Notes On the Narrative Conundrum of Baseball Fandom
Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.
Myth, storytelling, and lore in the most disappointing clubhouses of America’s pastime.
Rolf Potts Medium Oct 2016 15min Permalink
Steve Miller had a clear-cut legal case when the Geto Boys used his guitar-hook in their raunchy 1990 single “Gangster of Love.” The racial implications weren’t so simple.
Excerpted from The Geto Boys(Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, 2016) .
Rolf Potts 33 1/3 Jun 2016 10min Permalink
A crash course in Tantra and superficial spirituality.
Rolf Potts Perceptive Travel Dec 2005 10min Permalink
Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.
Rolf Potts Sports Illustrated Nov 2012 35min Permalink
“I turned to see Eva padding around the room, naked, dipping a small plastic wand into the bottle of bubble soap she’d bought at the market… Sometime in the far future, when I was lying on my deathbed, I said, this was the moment I wanted to remember.”
On the relationship between travel and photography.
Rolf Potts Places Journal May 2012 Permalink