Blog Title: Brief Essays With Pictures

Putting the #$% in Putting

It ought to the be the easiest. The distance you have to make the ball travel is the least of the shots you’ll hit. When you’re pull a five iron out of your bag, you’re probably trying to hit a shot more than 150 yards (450 feet!) toward a hole that is 4.5 inches across. read more..

Routine, Routine

It is tremendously difficult to play the game of golf when you can’t trust what you’re doing; it is equally difficult to trust what you’re doing when you’re playing the game of golf, because you’re seeing the results, and they’re likely not trending toward the good. Somehow, you have to develop the trust while enduring read more..

Not Nicholas Cage’s The Wicker Man

Late at night, I managed to find The Wicker Man on television. I am referring here to the original version, not the recent American remake starring Nicholas Cage. I feel it necessary to observe this, because while the original is a classic, the newer version stars Nicholas Cage. I can repeat that if you’re confused read more..

Golf In America…Is Awful

The Golf Channel’s newest show is the promising Golf in America. It promises to cover the game’s outstanding stories, scouring the nation for the best of the game. There’s only one slight problem with the show so far: it’s unbelievably bad. There are plenty of reasons for this, but the most obvious place to start read more..

Poor, Poor Libertarians

The problem that libertarians really have isn’t the incredibly poor marketing of their ideas. Rather, it’s the rest of us, who rather than bow before each and every libertarian we come across, just keep on walking. So damn you. And you. And especially you! If you happen to read the linked article above, you’ll be read more..

A Stupid Plan

In my infinite brilliance earlier this season, I “fixed” my swing, happily coming in the house to tell Bobbi that I’d figured out the problem, and that I was now ready to fix it. The problem, in this case, was that I was taking the club away on far to inside a path to be read more..

Confounding

Yesterday, I headed to the golf course with the family, the first time I’d had the chance to play golf with my daughter. I can report that she hit as well as could be expected for an eight-year-old. She also drove the golf cart, which she enjoyed greatly, leading her to ask me this morning read more..

Simplify, Simplify, Simplify

Golf is fantastically complicated. Even if you ignore the need for equipment that ideally fits you, the access to a golf course that will let you play, the time necessary to spend more than four hours out in the sun, the game itself is fantastically difficult. This is primarily because the act of taking a read more..

Really?

Apparently, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is upset that Barack Obama killed a fly while being interviewed on television. Why? Because all animals, even irritating little bastards who serve no useful purpose (nobody enjoys flies, nobody eats flies, nobody celebrates flies, etc.) deserve our love and respect. When you insist on commenting all read more..

Pitching Pitchmen

Hi, Billy Mays here…err, no, wait. That’s not accurate at all. Still, the trailer above hints at an incredible show, worth watching weekly, if only to try to glean the skill that it takes to really pitch a product. It’s a skill that Malcolm Gladwell has tried to capture when discussing the dean of Pitchmen, read more..