS!! PLEASE READ!! Missing: 200 human brains. Where: The University of Texas, Austin, TX. When: Sometime between the year 1987, …
Running Down the Clock
Sports, time zones, and globalization
All major sports, at their core, are structured by time. Time structure differentiates an NBA game from pickup, performance from practice. …
Major League Literature
The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach (2011) Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding is about baseball in the way Good …
Week in Songbirds
KILLING IN THE NAME OF To a culture accustomed to choosing its favorite restaurants by their Yelp reviews—crowd-sourced, grade-inflated, irredeemably unsophisticated …
How New Became New Again
technology and origin myth
At the beginning of the world, Camel did not want to work. Every time Horse or Dog or Ox would ask …
Holding Notes
Thinking through St. Vincent and Holly Herndon
“Entombed in a shrine / Of zeroes and ones / You know” –St. Vincent, “Huey Newton” Placing two artists on a …
Web Exclusive: Interview with Holly Herndon
Editor’s note: This unexcerpted interview accompanies “Holding Notes: thinking through St. Vincent and Holly Herndon” from Issue 5. The biographical information …
Courtside Couture
A Conversation with James Goldstein
James Goldstein condenses every popular conception about Los Angeles into one human body: He lives in a glass house atop the …
Week Down Under
You can read this as fast as you want, but you're still not going to catch up. It's already tomorrow in …
Offensive Lines
Jonathan Martin, Richie Incognito & Black Masculinity in American Sports
ON OCTOBER 28, JONATHAN MARTIN left the Miami Dolphins. Martin, 24 years old and in his second NFL season, briefly checked …
See You On The Other Side
Arcade Fire and The Virtual Window
“Trapped in a prison / In a prism of light”– Reflektor, “Reflektor” “The window opens onto a three-dimensional world beyond: it …
Deep Sea
WHEN I FIRST HEARD THAT the deep ocean contained most of the earth’s habitable space, I didn’t really believe it because …
On the Fat Athlete
“There are two different shapes, one for fitness, one for throwing the ball.” – Hyun-Jin Ryu, SP, Los Angeles Dodgers Some …
An American Giant
Startup, Meet Nostalgia
[start hero] [end hero] American Giant began with an epiphany. “People are tired of products made far away from home—they are …
Painting the Corners
I went to my first baseball game at age five. My dad’s friend, who had taken it upon himself to make …
Pitchfork Advance
Spanning Streaming’s Single/Album Divide
“Physical is best. Touch it. Smell it right after opening the shrink-wrap. Take it off the shelf to show to your …
Danny Brown and Das Racist
Danny Brown entered the stage at The Met sporting a Mishka varsity jacket, skinny jeans, Jordans, and an emo combover. This, …